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Yellow Pages (Yellow Pages) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 9.03 (As of May. 13, 2024)


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What is Yellow Pages 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Yellow Pages's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 9.03.


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

YLWDF' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.94   Med: 4.26   Max: 9.03
Current: 9.03


During the past 13 years, Yellow Pages's highest Yield on Cost was 9.03. The lowest was 0.94. And the median was 4.26.


YLWDF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
88.14% of 388 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 3.15 vs YLWDF: 9.03

Competitive Comparison of Yellow Pages's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Publishing subindustry, Yellow Pages'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.


Yellow Pages's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Yellow Pages's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Yellow Pages 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 Yellow Pages is calculated as

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

Yellow Pages  (OTCPK:YLWDF) 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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Yellow Pages (Yellow Pages) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1751 Richardson Street, Suite 2.300, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3K 1G6
Yellow Pages Ltd is a media and marketing solutions company in Canada, It offers local and national businesses access to digital and print media and marketing solutions to reach consumers in all the provinces and territories of Canada.

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