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 The first hotel to bear the Hilton name was the Dallas Hilton, a high-rise that opened in Dallas, Texas in 1925. 2  In 1949, at the Caribe Hilton Hotel 's Beachcomber Bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Ramon Monchito Marrero created the Pina PiÃ±a.  colada On 13 February 1978, the Sydney Hilton Hotel was the site of one of the few terrorist incidents on Australian soil, when a bomb blast killed 3 people (2 council workers and a policeman).