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Ikanos Communications (FRA:I9J1) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.00 (As of May. 24, 2024)


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What is Ikanos Communications 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Ikanos Communications's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 0.00.


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



FRA:I9J1's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 2.7
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % only.

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Ikanos Communications'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.


Ikanos Communications's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Ikanos Communications's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ikanos Communications 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 Ikanos Communications is calculated as

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

Ikanos Communications  (FRA:I9J1) 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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Ikanos Communications (FRA:I9J1) Business Description

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Ikanos Communications Inc was incorporated in the State of California in April 1999 and reincorporated in the State of Delaware in September 2005. The Company is a provider of advanced broadband semiconductor products and software for delivering high speed broadband solutions to the digital home. The Company's broadband multi-mode and digital subscriber line processors and other semiconductor offerings power carrier infrastructure and customer premise equipment for network equipment manufacturers who, in turn, serve telecommunications service providers. The Company has developed programmable, scalable chip architectures, which form the foundation for deploying and delivering multi-play services. This communications processor architecture with wire-speed packet processing capabilities enables high-performance end user devices capable of distributing advanced services in the home. These products support telecommunications services providers' multi-play deployment plans to the digital home while keeping their capital and operating expenditures low and have been deployed by service providers in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The Company outsources all of its semiconductor fabrication, assembly, and test functions, which allows focusing on the design, development, sales, and marketing of its products and reduces the level of its capital investment. It offers multiple product lines that are designed to address different segments of the communications processor and the high-speed broadband DSL markets. The Company currently competes or expects to compete with, among others, Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom Corporation, Cavium, Inc., Cortina Systems, Inc., Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., PMC-Sierra, Inc., Metanoia Communication, QUALCOMM Incorporated, Realtek Semiconductor Corp., and MediaTek Inc. As of December 29, 2013, the Company had over 285 patents issued in the United States and more than 35 companion patents issued in foreign jurisdictions.

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