A stock portfolio thus yields earnings of 8%, double what you get on the T bond.
The potential effects of such an increase on crop yields, earnings, reliability of supply, food quality and food safety have been reviewed in detail by Vermeulen et al. (2012).
Normally, a ratio of bond yield to earnings yield of 1.0 is considered cheap.
Factory owners report pressure on yields, earnings and terms of trade, saying that standards are at risk when they have to deliver low prices.
McKinsey also found that every $1 invested in an Ubuntu client yields real lifetime earnings of $8.70 for that child.
The Fed Model compares the yield of the 10-year Treasury note with the stock market's "earnings yield," defined as the inverse of the price-to-earnings ratio.
This approach yields estimates of how the earnings of Mexican immigrants change with time in the US for the sample of immigrants who are present (i.e., have not exited the sample) for all the years-since-immigration categories at the three destinations.
Dana trades at 11 times estimated 2001 earnings of $1.63 and yields 6.9%.
At Donaldson, with its big high-yield business, Ms. Krawcheck expects earnings of 31 cents a share for the three months ending Sept. 30, compared with $1 or more in each of the first two quarters.
Now, earnings have risen and stock prices have fallen, so the average big stock has a P/E ratio, based on projected 2001 earnings, of 21, or an earnings yield of about 4.8percentt.
The average S.& P. 500 stock, meanwhile, had a price-to-earnings ratio, based on projected 2000 earnings, of almost 30, or an "earnings yield" of about 3.5percentt.
