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Yield = Annual dividend per share ÷ Share price × 100
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$480/yr on 200 shares
What this means for your numbers: At the worked example's 5% yield, $9,600 of position funds $480/year. For the yield to reach 6% by dividend growth alone, the payout must rise 20%; price falls do it instantly, for the next buyer only.
Illustrative breakdown using the worked example above. The calculator computes your own numbers with the same formula.
A Worked Example: $2.40 on a $48 Share
Suppose a company pays $2.40 per share each year and the stock trades at $48.00. The calculator runs dividend / price x 100: 2.40 / 48.00 = 0.05, so the yield shown is 5.00%. Two things move that number. If the board raises the payout to $2.60 while the price holds, 2.60 / 48.00 = 5.42%. If the price falls to $40.00 while the payout holds, 2.40 / 40.00 = 6.00% -- the yield rose without the company paying a cent more.
Now add holdings. 250 shares at $2.40 pays 2.40 x 250 = $600.00 a year, or $150.00 a quarter if paid quarterly and unreinvested. Reinvesting changes the trajectory: $600 reinvested at $40.00 buys 15 additional shares, so next year's dividend base is 265 shares, worth $636.00 at the same rate. At a flat $40.00 price that compounds to about 6.2% yield on your original $10,000 cost by year two, versus a fixed 6.00% if you take the cash. Note the calculator uses the current price, not your purchase price -- your personal yield on cost is 2.40 / (your original cost per share), which drifts from the quoted yield as the market price moves.
Boundary Cases the Numbers Expose
The formula requires dividend above 0 and price above 0, so a stock paying $0.00 returns the 'check the inputs' message rather than a 0.00% result -- that is a feature, not a gap, since a zero-payout name needs no calculator. Shares of 0 are valid: the yield still computes, and the income sentence is simply omitted. Negative dividend or price values are rejected outright rather than producing a misleading negative yield.
High yields deserve suspicion more than celebration. If that $48 stock drops to $16.00 with the same $2.40 payout, the calculator shows 15.00% -- and a 15% yield is usually the market pricing in a cut, not generosity. Same input, opposite signal. Special dividends distort the figure too: a $5 one-off payment on a $50 stock reads as 10% even if the recurring payout is $1.50 (3%). Check whether the dividend field holds the trailing twelve months, the forward run rate, or a one-time special; mixing them can double-count. Finally, the calculator assumes a flat payout: no dividend growth, no withholding tax on foreign names (a 15% treaty rate turns a 6.00% gross yield into roughly 5.10% net), and no fees if you hold through a fund. Treat the output as a snapshot of one moment, not a forecast.