Dividend yield

Dividend yield is a company’s annual dividend per share divided by its share price, showing the income a shareholder earns relative to the price.

Dividend yield is the annual dividend paid per share divided by the current share price, expressed as a percentage. A stock at $100 paying $3 a year in dividends has a 3% yield. It is the standard way to compare the income different dividend-paying stocks provide.

Because yield moves inversely with price, a very high yield is not automatically good news — it can result from a falling share price on a payout the market expects to be cut. A sustainable yield is backed by earnings and free cash flow, not just a high headline number.

stocks-llm sources dividend data from Finnhub, shown with its as-of date, and excludes implausibly high yields that are stale-data artifacts. High yield alone is not a quality signal.

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