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Federal Signal (FRA:FSG) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.64 (As of Jun. 16, 2024)


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What is Federal Signal 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Federal Signal's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.64.


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

FRA:FSG' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.25   Med: 1.3   Max: 2.91
Current: 0.64


During the past 13 years, Federal Signal's highest Yield on Cost was 2.91. The lowest was 0.25. And the median was 1.30.


FRA:FSG's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
81.55% of 1902 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 2.11 vs FRA:FSG: 0.64

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

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Federal Signal'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.


Federal Signal's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

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

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



Federal Signal 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 Federal Signal is calculated as

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

Federal Signal  (FRA:FSG) 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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Federal Signal (FRA:FSG) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1415 West 22nd Street, Suite 1100, Oak Brook, IL, USA, 60523
Federal Signal Corp designs and manufactures products and integrated solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial, and airport customers. It operates in the segments of Environmental Solutions Group and the Safety and Security Systems Group. The Environmental solutions group manufactures and supplies street sweeper vehicles, sewer cleaner and vacuum loader trucks, hydro-excavation trucks, high-performance waterblasting equipment, dump truck bodies and trailers. The Safety and Security Systems Group offers comprehensive systems and products such as campus and community alerting, emergency vehicles, first responder interoperable communications, and others. The company generates a majority of its revenue from the Environmental Solutions Group segment.

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