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Quarterhill (FRA:WJL) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.28 (As of May. 01, 2024)


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What is Quarterhill 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Quarterhill's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.28.


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

FRA:WJL' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.25   Med: 1.14   Max: 5.71
Current: 0.28


During the past 13 years, Quarterhill's highest Yield on Cost was 5.71. The lowest was 0.25. And the median was 1.14.


FRA:WJL's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
94.76% of 1356 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 2.795 vs FRA:WJL: 0.28

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Quarterhill'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.


Quarterhill's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Quarterhill's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Quarterhill 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 Quarterhill is calculated as

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

Quarterhill  (FRA:WJL) 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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Quarterhill (FRA:WJL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
25 King Street West, Suite 1101, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5L 2A1
Quarterhill Inc is focused on the acquisition, management, and growth of companies in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and innovation and licensing industries. It operates in two segments Licensing, which includes companies that count licensing as their principal business activity, and Intelligent Transportation Systems, which include companies that provide integrated systems and solutions to the ITS industry and its adjacent markets. Its geographical segments are the United States, Canada, Chile, China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and the Rest of the world. The majority of the revenue comes from the United States.

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