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Ruffer Investment Co (LSE:RICA) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.97 (As of May. 11, 2024)


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What is Ruffer Investment Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Ruffer Investment Co's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.97.


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

LSE:RICA' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.87   Med: 1.43   Max: 2.54
Current: 1.97


During the past 13 years, Ruffer Investment Co's highest Yield on Cost was 2.54. The lowest was 0.87. And the median was 1.43.


LSE:RICA's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
86.49% of 1214 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 5.935 vs LSE:RICA: 1.97

Competitive Comparison of Ruffer Investment Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Asset Management subindustry, Ruffer Investment Co'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.


Ruffer Investment Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Ruffer Investment Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ruffer Investment Co 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 Ruffer Investment Co is calculated as

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

Ruffer Investment Co  (LSE:RICA) 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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Ruffer Investment Co (LSE:RICA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1 Royal Plaza, Royal Avenue, Saint Peter Port, GGY, GY1 2HL
Ruffer Investment Co Ltd is a closed-end investment company. Its principal objective is to achieve a positive total annual return. The company adopts a stock picking approach and invests across a broad range of assets, geographies and sectors including listed or quoted equities or equity related securities, options, and bonds which are issued by corporate issuers, supra-nationals or government organizations and investment in funds. It uses derivatives, including futures, options, swap agreements, structured products, warrants and forward currency contracts, for efficient portfolio management. The major part of the company's revenue comes from investment income such as dividend and interest.

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