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Trinity Industries (FRA:TTA) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 8.34 (As of Apr. 26, 2025)


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What is Trinity Industries 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Trinity Industries's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 8.34.


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

FRA:TTA' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.87   Med: 4.99   Max: 8.62
Current: 8.34


During the past 13 years, Trinity Industries's highest Yield on Cost was 8.62. The lowest was 2.87. And the median was 4.99.


FRA:TTA's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
75.94% of 665 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.88 vs FRA:TTA: 8.34

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

For the Railroads subindustry, Trinity Industries'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.


Trinity Industries's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Trinity Industries's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Trinity Industries 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 Trinity Industries is calculated as

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

Trinity Industries  (FRA:TTA) 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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Trinity Industries Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
14221 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 1100, Dallas, TX, USA, 75254-2957
Trinity Industries Inc. sells and leases railroad products and railcar maintenance services in North America. The company operates under the name TrinityRail in three main segments: railcar leasing and management services, which owns railcars and provides fleet management and administration services; rail products, which builds, sells, and modifies freight and tank railcars and their components; and all other, which sells highway products such as guardrail and other highway barriers. Customers include railroads, leasing companies, and shipping companies in agriculture, construction, consumer products, energy, and chemicals.

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