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Empire Co (Empire Co) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.62 (As of Apr. 27, 2024)


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What is Empire Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Empire Co's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 3.62.


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

EMLAF' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.82   Med: 2.39   Max: 4.32
Current: 3.62


During the past 13 years, Empire Co's highest Yield on Cost was 4.32. The lowest was 1.82. And the median was 2.39.


EMLAF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
60% of 205 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 2.83 vs EMLAF: 3.62

Competitive Comparison of Empire Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Empire Co'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.


Empire Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Empire Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Empire Co 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 Empire Co is calculated as

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

Empire Co  (OTCPK:EMLAF) 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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Empire Co (Empire Co) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
115 King Street, Stellarton, NS, CAN, B0K 1S0
Empire Co Ltd key businesses are food retailing, investments, and other operations. The food retailing division operates through Empire's subsidiary Sobeys and represents nearly all of the company's income. This segment owns, affiliates, or franchises more than 1,500 stores in 10 provinces, under retail banners including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawton's Drug Stores, and multiple retail fuel locations. The company's investment and other operations segment include the investment in Crombie REIT, which is an open-ended Canadian real estate investment trust, as well as the Genstar Development Partnership.

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