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Belo (FRA:BES) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 2.41 (As of May. 22, 2024)


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

Belo's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2013 was 2.41.


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

FRA:BES' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 2.41
Current: 2.41


During the past 13 years, Belo's highest Yield on Cost was 2.41. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.


FRA:BES's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 2.895 vs FRA:BES: 2.41

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

For the Broadcasting subindustry, Belo'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.


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

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

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



Belo 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 Belo is calculated as

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

Belo  (FRA:BES) 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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Belo (FRA:BES) Business Description

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Belo Corporation, a Delaware corporation, began as a Texas newspaper company in 1842. The company operates as a television company in the United States. It owns 20 television stations that reach more than 14 percent of U.S. television households, including ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW and MyNetwork TV affiliates, and their associated websites, in 15 markets across the United States. The Company also has three local and two regional news channels, Texas Cable News and NorthWest Cable News. It also operates more than 20 websites several interactive alliances and a broad range of Internet-based products. The Company derives revenues from the sale of airtime on its television stations, advertising space on the Company's Internet websites and retransmission of its programming by cable, satellite, telephone and wireless companies.

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