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A five percent earnings yield does not promise a five percent cash payment. Consider a hypothetical company priced at one hundred dollars per share, with five dollars of diluted earnings per share over the trailing twelve months. Its price to earnings ratio is twenty. Earnings divided by price gives five percent. Suppose the company distributes one dollar per share in ordinary dividends over the same period. That dividend amount divided by the stated one hundred dollar price is one percent, not five percent. Earnings yield measures accounting earnings relative to the purchase price; dividends measure a different distribution. The remaining earnings are not automatically idle cash, and neither ratio predicts your stock return. Use the same earnings definition and period when taking the reciprocal of a price to earnings ratio. Check one time gains, dilution and cash generation before interpreting an apparently attractive earnings yield. Clearly labeled hypothetical worked example; figures are illustrative, not current company results. Educational content, not personalized investment advice. Sources: https://www.tradingview.com/support/solutions/43000597010-earnings-yield/ https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary/dividend #EarningsYield #DividendYield #PERatio #FundamentalAnalysis #Shorts
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