China Telecom (HKSE:00728) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 15.54 (As of May. 03, 2024)

View and export this data going back to 2002. Start your Free Trial

What is China Telecom 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

China Telecom's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 15.54.

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

HKSE:00728' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.3 Med: 7.86 Max: 32.84
Current: 15.54

During the past 13 years, China Telecom's highest Yield on Cost was 32.84. The lowest was 4.30. And the median was 7.86.

HKSE:00728's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
91.96% of 224 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 4.52 vs HKSE:00728: 15.54

Competitive Comparison of China Telecom's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Telecom Services subindustry, China Telecom'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.

China Telecom's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, China Telecom's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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

China Telecom 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 China Telecom is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

China Telecom (HKSE:00728) 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.

China Telecom 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of China Telecom's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.

China Telecom (HKSE:00728) Business Description

Industry

GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Communication Services » Telecommunication Services » China Telecom Corp Ltd (HKSE:00728) » Definitions » 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

Comparable Companies

Traded in Other Exchanges

ZCH:Germany 601728:China

Address

31 Jinrong Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, CHN, 100033

Website

https://www.chinatelecom-h.com

China Telecom is the largest fixed-line operator in China, originally covering 21 southern provinces. It has 102 million fixed-line subscribers, 189 million broadband customers, and 406 million wireless subscribers, having overtaken China Unicom to become the second-largest wireless operator in China behind China Mobile. The firm is increasing its cross-selling of products and seeing strong growth from industrial digitization services, such as internet data centers and cloud computing. Its internet data center business is already the largest in China, with a plan to have 560,000 cabinets by end 2023.

China Telecom (HKSE:00728) Headlines

No Headlines