Similarly, buying into businesses where pre-tax earnings yield was in excess of twice of
AAA bond yield, and the business had a strong balance sheet was one of the key methods of Graham for identifying a bargain security.
If
the AAA bond yield is 5.5 %, a stock would need to have an earnings yield of at least 11 % to meet the Rea - Graham criterion.
Buying stocks where the dividend yield was at least two - thirds
the AAA bond yield would have generated an average compound growth rate of 19.5 %; and
The fourth criterion of the «first five» required the dividend yield to be greater than or equal to two - thirds of the average
AAA bond yield.
In order to receive a whole point, the dividend yield must be at least two - thirds that of
the AAA bond yield.
Therefore, if
the AAA bond yield is 5 %, a stock must have a dividend yield of at least 3.35 % (5 % × 0.67).
Vertical factor: spread of Baa bond yields over
Aaa bond yields — Hypothesis: When spreads are high, stock valuations tend to be low.
Deploy it in assets which would earn a return lower than
AAA bond yield net of inflation, in which case value is destroyed and the cash should be valued at a discount; and
Imagine that there are a few stocks in your «investible universe» whose upper estimate of expected return is less than
AAA bond yield.
You may use long - term historical Nifty returns too if you prefer but I use
AAA bond yield, which, at this time is about 10 % pretax.
Well, I propose that you use
AAA bond yield as a benchmark.
When you calculate EPS / Price yield are you using trailing earnings and is
the AAA bond yield a 30 - year maturity?
What a deal; it is difficult to find
AAA bonds yielding 0.5 % more than Treasuries.
Here is his formula: (10 yr avg EPS / 2x Moody's
AAA bond yield) * 1.5 = Central Value of Stock Market.
We devised an index to see how much earnings growth the market is pricing in a given time (S&P 500 E / P less 7 - year
AAA bond yield adjusted for one year of earning growth).
Not exact matches
Investment grade
bonds contain «
AAA» to «BBB - «(or Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrea
AAA» to «BBB - «(or
Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrea
Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see
bond yields increase as ratings decrease.
Y represents the current
yield on
AAA corporate
bonds.
That's what to watch for now - things like the difference between commercial paper
yields and Treasury bills, the difference between Moody's BAA and
AAA yields, the difference between the Dow Jones Corporate
Bond Index
yield and 10 - year Treasury
yields, and so forth.
If the ratio is at 100 %, it indicates that the
yield on a
AAA - rated municipal
bond is the same as a Treasury security of the same maturity.
Using monthly levels of Moody's
yield on seasoned
Aaa corporate
bonds and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during October 1928 through February 2018 (about 90 years) and monthly levels of the 10 - year government
bond interest rate and the stock market from Robert Shiller during January 1871 through February 2018 (about 148 years), we find that: Keep Reading
The credit spread is the difference in
yields between the 10 - year Treasury note and Moody's
AAA seasoned corporate
bonds.
We used the Yahoo! Finance
Bonds Center (finance.yahoo.com/
bonds) as our source for the five - year
AAA corporate
bond yield.
One criterion Rea and Graham used required that the earnings
yield be at least twice the average
AAA corporate
bond yield.
The earnings
yield is greater than or equal to twice the average
AAA corporate
bond rate (alternatively, the price - earnings ratio is less than or equal to one - half of [100 ÷ the average
AAA corporate
bond rate]-RRB-
Buying stocks with an earnings
yield at least twice that of the
AAA bond rate would have generated an average compound growth in price over the 50 - year period of 19.9 %, versus 7.5 % for the Dow Jones industrial average;
The long term
AAA yield for corporate
bonds is about 5.9 %.
BAA
bond yields could be expressed as spreads against
AAA yields, but the mathematical results would be the same.
While high quality ratings often imply lower
yields, the S&P International Corporate
Bond Index has a weighted average
yield - to - worst of 2.16 %, which is higher than the average
yields of U.S. treasuries and comparable to the 2.26 %
yield of the S&P 500
AAA Investment Corporate
Bond Index.
The time before the crisis offered many opportunities for
bond managers to add
yield in structured securities that were rated
AAA.
The fund has invested almost 80 % in
AAA rated
bonds while the rest of the portfolio is invested in AA rated
bonds which may increase the
yield without taking much credit risk.
AAA bonds carry lower
yields than junk
bonds much like the interest you get when lending to people with higher or lower credit ratings.
Municipal
Bonds — Municipal yields were mostly down this week, with the exception of the 2 - year AAA - rated bonds that increased by 3 bps to yield 1.
Bonds — Municipal
yields were mostly down this week, with the exception of the 2 - year
AAA - rated
bonds that increased by 3 bps to yield 1.
bonds that increased by 3 bps to
yield 1.76 %.
When risk - free and
AAA - rated corporate
bonds yield less than 4 %, 3.5 %
yield on utilities and 6 %
yields from junk ETFs are difficult to pass up.
Sparinvest's High
Yield Value
Bonds was rated
AAA - by the German rating agency, TELOS.
Right now the premium on
AAA corporate and the like is so low that I wouldn't recommend picking them up, but when the
yield curve eventually becomes a curve again, you can find good risk - adjusted returns in corporate
bonds (providing you're holding to maturity).
also provide a
yield table for
AAA - rated insured revenue
bonds, a useful benchmark for prices of other municipal issues.
For example, the Government of Canada has
AAA - rated
bonds (4.25 % due 1/6/2018) maturing in five years with an annual
yield of 1.6 %.
With the 20 - year
AAA corporate
bond and 30 - year Treasury
bond yields rising, they'll become increasingly better than stock dividend
yields.
They consider four potential predictors: (1) the default spread (between Moody's BAA and
AAA rated
bonds); (2) the broad stock market dividend
yield; (3) the implied volatility of the S&P 500 Index (VIX); and, (4) the monthly net aggregate flow into the hedge fund industry.
In the 1990s, the 10 - year treasury note on average
yielded 0.94 % more than a like maturity
AAA - rated municipal
bond.
The 2 - year
AAA - rated
bonds decreased 1 bps to
yield 0.84 %.
V * = Intrinsic value EPS = Trailing twelve months earnings / share 8.5 = P / E base for a no - growth company g = Expected long term earnings growth rate 4.4 = Average
yield of high - grade corporate
bonds in 1962, when the formula was introduced Y = Current average
yield on 20 year
AAA corporate
bonds
The MMD
AAA is the US Municipal
Bond Yield Benchmark used to measure price and rate movements.
If company ABC (Rating:
AAA) wanted to issue
bonds at 5.00 % their competitor XYZ (Rating: AA) would have to pay a higher
yield to attract the equivalent investment because of the perceived lesser quality of their debt.
Investment grade
bonds contain «
AAA» to «BBB - «(or Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrea
AAA» to «BBB - «(or
Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see bond yields increase as ratings decrea
Aaa to Baa3 for Moody's rating scale) ratings and will usually see
bond yields increase as ratings decrease.
Why not replace it with equally safe and liquid assets that offered considerably more
yield, like
bonds backed by
AAA - rated subprime or Alt - A mortgage collateral?
Yields are listed only for
bonds with the highest credit ratings (
AAA to A) or just slightly below.
Spreads on Illinois debt to MMD (Municipal Market Data, the
yield curve of the highest rated,
AAA / Aaa municipal bonds, as published by Thompson Reuters) have widen
AAA /
Aaa municipal bonds, as published by Thompson Reuters) have widen
Aaa municipal
bonds, as published by Thompson Reuters) have widened.
Last November I got a couple of issues of my state's AA and
AAA municipal
bonds at
yield - to - maturity of 5.3 %: tax free coupon rate of 5 % on one and 5.25 % on another, but I bought below par.
There is a credit factor that effects
yields, and the effect on Baa
bonds is roughly 1.5 x that of
Aaa bonds.