Gaps between crop yields achieved in «best practice» farming and
the actual average yields exist all over the world, but are widest in developing countries — particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Not exact matches
Although the AAY is used less frequently, if your are quoted an «
Average Anual
Yield» — ask what the
actual interest rates and the Annual Percentage
Yield (APY) is.
It seems these companies are able to return cash to shareholders (via dividend raises) on
average in the 8 - 12 % range without share buybacks and in 11 - 15 % range with (total shareholder
yield) outside of any additional increase in the
actual price per share.
So you can think of a portfolio of good direct 5 - year CDs as a 5 - year CD ladder, but with higher
average yield than an
actual ladder.
This means dividends are low priority right now — the
actual average sector
yield's more like 0.7 %, if I count the majority of companies with a zero dividend.
So when you fall for this trap, after a few years of just 2 % inflation (
average long - term CPI inflation is around 3 %), your
actual real after - tax
yield is negative.
But the
actual change of the global mean temperature in the last 77 years (in
average) is so tiny that the place - dependent noise still safely beats the «global warming trend»,
yielding an ambiguous sign of the temperature trend that depends on the place.»