Electro Rent (Electro Rent) Dividend Yield % : 3.23% (As of Apr. 24, 2024)

Electro Rent Dividend Yield % Chart

Electro Rent Annual Data
	Trend	May06	May07	May08	May09	May10	May11	May12	May13	May14	May15
Dividend Yield %		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					3.91	5.78	4.70	4.95	7.79

Electro Rent Quarterly Data
	May11	Aug11	Nov11	Feb12	May12	Aug12	Nov12	Feb13	May13	Aug13	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16
Dividend Yield %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															6.19	7.79	6.80	6.28	6.07

Competitive Comparison of Electro Rent's Dividend Yield %

For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, Electro Rent's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % 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.

Electro Rent's Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Electro Rent's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Electro Rent's Dividend Yield % falls into.

Electro Rent Dividend Yield % Calculation

Dividend Yield measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Electro Rent  (NAS:ELRC) Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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