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Dollar General's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 3.58.
The historical rank and industry rank for Dollar General's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
During the past 13 years, Dollar General's highest Yield on Cost was 4.72. The lowest was 0.58. And the median was 2.06.
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Dollar General'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.
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Dollar General's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Dollar General's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
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 Dollar General is calculated as
Yield-on-Cost | = | Dividend Yield % | * | (1 | + | Dividend Growth Rate)^5 |
Dollar General (NYSE:DG) 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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Carman R Wenkoff | officer: EVP & Chief Information Ofc | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Roderick J West | officer: EVP, Global Supply Chain | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
David Rowland | director | C/O ACCENTURE, 161 N. CLARK STREET, CHICAGO IL 06061 |
Michael M Calbert | director | C/O DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION, 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Jeffery Owen | officer: EVP, Store Operations | C/O KIRKLAND'S, INC., 5310 MARYLAND WAY, BRENTWOOD TN 37027 |
Todd J Vasos | officer: Div. Pres., Chief Merch. Ofc | |
Ana Maria Chadwick | director | 3001 SUMMER ST, STAMFORD CT 06926 |
Steven R Deckard | officer: EVP, Growth & Emerging Mkts | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Kelly Dilts | officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer | 6380 ROGERDALE, HOUSTON TX 77072 |
Timothy I Mcguire | director | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
John W Garratt | officer: Interim CFO | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Rhonda Taylor | officer: SVP & General Counsel | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Anita C Elliott | officer: Senior VP & Controller | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Patricia Filikrushel | director | DOLLAR GENERAL CORPORATION, 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
Antonio Zuazo | officer: EVP, Global Supply Chain | 100 MISSION RIDGE, GOODLETTSVILLE TN 37072 |
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