Westlake's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was 1.86.
The historical rank and industry rank for Westlake's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
WLK'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.65 Med: 1.65 Max: 4.77
Current: 1.86
During the past 13 years, Westlake's highest Yield on Cost was 4.77. The lowest was 0.65. And the median was 1.65.
WLK's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 54.01% of 1035
companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 2.20
vs WLK: 1.86
Competitive Comparison
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Westlake'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.
Westlake 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Westlake's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Westlake's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
Westlake 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 Westlake 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.
Westlake 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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Westlake Corp is a manufacturer and global supplier of chemicals, polymers and building products. Its Performance & Essential Materials segment offers a wide range of essential building blocks for making products utilized in everyday living, including olefins, vinyl chemicals, polyethylene, and epoxies. Its Housing & Infrastructure Products segment produces key finished goods for building products, pipe & fittings, and global compounds businesses.
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