Yield (finance)

ratio between the net profit and cost of investment resulting from an investment of some resources

measure of an investment's risk premium

relative profitability of an investment project, a capitalist enterprise or a whole capitalist economy

in finance, a measure of the ex-ante return to a holder of the security

the discount rate at which the sum of all future cash flows from a bond (coupons and principal) is equal to the price of the bond

used in finance as a measure of the returns that a company is realising from its capital employed

Measurement in finance

measure of the performance of different companies' stocks and shares over time

short-term rates exceed long-term rates