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CPCAF (Cathay Pacific Airways) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 6.14 (As of Mar. 04, 2025)


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What is Cathay Pacific Airways 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Cathay Pacific Airways's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 6.14.


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

CPCAF' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.08   Med: 2.78   Max: 6.34
Current: 6.14


During the past 13 years, Cathay Pacific Airways's highest Yield on Cost was 6.34. The lowest was 1.08. And the median was 2.78.


CPCAF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
67.85% of 647 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.66 vs CPCAF: 6.14

Competitive Comparison of Cathay Pacific Airways's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Airlines subindustry, Cathay Pacific Airways'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.


Cathay Pacific Airways's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Cathay Pacific Airways's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cathay Pacific Airways 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 Cathay Pacific Airways is calculated as

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

Cathay Pacific Airways  (OTCPK:CPCAF) 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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Cathay Pacific Airways Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
88 Queensway, 33rd Floor, One Pacific Place, Hong Kong, HKG
Cathay Pacific is the largest airline group in Hong Kong. It operated a fleet of 231 aircraft and flies to over 80 destinations as of June 2024. Cathay carried more than 35 million passengers in prepandemic 2019. The group operates the full-service airline Cathay Pacific and the low-cost carrier HK Express. It also runs the cargo carrier Air Hong Kong.