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Asiainfo-Linkage, (FRA:AFB) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of Jun. 07, 2024)


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What is Asiainfo-Linkage, 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Asiainfo-Linkage,'s yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2013 was 0.00.


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



FRA:AFB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 2.26
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Asiainfo-Linkage,'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.


Asiainfo-Linkage,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Asiainfo-Linkage,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Asiainfo-Linkage, 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 Asiainfo-Linkage, is calculated as

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

Asiainfo-Linkage,  (FRA:AFB) 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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Asiainfo-Linkage, (FRA:AFB) Business Description

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Asiainfo-Linkage, Inc, a Delaware corporation, commenced operations in the United States in 1993. The Company is a provider of telecommunications software solutions and information technology, or IT, related services in China. It also provides variety of services including business operational consulting service, IT architecture planning service, system integration services based on its own products and other third party software and hardware, change of request implementation, maintenance on customer premise and management services. The Company's suite of innovative solutions includes business and operation support systems, network infrastructure solutions, and service application solutions. The products and services it offers to the telecommunications industry include various software product suites, most of which are designed with open architecture to facilitate further development and customization for specific purposes. The Company's core BSS/OSS offering primarily includes convergent billing solutions, CRM and BI systems. It also provides software enhancement and maintenance services for the systems it develop, as well as system integration and other value-added IT consulting and planning services. Its OSS Package is a highly comprehensive and intelligent service fulfilment framework based on OSS fulfilment domain definition in eTOM model and OSS specifications of telecom operators. In OSS Package, process analysis methodology and project implementation methodology enables a rapid implementation of telecom service fulfilment system. It provides process analysis methodology, project implementation methodology, inventory data model, interface integration framework and built-in inventory management templates. Its network management solutions include network access and backbone infrastructure planning, design and implementation for telecommunications and Internet service providers. These services include technical training for its customers, as well as professional maintenance and support services. The Company designs and provides a series of service applications that enable telecommunications operators and service providers to offer value-added services, such as Short Message Service, or SMS, mobile email, mobile entertainment and mobile e-commerce. These applications often involve licensed third-party software that it's customizes or integrate with its proprietary software to provide individualized solutions. The Company's software and services enable its customers to build, maintain, operate, manage and improve their communications infrastructure. Its largest customers are the major telecommunications carriers in China and their provincial subsidiaries, including China Mobile Communications Corporation, or China Mobile, China United Telecommunications Corporation, or China Unicom, and China Telecommunications Corporation, or China Telecom. The Company relies on its own sales force to market and sell its products and services