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Balfour Beatty (Balfour Beatty) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.21 (As of May. 01, 2024)


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What is Balfour Beatty 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Balfour Beatty's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.21.


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

BAFBF' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.3   Med: 2.11   Max: 9.28
Current: 3.21


During the past 13 years, Balfour Beatty's highest Yield on Cost was 9.28. The lowest was 0.30. And the median was 2.11.


BAFBF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
56.07% of 956 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 3.295 vs BAFBF: 3.21

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

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Balfour Beatty'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.


Balfour Beatty's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Construction Industry

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

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



Balfour Beatty 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 Balfour Beatty is calculated as

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

Balfour Beatty  (OTCPK:BAFBF) 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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Balfour Beatty (Balfour Beatty) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, GBR, E14 5HU
Balfour Beatty PLC finances, builds, and maintains infrastructure projects. It develops projects in energy, water, communications, transportation, and other industrial markets. In addition, the company manages construction businesses and provides maintenance and management services in power transmission, utilities infrastructure, road, and rail. Some projects are granted through concessions by government authorities. Balfour Beatty operates three business segments: Construction services (majority of total revenue), Support services, and Infrastructure investments. It will invest directly in infrastructure assets when there are opportunities to manage the projects upon completion and create recurring revenue. The majority of sales are derived from the United Kingdom and the United States.

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