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Nevsun Resources (Nevsun Resources) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Nevsun Resources 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Nevsun Resources's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was 0.00.


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



NSU's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: 3.23
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

Competitive Comparison of Nevsun Resources's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Nevsun Resources'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.


Nevsun Resources's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Nevsun Resources's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Nevsun Resources 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 Nevsun Resources is calculated as

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

Nevsun Resources  (AMEX:NSU) 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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Nevsun Resources (Nevsun Resources) Business Description

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Address
1066 West Hastings Street, Suite 1750, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 3X1
Nevsun Resources Ltd is involved in acquisition, exploration, development and operation of mineral property interests. The company primarily engages in copper and zinc production at Bisha, a large, high-grade volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit located 150km west of Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa. The company generates revenue through the sale of copper and zinc concentrates which contain gold and silver by-products. Bisha is mined using conventional drill and blast open pit mining techniques to remove waste and deliver ore to the run of mine stock pile. Nevsun Resources also operates a high-grade copper and gold Timok project, a high-grade deposit located in the Bor mining district, in Serbia.

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