Originally Posted by
Baa_Baa
Your yield is related to your SP buy price and dividends (earnings) paid out, so after you've bought in, it isn't affected by the SP head price changes regardless of the market. As long as AIR keep paying out excess profits along similar lines to recent history and your buy-in price is/was low enough to generate a nice yield, SP becomes irrelevant. Unless you sell, then your overall yield is affected by the difference between your buy price and your sell price, plus earnings in between. Yield is a good way of looking at and managing investments.
I tried to say that in plain english, the accountants here might have a more refined way of expressing how yield works for investing long term, versus focusing on SP, unless looking for a nice yield generating entry price.