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Village Super Market (Village Super Market) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 13.09% (As of Jan. 2024)
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Village Super Market's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $0.00 Mil. Village Super Market's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $81.16 Mil. Village Super Market's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 13.09%.

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

VLGEB' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.38   Med: 11.26   Max: 15.52
Current: 12.63

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Village Super Market was 15.52%. The lowest was 4.38%. And the median was 11.26%.

VLGEB's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
77.99% of 318 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 6.505 vs VLGEB: 12.63

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) %. Village Super Market's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 22.55%. 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.


Village Super Market Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Village Super Market'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.

* Premium members only.

Village Super Market Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 12.99 5.06 5.36 7.20 12.87

Village Super Market Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 8.40 12.14 12.87 12.67 13.09

Competitive Comparison

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Village Super Market'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.


Village Super Market Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Village Super Market's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Village Super Market's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Village Super Market 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.

Village Super Markets Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=76.945/0
= %

Village Super Market's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $81.16 Mil.



Village Super Market  (GREY:VLGEB) 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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Village Super Market (Village Super Market) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
733 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ, USA, 07081
Village Super Market Inc operates a chain of ShopRite supermarkets, a few of which are in northern New Jersey, southern New Jersey, Maryland, and in northeastern Pennsylvania. The company is a member of Wakefern Food Corporation (Wakefern), a retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite name. It consists of one operating segment, the retail sale of food and nonfood products.

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