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Ryland Group (FRA:RYG) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.29 (As of May. 22, 2024)


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

Ryland Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 0.29.


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

FRA:RYG' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.24   Med: 0.66   Max: 4.2
Current: 0.29


During the past 13 years, Ryland Group's highest Yield on Cost was 4.20. The lowest was 0.24. And the median was 0.66.


FRA:RYG's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Homebuilding & Construction industry.
Industry Median: 3.85 vs FRA:RYG: 0.29

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

For the Residential Construction subindustry, Ryland 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.


Ryland Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Homebuilding & Construction Industry

For the Homebuilding & Construction industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Ryland Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ryland 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 Ryland Group is calculated as

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

Ryland Group  (FRA:RYG) 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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Ryland Group (FRA:RYG) Business Description

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Ryland Group Inc is a Maryland corporation, which was founded in 1967. It is a homebuilder and a mortgage-finance company. The Company consists of six operating business segments namely four geographically determined homebuilding regions; financial services; and corporate. The Company's homebuilding operations consist of four regional reporting segments namely North, Southeast, Texas and West. The homebuilding segments specialize in the sale and construction of single-family attached and detached housing. Its operations in each of its homebuilding markets might differ due to a number of market-specific factors. These factors include regional economic conditions and job growth; land availability and local land development; consumer preferences; competition from other homebuilders; and home resale activity. The Company's financial services segment includes RMC, RH Insurance Company, Inc. or RHIC, LPS Holdings Corporation and its subsidiaries and Columbia National Risk Retention Group, Inc. or CNRRG. Corporate is a non-operating business segment whose purpose is to support operations. Corporate is responsible for establishing operational policies and internal control standards; implementing strategic initiatives; and monitoring compliance with policies and controls throughout the Company's operations. Corporate acts as an internal source of capital and provides financial, human resource, information technology, insurance, legal, marketing, national purchasing and tax compliance services. In addition, it performs administrative functions associated with a publicly traded entity. Ryland Insurance Services or RIS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of RMC, provides insurance services to the Company's homebuyers. As single-family on-site homebuilders in the United States, it operates in 17 states. The Company's homebuilding segments are subject to a number of local, state and federal laws, statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning zoning, building design, construction, stormwater permitting and discharge and similar matters, as well as open space, wetlands and environmentally protected areas.

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