Answered By: Barbara Coffey Last Updated: Sep 25, 2019 Views: 62
Answered By: Barbara Coffey
Last Updated: Sep 25, 2019 Views: 62
Dividend yield = annual dividend / stock price
This data is available through several sources or can be calculated.
Global financial data, Datastream, Bloomberg - all have this information.
Or for companies use CRSP and retrieve the dividends by quarter – sum those for the year and divide by the stock price.
Directions for Datastream below:
- For the dividend yield for individual stocks
- Enter the Datastream mnemonic for that stock for example U:IBM
- For the dividend yield for the S&P 500
- Enter the Datastream mnemonic: S&PCOMP
- Enter the datatype DY for dividend yield
- Enter the frequency
- Enter the time period you want.
- Choose Time Series Request
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