Stewart Enterprises, (FRA:SWX) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 1.40 (As of May. 03, 2024)

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What is Stewart Enterprises, 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Stewart Enterprises,'s yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2013 was 1.40.

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

FRA:SWX' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0 Med: 0 Max: 1.4
Current: 1.4

During the past 13 years, Stewart Enterprises,'s highest Yield on Cost was 1.40. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

FRA:SWX's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is not ranked
in the Personal Services industry.
Industry Median: 3.02 vs FRA:SWX: 1.40

Competitive Comparison of Stewart Enterprises,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Personal Services subindustry, Stewart Enterprises,'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.

Stewart Enterprises,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Personal Services Industry

For the Personal Services industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Stewart Enterprises,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Stewart Enterprises,'s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.

Stewart Enterprises, 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 Stewart Enterprises, is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Stewart Enterprises, (FRA:SWX) 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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Stewart Enterprises, (FRA:SWX) Business Description

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http://www.stewartenterprises.com

Stewart Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1910, and was incorporated as a Louisiana corporation in 1970 in the State of Louisiana. The Company is a provider of funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry in the United States. It owns and operates approximately 217 funeral homes and 141 cemeteries in 24 states within the United States and Puerto Rico. It sells cemetery property and funeral and cemetery products and services both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. The Company's funeral homes offer a complete range of funeral and cremation services and products both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. The Company's services and products include family consultation, removal and preparation of remains, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation, worship and funeral services, transportation services, flowers and caskets. Most of its funeral homes have a non-denominational chapel on the premises, which allows family visitation and religious services to take place at the same location. The Company's cemetery operations sell cemetery property and related merchandise, including lots, lawn crypts, family and community mausoleums, monuments, markers and burial vaults, and also provide burial site openings and closings and inscriptions. It also provides cremation memorialization options including columbariums, cremation niches and cremation gardens. Cemetery property and merchandise sales are made both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. The Company's funeral home and cemetery operations face competition in local markets that are served by numerous funeral home and cemetery firms. It also competes with monument dealers, casket retailers, low-cost funeral providers and crematories, and other non-traditional providers of services or products.