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Unilever NV (Unilever NV) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Jun. 2020)


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What is Unilever NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Unilever NV's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was $168,357 Mil. Unilever NV's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2020 was $10,233 Mil. Unilever NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was 0.00%.

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

UN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.16   Med: 5.22   Max: 5.51
Current: 5.51

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Unilever NV was 5.51%. The lowest was 5.16%. And the median was 5.22%.

UN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
Industry Median: 4.99 vs UN: 5.51

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) %. Unilever NV's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was 0.00%. 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.


Unilever NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Unilever NV'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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Unilever NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Unilever NV Annual Data
Trend Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.18 6.44 5.66 9.01 5.67

Unilever NV Semi-Annual Data
Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20
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 - 9.01 - - -

Competitive Comparison of Unilever NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Unilever NV'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.


Unilever NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Unilever NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Unilever NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Unilever NV 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.

Unilever NVs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2019 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=10006.667/176391.9398
=5.67 %

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.



Unilever NV  (NYSE:UN) 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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Unilever NV (Unilever NV) Business Description

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Address
Weena 455, Rotterdam, NLD, 3000
Netherlands-based Unilever NV and U.K.-based Unilever PLC operate Unilever Group, a diversified household and personal product (60% of 2018 sales by value) and packaged-food and refreshments (40%) company. The firm's brands include Knorr soups and sauces, Hellmann's mayonnaise, Lipton teas, Axe and Dove skin products, and the TRESemme hair-care brand. The firm has been acquisitive in recent years, and high-profile purchases include the mail-order men's grooming business Dollar Shave Club.

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