Expedia is the best of the group, paying out a modest 1.3 percent yield.
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Conoco offers a solid 4.2 percent yield, and is the lone supermajor in the green year-to-date.
And, yet, Intel with a 4 percent yield had few takers as fundamentals soured.
Heinz where its investment is largely in the form of a preferred stock with a 9 percent yield.
Allowing for the differences and complexities of real-world application environments, even the lowest improvement estimates of 60 percent yield tremendous savings.
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All this suggests that if Google chose to payout 50 percent of free cash flow it could afford shareholders more than a 3 percent yield.
Our 10-year Treasuries just pushed past the 3 percent yield level.
For example, at the end of 2010, money market rates were at 0.23 percent, which at the time fell between the 0.20 percent yield on six-month and 0.30 percent yield on one-year Treasuries.
Stocks are further inexpensive compared to the 10-year US Treasuries that pay a yield of roughly 2 percent, as they yield roughly 8 percent in earnings.
Investment-grade corporate bonds yield 3 percent and riskier "junk" bonds yield just under 6 percent.
That cash flow has allowed 38 consecutive years of rising dividends, which give Kimberly-Clark a very attractive 4.28 percent dividend yield.
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Given that US Savings Bonds are just as safe as the 20 year Treasury, getting almost a half-percent more yield is great.
Duke says that its 4.3 percent dividend yield is the method by which it attracts and retains shareholders who are financing its modern power facilities and upgrading its transmission grid.
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In the energy space, a staggering 8.8 percent dividend yield may not be enough to keep sellers at bay for London-based BP plc (BP), and that could warrant an intra-sector rotation into supermajor rivals.
Viable stocks with rising dividends, just as long as they yield 3 percent or more going in, are bond surrogates for AAA corporates, 10-year, even 30-year Treasuries which yield 2.7 percent, 2 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively.
Einhorn believes none of these routes would yield as much shareholder value as the iPrefs, because their 4 percent annual dividend yield would make them attractive to investors that otherwise wouldn't look at Apple shares, such as pension funds and endowments.
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On July 14, Walgreen Company raised the quarterly dividend 27 percent, upping the yield to 2.3 percent.
Colgate also has the added benefit of being a defensive stock in case the autumn broad market rally cools, in addition to a decent 2.8 percent annual dividend yield to fall back on.
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.
Apple at its current share price has a dividend of 2.3 percent If I am correct, which happens on occasion, and the dividend is increased 20 percent then Apple now has a yield of 2.76 percent or about the same as Coke.
Take the 10-year US Treasuries, for instance, which trades 20 percent above par, at a historically low yield of near 2 percent.
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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.
High-yield bonds, BBB with 10-year duration, sold to yield 9 percent.
MetLife sells as if 10 year Treasuries will yield 2 percent for the next 5 years, that the stock market withers below 1000 and variable annuity sales dry up.
Japanese ten-year Treasuries currently yielding 1.3 percent will not stand a chance against U.S. or German bonds of the same maturity, which yield 3.5 percent and 3 percent, respectively.
Intel and Microsoft yield over 3 percent, maybe at 4 percent a couple of years out.
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Italian and Spanish national debt sells to yield over 5 percent which is what a BB corporate bond yields here.
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