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Sinclair (FRA:HQ7) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 7.66 (As of Dec. 12, 2024)


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

Sinclair's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 7.66.


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

FRA:HQ7' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.68   Med: 3.46   Max: 14.02
Current: 7.66


During the past 13 years, Sinclair's highest Yield on Cost was 14.02. The lowest was 1.68. And the median was 3.46.


FRA:HQ7's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
81.5% of 400 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 3.01 vs FRA:HQ7: 7.66

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

For the Broadcasting subindustry, Sinclair'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.


Sinclair's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Sinclair's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Sinclair 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 Sinclair is calculated as

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

Sinclair  (FRA:HQ7) 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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Sinclair Business Description

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Address
10706 Beaver Dam Road, Hunt Valley, MD, USA, 21030
Sinclair Inc. is the owner-operator of the second largest portfolio of television stations in the United States, with 185 full power stations in 86 markets. Of the firm's roughly 600 channels, 150 are affiliated with the four national broadcasters—Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC—with over 80 other channels aligned with The CW (Nexstar) and MyNetworkTV (Fox). Sinclair owns the Tennis Channel and stakes in Marquee Sports Network and YES Network, providing their content to pay-TV distributors.

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