Peeing in a trash can instead of walking 50 feet to the bathroom is not funny. Raiding you neighborâs cooler is not funny. Building an 8 foot tall bonfire is not funny. Asking if you can wear the park rangerâs hat is not funny. Guess whose job it is to tell them that they are not funny: the park ranger.
The main difference between yields and interest rates is that each term refers to different financial instruments. Yield commonly refers to the dividend, interest or return the investor receives from a security like a stock or bond, and is usually reported as an annual figure.
You can find the history of a stock's dividend payments in the investor relations page of the company's website. The dividend yield of a stock is the annual dividend rate divided by the current share price. If a stock is at $25 and the annual dividend is $1, the stock yields 4 percent. The dividend rate used can be the total of dividends paid over the most recent four quarters or the recent quarterly dividend multiplied times four -- for a stock with quarterly distributions.