Compuware (FRA:CWR) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.33 (As of Sep. 25, 2024)

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What is Compuware 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Compuware's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 3.33.

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

FRA:CWR' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.11 Med: 3.66 Max: 5.78
Current: 3.33

During the past 13 years, Compuware's highest Yield on Cost was 5.78. The lowest was 1.11. And the median was 3.66.

FRA:CWR's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 2.295 vs FRA:CWR: 3.33

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Compuware'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.

Compuware's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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

Compuware 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 Compuware is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Compuware (FRA:CWR) 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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Compuware Corp a Michigan corporation was incorporated in 1973. The Company delivers services and software that enable its customers' important technologies to perform at their peak. It delivers the solutions through software that is installed and run on its customers' owned hardware and applications and through a Software as a Service ('SaaS') model accessed via its hosted networks. It has six business segments: Application Performance Managemen (APM), Mainframe, Changepoint, Uniface, Professional Services and Covisint Application Services ('Covisint'). Its Compuware Application Performance Management ('Compuware APM') consists of its solutions for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Its Mainframe Software Products improve the productivity of development, maintenance and support teams in application analysis, testing, defect detection and remediation, fault management, file and data management, data compliance and application performance management in the IBM z/OS environment. Its Changepoint software combines professional services automation with project portfolio management capabilities to give customers complete visibility into projects, investments and resources for informed business planning and financial control. Its Uniface solution is Compuware's Rapid Application Development environment for building, renewing and integrating some of the complex enterprise applications. Its Covisint application services provide a cloud engagement platform for enabling organizations to securely connect, engage and collaborate with large, distributed communities of customers, business partners and suppliers. Its products and services are used by the IT departments and lines of business of a of commercial and government organizations. Its competitors include BMC Software Inc., CA, Inc., International Business Machines ('IBM'), Hewlett-Packard Company, Keynote Systems, Inc., Accenture, Computer Sciences Corporation, HP Enterprise Services, Analysts International Corporation and Infosys Technologies.

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