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Unicharm (FRA:UN4) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.90 (As of Apr. 11, 2025)


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

Unicharm's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 1.90.


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

FRA:UN4' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.63   Med: 1.07   Max: 2.01
Current: 1.9


During the past 13 years, Unicharm's highest Yield on Cost was 2.01. The lowest was 0.63. And the median was 1.07.


FRA:UN4's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
69.12% of 1127 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 3.31 vs FRA:UN4: 1.90

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

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Unicharm'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.


Unicharm's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Unicharm's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Unicharm 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 Unicharm is calculated as

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

Unicharm  (FRA:UN4) 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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Unicharm Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3-5-19, Mita, Minato-ku, Sumitomo Fudosan Mita Twin Building, West Wing, Tokyo, JPN, 108-8575
Focusing on personal hygiene products utilizing nonwoven fabric, Unicharm is the largest manufacturer of disposable baby diapers and feminine sanitary and adult incontinence products in Japan and Asia. Its personal care business accounted for around 85% of its sales as of 2023, with the balance mainly from pet care. Unicharm generates 66% sales from overseas, of which nearly three fourths are from Asia, mostly China, Indonesia, and Thailand. India is the fastest-growing market, followed by Vietnam. Outside Asia, Unicharm operates in Saudi Arabia, the Americas, and Europe. Drugstores, supermarkets, baby product specialty stores, and e-commerce are the key sales channels.

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