Sword Group (XPAR:SWP) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 16.39 (As of May. 16, 2024)

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What is Sword Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Sword Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 16.39.

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

XPAR:SWP' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 11.29 Med: 15.9 Max: 114.21
Current: 16.39

During the past 13 years, Sword Group's highest Yield on Cost was 114.21. The lowest was 11.29. And the median was 15.90.

XPAR:SWP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
97.11% of 934 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.195 vs XPAR:SWP: 16.39

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Sword Group'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.

Sword Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Sword Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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

Sword Group 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 Sword Group is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Sword Group (XPAR:SWP) 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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Sword Group (XPAR:SWP) Business Description

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9RS:Germany

Address

2, rue d’Arlon, Windhof, LUX, L-8399

Website

http://www.sword-group.com

Sword Group is a computer engineering services company which provides consulting, services and software. The firm's main business segments are IT Services and Software. These segments encompass information and content engineering systems integration, targeting of regulated markets, compliance management, software for risk and compliance, document and project management. The firm generates revenues mainly from consultancy and engineering services and sale of software licenses. Its targeted markets are institutions and government authorities, healthcare, banking and insurance, intellectual property and sports federations.