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BLFBY (Balfour Beatty) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.18 (As of Dec. 12, 2024)


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What is Balfour Beatty 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Balfour Beatty's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 3.18.


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

BLFBY' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.3   Med: 1.91   Max: 6.98
Current: 3.18


During the past 13 years, Balfour Beatty's highest Yield on Cost was 6.98. The lowest was 0.30. And the median was 1.91.


BLFBY's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
61.14% of 996 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 3.4 vs BLFBY: 3.18

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

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Balfour Beatty'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.


Balfour Beatty's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Balfour Beatty's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Balfour Beatty 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 Balfour Beatty is calculated as

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

Balfour Beatty  (OTCPK:BLFBY) 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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Balfour Beatty Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, GBR, E14 5HU
Balfour Beatty PLC finances builds, and maintains infrastructure projects. It finances, develops, builds, maintains, and operates the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and delivers projects at the heart of local communities. It operates three business segments: Construction services (majority of total revenue), Support services, and Infrastructure investments. It will invest directly in infrastructure assets also invests in real estate-type assets, in particular private residential and student accommodation assets. The majority of sales are derived from the United Kingdom and the United States.