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Willis Towers Watson (BSP:W1LT34) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

: 1.45 (As of Today)
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Willis Towers Watson's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.45.


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

BSP:W1LT34' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.45   Med: 2.08   Max: 4.34
Current: 1.45


During the past 13 years, Willis Towers Watson's highest Yield on Cost was 4.34. The lowest was 1.45. And the median was 2.08.


BSP:W1LT34's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
80.1% of 402 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 3.87 vs BSP:W1LT34: 1.45

Competitive Comparison

For the Insurance Brokers subindustry, Willis Towers Watson'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.


Willis Towers Watson 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Willis Towers Watson's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Willis Towers Watson's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



Willis Towers Watson 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 Willis Towers Watson is calculated as

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

Willis Towers Watson  (BSP:W1LT34) 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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Willis Towers Watson (BSP:W1LT34) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
C/o Willis Group Ltd, 51 Lime Street, London, GBR, EC3M 7DQ
In January 2016, Towers Watson and Willis Group merged to form Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory, insurance brokerage, and solutions company. The company operates in two business segments: health, wealth, and career (its consulting operations) and risk and brokering (its brokerage operations). It has about 47,000 employees.

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