All five of these companies now yield more than the 0.5% average yield of money market funds.
Another good comparison to make is with the average yield for apartment REITs, currently 7.8%.
Special Offer: The average yield of stocks recommended in Forbes Dividend Stock Daily is 5.7%.
The average yield of 1.77% was the lowest ever at an auction of that maturity.
It is worth noting that the average yield to maturity does not include fees and expenses.
From 1934 to 1940, the average yield of the 3-month Treasury bill was 0.15%.
FORBES: Keynesian "Easy Money" Is Nothing But Currency Devaluation
Average yield of recommendations is 5.8% with a return of 9.1% since inception in July.
FORBES: Momentum Players Have Lots To Like About Haemonetics
Tech shares have an average yield of 1.39%, with expected growth of 4.07% this year, and 15.39% next year.
Consider that the average yield for single-B senior unsecured notes issued in the second half of 2012 is 7.07%.
For the first time ever, the average yield has fallen below 6%, after spiking to 10% in late 2011.
Those in the Dow Jones Utility Average yield 6% or more, versus 4.2% for the common stocks in that index.
FORBES: Forget The Dogs, For Rich Income Look To Dow Preferreds
The average yield to maturity from the HE00 index has compressed to 9.49%, from the wide of 11.97% at the end of November.
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.
The average yield of the U.S. long-term (20-30 year) government bond was 3.46% in September 1929 and declined steadily to 2.01% in December 1940.
FORBES: Keynesian "Easy Money" Is Nothing But Currency Devaluation
Materials (XLB) and utilities (XLU) companies yield an average of 2.3 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively, while energy (XLE) stocks pay an average yield of 2.2 percent.
The average yield for nonfinancial company bonds in the iBoxx Euro corporate index, which measures the performance of investment-grade debt issued in euros, is around 2.35%, Markit said.
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.
WSJ: SmartMoney: Watch Out! These Municipal Bonds Come With a Bit of a Kick
Average yield of recommended stocks, REITs and MLPs is 6%.
FORBES: World Starting To See Big Bargains In Chinese Stocks
Average yield of recommended stocks, REITs and MLPs is 5.9%.
FORBES: Looking At Options On A Day Of Strange Confessions From O.J. To Google
Average yield of recommended stocks, REITs and MLPs is 5.8%.
Average yield of recommended stocks, REITs and MLPs is 5.7%.
These large cap stocks have dividend yields greater than the average yield on 10-year corporate paper, and 5-year credit default swap spreads tighter than that of 5-year U.S. debt.
Financing is cheap on loans used to finance leverage buyouts: The average yield in the junk-bond market is at its lowest level since October 2007, falling to 8.7%.
Investor demand has pushed the average yield for corporate bonds in the iBoxx Dollar Emerging Markets index for Europe, the Middle East and Africa down by a third since the start of 2012 to 4.23%.
The average yield for senior unsecured bonds issued in dollars by non-U.S. banks and insurers was 2.95% Wednesday, just 0.02 percentage point higher than the record low level hit Tuesday, according to a Markit index.
应用推荐