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Korea Gas (XKRX:036460) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.87 (As of Mar. 22, 2025)


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What is Korea Gas 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Korea Gas's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 3.87.


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

XKRX:036460' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.35   Med: 1.44   Max: 8.22
Current: 3.87


During the past 13 years, Korea Gas's highest Yield on Cost was 8.22. The lowest was 0.35. And the median was 1.44.


XKRX:036460's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
56.22% of 434 companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 4.31 vs XKRX:036460: 3.87

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

For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Korea Gas'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.


Korea Gas's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Korea Gas's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Korea Gas 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 Korea Gas is calculated as

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

Korea Gas  (XKRX:036460) 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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Korea Gas Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
215 Jeongja-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, KOR, 463-754
Korea Gas Corp is a Korean natural gas utility company. The Government of Korea holds a majority stake in the firm. Korea Gas Corp holds a monopoly as the country's only natural gas distributor with a nationwide network of pipelines and storage tanks. The company segments its operations into Domestic Business and Overseas Business units. The Domestic Business division encompasses Korea Gas' liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchasing, supply, storage, and pipeline distributing activities. The company primarily buys natural gas from Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian sources. Korea Gas' total revenue is split fairly evenly between the sale of natural gas to urban consumers and to the power sector. Korean housing and industrial customers represent the majority of the firm's customer base.

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