"return on shares" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the amount of money generated by a given number of shares of stock. For example: "The company earned a 5% return on shares this quarter."
Over the past ten years the total return on unleveraged investment in American property has outpaced the return on bonds and exactly matched the return on shares.
Since the current dividend yield is around 1 1/2%, that means that profits must grow by around 10 1/2% a year to justify the present price level of American equities.By contrast, if the equity premium has vanished completely, the required return on shares is only 6%.
Acknowledging that good data on the performance of other assets were not available, the study claimed that the rate of return on shares was "substantially higher than for alternative investment media", providing the first empirical support for the still popular idea that shares outperform over the long run.
This means that returns on shares must come almost entirely in the form of capital gains.
Some stockmarket investors trade far too frequently because they are chasing the returns on shares they wish they had bought earlier.Mr Kahneman reckons that some types of businesses are much better than others at dealing with risk.
Even though shares have recovered some of their losses in recent months, the crash has left investors asking what became of the fabled equity premium, the amount by which they can expect returns on shares to exceed those from government bonds.
Returns on share prices (along with reinvested dividends) surged by 23% globally, the best performance in three years.
Since 1992, the annualized return on its shares has been 22.7percentt, according to Bloomberg.
Between 2000 and 2007 there was no correlation between equity-capital ratios and the total return on banks' shares, says Mr Varley of Barclays.
Lorie and his co-researcher, Lawrence Fisher, chose January 1926 as the start date because they wanted the data to span at least one complete business cycle.When the two economists published the first study based on these data in 1964, they reported that the annual compound return on the shares over the entire 35-year period was (depending on the tax status of the investor) between 6.8% and 9%.
John Glen, senior lecturer in economics at the Cranfield School of Management, suggested that the government's guarantee that it would distribute a £130m profit to shareholders next July, meaning shareholders would get a 6.5% return on their shares, was driving demand.
