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Railcare Group AB (OSTO:RAIL) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 2.73 (As of Jun. 03, 2024)


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What is Railcare Group AB 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Railcare Group AB's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2.73.


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

OSTO:RAIL' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.12   Med: 2.8   Max: 4.09
Current: 2.73


During the past 13 years, Railcare Group AB's highest Yield on Cost was 4.09. The lowest was 1.12. And the median was 2.80.


OSTO:RAIL's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
59.11% of 626 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.495 vs OSTO:RAIL: 2.73

Competitive Comparison of Railcare Group AB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Railroads subindustry, Railcare Group AB'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.


Railcare Group AB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Railcare Group AB's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



Railcare Group AB 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 Railcare Group AB is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Railcare Group AB  (OSTO:RAIL) 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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Railcare Group AB (OSTO:RAIL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Nasuddsvagen 10, Box 34, Skelleftehamn, SWE, 932 21
Railcare Group AB provides railway maintenance, renewal, and transportation services to railway industry in Scandinavia and UK. It offers services, such as management of cables and surplus masses, railway snow removal, renovation of railway tunnels, machine construction, provision of tractors for contractors, as well as lorry hire, carriages, and personnel.