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Capital Gains Yield Calculator

Compute the capital gains yield from the purchase and current price, with dividend yield, total return and the annualised equivalent.

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Capital Gains Yield Calculator works straight from this page — free, instant, nothing to install. Its place is under Investing & markets; Capital Gains Calculator and Effective Yield Calculator answer the questions closest to this one.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Capital Gains Yield Calculator?

Compute the capital gains yield from the purchase and current price, with dividend yield, total return and the annualised equivalent.

When would I actually use this?

Comparing two investments that pay at different times, deciding whether a project clears its cost of capital, and sanity-checking a valuation someone else produced.

What is the most common mistake?

Trusting a valuation without asking what share of it comes from the terminal value. Past 70%, the answer is an assumption about the distant future dressed up as a calculation.

How is Capital Gains Yield Calculator different from Capital Gains Calculator?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Capital Gains Calculator is the one to open when you need it to estimate the taxable gain and tax due on the sale of an asset. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Effective Yield Calculator is the closest one after this: Convert a nominal rate into the effective annual yield for any compounding frequency, with APR and APY side by side.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Yield farming APY calculator and Dividend yield calculator — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Discounting, IRR and payback are defined identically everywhere, so the arithmetic is not in dispute — the assumptions you feed it are. Change the discount rate by a point and re-read the answer.

Further reading

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ExplainerPrice Return, Total Return and Yield Are Three Different NumbersThe index quoted in the news is almost always a price index. At 5 percent price growth and a 2.5 percent reinvested yield, 30 years turn $10,000 into $43,219 on price and $90,656 on total return — the price measure misses 58.8 percent of the gain.ExplainerTax-Equivalent Yield: Comparing a Tax-Free Bond With a Taxable OneTaxable-equivalent yield = tax-free yield ÷ (1 − marginal rate). A 3.00 percent tax-free yield is worth 3.85 percent at a 22 percent marginal rate and 5.07 percent at 40.8 percent. The trap is that it is the marginal rate, surtaxes and social levies included — leaving them out costs 0.85 points of yield.ExplainerDividend Reinvestment: What Actually Drives the DifferenceReinvesting a 3 percent yield for 30 years turns 100 shares into 242.7 and multiplies the final position by exactly that factor: $32,434 becomes $78,726. Tax at 30 percent on each dividend costs $18,223 of it — nearly two and a half times the tax actually paid.GuideYield Farming: What an Advertised APY Actually PaysThe number on the farm's front page is a gross figure before every subtraction. Here is a 120 percent APY walked down, one layer at a time, to the 33.6 percent that actually landed — plus why APR and APY are not the same number.ExplainerWhat Is Dividend Yield? Formula, Examples and TrapsDividend yield sounds simple — dividend divided by price — but a high number can be a warning sign. Here is how to read it and why total return matters more.ExplainerWhat Is a Capital Gain on Property?A capital gain on property is the profit when you sell for more than you paid, minus your costs. Learn how it is calculated and why primary-residence rules matter.