Validus Holdings (Validus Holdings) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 8.23 (As of May. 13, 2024)

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What is Validus Holdings 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Validus Holdings's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2018 was 8.23.

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

VRpACL.PFD' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.36 Med: 4.32 Max: 8.23
Current: 8.23

During the past 13 years, Validus Holdings's highest Yield on Cost was 8.23. The lowest was 2.36. And the median was 4.32.

VRpACL.PFD's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 3.91 vs VRpACL.PFD: 8.23

Competitive Comparison of Validus Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Insurance - Reinsurance subindustry, Validus Holdings'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.

Validus Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Validus Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Validus Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.

Validus Holdings 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 Validus Holdings is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Validus Holdings (NYSE:VRpACL.PFD) 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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Validus Holdings Ltd is a holding company for reinsurance and insurance operating companies and investment advisors. The company includes Validus Reinsurance, Talbot Underwriting, Western World Insurance Group, and AlphaCat Managers. Validus Reinsurance is a Bermuda-based reinsurer focused on treaty reinsurance. Talbot is a specialty insurance group that mainly operates in the Lloyd's insurance market. Western World Insurance Group is a U.S. specialty lines insurance company that specialises in excess and surplus lines. AlphaCat Managers provides investment and capital-management advice for third parties and Validus insurance-linked securities, as well as other property-catastrophe and specialty reinsurance investments.