Equity Analysis: Dividend per Share and Dividend Yield
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Equity Analysis: Dividend per Share and Dividend Yield

Intuition Publishing
Updated Sep 24, 2020

Two key measures of return to shareholders are dividend per share (DPS) and dividend yield. DPS is simply the dividend attributable to one share of common stock, while dividend yield is the dividend per share expressed as a percentage of the current share price. Here we show you how to calculate and interpret DPS and dividend yield.