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Bank loan yield measures the interest return generated by a bank's average loan portfolio over a period.
Loan Yield = Annualized Loan Interest Income ÷ Average Loans
What moves loan yield
Loan yield can change because of benchmark-rate movements, fixed versus floating-rate mix, new-loan pricing, portfolio mix, loan fees, nonaccrual balances, and acquired-loan accounting.
Why investors use it
Loan yield helps separate asset-side repricing from funding-cost changes.
A bank can experience rising loan yields while net interest margin still falls if deposits and other funding reprice faster.
PNC reports average loan balances, interest income, and average loan yields in its average-balance analysis.
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Bank loan yield is an asset-pricing measure. Pair it with Bank Average Loans, Cost of Deposits, and credit quality.
Part of the Bank Balance Sheet and Returns
Connect average loans and deposits, earning-asset yields, deposit pricing and mix, tangible common equity, shareholder returns, and early problem-asset signals to understand bank balance-sheet economics.
How the model fits together
- Average balance and spread engine: Average loans, deposits, and interest-earning assets align balance-sheet scale with the period that generated earnings. Asset and loan yields show gross pricing, while interest-bearing deposit rates, noninterest-bearing deposit mix, and interest rate spread show how funding composition and pricing affect the spread engine.
- Tangible capital and shareholder returns: Tangible common equity removes specified intangible assets from common equity, tangible book value expresses that capital per share, and ROTCE shows profitability relative to average tangible common equity under the issuer's reconciliation. Generic ROA and ROE remain owned by their existing canonical encyclopedia pages rather than duplicated here.
- Credit deterioration ladder: Criticized assets can identify elevated weakness before default, classified assets generally represent more severe adverse grades, and nonperforming assets capture loans and other assets that have reached nonperforming status. Issuer definitions and denominators differ, so the three measures form a diagnostic sequence rather than a standardized formula.
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