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Le Chateau (Le Chateau) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -31.75% (As of Jul. 2020)


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What is Le Chateau Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Le Chateau's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2020 was $0.00 Mil. Le Chateau's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2020 was $-44.15 Mil. Le Chateau's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2020 was -31.75%.

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

LCUAF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Retail - Cyclical industry.
Industry Median: 4.73
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.

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) %. Le Chateau's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 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.


Le Chateau Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Le Chateau Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Le Chateau Annual Data
Trend Jan11 Jan12 Jan13 Jan14 Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -38.02 -34.36 -18.52 -20.92 -31.55

Le Chateau Quarterly Data
Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20
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 -6.58 -5.76 -31.55 -31.45 -31.75

Competitive Comparison of Le Chateau's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Le Chateau'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.


Le Chateau's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Le Chateau's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Le Chateau 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.

Le Chateaus Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2020 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-42.292/0
= %

Le Chateau's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2020 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-44.15 Mil.



Le Chateau  (GREY:LCUAF) 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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Le Chateau (Le Chateau) Business Description

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Address
105 Marcel-Laurin Boulevard, Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC, CAN, H4N 2M3
Le Chateau Inc is a Canadian brand in specialty retailing, offering a broad array of contemporary fashion apparel, accessories, and footwear for style-conscious women and men. The firm offers tops, sweaters, cardigans, pants, skirts, shirts, ties and blazers, among others for women and men. It offers shoes in various categories, including evening and party, pumps, sandals, wedges, flats, boots, and shoe accessories. The company derives the maximum revenue from Ladies clothing. It also offers occasion dresses, such as cocktail, evening and formal, prom, night out and little black dresses, and day dresses, including work and weekend.

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