BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Current Yield
- the interest being paid on a bond divided by its current market price, expressed as a percentage
Additional Resources
- What Is My Current Yield On Coupon Income Received?
- This calculator shows the current yield of a bond. Yields are provided before and after taxes. Current yield equals the bond coupon rate divided by the bond's current price.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Inverted Yield On Cost Curve: Not Always a Bad Thing?
- Dividends4Life submits: A yield curve is the relationship between yield and maturity. In a "normal" yield curve yields rise as maturity lengthens. When yields drop as the term lengthens, it is referred to as an inverted yield curve. A Yield On Cost (current dividend/basis) curve, like a yield curve,...
- External links 2008-09-02
- Managed High Yield Fund — Third Quarter 1997 Commentary
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 30, 1997--Managed High Yield Fund Inc. (NYSE: PHT) is a closed-end management investment company seeking high current income through investments primarily in high yield, high risk debt securities. All bond sectors experienced positive returns in the quarter; however, the high yield sector outperformed others...
- Research articles 1997-10-30
- High Yield and Corporate Credit Spreads
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight historical charts of the Merrill Lynch High Yield and Corporate Credit Spread indices since the end of 1996. These indices measure the difference between yields on comparable length Treasuries and high yield and corporate bonds. The current yield...
- External links 2009-04-17
- The Pioneer Group, Inc., Announces Margaret Patel Joins Fixed-Income Group; Preliminary Agreement Reached to Assume Management of Third Avenue High Yield Fund
- BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 20, 1999-- The Pioneer Group, Inc., (NASDAQ:PIOG) announced today that veteran high-yield manager Margaret D. Patel has joined the fixed-income investment group of its core business subsidiary Pioneer Investment Management, Inc. Patel has managed the Third Avenue High Yield Fund, since its inception in February 1998. The...
- Research articles 1999-08-20
- What Is My Current Yield From Dividends?
- This tool calculates your stock's dividend yield based on its current share price and the amount of average quarterly dividends you receive.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Current yield: Gross shakes the bond market; GE calms it, a bit
- Last week Bill Gross lambasted General Electric for carrying too much short-term debt on its books and for not being forthright enough in its financial disclosures. In a sign of the jitters that Gross sent through the market, the yield on two-year TreasurLast week Bill Gross lambasted General Electric for...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- Another look at yield spreads: the role of liquidity
- 1. Introduction The expectations hypothesis hereafter EH of the term structure of interest rates states that the long-term rate is determined by the expectation for the short-term rate plus a constant term premium. With rational expectations, one of the EH implications is that the coefficient in a regression of...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Apple's Current Valuation Is Still Reasonable
- Turley Muller submits: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) $162.83- Despite Apple shares rising more than 100% from its 2009 low of $78, the stock still appears to be attractively valued especially as a long-term holding. Using cash-flow and non-GAAP earnings, AAPL trades at less than 15x on a trailing 12-month basis. Since...
- External links 2009-08-12
- American Capital Strategies Ltd. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. And our first question comes from the line of Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW. Please go ahead. Sanjay Sakhrani – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Just a quick question on the ’08 dividend guidance, how much of the...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-02
- High Yield Spreads Narrow for 13th Straight Day
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: High yield bond spreads based on Merrill Lynch indices narrowed for the 13th straight trading day on Monday. This marks the longest streak of declines since April 2003, and the second longest streak since the series began in 1997. At a...
- External links 2009-01-06
- Net Payout Yield Make CSX Attractive
- Stone Fox Capital submits: Railroad stocks like CSX CSX have been out of favor for awhile because of declining shipments. CSX though continues to maintain a 2.8% dividend that, while attractive, is not overwhelming in this environment where stocks move up or down by 20% sometimes in a day. We...
- External links 2009-05-11
- Assessing the Current Price of a Bond
- The current price of a bond is the amount investors are prepared to pay for it, which in practice will be somewhere between the bid price and the asking price.Investors can check current prices to gauge how much a particular bond might cost them. They can also track changes in...
- Articles 2007-10-09
- Altria: One of the Best Run Companies
- Dividend Inc. submits: Altria Group MO, formerly known as Philip Morris, is the largest domestic produce of tobacco and tobacco related products. MO is currently trading within 5% of its 52-week low and has increased its dividend 42 consecutive years in a row according...
- External links 2008-12-10
- Assessing Yield
- Yield is a broad term used in finance to mean cash returns on investments. In relation to shares, yield is the annual amount of dividend payments, if applicable, divided by the current share price. Figures published in the financial press are expressed as a percentage, and usually relate to the...
- Articles 2007-07-30
- The Fed Model
- The so-called "Fed Model" for valuing the stock market is nonsense. The most popular version compares the S&P 500 operating earnings yield with the current yield on 10-year Treasuries. For instance, using a $53 earnings estimate for 2003 with the S&P at The so-called "Fed Model" for valuing the...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Bond Yield Calculator
- This bond yield calculator can help you figure out the current bond yield as well as the bond yield to maturity. The calculator requires several inputs including the current bond price, par value, coupon rate and years until maturity.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Bank of NY Mellon ? Taking Care of Business(es)
- Paul Price submits:BK:NYSE Nov. 20, 2009 - $26.05 Dividend = $0.09 quarterly = 1.38% current yield Bank of New York Mellon was created by the July 2007 merger between Mellon Financial and Bank of New York making it one of the world's largest financial services companies. BNY Mellon is...
- External links 2009-11-20
- FRS17 and Estimates of the Sterling Double: A Corporate Yield Curve
- This paper argues that the appropriate discount rate to use to report defined benefit pension plan liabilities in the financial statements is a yield derived from an estimate of a double A corporate yield curve. It introduces a new class of credit spread models finding that they obtain more robust...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Forward Air Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator: Thank you. Operator Instructions. Thus your first question is from the line of Todd Fowler with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed. Todd Fowler - KeyBanc Capital Markets Hey, good morning Bruce. Good morning, Rodney. Bruce Campbell Good morning. Rodney Bell Hey, Todd. Todd Fowler - KeyBanc Capital...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-10
