How much cash a company pays shareholders each year, relative to the share price.
| Company | dividend yield | Health Score |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Inc. | 0.3% | 47.5 |
| COCA COLA CO | 2.0% ✓ | 50.5 |
✓ = better on this metric alone (higher wins). Values refresh from live data on every request.
Dividend yield is the annual dividend per share divided by the current share price, as a percentage. It tells you what cash return you'd get from dividends alone, before any change in the share price itself.
Dividend yield = dividend per share ÷ share price × 100. This site pulls the dividend-per-share figure straight from the company's own SEC filing (the "CommonStockDividendsPerShareDeclared" or similar XBRL tag), not a third-party estimate.
Higher means more cash income today, but a yield that looks unusually high relative to the company's peers is often a warning sign, not a gift — it can mean the share price has already fallen hard because the market expects the dividend to be cut. Check whether the payout is actually covered by real earnings before treating a high yield as good news.
A dividend history is not a guarantee — companies cut or suspend dividends when earnings deteriorate. This site found and filtered out a handful of cases where a company's own SEC filing had an implausible per-share dividend figure (a scale-tagging error upstream) — if a yield here ever looks absurd, it's being guarded against, but always sanity-check against the company's actual investor relations page.
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