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SK Telecom Co (SK Telecom Co) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

: 5.50 (As of Today)
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SK Telecom Co's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 5.50.


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

SKM' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.63   Med: 6.54   Max: 9.25
Current: 5.5


During the past 13 years, SK Telecom Co's highest Yield on Cost was 9.25. The lowest was 4.63. And the median was 6.54.


SKM's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
60.89% of 225 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 4.55 vs SKM: 5.50

Competitive Comparison

For the Telecom Services subindustry, SK Telecom 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.


SK Telecom Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, SK Telecom Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



SK Telecom 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 SK Telecom Co is calculated as

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

SK Telecom Co  (NYSE:SKM) 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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SK Telecom Co (SK Telecom Co) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
SK T-Tower, 65, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, KOR, 04539
SK Telecom is South Korea's largest wireless telecom operator, with 30 million mobile customers. The firm also owns SK Broadband (formerly Hanaro Telecom), which has 6.9 million broadband customers and 9.5 million pay TV customers (6.8 million IPTV and 2.7 million Cable TV). While the firm also purchased stakes in businesses in security and semiconductor memory production as well as developing e-commerce and internet platform businesses, these were all spun off into the separate, SK Square business in November 2021. The company was formed after SK Group purchased KT's mobile business in 1994.