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Helios Towers (LSE:HTWS) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.10% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Helios Towers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Helios Towers's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £2,366.2 Mil. Helios Towers's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £49.9 Mil. Helios Towers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.10%.

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

LSE:HTWS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.53   Med: 0.7   Max: 2.87
Current: 1.81

During the past 8 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Helios Towers was 2.87%. The lowest was -1.53%. And the median was 0.70%.

LSE:HTWS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
68.7% of 393 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 5.42 vs LSE:HTWS: 1.81

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) %. Helios Towers's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.31%. 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.


Helios Towers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Helios Towers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Helios Towers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Helios Towers Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.68 2.80 0.30 -0.70 2.10

Helios Towers Semi-Annual Data
Dec16 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 0.30 - -0.70 - 2.10

Competitive Comparison of Helios Towers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Helios Towers'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.


Helios Towers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Helios Towers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Helios Towers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Helios Towers 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.

Helios Towerss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=49.77/2366.1926
=2.10 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



Helios Towers  (LSE:HTWS) 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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Helios Towers (LSE:HTWS) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5 Merchant Square West, 10th Floor, London, GBR, W2 1AS
Helios Towers PLC is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing telecommunications towers and infrastructure. It offers tower-related operational services, including site selection, site preparation, maintenance, security and power management. The company's geographical operating segment includes Ghana, Tanzania, DRC, Congo Brazzaville, South Africa, Senegal, Madagascar, Malawi and Oman. It generates maximum revenue from the DRC segment. The solutions offered by the company include Colocation, Build-to-suit, In-building solutions, and Managed Services.

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