It is given that
The stock of a company has a current share price of $8.50 and an annual dividend of $0.25.
We know that
[tex]\text{Dividend yield}=\frac{dividend\text{ }per\text{ share}}{market\text{ value per share}}[/tex]Substitute dividend share=$0.25 and market value per share $8.50, we get
[tex]\text{Dividend yield}=\frac{0.25}{8.50}[/tex][tex]\text{Dividend yield}=0.0294[/tex]The percentage of the current yield of the stock is
[tex]\text{Dividend yield \%}=0.0294\times100[/tex][tex]\text{Dividend yield \%}\approx2.94\text{ \%}[/tex]Hence the percentage of the current yield of the stock is 2.94%.