Dividend Yield Calculator

Dividend yield expresses a stock's annual dividend as a percentage of its price, the quickest way to compare income potential across different stocks regardless of their share price. This calculator also converts that yield into the actual income a given number of shares would produce.

How does this calculator work?

Enter the stock's current price and its annual dividend per share (the total of all dividend payments over a year, not a single quarterly payment).

Enter how many shares you own or are considering, and the calculator shows the yield along with annual, quarterly, and monthly income.

Yield is only the income piece of a stock's return. Reinvesting each payment to buy more shares compounds that income over time, the effect the dividend reinvestment projection isolates, while combining income with price change gives the total return and annualized growth of the position. Because yield moves inversely with price, a high figure can signal a falling share price rather than a bargain, which is why it is worth reading next to a valuation measure like the P/E ratio or against a bond's yield.

Worked example

A $100 stock paying $3.00 per share annually, with 200 shares owned.

Dividend yield

3.00%

Annual income

$600

Quarterly income

$150

Monthly income

$50

How the numbers work

$3.00 divided by $100 is a 3% yield, meaning for every $100 invested at the current price, you'd collect $3 a year in dividends before any price change.

On 200 shares, that $3.00 per share becomes $600 a year, most commonly paid out as four quarterly installments of $150 each.

Yield moves with price even when the dividend itself doesn't change: a falling stock price raises the yield, and a rising price lowers it, which is why a high yield alone doesn't necessarily signal a good income investment. It can also reflect a falling stock price pricing in a dividend cut.