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Harvard Bioscience (STU:HBI) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of Jun. 20, 2024)


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What is Harvard Bioscience 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

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


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



STU:HBI's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 2.15
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Harvard Bioscience'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.


Harvard Bioscience's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Harvard Bioscience's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Harvard Bioscience 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 Harvard Bioscience is calculated as

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

Harvard Bioscience  (STU:HBI) 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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Harvard Bioscience (STU:HBI) Business Description

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Address
84 October Hill Road, Holliston, MA, USA, 01746
Harvard Bioscience Inc is a developer, manufacturer, and seller of technologies, specialized products and services that enable fundamental research, discovery, and pre-clinical testing for drug development. Its primary focus is scientific instruments used to advance life science and research. With operations in North America, Europe and china it sells through a combination of direct and distribution channels to customers around the world. The product brands of the company include Harvard Apparatus, DSI, Buxco, Biochrom, BTX, Heka, Hugo Sachs, Multichannel Systems MCS GmbH, and Panlab.. The majority of its revenue comes from the United States.