Dividend Yield Explained
This video will teach you what dividend yield is, how to calculate it and why it’s important. Dividend yield is the dividend, relative to the price of the investment.
What are dividends? Check out the previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_8O99dNC0
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Today we’re going to be learning what dividend yield is. We already know what a dividend is from the previous video, now we just need to know the yield part. If you don’t know what a dividend is, just click on the word dividend to watch the previous video, and then come back to this video.
Let’s use the hypothetical company from the last video, Soni’s Shawarma. Soni’s Shawarma is a restaurant chain that has thousands of restaurants across the country, and obviously, sells shawarmas.
Soni’s Shawarma pays a quarterly dividend of $0.25. Which means in a year, it pays a total dividend of a dollar, since 25 cents every 3 months adds up to a dollar every year.
So we know how much Soni’s Shawarma pays in dividends for every share that we own, but we don’t know how much it costs to buy one share of Soni’s Shawarma. What if I told you that one share of Soni’s Shawarma costs $1000. Yes, $1000 to buy 1 share of Soni’s Shawarma, and it only pays us one dollar in dividends every year. What if I told you that one share of Soni’s Shawarma costs only $20. $20 for one share, and it pays us one dollar in dividends every year.
Which one would you rather pick? I would pick the $20 share that pays me $1, instead of the $1000 dollar share that pays me $1. Why, because it has a greater yield! Yield is simply the dividends we get, relative to the price of the share. That’s not a dictionary definition, it’s my definition for this case. So now let’s calculate the yield of these two options, let’s start with the $1000 share.
If one share of Soni’s Shawarma costs $1000 and In one year, it gives us one dollar, the annual dividend is one dollar. So to calculate the yield, we need to take the dividend, and divide it by the price. So the dividend of one dollar, divided by the price of $1000, equals 0.001, which can also be expressed as 0.1%. So the dividend yield in this case is 0.1%. Now let’s move on to the next case.
If one share of Soni’s Shawarma costs $20 and in one year, it gives us one dollar, the annual dividend is one dollar. Just like before, to calculate the yield, we take the dividend and divide it by the price. So the dividend which is one dollar, divided by the price, which is $20, equals 0.05, which is another way of saying 5%.
So that’s dividend yield, the dividend relative to the price. The $20 share has a yield of 5%, that means I’ll be getting 5% of the money I paid every year. It means 5% of the price, will be paid to me in dividends. With the $1000 share which has a yield of 0.1%, it means I’ll be getting 0.1% of the money I paid, every year. It means 0.1% of the price, will be paid to me in dividends.
So which one would you rather pick? Would you rather have your dividends equal 5% of the price you paid, or would you rather have them equal only 0.1% of the price you paid. I would rather have them equal 5% of the price I paid, because I get more money relative to the price I paid. If we’re only looking at dividends, paying $20 to get an annual dividend of $1, is better than paying $1000 to get that same annual dividend of $1.
Remember, stock prices change every day, so that means, dividend yield will also change every day. If its $20 to buy a share that has an annual dividend of $1, it has a yield of 5%. If tomorrow, the price of that same share goes up to $21, then we divide 1 by 21 to get a yield of 4.76%. So as prices change, so does the yield, as dividends change, so does the yield.
So now you know what dividend yield is, how to calculate it, and why it’s important. If you liked this video, please make sure to hit that subscribe button. Thank you.
This is gonna sound kinda dumb but is a 30 day yeild like a monthly payment?
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Great explanation!! Question: Lets say the share price increases, and the yield decreases…Does that mean the shareholder will get that new yield percentage of the amount of money they put in? Or will they get the new percentage of the new share price that it increased to?
Thanks. Great video. Sorry for the long question. Let us look at two scenarios: Scenario 01: the company grows well YoY and the share price goes up, but dividend yield grows a little or none; Scenario 02: The company does not do well and the share price keeps going down (e.g., China Mobile Ltd.) but the dividend yield grows YoY by some %; Now comes the question: What is your opinion regarding the following observation: In scenario 01, my return would be via share price growth mainly which is also called return via "Earnings" (Have I used Earnings word in the right position?) and return from dividend will go down unless the company makes improvement on that or I buy more shares; In scenario 02:my return would be via dividends and as the share price goes down, I can buy more shares and increase my return; Do you agree with this conclusion?
"What if I told you that 1 share cost 1000 dollars?"
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Wow!!! This is the best video I’ve seen explaining how the yield is affected by the share price. Price goes up, yield (%) goes down. I guess it’s better/easier to look at the dollar amount of the dividend that each share will pay you.
I’m looking at a stock, its ticker is RVI, it’s dividend is 3.23 or something like that, but the yield is 0.00 %, yes the stock price has dropped almost to its 52 week lowest, but why would the yield be listed as zero?
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Please guide, if i want to buy share (Equity), what are the points we have to look & calculate
Wow! That’s such a great explanation. Really impressive and truly easy to understand! Thanks.
Thanks! Made this very easy to understand.
so why would you buy the 1000 share when you can buy the 20 dollar share with same or more dividend return?
very good explanation
Clearly explain. Thanks
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So does dividend increase with increasing share price?
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What about the stock dividend in calculation of Dividend Yield?
Finally a video simplifying this topic for my stoopid brain.
Thank you for this video and information.
Thank u for the vid.
I am new on this and have a question:
If the stock is worth more why the yield would be less?
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Bad example. Even without calculating yield.. A moran would buy at 20 dollars.
Straight forward I like it.
So no matter what the price per share..the bigger the yeld the more we get back ?
Beautifully explained
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Bro I’m beginning what is" share price " example … Thank you
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Does this also apply to etf?
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Great video. To the point. Perfect examples.
What if the stock market Fluctuates ? I brought at $6 now the stock is at 5. Is the yield the price I paid for the stock or the price of the market ?