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Berkshire Hathaway (STU:BRH) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of May. 14, 2024)


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What is Berkshire Hathaway 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Berkshire Hathaway's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.00.


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



STU:BRH's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 3.92
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Insurance - Diversified subindustry, Berkshire Hathaway'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.


Berkshire Hathaway's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Berkshire Hathaway's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Berkshire Hathaway 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 Berkshire Hathaway is calculated as

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

Berkshire Hathaway  (STU:BRH) 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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Berkshire Hathaway (STU:BRH) Business Description

Address
3555 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE, USA, 68131
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company with a wide array of subsidiaries engaged in diverse activities. The firm's core business segment is insurance, run primarily through Geico, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group, and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. Berkshire has used the excess cash thrown off from these and its other operations over the years to acquire Burlington Northern Santa Fe (railroad), Berkshire Hathaway Energy (utilities and energy distributors), and the firms that make up its manufacturing, service, and retailing operations (which include five of Berkshire's largest noninsurance pretax earnings generators: Precision Castparts, Lubrizol, Clayton Homes, Marmon, and IMC/ISCAR). The conglomerate is unique in that it is run on a completely decentralized basis.

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