Div. yield

Dividend yield

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Valuation — What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

How it is worked out

Dividends paid ÷ market capitalisation × 100

The cash dividend as a return on the share price. Buybacks are not in this one; shareholder yield adds them.

How to read it

cash in hand rather than cash returned: a company buying back stock instead scores nothing here and well on shareholder yield. Reads zero for anyone paying no dividend, which is most of a growth list

Which figures it needs

Computed from 1 figure taken from the filing:

• dividends_paid

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

• PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock
• PaymentsOfDividends
• PaymentsOfDividendsMinorityInterest
• DividendsPaidClassifiedAsFinancingActivities

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Valuation on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.