What is UnitedHealth Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?
UnitedHealth Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 3.26.
The historical rank and industry rank for UnitedHealth Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
UNH'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.23 Med: 2.88 Max: 4.2
Current: 3.26
During the past 13 years, UnitedHealth Group's highest Yield on Cost was 4.20. The lowest was 2.23. And the median was 2.88.
UNH's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 55.56% of 9
companies
in the Healthcare Plans industry
Industry Median: 3.23
vs UNH: 3.26
Competitive Comparison of UnitedHealth Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Healthcare Plans subindustry, UnitedHealth Group'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.
UnitedHealth Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Healthcare Plans Industry
For the Healthcare Plans industry and Healthcare sector, UnitedHealth Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where UnitedHealth Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
UnitedHealth Group 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 UnitedHealth Group is calculated as
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) 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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UnitedHealth Group (UnitedHealth Group) Business Description
UnitedHealth Group is one of the largest private health insurers, providing medical benefits to about 53 million members globally, including 5 million outside the U.S. as of mid-2023. As a leader in employer-sponsored, self-directed, and government-backed insurance plans, UnitedHealth has obtained massive scale in managed care. Along with its insurance assets, UnitedHealth's continued investments in its Optum franchises have created a healthcare services colossus that spans everything from medical and pharmaceutical benefits to providing outpatient care and analytics to both affiliated and third-party customers.
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