Business / Finance / Dividend Yield: Used for listed equity securities. Method of buying and selling stocks around their ex-dividend dates so as to collect the dividend (which is 80% tax-exempt) offset by a fully-taxable capital loss. Predicated on the 80% current exemption that some corporations receive on dividend income.
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Yield Adverb Synonyms: surrender, give up (the fight or struggle), give in, knuckle under, submit, cede, cry quits, throw in the towel or the sponge, capitulate, succumb, raise the white flag
Yield Conjunction Synonyms: return, production, output, revenue, takings, gate, earnings, income, proceeds, profit, gain
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Business / Finance / Pure Yield Pickup Swap: Moving to higher yield-bonds. MORE
Business / Finance / Quarterly Dividend Rate: Amount of last quarterly dividend declared in each calendar year. MORE
Business / Finance / 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. MORE
Business / Accounting / Property Dividend: The distribution to shareholders of assets other than cash. MORE
Business / Agriculture / 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. MORE
Business / Finance / Preferred Dividend Coverage: Net income after interest and taxes (before common stock dividends) divided by preferred stock dividends. MORE