What is First Clover Leaf Financial Earnings Yield %?
The earnings yield is an indication of how much return shareholders' investment in the company earned over the past 12 months. The higher the earnings yield is, the better.
The earnings yield does not consider the growth of the business. A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. First Clover Leaf Financial's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 17.77%. 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.
First Clover Leaf Financial Earnings Yield % Calculation
Earnings yield is the reciprocal of the P/E Ratio.
First Clover Leaf Financial's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.500 Mil.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
The earnings in the calculation is the Trailing Twelve Months earnings.
First Clover Leaf Financial (NAS:FCLF) Earnings Yield % Explanation
If the P/E ratio is an indication of how many years it takes for the company to earn back the stock price shareholders pay to buy the shares, the earnings yield is an indication of how much return shareholders' investment in the company earned over the past 12 months. The higher the earnings yield is, the better.
If a company loses money, the earnings yield is negative. This gives a more straightforward indication that the company is losing money. This is an advantage of using earnings yield instead of the P/E ratio in valuation. For valuation purposes, the P/B Ratio and the P/S Ratio should be used for companies that are losing money.
Like the P/E ratio, the earnings yield can be used to compare investments in different industries. It can even be used to compare the attractiveness of different asset classes such as bonds and cash. Of course, the earnings yield should not be the only factor in deciding which asset classes to invest.
Also similar to the P/E ratio, the earnings yield does not consider the growth of the business. A growing company with the same earnings yield should be more attractive than a company that has the same earnings yield but does not grow.
Just like the P/E Ratio, non-recurring items such as selling part of the business, selling a previous investment, etc., can affect earnings yield dramatically. The earning yield is also a poor indication for cyclical companies. When a cyclical stock has a high earnings yield it is usually at the peak of its cycle.
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First Clover Leaf Financial (First Clover Leaf Financial) Business Description
First Clover Leaf Financial Corp is a Maryland corporation that was incorporated in March 2006 and was formed by its predecessor company, First Federal Financial Services, Inc., in connection with the second-step conversion of First Federal Financial Services, MHC and the simultaneous acquisition of Clover Leaf Financial Corp. and its wholly owned savings bank subsidiary, Clover Leaf Bank, a former Illinois state bank headquartered in Edwardsville, Illinois. The second-step conversion, stock offering and acquisition of Clover Leaf Financial Corp. were consummated in July 2006. As a result of these transactions, Clover Leaf Financial Corp. was merged with and into First Clover Leaf and Clover Leaf Bank was merged with and into its wholly owned subsidiary, First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Edwardsville, which was renamed First Clover Leaf Bank. Its principal asset is the ownership of 100% of the outstanding common stock of First Clover Leaf Bank, a federal savings bank. It conducts business through its five branch offices located in Edwardsville, Wood River, and Highland, Illinois. Its principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its office locations and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one-to-four family residential real estate loans, multi-family real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, construction and land loans, commercial business loans and consumer loans, and in investment securities. It faces intense competition within its market area both in making loans and attracting deposits. It is regulated and supervised by the Office of Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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