Yield on cost
What the last twelve months of dividends amount to, measured against the money you put in.
In the demo portfolio
1.3%
How it is computed here
Trailing-twelve-month income divided by net invested. Deliberately not divided by today's market value, which is the figure a broker quotes.
Worked example
- Dividends of the last twelve months $137 ÷ market value $18,736.
Demo portfolio: four invented companies, generated prices, measured by the real engine. Past returns do not predict future ones.
Where it misleads
The two answer different questions. A broker's yield says what you would collect buying today; this says what the money you already committed is yielding. A position bought cheap years ago yields a lot on its cost and little on its price, and both numbers are true.