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The Swatch Group AG (The Swatch Group AG) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 11.63% (As of Dec. 2023)
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The Swatch Group AG's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $10,604 Mil. The Swatch Group AG's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,307 Mil. The Swatch Group AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 11.63%.

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

SWGNF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.26   Med: 8.38   Max: 13.77
Current: 13.76

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of The Swatch Group AG was 13.77%. The lowest was 0.26%. And the median was 8.38%.

SWGNF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
85.52% of 1119 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.84 vs SWGNF: 13.76

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) %. The Swatch Group AG's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.65%. 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.


The Swatch Group AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Swatch Group AG'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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The Swatch Group AG Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.98 0.36 8.49 9.84 11.63

The Swatch Group AG Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.49 - 9.84 - 11.63

Competitive Comparison

For the Luxury Goods subindustry, The Swatch Group AG'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.


The Swatch Group AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

* The bar in red indicates where The Swatch Group AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



The Swatch Group AG 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.

The Swatch Group AGs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1336.725/10604.0465462
=12.61 %

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.



The Swatch Group AG  (OTCPK:SWGNF) 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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The Swatch Group AG (The Swatch Group AG) Business Description

Address
Seevorstadt 6, Bienne, CHE, 2501
Swatch Group's biggest brands are Omega (number-two Swiss watch brand by sales after Rolex), Longines (the largest premium watch brand and number four by sales globally), Breguet, Tissot (the leader in midrange Swiss watches), and Swatch. Swatch group employs over 31,000 people, half of them in Switzerland. We estimate that Swatch Group makes about 30% of its sales from Omega, 17% from ultraluxury brands, 20% from Longines, 10% from Tissot, and 6% from Swatch. We estimate Omega and Longines to be the group's most profitable brands.

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