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Amlin (APLCY) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 6.71 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Amlin 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Amlin's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 6.71.


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

APLCY' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 6.71
Current: 6.71


During the past 13 years, Amlin's highest Yield on Cost was 6.71. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.


APLCY's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 3.855 vs APLCY: 6.71

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

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Amlin'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.


Amlin's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

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

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



Amlin 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 Amlin is calculated as

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

Amlin  (OTCPK:APLCY) 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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Amlin (APLCY) Business Description

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Amlin PLC was incorporated on September 17, 1993. The Company is engaged in non-life insurance and reinsurance underwriting in the Lloyd's market, Bermuda and Continental Europe. It specialises in providing insurance cover to commercial enterprises and reinsurance protection to other insurance companies around the world. The group operates six segments through: Amlin London, consisting of the Reinsurance, Property & Casualty, Marine and Aviation business units, underwritten via Syndicate 2001; Amlin UK, underwriting commercial insurance in the UK domestic market, via Syndicate 2001 and Amlin Insurance (UK) Limited; Amlin Bermuda, which writes predominantly property reinsurance business, via Amlin AG, including reinsurance ceded by Syndicate 2001; Amlin Re Europe, which writes Continental European non-life reinsurance business, via Amlin AG; Amlin Europe, including Amlin Europe N.V., a provider of marine, corporate property and casualty insurance in the Netherlands and Belgium and specialty business in France; and Other corporate companies, comprising all other entities of the Group including holding companies.

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