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Why I own this ASX share with a dividend yield of 11.5%

The Motley Fool Australia Tristan Harrison

29 Sept 2026 10:00 AEST Opinion An argument, written to persuade. Summary

Summarized version

WAM Microcap is a listed investment company that aims to invest in the most exciting undervalued growth opportunities in the microcap end of the ASX share market.

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From the report

The ASX share WAM Microcap Ltd is the stock in my portfolio with the highest dividend yield. We're familiar with the large businesses within the S&P/ASX 200 Index, but there are a lot of….

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Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

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

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How it is written

Niral Score 21.1 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

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

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Sentiment +0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 5 unattributednamed sources Mood 56.5 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	21.1	21	5	0.2	56.5
The Motley Fool Australia	20.7	10	0	-0.3	66.9
The Motley Fool Australia	14.1	8	29	0.4	56.4
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 Is the Medibank share price a buy for its 6% dividend yield? Niral 14.1 · mostly calm political 0 The Motley Fool Australia Is the ResMed share price a cheap buy? Niral 21.3 · mostly calm political 0