Yield (Investor)

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As Investors use of the term the amount of money income brought in from the use of principal. This can be composed of dividends, realized capital appreciation, royalties, and interest. ^[1] Yield may arise from rents of real estate or from personal property, including invested personal property, bonds, stocks, and investments of all kinds. [1]

Interest, dividends, and capital appreciation are earned by the original corpus, usually purchasing power in the form of money made available for investment, by the investor.

• Principal comes from, first in importance," or "money on which interest is paid." [2]

• Dividends are payments made by a company to its shareholders.

• Interest is the amount of rent on the principal the borrower pays the lender until he pays back the loan.

• Royalties are periodic payments made for the continual use of assets.

• Capital appreciation is the increase of the value, or market price, of a principal asset of an investment. [3][4][5] ^[2]

• Income was originally of game approaching the hunter. c.1300, entrance, arrival, what enters, money made through business or labor," first recorded 1601. [6] You can see the connection with how much game the forest yielded, leading to how much yield was earned on principal. How much increased assets came in.

• Yield includes the total return earned on this principal., which includes dividends, capital gains distributions, and the increase in the net asset value of the property. ^[3]

Yield from, to pay, to be worth, to repay, return, to cost, be worth, to be worth. c.1300 repay, return, render, produce, surrender. Earliest Eng. sense survives in financial "yield from investments. Payment, sum of money. [7]