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Merit Group (LSE:MRIT) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of May. 25, 2024)


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What is Merit Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Merit Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.00.


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


During the past 13 years, Merit Group's highest Yield on Cost was 4.76. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 3.28.


LSE:MRIT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 2.24
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Merit Group'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.


Merit Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Merit Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Merit Group 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 Merit Group is calculated as

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

Merit Group  (LSE:MRIT) 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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Merit Group (LSE:MRIT) Business Description

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32 London Bridge Street, 9th Floor, The Shard, London, GBR, SE1 9SG
Merit Group PLC provides data, business, and political intelligence. The group operates through two operating segments namely, Dods and Merit Data and Technology. Dods business segment concentrates on the provision of key information and insights into the political and public policy environments around the UK and the European Union. The Merit Data and Technology segment focuses on the fields of data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The company generates the majority of its revenue from Merit Data & Technology segment.

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