What is a yield?

Yield is the profit or loss from investments Achieved which include fixed income and the change in the prices of assets invested. And can be expressed in the form of yield percentage is calculated by adding the change to fixed income investing in asset prices and then dividing the result by the principal amount of the investment. Can be obtained on the annual return on investment ratio by dividing the total return on investment on the number of years of investment.

The annual rate of return on an investment, expressed as a percentage.

Yield refers to the cash return to the owner of a security or investment.

 

Definition of Yield:

The annual income earned from an investment, expressed usually as a percentage of the money Invested

In finance, the term yield describes the amount in cash (in percentage terms) that returns to the owners of a security such as the interest or dividends received from a security. Normally, it does not include the price variations, at the difference of the total return. Yield applies to various stated rates of return on stocks (common and preferred, and convertible), fixed income instruments (bonds, notes, bills, strips, zero coupon), and some other investment type insurance products (e.g. annuities).

The term is used in different situations to mean different things. It can be calculated as a ratio or as an internal rate of return (IRR). It may be used to state the owner's total return, or just a portion of income, or exceed the income.

 

Because of these differences, the yields from different uses should never be compared as if they were equal. This page is mainly a series of links to other pages with increased details.

I am not a finance expert, what I know about yield from industrial practice that yield is basically 'efficiency'.

If10Kg of a material is issued, and9.75Kg worth of material is produced. we say yield is97.5%.

The income return on an investment. This refers to the interest or dividends received from a security and is usually expressed annually as a percentage based on the investment's cost, its current market value or its face value.

Yield is the annual Rate of Return on an Investment. For E.g if you get10 % Dividend on your Investment in100 shares at $10 per share at par which was holding by you for the whole year, the yield is10% itself. In the same case if, if the investments were made at additional10$ premium (i.e. total $20 per share)  the10% dividend will give you only5% yield. Here total deployment of the fund (or deemed deployment also) is counted to arrive at the net effective rate of return.

The income return on an investment per year.

Yield describes the amount in cash that returns to the owners of a security such as the interest or dividends received from a security

Well explained by champs