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Alfa Financial Software Holdings (LSE:ALFA) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.70 (As of May. 21, 2024)


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What is Alfa Financial Software Holdings 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Alfa Financial Software Holdings's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.70.


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

LSE:ALFA' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.51   Med: 0.67   Max: 0.86
Current: 0.7


During the past 11 years, Alfa Financial Software Holdings's highest Yield on Cost was 0.86. The lowest was 0.51. And the median was 0.67.


LSE:ALFA's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
80.36% of 937 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 2.18 vs LSE:ALFA: 0.70

Competitive Comparison of Alfa Financial Software Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Alfa Financial Software Holdings'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.


Alfa Financial Software Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Alfa Financial Software Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alfa Financial Software Holdings's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.



Alfa Financial Software Holdings 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 Alfa Financial Software Holdings is calculated as

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

Alfa Financial Software Holdings  (LSE:ALFA) 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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Alfa Financial Software Holdings (LSE:ALFA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1 Fore Street Avenue, Moor Place, London, GBR, EC2Y 9DT
Alfa Financial Software Holdings PLC is a Developer of software systems and services designed for the global asset and automotive finance industry. The company's technology platform supports both retail and corporate business for auto, equipment, wholesale, and dealer finance on a multijurisdictional basis, including leases/loans, originations, and servicing, enabling finance companies to find compelling solutions.

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