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The Eastern Co (FRA:EAQ) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.57 (As of May. 29, 2024)


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What is The Eastern Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

The Eastern Co's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.57.


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

FRA:EAQ' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.29   Med: 2.1   Max: 2.89
Current: 1.57


During the past 13 years, The Eastern Co's highest Yield on Cost was 2.89. The lowest was 1.29. And the median was 2.10.


FRA:EAQ's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
58.83% of 1875 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 2.06 vs FRA:EAQ: 1.57

Competitive Comparison of The Eastern Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Tools & Accessories subindustry, The Eastern Co'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.


The Eastern Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, The Eastern Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



The Eastern Co 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 The Eastern Co is calculated as

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

The Eastern Co  (FRA:EAQ) 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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The Eastern Co (FRA:EAQ) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3 Enterprise Drive, Suite 408, Shelton, CT, USA, 06484
The Eastern Co manages industrial businesses that design, manufacture and sell engineered solutions to industrial markets. It operates in United States and Other Countries, and generates majority of the revenue from United States.

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