India Fund's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.06.
The historical rank and industry rank for India Fund's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
IFN'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.78 Med: 8.14 Max: 12.21
Current: 6.06
During the past 7 years, India Fund's highest Yield on Cost was 12.21. The lowest was 0.78. And the median was 8.14.
IFN's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than 50.58% of 1214
companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 6.005
vs IFN: 6.06
Competitive Comparison of India Fund's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Asset Management subindustry, India Fund'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.
India Fund's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, India Fund's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where India Fund's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
India Fund 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 India Fund is calculated as
India Fund (NYSE:IFN) 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.
India Fund 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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India Fund Inc is an asset management company. The fund's investment objective is long-term capital appreciation, which it seeks to achieve by investing primarily in the equity securities of Indian companies. The company's portfolio is non-diversified closed-end management investment company across various sectors such as financials, consumer staples, information technology, materials, healthcare, consumer discretionary, industrials, telecommunication services, utilities and others. Geographically, all the business activity functions through the market of United States.
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