YIELD ANALYSIS
Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Dividend yields don’t tell you everything, but they tell you a lot. Sometimes.
A fair number of studies over the years find that the correlation between yield and subsequent return over the next five years and beyond is strong enough to convince fair-minded investors to watch those yields for clues about what’s coming. In other words, higher yields have a tendency to lead to higher returns, while lower yields imply lower returns.