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Entergy Arkansas (Entergy Arkansas) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 5.85 (As of Jun. 22, 2024)


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What is Entergy Arkansas 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Entergy Arkansas's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was 5.85.


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

EGYKP.PFD' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 6.13
Current: 5.85


During the past 11 years, Entergy Arkansas's highest Yield on Cost was 6.13. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.


EGYKP.PFD's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Utilities - Regulated industry.
Industry Median: 4.655 vs EGYKP.PFD: 5.85

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

For the Utilities - Regulated Electric subindustry, Entergy Arkansas'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.


Entergy Arkansas's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Entergy Arkansas's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Entergy Arkansas 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 Entergy Arkansas is calculated as

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

Entergy Arkansas  (OTCPK:EGYKP.PFD) 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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Entergy Arkansas (Entergy Arkansas) Business Description

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Entergy Corporation is a Fortune 500 integrated energy Company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Its three business segments are: Utility; Entergy Wholesale Commodities; and Parent and Other. Entergy's utility companies generate, transmit, distribute, and sell electric power, and operate a small natural gas distribution business. Entergy's wholesale commodities business owns and operates six nuclear units in the northern United States. This business is primarily focused on selling power produced by those plants to wholesale customers. This business also provides operations and management services to nuclear power plants owned by other utilities.

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