Union Pacific (WBO:UNPC) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.64 (As of Apr. 27, 2024)

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What is Union Pacific 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Union Pacific's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 3.64.

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

WBO:UNPC' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.52 Med: 3.4 Max: 5.34
Current: 3.64

During the past 13 years, Union Pacific's highest Yield on Cost was 5.34. The lowest was 2.52. And the median was 3.40.

WBO:UNPC's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
50.4% of 625 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.54 vs WBO:UNPC: 3.64

Competitive Comparison of Union Pacific's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Railroads subindustry, Union Pacific'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.

Union Pacific's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Union Pacific's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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

Union Pacific 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 Union Pacific is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Union Pacific (WBO:UNPC) 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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Union Pacific (WBO:UNPC) Business Description

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Address

1400 Douglas Street, Omaha, NE, USA, 68179

Website

http://www.up.com

Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific is the largest public railroad in North America. Operating on more than 30,000 miles of track in the western two thirds of the U.S., UP generated $25 billion of revenue in 2022 by hauling coal, industrial products, intermodal containers, agriculture goods, chemicals, and automotive goods. UP owns about one fourth of Mexican railroad Ferromex and derives roughly 10% of its revenue hauling freight to and from Mexico.

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