Acme United (FRA:UT1) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.86 (As of May. 23, 2024)

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What is Acme United 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Acme United's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.86.

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

FRA:UT1' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.39 Med: 2.47 Max: 3.91
Current: 1.86

During the past 13 years, Acme United's highest Yield on Cost was 3.91. The lowest was 1.39. And the median was 2.47.

FRA:UT1's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
64.6% of 1099 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.66 vs FRA:UT1: 1.86

Competitive Comparison of Acme United's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Acme United'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.

Acme United's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Acme United's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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

Acme United 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 Acme United is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Acme United (FRA:UT1) 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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Acme United (FRA:UT1) Business Description

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Address

1 Waterview Drive, Shelton, CT, USA, 06484

Website

https://www.acmeunited.com

Acme United Corp is a supplier of first aid and medical products and cutting technology to the school, home, office, hardware, sporting goods, and industrial markets. Its principal products sold across all segments are first aid kits and medical products, scissors, shears, knives, rulers, pencil sharpeners, and sharpening tools. The Company sells its products to mass market and e-commerce retailers, industrial distributors, wholesale, contract, and retail stationery distributors, office supply superstores, sporting goods stores, and hardware chains. The Company's reportable business segments consist of the United States, Canada, and Europe, out of which a majority of the company's revenue is derived from the United States.

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