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Affymax, (FRA:A5Y) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of May. 15, 2024)


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What is Affymax, 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Affymax,'s yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 was 0.00.


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



FRA:A5Y's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 1.765
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Affymax,'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.


Affymax,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Affymax,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Affymax, 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 Affymax, is calculated as

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

Affymax,  (FRA:A5Y) 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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Affymax, (FRA:A5Y) Business Description

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Address
630 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10020
Affymax Inc is a development-stage biopharmaceutical company, engaged in developing novel peptide-based therapeutics for the treatment of life-threatening conditions. The company's product includes OMONTYS, an injection for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease in adult patients on dialysis. OMONTYS is a synthetic, peptide-based erythropoiesis stimulating agent, or ESA, designed to stimulate the production of red blood cells and has been the only once-monthly ESA available to the adult dialysis patient population in the U.S.

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