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Kakao (XKRX:035720) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.13 (As of May. 01, 2024)


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What is Kakao 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Kakao's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.13.


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

XKRX:035720' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.02   Med: 0.12   Max: 1.63
Current: 0.13


During the past 13 years, Kakao's highest Yield on Cost was 1.63. The lowest was 0.02. And the median was 0.12.


XKRX:035720's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
98.19% of 166 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 2.76 vs XKRX:035720: 0.13

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

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Kakao'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.


Kakao's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

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

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



Kakao 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 Kakao is calculated as

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

Kakao  (XKRX:035720) 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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Kakao (XKRX:035720) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
242, Cheomdan-ro, Jeju-si, Jeju, KOR
Kakao operates the largest mobile messaging app in South Korea, Kakao Talk. The company aims to help its users connect with everything and has been expanding its content and services through self-development and mergers and acquisitions. Kakao merged with the second- largest Internet search portal, Daum, in 2014, and it acquired leading music streaming service provider Loen Entertainment in 2016.

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