Synchrony Financial's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.04.
The historical rank and industry rank for Synchrony Financial's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
SYF'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.44 Med: 2.93 Max: 8.23
Current: 3.04
During the past 13 years, Synchrony Financial's highest Yield on Cost was 8.23. The lowest was 0.44. And the median was 2.93.
SYF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 62.56% of 219
companies
in the Credit Services industry
Industry Median: 4.27
vs SYF: 3.04
Competitive Comparison
For the Credit Services subindustry, Synchrony Financial'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.
Synchrony Financial 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution
For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, Synchrony Financial's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Synchrony Financial's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
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 Synchrony Financial is calculated as
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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Synchrony Financial (Synchrony Financial) Business Description
Synchrony Financial, originally a spinoff of GE Capital's retail financing business, is the largest provider of private-label credit cards in the United States by both outstanding receivables and purchasing volume. Synchrony partners with other firms to market its credit products in their physical stores as well as on their websites and mobile applications. Synchrony operates through three segments: retail card (private-label and co-branded general-purpose credit cards), payment solutions (promotional financing for large ticket purchases), and CareCredit (financing for elective healthcare procedures).
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