Many fund companies, including Vanguard Group, offer online tax-equivalent yield calculators.
For instance, while 10-year Treasuries currently yield 2%, you can find triple-A rated 10-year munis that yield 2.5%, which is a 3.85% tax equivalent yield for taxpayers in the 35% bracket and 3.47% for those in the 28% bracket.
For a taxpayer in the top federal bracket of 35%, a 3% dividend yield is equivalent to a 4% yield on a taxable bond.
Now to put that into context, the equivalent UK bond yield is around 2.2% and Germany's is 1.8%.
If permitted, ANWR could yield the equivalent of 30 years of US imports from Saudi Arabia.
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If you buy a municipal bond that yields 6 percent, then it would be the equivalent of a taxable yield of 8 percent.
For comparison, the yield on equivalent German paper is 0.8%.
For example, a tax-free yield of 3% would be the equivalent of a 4.6% taxable yield for someone in the 35% bracket, and 4.97% for someone in the 39.6% bracket.
The dollar bonds were sold at three percentage points over the midswap rate, a benchmark, equivalent to a 4.03% yield.
Natural Resource Partners, even with a hefty 10.5% yield, is trading at the equivalent of nine times cash flow.
These best-in-breed stocks have average earnings yields of 8 percent, which is equivalent to over four times the 10-year Treasury yield, yet people are fleeing stocks for bonds, which have the lowest short-term interest rates since the 1940s.
That move reduced all equity and high-yield bond exposure, creating 50% cash or cash equivalent allocations across all portfolios.
By the end of last week, the yield on Spain's 10-year bond hovered around 7%, the financial equivalent of being admitted to intensive care with a raging fever.
His decision to ban all nuclear tests would preclude the U.S. from conducting even extremely low-yield tests (for example, those that produce as little of a blast as the equivalent of four pounds of high explosive) as part of the nuclear stockpile stewardship program.
According to a study led by two Stanford University scientists and published earlier this year, advances in high-yield agriculture during the past half-century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases--the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide--from entering the atmosphere.
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