Yield - Definition and Overview

Yield may mean:

• In economics, yield is a measure of the amount of income an investment generates over time (related to return on investment). For example, farmers talk of the yield per unit area of land.
• In finance, the yield on a security is the return for the year divided by value of the security.
  • In the case of a bond, yield generally refers to Yield to maturity.
  • In the case of a stock, yield is its dividend yield.
• In chemistry, the chemical yield is the amount of product produced in a chemical synthesis.
• Yield is a condition in steel and other metals under tensile stress where it becomes plastic, deformation is large, and will ultimately break. See tensile strength.
• In semiconductor device fabrication, yield is the ratio of functionally working devices and the total number of devices produced.
• In the context of nuclear weapons, the yield of a weapon is the amount of energy discharged when the weapon explodes, commonly expressed in tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT) needed to produce the same energy.
• In fisheries science, yield refers to amount of catch. See maximum sustainable yield and optimum sustainable yield.
• Yield is the name of a Pearl Jam album.