Roper Technologies's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.71.
The historical rank and industry rank for Roper Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
ROP'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49 Med: 0.7 Max: 1.08
Current: 0.71
During the past 13 years, Roper Technologies's highest Yield on Cost was 1.08. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 0.70.
ROP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 81.35% of 933
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.28
vs ROP: 0.71
Competitive Comparison
For the Software - Application subindustry, Roper Technologies'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.
Roper Technologies 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Roper Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Roper Technologies'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 Roper Technologies 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.
Roper Technologies 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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Roper Technologies (Roper Technologies) Business Description
Roper is a diversified technology company that operates through three segments: application software; network software and systems; and technology enabled products. The firm's culture emphasizes acquiring asset-light, cash-generative businesses. Roper then reinvests this excess cash in businesses that yield incrementally higher rates of return. While the businesses are managed in a decentralized manner, Roper does not passively manage its portfolio. Instead, Roper manages its businesses through the Socratic method and empowers decision-makers through group executive coaching. Roper has now rotated a clear majority of its business from legacy industrial products into technology software in mature, niche markets with large quantities of deferred revenue.
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