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Oxford Square Capital (STU:22T) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 5.72 (As of May. 15, 2024)


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What is Oxford Square Capital 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Oxford Square Capital's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 5.72.


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

STU:22T' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.73   Med: 6.07   Max: 16.73
Current: 5.72


During the past 13 years, Oxford Square Capital's highest Yield on Cost was 16.73. The lowest was 3.73. And the median was 6.07.


STU:22T's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
51.81% of 1214 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 5.92 vs STU:22T: 5.72

Competitive Comparison of Oxford Square Capital's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Asset Management subindustry, Oxford Square Capital'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.


Oxford Square Capital's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Oxford Square Capital's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Oxford Square Capital's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



Oxford Square Capital 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 Oxford Square Capital is calculated as

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

Oxford Square Capital  (STU:22T) 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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Oxford Square Capital (STU:22T) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
8 Sound Shore Drive, Suite 255, Greenwich, CT, USA, 06830
Oxford Square Capital Corp is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company with a focus is to seek an attractive risk-adjusted total return by investing in corporate debt securities and collateralized loan obligation (CLO) structured finance investments that own corporate debt securities. its capital is generally used by its corporate borrowers to finance organic growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and working capital. The group invests in various industries such as Structured Finance, IT Consulting, Business Services, Utilities, Software, Healthcare, Telecommunication Services, Plastics Manufacturing, and Diversified Insurance.

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