The historical rank and industry rank for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
WAB'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.38 Med: 0.93 Max: 2.03
Current: 0.84
During the past 13 years, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's highest Yield on Cost was 2.03. The lowest was 0.38. And the median was 0.93.
WAB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 89.77% of 665
companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.9
vs WAB: 0.84
Competitive Comparison of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Railroads subindustry, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies'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.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies 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.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE:WAB) 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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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Business Description
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp provides value-added, technology-based products and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries and the mining, marine, and industrial markets. It provides its products and services through two main business segments: Freight and Transit. The company generates maximum revenue from the Freight segment, which manufactures new and modernized locomotives, provides aftermarket parts and services to existing locomotives, provides components to new and existing freight cars; builds new commuter locomotives; supplies rail control and infrastructure products, including electronics, positive train control equipment, signal design, and engineering services. Geographically, it generates a majority of its revenue from the United States.
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