Usually (but not always) this means that they show a lower than average dividend yield.
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Demand has helped push the average yield on a Triple-A 10-year muni to a current 1.9% from 3.5% in January 2011, according to Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Data.
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Whether the institution measures its return on that investment in a higher ranking, a lower acceptance rate, a greater yield, a bigger endowment, a higher average starting salary, a better grad-school admission rate, or a greater percentage of alumni who donate, the student body it attracts initially is integral to any and all results.
On three occasions, including last May, the consensus was unanimous: The average forecast was for a yield of 2.4%.
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The average credit rating of a typical High Yield Corporate bond portfolio is higher than that of the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index.
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It is the one the Bush campaign favours, being the average historical real yield of a portfolio that is 60% stocks and 40% bonds, minus 0.4% to take account of administrative costs.
Even if you do not count the large quantity of bonds issued by telecoms companies that are now bust or nearly so, the average junk issue trades at a yield of some ten percentage points above Treasury bonds.
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Diversification, attention to debt levels, and being aware of the risks in each individual stock will help build a portfolio that pays an above-average dividend yield but also mitigates risk.
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According to Morningstar, Bent's Primary Fund had a 12-month trailing yield of 4.04%, versus a 2.75% average among more than 2, 100 money market funds tracked by Morningstar, making it the highest yielding fund in the category.
In simplified terms, if a fund holds stocks yielding an average of 3% and the fund has a 1% expense ratio, the yield to fund investors will be around 2%.
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Investment-grade corporate bonds, which carry only a sliver of default risk, now yield an average 1.8 percentage points more than Treasurys, up from 1.3 points in early 2000.
For the stock market, returning to equilibrium could mean a cash dividend yield of around 4%, the average over 80 years.
Currently, their dividend yields average a little under 4%, compared with the yield of 1.6% or so on Japanese government bonds.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Kendall said the average yield fell from 7.8 tonnes a hectare to 6.7 tonnes last summer.
Currently, the average dividend yield for the stocks that pay a dividend in the DJIA is 2.82%, while 10-year Treasuries are yielding below 2.4%.
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The health care sector has the highest overall average dividend yield performance as the sector boasts a current yield of 4.59 percent and year-to-date total return performance of 17.4 percent.
On September 9th, Hankook Tyre, a tyre maker with an investment-grade rating, issued 45 billion won-worth of three-year bonds at some 40 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) above the average three-year bond yield in the secondary market.
At the same time Vanguard's New York Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund, with an average duration of 6.8 years, offered a yield to maturity of 3.8%.
The WisdomTree Japan Total Dividend Index ( DXJ) has a current yield of 1.85%, trades an average of 176, 000 per day, and has an expense ratio of 0.48%.
Average yield of recommendations is 5.8% with a return of 9.1% since inception in July.
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Once bad loans are accounted for, their yields average about 7%, more than double the yield on a 30-year Treasury bond.
Alarm bells started to ring at the firm's headquarters when a Cadbury-financed study by the University of Sussex and the University of Accra found that the average production of a cocoa farmer had dropped to 40% of potential yield, and that the children of cocoa farmers did not want to work in the family business any more.
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Here's how it works: When a farmer's yield falls below 90% of his five-year average, Koch pays the farmer for his lost revenue.
On average they think the yield on 10-year Treasury notes, a benchmark bond, will rise from 3.8% today to 4% to 4.5% by the end of the year.
Our 2013 Market Outlook provides a diversified 24-stock portfolio of attractively-priced stocks, while the average yield of the group stands at 3.5%, well above the sub-2% yield on the 10-year Treasury, and even more than the 30-year!
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The lower average rating and longer maturity range of the Vanguard index give the fund a higher yield, risk and volatility.
They trade at an average of 8.9 times the past year's earnings with a dividend yield of 3.6%, versus 13.8 times earnings and a 2.3% yield for the U.S., according to MSCI.
Note, however, that the High Yield Master II is also a little more than 100 bp narrower than its historical average versus Triple-B corporates.
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