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Costain Group (Costain Group) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.59 (As of May. 30, 2024)


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

Costain Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.59.


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

CSGQF' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.47   Med: 3.45   Max: 39.86
Current: 1.59


During the past 13 years, Costain Group's highest Yield on Cost was 39.86. The lowest was 0.47. And the median was 3.45.


CSGQF's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
76.8% of 974 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 3.17 vs CSGQF: 1.59

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

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Costain 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.


Costain Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Construction Industry

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

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



Costain 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 Costain Group is calculated as

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

Costain Group  (OTCPK:CSGQF) 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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Costain Group (Costain Group) Business Description

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Costain House, Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead, Berkshire, GBR, SL6 4UB
Costain Group PLC offers solutions and services. It provides engineering and technology solutions and advisory and development, design, management, project delivery, technology integration and asset optimization and support services to highways, nuclear, oil and gas, power, water sectors, rail. The company has two segments Transportation and Natural resources. Transportation segment covers highways, rail and nuclear markets and Natural resources segment comprises of water, power and oil and gas markets.

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