Dividend yield is the annual dividend per share a company pays divided by the current market price

Question:

yield is the annual per share a company pays divided by the current market price per share expressed as a percentage. A sample of 10 large companies provided the following yield data (The Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2004).

Dividend yield is the annual dividend per share a company

a. What are the mean and median dividend yields?
b. What are the variance and standard deviation?
c. Which company provides the highest dividend yield?
d. What is the z-score for McDonald€™s? Interpret this z-score.
e. What is the z-score for General Motors? Interpret this z-score.
f. Based on z-scores, do the data contain any outliers?

Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...