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Liberty Kenya Holdings (NAI:LBTY) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -10.63% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Liberty Kenya Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Liberty Kenya Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was KES-10,393 Mil. Liberty Kenya Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was KES1,105 Mil. Liberty Kenya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -10.63%.

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

NAI:LBTY' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -4664.16   Med: -8.65   Max: 7831.25
Current: -11.32

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Liberty Kenya Holdings was 7831.25%. The lowest was -4664.16%. And the median was -8.65%.

NAI:LBTY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
65.33% of 499 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 6.06 vs NAI:LBTY: -11.32

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) %. Liberty Kenya Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 40.72%. 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.


Liberty Kenya Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Liberty Kenya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Liberty Kenya Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Liberty Kenya Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 83.33 -96.15 -8.71 -10.17 -10.63

Liberty Kenya Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 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 83.33 -96.15 -8.71 -10.17 -10.63

Competitive Comparison of Liberty Kenya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Insurance - Diversified subindustry, Liberty Kenya Holdings'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.


Liberty Kenya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Liberty Kenya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Liberty Kenya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Liberty Kenya Holdings 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.

Liberty Kenya Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1104.7/-10392.86748
=-10.63 %

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.



Liberty Kenya Holdings  (NAI:LBTY) 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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Liberty Kenya Holdings (NAI:LBTY) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Liberty House, Processional Way, P. O. Box 30364, Nairobi, KEN, 00100
Liberty Kenya Holdings Ltd is an insurance company. It offers long-term insurance products and services to individual and corporate markets. Its products include life insurance, health insurance, and short-term insurance. Its insurance contracts are categorized as long-term and general insurance businesses depending on the duration of risk. Its long-term business includes a life assurance business, superannuation business, industrial life assurance business, and bond investment business. General insurance business includes insurance business of aviation, engineering, fire, liability, marine, motor, personal accident, theft, workmen's compensation and employer's liability insurance, and miscellaneous insurance.

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