The historical rank and industry rank for Compass Minerals International's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
CMP'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.21 Med: 0.64 Max: 1.34
Current: 0.77
During the past 13 years, Compass Minerals International's highest Yield on Cost was 1.34. The lowest was 0.21. And the median was 0.64.
CMP's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 85.99% of 307
companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 3.23
vs CMP: 0.77
Competitive Comparison of Compass Minerals International's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Compass Minerals International'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.
Compass Minerals International's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry
For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Compass Minerals International's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Compass Minerals International's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
Compass Minerals International 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.
Compass Minerals International (NYSE:CMP) 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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Compass Minerals International (Compass Minerals International) Business Description
Compass Minerals currently produces two primary products: salt and specialty potash fertilizer. The company's main assets include rock salt mines in Ontario, Louisiana, and the United Kingdom and a salt brine operation at the Great Salt Lake in Utah that produces sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride. Compass' salt products are used for deicing and also by industrial and consumer end markets. The firm's sulfate of potash is used by growers of high-value crops that are sensitive to standard potash. Compass also sells fire retardants, with its magnesium chloride-based products used to combat forest fires.
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