Dividend Yield (Funds): Annual dividends per share as a percent of the average annual High-Low price. Current yield is based on last 12 months' or on indicated annual dividend rate whenever possible.

 

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Dividend Yield (Funds): Annual dividends per share as a percent of the average annual High-Low price. Current yield is based on last 12 months' or on indicated annual dividend rate whenever possible.

Quarterly Dividend Rate: Amount of last quarterly dividend declared in each calendar year.

Realized Compound Yield: Yield assuming that coupon payments are invested at the going market interest rate at the time of their receipt and held thus until the bond matures.

Pure Yield Pickup Swap: Moving to higher yield-bonds.

Relative Yield Spread: The ratio of the yield spread to the yield level. Used for bonds.

Property Dividend: The distribution to shareholders of assets other than cash.

Program Yield: The farm commodity yield of record, determined, in general, by averaging the yield of a particular commodity for the past 5 years, dropping the high and low years. This yield was used in cal . . . View Full Definition

Projected Yield: The number of bushels (or pounds or hundredweight) per acre that, based on current weather estimates and other factors, USDA analysts estimate farmers will harvest.

Reoffering Yield: In a purchase and sale, the yield to maturity at which an underwriter offers to sell bonds to investors.

Required Yield: Generally referring to bonds; the yield required by the marketplace to match available expected returns for financial instruments with comparable risk.