Rentrak's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was 0.00.
The historical rank and industry rank for Rentrak's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
RENT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Business Services industry.
Industry Median: 3.55 * Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.
Competitive Comparison of Rentrak's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Rentrak'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.
Rentrak's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Business Services Industry
For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Rentrak's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Rentrak's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
Rentrak 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 Rentrak is calculated as
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.
Rentrak 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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Rentrak Corp is an Oregon corporation and was incorporated in 1977. It is a media measurement and information company serving the entertainment, television, video and advertising industries. The Company's Software as a Service technology merges census-based television viewership information from over 100 million TVs and devices with consumer behavior and purchase information across multiple platforms, devices and distribution channels. It also measures box office results from more than 125,000 movie screens in 47 countries. The Company processes and aggregates billions of data transactions from multiple screens wherever entertainment content is viewed, whether at the box office, on a television screen, over the internet, on a smart phone or other portable device. It measures live TV, recorded TV, Video-On-Demand and whether the content is free, purchased, rented, recorded, downloaded or streamed from multiple channels. These content databases provide stable and granular viewership information across every screen and are anonymously matched with third-party consumer segmentation and purchase databases using privacy compliant methodologies. By linking multiscreen viewership information with information about the products viewers consume and prefer, the Company provides its clients, such as content producers, distributors, advertisers and advertising agencies, with the knowledge necessary to effectively manage their businesses, program and market their networks and precisely target and sell their advertising inventory. Additionally, certain clients of the Company use the databases to populate programmatic buying systems. These systems automate the buying process and introduce efficiencies for both advertising agencies and their clients. The Company's media measurement services are distributed through patent pending software systems and business processes into two areas within the entertainment industry: - Movies Everywhere and TV Everywhere. The Company's Entertainment Essentials services are: TV Everywhere including TV Essentials and StationView Essentials; OnDemand Everywhere includes OnDemand Essentials, Over the Top measurement products and related products; Movies Everywhere includes domestic and international Box Office Essentials, PostTrak and PreAct; and Other Services include Studio Direct Revenue Sharing and other products relating to content in the home video rental industry. The Company's primary competitors are Nielsen, Kantar and TiVo. It owns two patents directed to techniques for extracting revenue information from point-of-sale terminals, as well as nine patents for linear data collection, projections and analysis. Among the linear TV patents are two for our sophisticated TV-off methodology, which accurately accounts for cases when the TV is turned off but the set-top box.
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