4 ETFs For Adding A 9% Yield To Your Portfolio Mortgage REITS, MPLs and BDCs all offer the opportunity for big yields and they're finally back in favor again. Author: Jan 23, 2021 The quest for yield has been going for years and there's little evidence that the environment is getting much better. Treasury yields have risen by about 0.5% since their late summer 2020 low, but the 10-year is still only paying about 1.1%. High yield bonds just hit an all-time low yield of just over 4%. Stocks don't offer much more. The S&P 500 yields 1.6%. If you go for the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (SPYD), which targets the 80 highest-yielding stocks from the S&P 500, you can earn 4.4% right now.