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Sterling Investments (XJAM:SIL) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 11.41 (As of Jun. 23, 2024)


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What is Sterling Investments 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Sterling Investments's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 11.41.


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

XJAM:SIL' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.87   Med: 5.48   Max: 15.26
Current: 11.41


During the past 11 years, Sterling Investments's highest Yield on Cost was 15.26. The lowest was 2.87. And the median was 5.48.


XJAM:SIL's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
90.7% of 355 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 2.93 vs XJAM:SIL: 11.41

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

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Sterling Investments'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.


Sterling Investments's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

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

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



Sterling Investments 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 Sterling Investments is calculated as

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

Sterling Investments  (XJAM:SIL) 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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Sterling Investments (XJAM:SIL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
40 Knutsford Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Kingston 5, Kingston, JAM
Sterling Investments Ltd is an investment holding company. It invests primarily in an array of high-quality fixed income securities denominated in United States dollars. It generates income through interest income earned on the securities in the portfolio and through capital gains as a result of increases in the price of the securities.