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Stella-Jones (Stella-Jones) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 2.34 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Stella-Jones 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Stella-Jones's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.34.


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

STLJF' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.1   Med: 2.03   Max: 4.5
Current: 2.34


During the past 13 years, Stella-Jones's highest Yield on Cost was 4.50. The lowest was 1.10. And the median was 2.03.


STLJF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
54.65% of 172 companies
in the Forest Products industry
Industry Median: 2.585 vs STLJF: 2.34

Competitive Comparison of Stella-Jones's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Lumber & Wood Production subindustry, Stella-Jones'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.


Stella-Jones's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Stella-Jones's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Stella-Jones 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 Stella-Jones is calculated as

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

Stella-Jones  (OTCPK:STLJF) 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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Stella-Jones (Stella-Jones) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3100 de la Cote-Vertu Boulevard, Suite 300, Saint-Laurent, QC, CAN, H4R 2J8
Stella-Jones Inc produces and sells lumber and wood products. The company operates in two segments: Pressure-treated wood, which includes utility poles, railway ties, residential lumber, and industrial products; and Logs & Lumber segment comprises of the sales of logs harvested in the course of the company's procurement process that is determined to be unsuitable for use as utility poles, it also includes the sale of excess lumber to local home-building markets. The vast majority of its revenue comes from the Pressure-treated wood segment. Its geographical segments are the United States and Canada, of which the majority of its revenue is derived from the United States.

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