Student Transportation (Student Transportation) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 5.87 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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What is Student Transportation 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Student Transportation's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2017 was 5.87.

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

STB' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0 Med: 0 Max: 5.87
Current: 5.87

During the past 13 years, Student Transportation's highest Yield on Cost was 5.87. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

STB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Transportation industry.
Industry Median: 3.53 vs STB: 5.87

Competitive Comparison of Student Transportation's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Railroads subindustry, Student Transportation'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.

Student Transportation's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Student Transportation's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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

Student Transportation 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 Student Transportation is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Student Transportation (NAS:STB) 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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Student Transportation (Student Transportation) Business Description

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http://www.ridesta.com

Student Transportation Inc is a Canadian company which provides school transportation and management services to public and private schools in both the United States and Canada. Services provided by the company are managed transportation which covers driver recruiting and training, safety, vehicle maintenance, insurance and routing/scheduling, special needs transportation with specially equipped buses and bus routes to specialized schools, charter services for special events and extracurricular activities, Direct-To-Parent school bus service. The company operates its business in two segments namely transportation segment and an oil and gas segment in US and Canada. The majority of the company's revenue comes from transportation business in the US.