When building a solid, long - term income portfolio, you can not make your investment decisions
based on current yield alone.
For this reason, some investors instead choose to
focus on current yield when comparing the dividends of different stocks.
I have actually focused more on dividend / earnings growth and
less on current yield as I have gotten older.
Estimate expected return (for next month) for each bond based
on current yield SMAs and expected yield SMA betas.
Though this limitation generally has a more noticeable
effect on current yield, because it is for a period of only one year, these fluctuations can affect YTM significantly as well.
For G&D, values for stockholders are created by earnings which are then valued in the market by a price earnings ratio (or capitalization rate) and / or dividends, which are valued by the
market on a current yield basis.
Dividend oriented investors often focus too
much on current yield (i.e. how much the company pays the investor today), which, by extension, leads to a portfolio of mature slower growth businesses like regulated utilities or telecommunications service companies.
Investors seeking income solely
based on current yield (with some asset class diversification mixed in) could consider these myriad higher yielding ETFs herein.
Rather than
focusing on current yield, the ETF instead looks at stocks that have a past history of dividend growth over time.
-LSB-...] the long - term returns on bonds will certainly be lower than average based
on the current yields.
Investors seeking income solely based
on current yield (with some asset class diversification mixed in) could consider these myriad higher yielding ETFs herein.
And I don't consider the recent NAV discount swing cause for alarm — experienced investors should be used to a 10 - 20 % premium / discount appearing on a regular basis, presuming underlying NAV looks realistic (which it does, based
on current yield / other metrics).
The focus is
on current yield and managers at PIMCO use credit analysis to build PONDX's portfolio.