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Urban Outfitters (Urban Outfitters) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 9.41% (As of Jan. 2024)
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Urban Outfitters's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $4,139 Mil. Urban Outfitters's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $389 Mil. Urban Outfitters's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 9.41%.

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

URBN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.26   Med: 8.7   Max: 18.37
Current: 9.27

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Urban Outfitters was 18.37%. The lowest was -0.26%. And the median was 8.70%.

URBN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
75.56% of 1121 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.79 vs URBN: 9.27

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) %. Urban Outfitters's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 14.21%. 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.


Urban Outfitters Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Urban Outfitters'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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Urban Outfitters Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.02 0.20 11.56 6.83 9.41

Urban Outfitters 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) % 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 6.83 7.73 7.33 9.01 9.41

Competitive Comparison

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Urban Outfitters'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.


Urban Outfitters Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Urban Outfitters 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.

Urban Outfitterss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=389.269/4139.358
=9.40 %

Urban Outfitters'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 $389 Mil.



Urban Outfitters  (NAS:URBN) 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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Urban Outfitters (Urban Outfitters) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5000 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19112-1495
Founded in 1970, Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters is an apparel and home goods retailer that operates about 700 stores and e-commerce in North America (87% of fiscal 2023 sales) and other regions. Its retail nameplates are Urban Outfitters, Free People, FP Movement, and Anthropologie. Retail accounted for 92% of fiscal 2023 revenue, but the firm also sells products through a wholesale operation, owns some restaurants, and operates a clothing rental and resale business called Nuuly. Urban Outfitters primarily markets to young adults and offers products in categories such as apparel (63% of fiscal 2023 sales), home goods (19% of sales), accessories (13% of sales), and more.
Executives
Tricia D Smith officer: Global CEO Anthropologie C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS INC, 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA X1 19112
Todd R Morgenfeld director C/O PINTEREST, INC., 651 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Melanie Marein-efron officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Azeez Hayne officer: General Counsel and Secretary C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19147
Frank Conforti officer: Controller 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Mary Egan director 520 ZANG STREET, SUITE D, BROOMFIELD CO 80021
Kotzman Kelly Campbell director C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Margaret Hayne officer: President, Free People C/O URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC., 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Edward N Antoian director 415 LANTERN LANE, BERWYN PA 19312
Sheila B. Harrington officer: Global CEO, UO & FP Groups C/O 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Amin N. Maredia director 11811 N. TATUM BOULEVARD SUITE 2400, PHOENIX AZ 85028
John Champlin Mulliken director C/O 5000 SOUTH BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19112
Trish Donnelly officer: Urban Outfitters NA Brand Pres C/O PVH CORP., 200 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10016
Wesley S Mcdonald director
Lawson Joel S Iii director 1809 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELLPHIA PA 19103

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