What is Arthur J. Gallagher Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Arthur J. Gallagher's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $56,117 Mil.
Arthur J. Gallagher's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,482 Mil. Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.64%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
AJG'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.34 Med: 3.63 Max: 5.09
Current: 2.52
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Arthur J. Gallagher was 5.09%. The lowest was 2.34%. And the median was 3.63%.
AJG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 58.57% of 490
companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.58
vs AJG: 2.52
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) %. Arthur J. Gallagher's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 16.32%. 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.
Arthur J. Gallagher Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Arthur J. Gallagher Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Insurance Brokers subindustry, Arthur J. Gallagher'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.
Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Arthur J. Gallagher's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Arthur J. Gallagher 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.
Arthur J. Gallaghers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Arthur J. Gallagher'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 $1,482 Mil.
Arthur J. Gallagher (NYSE:AJG) 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.
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Arthur J. Gallagher (Arthur J. Gallagher) Business Description
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co provides insurance brokerage and consulting services to middle-market entities around the world. The majority of the company's revenue comes from its brokerage segment, where it negotiates and places its customers with insurance companies that provide, among other types, property/casualty and health insurance. The company's primary source of revenue in the brokerage segment is commissioning from the insurance companies. The company also generates significant revenue in its corporate segment, which includes clean energy investment and other investment income. The company generates most of its revenue in the United States, with the remaining revenue coming primarily from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
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