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Chengdu Expressway Co (HKSE:01785) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 21.14% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Chengdu Expressway Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Chengdu Expressway Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$4,771 Mil. Chengdu Expressway Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$719 Mil. Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 21.14%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

HKSE:01785' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 6.92   Med: 8.18   Max: 17.06
Current: 16.78

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Chengdu Expressway Co was 17.06%. The lowest was 6.92%. And the median was 8.18%.

HKSE:01785's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
83.18% of 1700 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 6.47 vs HKSE:01785: 16.78

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. Chengdu Expressway Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 38.15%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.


Chengdu Expressway Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Chengdu Expressway Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Chengdu Expressway Co Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 15.38 10.37 19.23 16.45 21.14

Chengdu Expressway Co Quarterly Data
Dec15 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 16.45 8.24 9.96 21.14 -

Competitive Comparison of Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Infrastructure Operations subindustry, Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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.


Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Chengdu Expressway Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Chengdu Expressway Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation

In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.

Chengdu Expressway Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1007.61/4770.987
=21.12 %

Chengdu Expressway Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was HK$719 Mil.



Chengdu Expressway Co  (HKSE:01785) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation

Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.

Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.


Be Aware

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % based on Don Yacktman's definition is a better measure of the expected rate of return for a stock.


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Chengdu Expressway Co (HKSE:01785) Business Description

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Address
No. 66 Shenghe 1st Road, 9th Floor, Chengnan Tianfu Building, High-Tech Zone, Sichuan, Chengdu, CHN
Chengdu Expressway Co Ltd is principally engaged in the operation, management and development of expressways located in and around Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Meanwhile, the Group also carries out retail of refined oil and operation of CNG. It operates in two reportable segments the Expressway segment segment comprises the construction, operation and maintenance of toll expressways located in Sichuan province; and the Energy Investment segment comprises the operation of petrol stations and a gas station and sales of refined oil and compressed natural gas. It derives majority of the revenue from Expressway segment.

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