Merck's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $304,014 Mil.
Merck's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,035 Mil. Merck's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.00%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Merck's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
MRK'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.84 Med: 4.18 Max: 11.36
Current: 0.87
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Merck was 11.36%. The lowest was 0.84%. And the median was 4.18%.
MRK's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 57.4% of 1094
companies
in the Drug Manufacturers industry
Industry Median: 2.53
vs MRK: 0.87
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) %. Merck's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.70%. 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.
Merck Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Merck's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* 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.
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Merck Annual Data
Trend
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Dec22
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
3.41
3.03
6.71
5.82
1.00
Merck Quarterly Data
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Dec22
Mar23
Jun23
Sep23
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
5.82
5.58
1.98
2.97
1.00
Competitive Comparison
For the Drug Manufacturers - General subindustry, Merck'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.
Merck Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Merck's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Merck's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Mercks Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Merck'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 $3,035 Mil.
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.
Merck Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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Merck makes pharmaceutical products to treat several conditions in a number of therapeutic areas, including cardiometabolic disease, cancer, and infections. Within cancer, the firm's immuno-oncology platform is growing as a major contributor to overall sales. The company also has a substantial vaccine business, with treatments to prevent pediatric diseases as well as human papillomavirus, or HPV. Additionally, Merck sells animal health-related drugs. From a geographical perspective, just under half of the company's sales are generated in the United States.
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