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General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica (XJAM:GENAC) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 2.85 (As of Sep. 25, 2024)


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What is General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in . 20 was 2.85.


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

XJAM:GENAC' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 5.88
Current: 2.85


During the past 0 years, General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica's highest Yield on Cost was 5.88. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.


XJAM:GENAC's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
69.9% of 402 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 4.08 vs XJAM:GENAC: 2.85

Competitive Comparison of General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica'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.


General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica 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 General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica is calculated as

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

General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica  (XJAM:GENAC) 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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General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
58 Half Way Tree Road, Kingston, Jamaica, JAM, 10
General Accident Insurance Company Jamaica Ltd a general insurance company, provides commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products in Jamaica.

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