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A.O. Smith 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

: 4.01 (As of Today)
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A.O. Smith's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2020 was 4.01.


NYSE:AOS' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.18   Med: 3.04   Max: 7.13
Current: 4.01
2.18
7.13

During the past 13 years, A.O. Smith's highest Yield on Cost was 7.13. The lowest was 2.18. And the median was 3.04.


NYSE:AOS's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked higher than
79% of the 1474 Companies
in the Industrial Products industry.

( Industry Median: 1.76 vs. NYSE:AOS: 4.01 )
Competitive Comparison
* 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.

A.O. Smith 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution

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


A.O. Smith 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 A.O. Smith is calculated as

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

A.O. Smith  (NYSE:AOS) 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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