Loading the player... The yield is the income return on an investment, such as the interest or dividends received from holding a particular security. The yield is usually expressed as an annual percentage rate based on the investment's cost, current market value or face value.
Hilton does not own the majority of its hotels, but it makes half of its profit from those that it does own, like the Waldorf-Astoria, the New York Hilton and the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
1 Hilton may sell New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, or just a stake in the property. 2  The announcement came as Hilton reported its fourth-quarter earnings. 3  Conrad Hilton acquired the Waldorf Astoria hotel in October 1949, calling it The Greatest Of Them All.