{
  "id": "dividend-yield",
  "version": "9fff2280dc9e",
  "status": "published",
  "name": "Dividend Yield Calculator",
  "question": "What is my dividend yield?",
  "summary": "Computes a stock’s dividend yield from the dividend per payment, the payments a year and the share price, with your yearly dividend income and your yield on cost.",
  "category": "finance",
  "subcategory": "investing",
  "url": "https://www.acalculator.org/finance/dividend-yield-calculator",
  "markdown": "https://www.acalculator.org/finance/dividend-yield-calculator.md",
  "kind": "function",
  "method": "yield = dividend per payment × payments a year ÷ share price × 100%.",
  "assumptions": [
    "The dividend stays the same for the next year (a forward yield from the latest payment).",
    "You type the share price; the page fetches no prices.",
    "Income is before tax. Dividends are not guaranteed: a company can cut or stop them."
  ],
  "inputs": {
    "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "price": {
        "title": "Share price",
        "description": "The price of one share today, as you type it (no live quotes).",
        "type": "number",
        "x-unit": "USD",
        "minimum": 0.0001,
        "maximum": 10000000
      },
      "div": {
        "title": "Dividend per payment",
        "description": "The dividend paid on one share each time it pays.",
        "type": "number",
        "x-unit": "USD",
        "minimum": 0,
        "maximum": 10000000
      },
      "freq": {
        "title": "Payments a year",
        "description": "How often the dividend is paid: monthly (12), quarterly (4), twice a year (2) or yearly (1).",
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "12",
          "4",
          "2",
          "1"
        ]
      },
      "shares": {
        "title": "Shares you own",
        "description": "How many shares you own, for your yearly income. Fractions of a share are allowed.",
        "type": "number",
        "minimum": 0,
        "maximum": 1000000000
      },
      "cost": {
        "title": "Price you paid per share",
        "description": "Your average cost per share, for the yield on cost. Leave empty to skip it.",
        "type": "number",
        "x-unit": "USD",
        "minimum": 0.0001,
        "maximum": 10000000
      }
    }
  },
  "outputs": {
    "yield": {
      "label": "Dividend yield",
      "description": "The yearly dividend per share divided by the share price, as a percent.",
      "format": "percent"
    },
    "annual": {
      "label": "Yearly dividend per share",
      "description": "The dividend per payment times the payments a year.",
      "format": "money"
    },
    "income": {
      "label": "Your yearly dividend income",
      "description": "The yearly dividend per share times your shares, before tax.",
      "format": "money"
    },
    "monthly": {
      "label": "Your income per month",
      "description": "Your yearly dividend income divided by 12.",
      "format": "money"
    },
    "value": {
      "label": "Value of your shares",
      "description": "The share price times your shares.",
      "format": "money"
    },
    "yoc": {
      "label": "Yield on cost",
      "description": "The yearly dividend per share divided by the price you paid, as a percent.",
      "format": "percent"
    }
  },
  "defaultAnswer": {
    "inputs": {
      "price": 50,
      "div": 0.5,
      "freq": "4",
      "shares": 100
    },
    "outputs": {
      "yield": 4,
      "annual": 2,
      "income": 200,
      "monthly": 16.67,
      "value": 5000
    },
    "text": "A $50.00 share paying $2.00 a year has a dividend yield of 4%."
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "given": {
        "price": 50,
        "div": 0.5,
        "freq": "4",
        "shares": 100
      },
      "expect": {
        "yield": 4,
        "annual": 2,
        "income": 200,
        "monthly": 16.67,
        "value": 5000
      },
      "source": "hand calculation in content.mdx: 0.50 × 4 = $2.00; 2 ÷ 50 = 4%; FINRA, Evaluating Performance: for stocks, yield is the year’s dividend divided by the stock’s market price (https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investing-basics/evaluating-performance, retrieved 2026-10-02)"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "price": 187.43,
        "div": 0.26,
        "freq": "4",
        "shares": 35,
        "cost": 120
      },
      "expect": {
        "yield": 0.5549,
        "annual": 1.04,
        "income": 36.4,
        "monthly": 3.03,
        "yoc": 0.8667
      },
      "source": "hand calculation in content.mdx: 1.04 ÷ 187.43 = 0.0055487…, 0.5549%; 1.04 ÷ 120 = 0.8667%; FINRA, Evaluating Performance: for stocks, yield is the year’s dividend divided by the stock’s market price (https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investing-basics/evaluating-performance, retrieved 2026-10-02)"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "price": 24.8,
        "div": 0.155,
        "freq": "12"
      },
      "expect": {
        "yield": 7.5,
        "annual": 1.86
      },
      "source": "hand calculation in content.mdx: 0.155 × 12 = 1.86; 1.86 ÷ 24.80 = 7.5%; FINRA, Evaluating Performance: for stocks, yield is the year’s dividend divided by the stock’s market price (https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investing-basics/evaluating-performance, retrieved 2026-10-02)"
    },
    {
      "given": {
        "price": 80,
        "div": 0,
        "freq": "1"
      },
      "expect": {
        "yield": 0,
        "annual": 0
      },
      "source": "FINRA, Evaluating Performance: for stocks, yield is the year’s dividend divided by the stock’s market price (https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investing-basics/evaluating-performance, retrieved 2026-10-02): a stock that pays no dividend has no yield"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "FINRA, Evaluating Performance (for stocks, yield is the year’s dividend divided by the market price; a stock that pays no dividend has no yield), retrieved 2026-10-02. https://www.finra.org/investors/investing/investing-basics/evaluating-performance",
    "Internal Revenue Service, Topic no. 404, Dividends (ordinary dividends are ordinary income; qualified dividends are taxed at capital gain rates), retrieved 2026-10-02. https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc404"
  ],
  "related": [
    "dividend",
    "dividend-reinvestment",
    "stock-profit",
    "rate-of-return"
  ],
  "changelog": []
}