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White Mountains Insurance Group (White Mountains Insurance Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 13.61% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is White Mountains Insurance Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

White Mountains Insurance Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,617 Mil. White Mountains Insurance Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $624 Mil. White Mountains Insurance Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 13.61%.

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

WTM' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -13.76   Med: 2.71   Max: 21.28
Current: 12.42

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of White Mountains Insurance Group was 21.28%. The lowest was -13.76%. And the median was 2.71%.

WTM's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
68.43% of 491 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.64 vs WTM: 12.42

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) %. White Mountains Insurance Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


White Mountains Insurance Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for White Mountains Insurance Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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White Mountains Insurance Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

White Mountains Insurance Group Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 11.88 21.01 -6.83 -2.63 13.61

White Mountains Insurance Group Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -2.63 2.66 8.69 9.44 13.61

Competitive Comparison of White Mountains Insurance Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, White Mountains Insurance Group'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.


White Mountains Insurance Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, White Mountains Insurance Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



White Mountains Insurance Group 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.

White Mountains Insurance Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=628.1/4616.8028545
=13.60 %

White Mountains Insurance Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $624 Mil.



White Mountains Insurance Group  (NYSE:WTM) 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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White Mountains Insurance Group (White Mountains Insurance Group) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
23 South Main Street, Suite 3B, Hanover, NH, USA, 03755-2053
White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd is engaged in the business of making opportunistic and value-oriented acquisitions of businesses and assets in the insurance, financial services and related sectors, operating these businesses and assets through its subsidiaries and, if and when attractive exit valuations become available, disposing of these businesses and assets. The company conducts its business in four areas: municipal bond insurance, property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, capital solutions for asset and wealth management firms and other operations. White Mountains's municipal bond insurance business is conducted through its subsidiary HG Global Ltd. and its reinsurance subsidiary HG Re Ltd.
Executives
Weston M Hicks director C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION, 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10018
Steven Yi director 700 SOUTH FLOWER STREET, SUITE 640, LOS ANGELES CA 90017
Michaela Hildreth officer: Chief Accounting Officer 23 S MAIN STREET, SUITE 3B, HANOVER NH 03755
Peter M Carlson director BRIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL, INC., 11225 NORTH COMMUNITY HOUSE ROAD, CHARLOTTE NC 28277
Morgan W Davis director 80 SOUTH MAIN STREET, HANOVER NH 03755
Suzanne F. Shank director C/O PENSARE SPONSOR GROUP, LLC, 1720 PEACHTREE STREET, SUITE 629, ATLANTA GA 30309
Mary C Choksi director
Philip A Gelston director 80 SOUTH MAIN ST, C/O WHITE MOUNTAINS, HANOVER NH 03755
David Allen Tanner director C/O ARLON GROUP LLC, 277 PARK AVE, NEW YORK NY 10172
Margaret Dillon director C/O GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE, INC., 2850 DELAWARE ST. STE 400, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Liam P Caffrey officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer 23 S MAIN STREET, STE. 3B, HANOVER NH 03755
Robert Lawrence Seelig officer: EVP & General Counsel
George Manning Rountree director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O 80 SOUTH MAIN STREET, HANOVER NH 03755
Reid Tarlton Campbell officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer C/O WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE GROUP, 80 SOUTH MAIN STREET, HANOVER NH 03755
Lowndes Andrew Smith director C/O WHITE MOUNTIAN INSURANCE GROUP, 80 S MIAN ST, HANOVER NH 03755