Turn a dollar-a-share dividend into a yield, or a yield into what it pays you
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Updated on 25 Oct 2026.Yield is the annual dividend divided by the share price, so a stock paying 1.75 a share at 50 dollars yields 3.50%. Whichever of those figures is in front of you, this works out the other and then shows what your own holding receives from it. No company yield is printed here, because one would be out of date by the next morning.
The page opens on Dollars per share a year with For set to 0 years.
Type the Share price you would pay today.
Enter the Annual dividend per share from the company report or your broker.
Read Yield today, and the dividend each payment at the frequency chosen under Paid.
Three numbers get confused with each other whenever dividends are discussed, and this page keeps them apart.
Yield is the annual dividend divided by the share price. It describes what a buyer would get today, and it changes every time the price moves, which is why a stock that has fallen appears to yield more.
Income is the yield applied to your holding. A 10,000 dollar position at 3.50% pays 350 a year, and at a quarterly schedule that arrives as 87.50 four times.
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Multiply the number of shares by the annual dividend per share, or multiply the amount invested by the yield, which comes to the same figure. A 10,000 dollar holding at a 3.50% yield pays 350 a year. Divide by four for a quarterly payer, or by twelve for a monthly one.
Twelve thousand a year at a 4% yield needs 300,000 invested; at 3% it needs 400,000; at 6% it needs 200,000. The share price does not enter into it, only the yield. Higher yields usually mean either a higher payout ratio or a price the market has marked down for a reason.
Yield on cost is the current annual dividend divided by what you originally paid, rather than by today's share price. Buy at 50 with a 1.75 dividend and the yield is 3.50%; fifteen years of 5% increases take the dividend to 3.64, so the same purchase now yields 7.28% on its cost.
Yields move with the share price every trading day, differ between share classes, and are never the yield your own purchase locked in. A figure printed here would be wrong for most readers on most days, so the yield is taken from the quote or annual report in front of you instead.
Formula only: no rates or limits are read from an official source.
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