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Kainos Group (LSE:KNOS) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 8.72 (As of May. 15, 2024)


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What is Kainos Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Kainos Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 8.72.


The historical rank and industry rank for Kainos Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:KNOS' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.16   Med: 5.5   Max: 10.14
Current: 8.72


During the past 11 years, Kainos Group's highest Yield on Cost was 10.14. The lowest was 1.16. And the median was 5.50.


LSE:KNOS's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
89.78% of 939 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.32 vs LSE:KNOS: 8.72

Competitive Comparison of Kainos Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Kainos Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Kainos Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Kainos Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Kainos Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



Kainos Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Kainos Group is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Kainos Group  (LSE:KNOS) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.


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Kainos Group (LSE:KNOS) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
4-6 Upper Crescent, Kainos House, Belfast, Northern Ireland, GBR, BT7 1NT
Kainos Group PLC provides information technology services, consulting and software solutions. It is structured into two divisions namely Digital Services and Workday Practice. Digital Services include full life cycle development and support of digital solutions for government and commercial customers. Workday Practice includes includes cloud-based software for Human Capital Management and Financial Management and Planning, Workday Products. The company derives majority of its revenues from the Digital Services segment.