Yield is dividend ÷ price, so it rises whenever the price falls, even if the dividend hasn't changed at all. A yield trap is a share whose yield looks generous only because the market has marked the price down — often because it expects the dividend to be cut. The yield you see is built on the current dividend rate, so it quotes a payment the market may already doubt. That doubt is dividend cut risk, and a high yield is often where it shows first.
Its broader cousin is the value trap: a share that looks cheap on any measure because the business behind it is shrinking. Neither can be read off one number, and not every high yield is a trap — sometimes the market is wrong. What separates the two is why the price fell, which is why the other checks in this theme matter more than the yield itself: payout ratio, cash cover, debt and the dividend's own history. The Dividend Safety widget scores yields above 6% lower, and above 9% lower still, for this reason. That's a prompt to look, not a verdict.
Nothing about the payment improved. The 8% is a question, not an offer.
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