Foresight VCT (LSE:FTV) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 4.93 (As of May. 16, 2024)

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What is Foresight VCT 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Foresight VCT's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.93.

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

LSE:FTV' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.82 Med: 6.71 Max: 11.98
Current: 4.93

During the past 13 years, Foresight VCT's highest Yield on Cost was 11.98. The lowest was 3.82. And the median was 6.71.

LSE:FTV's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
57.17% of 1214 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 5.92 vs LSE:FTV: 4.93

Competitive Comparison of Foresight VCT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Asset Management subindustry, Foresight VCT'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.

Foresight VCT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Foresight VCT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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

Foresight VCT 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 Foresight VCT is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Foresight VCT (LSE:FTV) 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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Foresight VCT (LSE:FTV) Business Description

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Address

32 London Bridge Street, The Shard, London, GBR, SE1 9SG

Website

https://www.foresightgroup.eu

Foresight VCT PLC is a UK-based venture capital trust. The company's activity is to make investments in unquoted or alternative investment market listed companies in the UK. The investment objective of the company is to provide private investors with regular dividends and maintained capital value from a portfolio of investments in fast-growing unquoted companies in the United Kingdom. The company invests in a range of securities including, but not limited to, ordinary and preference shares, loan stock, convertible securities, fixed-interest securities, and cash.