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Imperial Brands (Imperial Brands) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 17.99% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Imperial Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Imperial Brands's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $29,525 Mil. Imperial Brands's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $5,293 Mil. Imperial Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 17.99%.

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

IMBBY' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.11   Med: 6.8   Max: 17.86
Current: 17.04

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Imperial Brands was 17.86%. The lowest was 3.11%. And the median was 6.80%.

IMBBY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
84.91% of 53 companies
in the Tobacco Products industry
Industry Median: 5.48 vs IMBBY: 17.04

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) %. Imperial Brands's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 27.53%. 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.


Imperial Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Imperial Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Imperial Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Imperial Brands Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.84 11.33 15.60 16.05 17.99

Imperial Brands Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 15.60 - 16.05 - 17.99

Competitive Comparison of Imperial Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Tobacco subindustry, Imperial Brands'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.


Imperial Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Tobacco Products Industry

For the Tobacco Products industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Imperial Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Imperial Brands 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.

Imperial Brandss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=5341.584/29525.27846
=18.09 %

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.



Imperial Brands  (OTCPK:IMBBY) 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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Imperial Brands (Imperial Brands) Business Description

Address
121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, GBR, BS3 2LL
Imperial Brands is the world's fourth-largest international tobacco company (excluding China National Tobacco) with total fiscal 2023 volume of 198 billion cigarettes sold in more than 160 countries. The firm holds a leading global position in the fine-cut tobacco and hand-rolling paper categories, and it has a logistics platform in Western Europe, Altadis. Through acquisition, Imperial is the third-largest manufacturer in the U.S. and owns the Winston and blu brands.

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