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Honda Motor Co (Honda Motor Co) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 10.99% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Honda Motor Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Honda Motor Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $84,535 Mil. Honda Motor Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $9,237 Mil. Honda Motor Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 10.99%.

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

HMC' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.25   Med: 9.03   Max: 12.19
Current: 10.71

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Honda Motor Co was 12.19%. The lowest was 4.25%. And the median was 9.03%.

HMC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
72.43% of 1306 companies
in the Vehicles & Parts industry
Industry Median: 5.695 vs HMC: 10.71

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) %. Honda Motor Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 15.62%. 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.


Honda Motor Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Honda Motor Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Honda Motor Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Honda Motor Co Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.69 8.98 8.68 10.37 9.38

Honda Motor Co 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) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 12.29 9.38 10.31 9.92 10.99

Competitive Comparison of Honda Motor Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Auto Manufacturers subindustry, Honda Motor Co'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.


Honda Motor Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry

For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Honda Motor Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Honda Motor Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Honda Motor Co 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.

Honda Motor Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=6850.573/73387.9106
=9.33 %

Honda Motor Co'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 $9,237 Mil.



Honda Motor Co  (NYSE:HMC) 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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Honda Motor Co (Honda Motor Co) Business Description

Address
Number 1-1, Minami-Aoyama 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 107-8556
Incorporated in 1948, Honda Motor was originally a motorcycle manufacturer. Today, the firm makes automobiles, motorcycles, and power products such as boat engines, generators, and lawnmowers. Including joint ventures, Honda sold 22.4 million cars and motorcycles in fiscal 2023 (3.7 million of which were autos), and consolidated sales were JPY 16.9 trillion. Automobiles constitute 63% of revenue and motorcycles 17%, with the rest split between power products and financial services. Honda also makes robots and private jets.