Sanderson Farms's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2022 was 1.58.
The historical rank and industry rank for Sanderson Farms's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
SAFM'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.08 Med: 1.85 Max: 3.39
Current: 1.58
During the past 13 years, Sanderson Farms's highest Yield on Cost was 3.39. The lowest was 1.08. And the median was 1.85.
SAFM's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 70.1% of 1057
companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.69
vs SAFM: 1.58
Competitive Comparison
For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Sanderson Farms'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.
Sanderson Farms 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Sanderson Farms's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sanderson Farms'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 Sanderson Farms 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.
Sanderson Farms 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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Sanderson Farms Inc is a dressed-chicken processor in the United States, producing and selling a variety of fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products to grocers, food-service operators, and distributors. Most revenue is generated in the Southeastern, Southwestern, Northeastern, and Western United States. The company's product portfolio consists of tray packs and large birds, catering to grocery and food-service customers. It sells chill-packed, ice-packed, bulk-packed, and frozen chicken in whole, cut-up, and boneless form under the brand name Sanderson Farms to retailers, distributors, and casual dining operators in the United States.
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