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Virgin Media (FRA:N5T) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.33 (As of May. 03, 2024)


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What is Virgin Media 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Virgin Media's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2013 was 0.33.


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

FRA:N5T' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 0.33
Current: 0.33


During the past 13 years, Virgin Media's highest Yield on Cost was 0.33. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.


FRA:N5T's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 3.2 vs FRA:N5T: 0.33

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

For the Broadcasting subindustry, Virgin Media'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.


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

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

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



Virgin Media 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 Virgin Media is calculated as

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

Virgin Media  (FRA:N5T) 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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Virgin Media (FRA:N5T) Business Description

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Virgin Media Inc is engaged in the entertainment and communications business, being a quad-play provider of broadband internet, television, mobile telephony and fixed line telephony services that offer a variety of entertainment and communications services to residential and commercial customers throughout the U.K. The group is a provider of residential broadband internet, pay television and fixed line telephony services by number of customers. In addition, it provides a complete portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to businesses, public sector organizations and service providers in the U.K. through Virgin Media Business. Its two reporting segments are Consumer and Business. Consumer segment includes the distribution of television programming over the cable network and the provision of broadband and fixed line telephone services to residential consumers, both on and off the cable network. The Consumer segment faces competition from BT, British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, or BSkyB, TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC, or TalkTalk, Vodafone, EE and O2. Business segment includes the voice and data telecommunication and internet solutions services that provide through its cable network and third party networks to businesses, public sector organizations and service providers. The Business segment is managed through Virgin Media Business offers a broad portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to commercial and public sector organizations in the U.K., ranging from analog telephony to managed data networks and applications. Virgin Media Business competes primarily with traditional network operators such as BT and C&W. It also competes with regional providers, such as COLTTelecom Group PLC.

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