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Automatic Data Processing (BSP:ADPR34) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 2.34 (As of Jun. 14, 2025)


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What is Automatic Data Processing 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Automatic Data Processing's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 2.34.


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

BSP:ADPR34' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.69   Med: 3.51   Max: 5.12
Current: 2.34


During the past 13 years, Automatic Data Processing's highest Yield on Cost was 5.12. The lowest was 2.69. And the median was 3.51.


BSP:ADPR34's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
62.45% of 1012 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.13 vs BSP:ADPR34: 2.34

Competitive Comparison of Automatic Data Processing's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Automatic Data Processing'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.


Automatic Data Processing's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Automatic Data Processing's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Automatic Data Processing 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 Automatic Data Processing is calculated as

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

Automatic Data Processing  (BSP:ADPR34) 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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Automatic Data Processing Business Description

Address
One ADP Boulevard, Roseland, NJ, USA, 07068
Automatic Data Processing is a global technology company providing cloud-based human capital management solutions enabling clients to better implement payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. Additionally, ADP provides human resource outsourcing solutions that allow customers to offload some of their traditional HR tasks. The company operates through two segments: employer services and the professional employer organization services. Employer services consists of the company's HCM products as well as a la carte HRO solutions. PEO services contains ADP's comprehensive HRO solution where it acts as a co-employer with its customer. As of fiscal 2024, ADP serves over 1.1 million clients and pays over 42 million workers across 140 countries.

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