LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of Jun. 14, 2024)

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

LookSmart's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 0.00.

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

FRA:LOKB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked ^*
in the Interactive Media industry.
Industry Median: 2.63
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, LookSmart'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.

LookSmart's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

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

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

LookSmart 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 LookSmart is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) 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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LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) Business Description

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http://www.looksmart.com

LookSmart Ltd was organized in 1996 and is incorporated in the State of Delaware. The Company is a search advertising network solutions Company that provides relevant solutions for search advertising customers. It operates in a large online search advertising ecosystem serving ads that target user queries on partner sites. It operates in the middle of this ecosystem, acquiring search queries from a variety of sources and matching them with the keywords of its search advertising customers. The Companys largest category of customers has been intermediaries, the majority of which purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of the large search engine providers. Another category of customers are direct advertisers and their agencies whose objective is to obtain conversions or sales from the clicks. The last category of customers is self-service advertisers that sign-up online and pays by credit card. It offers search advertising customers targeted, pay-per-click (PPC) search via a monitored search advertising distribution network using the Companys AdCenter platform technology. The Companys search advertising network includes publishers and search advertising customers, including intermediaries and direct advertising customers and their agencies as well as self-service customers in the United States and certain other countries. The Companys application programming interface (API) allows search advertising customers and their advertising agencies to connect any type of marketing or reporting software with minimal effort for easier access, management, and optimization of search advertising campaigns. It also offers publishers licensed private-label search advertiser network solutions based on its AdCenter platform technology (Publisher Solutions). Publisher Solutions consist of hosted auction-based ad serving with an ad backfill capability that allows publishers and portals to manage their advertiser relationships, distribution channels and accounts. The Companys trademarks include LookSmart. It is subject to a number of domestic state and federal laws that affect companies conducting business on the Internet.