Use the Dividend Yield Formula: The formula to calculate the dividend yield is listed above; this means that Microsoft's dividend yield was approximately 0.01% ( 0.0085%).

Let’s look at the following example. Imagine that a stock with a price of $200 has an annual dividend of $5 per share. The dividend yield for that stock would be (5/200 x 100), equal to 2.5%.

Dividends are regular payments of profit made to investors who own a company's stock. Dividends can be paid in cash or reinvested back into the stock.

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The dividend growth model is a mathematical formula investors can use to determine a reasonable fair value for a company's stock based on its current dividend and its expected future dividend growth.