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Motorola Solutions (WBO:MOSI) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.82 (As of May. 02, 2024)


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What is Motorola Solutions 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Motorola Solutions's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.82.


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

WBO:MOSI' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.73   Med: 2.91   Max: 4.05
Current: 1.82


During the past 13 years, Motorola Solutions's highest Yield on Cost was 4.05. The lowest was 1.73. And the median was 2.91.


WBO:MOSI's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
61.63% of 1358 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 2.81 vs WBO:MOSI: 1.82

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Motorola Solutions'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.


Motorola Solutions's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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



Motorola Solutions 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 Motorola Solutions is calculated as

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

Motorola Solutions  (WBO:MOSI) 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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Motorola Solutions (WBO:MOSI) Business Description

Address
500 West Monroe Street, Suite 4400, Chicago, IL, USA, 60661
Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of communications and analytics, primarily serving public safety departments as well as schools, hospitals, and businesses. The bulk of the firm's revenue comes from sales of land mobile radios and radio network infrastructure, but the firm also sells surveillance equipment and dispatch software. Most of Motorola's revenue comes from government agencies, while roughly 25% comes from schools and private businesses. Motorola has customers in over 100 countries and in every state in the United States.

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