a way ofmeasuringfinancialperformancebycomparinga company'searningspersharein aparticularperiodwithitsshareprice:Theearningsyieldhasmovedmore or less instepwithlong-termbondrates.(Definition ofearnings yieldfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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earnings yieldBefore 1982, the treasury yields were generally less than stockearningsyield.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The correlation betweenearningsyieldand government bond yields was only 19% over the 1881-2002 period.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That, on the face of it, is a highlly successful result, giving a 16 per cent.earningsyieldbefore tax.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Now they will be driven to the market, and unless they have a very highearningsyield, they will have difficulty in raising money on the open market.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Generally, the earnings yields of equities are higher than the yield of risk-free treasury bonds reflecting the additional risk involved in equity investments.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He then compares them with the earnings yields of other companies.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/earnings-yield##
