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Is the Medibank share price a buy for its 6% dividend yield?

The Motley Fool Australia Tristan Harrison

29 Sept 2026 09:37 AEST Share tips Commentary on which shares to buy. Summary

Summarized version

The Medibank Private Ltd share price has drifted lower, whcih this has given investors the chance to buy with a larger dividend yield.

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From the report

The Medibank Private Ltd share price has drifted lower, whcih this has given investors the chance to buy with a larger dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool Australia Is the Medibank share price a buy for its 6% dividend yield? plain
The Motley Fool Australia Is the Northern Star share price a cheap buy? plain
The Motley Fool Australia Why I own this ASX share with a dividend yield of 11.5% plain
The Motley Fool Australia Is the ResMed share price a cheap buy? plain

Headline check

All two things this headline claims are in the report.

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How it is written

Niral Score 14.1 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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Sentiment +0.4 hostilefavourable Sourcing 29 unattributednamed sources Mood 56.4 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Measured on The Motley Fool Australia’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How each outlet filed it

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Happiness
The Motley Fool Australiaas they published this story	14.1	8	29	0.4	56.4
The Motley Fool Australia	20.7	10	0	-0.3	66.9
The Motley Fool Australia	21.1	21	5	0.2	56.5
The Motley Fool Australia	21.3	14	0	0.7	52.4

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The Motley Fool Australia Is the Northern Star share price a cheap buy? Niral 20.7 · mostly calm political 0 The Motley Fool Australia Why I own this ASX share with a dividend yield of 11.5% Niral 21.1 · mostly calm political 0 The Motley Fool Australia Is the ResMed share price a cheap buy? Niral 21.3 · mostly calm political 0