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Delta Air Lines (LIM:DAL) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.63 (As of May. 01, 2024)


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What is Delta Air Lines 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Delta Air Lines's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.63.


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

LIM:DAL' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.21   Med: 1.42   Max: 8.12
Current: 0.63


During the past 13 years, Delta Air Lines's highest Yield on Cost was 8.12. The lowest was 0.21. And the median was 1.42.


LIM:DAL's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
92% of 625 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 3.45 vs LIM:DAL: 0.63

Competitive Comparison of Delta Air Lines's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Airlines subindustry, Delta Air Lines'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.


Delta Air Lines's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Transportation Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Delta Air Lines's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



Delta Air Lines 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 Delta Air Lines is calculated as

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

Delta Air Lines  (LIM:DAL) 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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Delta Air Lines (LIM:DAL) Business Description

Address
Post Office Box 20706, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30320-6001
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is one of the world's largest airlines, with a network of over 300 destinations in more than 50 countries. Delta operates a hub-and-spoke network, where it gathers and distributes passengers across the globe through its biggest hubs in Atlanta, New York, Salt Lake City, Detroit, Seattle, and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

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