Discover Financial Services (Discover Financial Services) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.88 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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What is Discover Financial Services 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Discover Financial Services's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.88.

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

DFS' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.09 Med: 3.35 Max: 11.67
Current: 3.88

During the past 13 years, Discover Financial Services's highest Yield on Cost was 11.67. The lowest was 1.09. And the median was 3.35.

DFS's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
56.82% of 220 companies
in the Credit Services industry
Industry Median: 4.275 vs DFS: 3.88

Competitive Comparison of Discover Financial Services's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Credit Services subindustry, Discover Financial Services'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.

Discover Financial Services's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Credit Services Industry

For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, Discover Financial Services's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Discover Financial Services's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.

Discover Financial Services 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 Discover Financial Services is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) 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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Discover Financial Services (Discover Financial Services) Business Description

Industry

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Comparable Companies

Traded in Other Exchanges

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Address

2500 Lake Cook Road, Riverwoods, IL, USA, 60015

Website

https://www.discover.com

Discover Financial Services is a bank operating in two distinct segments: direct banking and payment services. The company issues credit and debit cards and provides other consumer banking products including deposit accounts, students loans, and other personal loans. It also operates the Discover, Pulse, and Diners Club networks. The Discover network is the fourth-largest payment network in the United States as ranked by overall purchase volume, and Pulse is one of the largest ATM networks in the country.

Executives

Kathy Lonowski	director	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Michael Shepherd	director	567 HALE STREET, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Jason Strle	officer: EVP, Chief Information Officer	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Jason P. Hanson	officer: EVP, Pres. - Payment Services	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Daniela O'leary-gill	director	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Beverley A Sibblies	director	2700 SANDERS ROAD, PROSPECT HEIGHTS IL 60070
Robert Andrew Eichfeld	officer: EVP - Chief HR & Admin Officer	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Carlos Minetti	officer: EVP, Pres. - Consumer Banking	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Hope Mehlman	officer: EVP, Chief Legal Officer & GC	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Michael H Moskow	director	444 WEST LAKE STREET, STE. 4700, CHICAGO IL 60606
John B Owen	director	REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION, 1900 5TH AVENUE NORTH, 21ST FLOOR, BIRMINGHAM AL 35203
John Greene	officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer	51 LIME STREET, LONDON X0 EC3M 7DQ
Shifra Kolsky	officer: SVP, Controller and CAO	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015
Michael E Roemer	officer: EVP, Chief Risk Officer	AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC., 70 PINE STREET, NEW YORK NY 10270
Daniel Peter Capozzi	officer: EVP, Pres - Cr Ops & Dec Mgmt	2500 LAKE COOK ROAD, RIVERWOODS IL 60015