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Paramount Global (WBO:PARA) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.11 (As of May. 11, 2024)


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

Paramount Global's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.11.


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

WBO:PARA' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.5   Med: 0.99   Max: 4.78
Current: 1.11


During the past 13 years, Paramount Global's highest Yield on Cost was 4.78. The lowest was 0.50. And the median was 0.99.


WBO:PARA's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
81.96% of 388 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 3.15 vs WBO:PARA: 1.11

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

For the Entertainment subindustry, Paramount 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.


Paramount Global's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Paramount Global's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Paramount 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 Paramount Global is calculated as

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

Paramount Global  (WBO:PARA) 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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Paramount Global (WBO:PARA) Business Description

Address
1515 Broadway, New York, NY, USA, 10036
Paramount Global is the rebranded recombination of CBS and Viacom that has created a media conglomerate with global scale. CBS contributed Showtime in addition to its television assets--the CBS television network, 28 local TV stations, and 50% of CW, a joint venture between CBS and WarnerMedia. Viacom brought several leading cable network properties, including Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, and Paramount. Paramount Pictures produces original motion pictures and owns a library of 2,500 films, including the Mission: Impossible and Transformers series. Paramount operates a number of streaming services, most notably Paramount+ and Pluto TV.