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CDW (STU:CDW) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.08 (As of Mar. 31, 2025)


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

CDW's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 3.08.


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

STU:CDW' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.15   Med: 1.93   Max: 3.2
Current: 3.08


During the past 13 years, CDW's highest Yield on Cost was 3.20. The lowest was 1.15. And the median was 1.93.


STU:CDW's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
58.28% of 990 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.405 vs STU:CDW: 3.08

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

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, CDW'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.


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

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

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


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CDW 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 CDW is calculated as

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

CDW  (STU:CDW) 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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CDW Business Description

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Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
200 North Milwaukee Avenue, Vernon Hills, IL, USA, 60061
CDW Corp is a multi-brand provider of information technology ("IT") solutions to small, medium, and large business, government, education, and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company's broad array of offerings ranges from discrete hardware and software products to integrated IT solutions and services that include on-premise and cloud capabilities across hybrid infrastructure, digital experience, and security. The company has five operating segments namely, Corporate, Small Business, Public, CDW UK, and CDW Canada. The Corporate segment generates the majority of its revenue and serves USA private sector business customers.