MKS Instruments's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.91.
The historical rank and industry rank for MKS Instruments's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
MKSI'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.47 Med: 1.1 Max: 2.93
Current: 0.91
During the past 13 years, MKS Instruments's highest Yield on Cost was 2.93. The lowest was 0.47. And the median was 1.10.
MKSI's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 82.19% of 1353
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 2.81
vs MKSI: 0.91
Competitive Comparison
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, MKS Instruments'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.
MKS Instruments 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, MKS Instruments's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where MKS Instruments's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
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 MKS Instruments is calculated as
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.
MKS Instruments 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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MKS Instruments (MKS Instruments) Business Description
MKS Instruments Inc is engaged in providing instruments, subsystems, and process control systems used to measure, monitor, deliver, and control parameters of manufacturing processes. The company's product portfolio includes instruments, components, and systems required in manufacturing products such as flat panel displays, medical devices, and electronic materials, among others used in industrial technologies, semiconductor, life and health sciences, and research and defense markets. The company organizes itself into three reportable business segments: Vacuum Solutions, Photonics Solutions, and Materials Solutions. The Vacuum Solutions segment contributes to roughly half of the company's revenue, and the majority of its revenue is earned in the United States.
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