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WSP Global (TSX:WSP) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.70 (As of May. 06, 2024)


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What is WSP Global 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

WSP Global's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.70.


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

TSX:WSP' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.65   Med: 2.19   Max: 6.41
Current: 0.7


During the past 13 years, WSP Global's highest Yield on Cost was 6.41. The lowest was 0.65. And the median was 2.19.


TSX:WSP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
88.64% of 951 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 3.26 vs TSX:WSP: 0.70

Competitive Comparison of WSP Global's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, WSP Global'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.


WSP Global's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, WSP Global's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



WSP Global 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 WSP Global is calculated as

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

WSP Global  (TSX:WSP) 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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WSP Global (TSX:WSP) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1600, Rene-Levesque Bouleverd West, 11th Floor, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3H 1P9
WSP Global Inc provides engineering and design services to clients in the Transportation and Infrastructure, Property and Buildings, Environment, Power and Energy, Resources, and Industry sectors. It also offers strategic advisory services. The firm operates through four reportable segments namely, Canada, Americas ( US and Latin America), EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), and APAC (Asia Pacific, comprising Australia, New Zealand and Asia).

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