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WaFd (WAFDP.PFD) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 9.66 (As of Apr. 30, 2025)


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

WaFd's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 9.66.


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

WAFDP.PFD' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.93   Med: 3.31   Max: 9.66
Current: 9.66


During the past 13 years, WaFd's highest Yield on Cost was 9.66. The lowest was 1.93. And the median was 3.31.


WAFDP.PFD's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
51.68% of 1277 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 4.83 vs WAFDP.PFD: 9.66

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

For the Banks - Regional subindustry, WaFd'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.


WaFd's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Banks Industry

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

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


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WaFd 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 WaFd is calculated as

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

WaFd  (NAS:WAFDP.PFD) 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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WaFd Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
425 Pike Street, Seattle, WA, USA, 98101
WaFd Inc is engaged in providing lending, depository, insurance, and other banking services to consumers, mid-sized to large businesses, and owners and developers of commercial real estate. Through the WaFd Bank, it is involved in accepting deposits from the general public and investing these funds in loans of various types, including first-lien mortgages on single-family dwellings, construction loans, land acquisition and development loans among others. The Bank also invests in certain United States government and agency obligations along with other investments and also performs insurance brokerage activities. Geographically, it operates in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, California and Texas.