WH Smith (LSE:SMWH) EBIT : £141 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2024)

WH Smith EBIT Chart

WH Smith Annual Data
	Trend	Aug14	Aug15	Aug16	Aug17	Aug18	Aug19	Aug20	Aug21	Aug22	Aug23
EBIT		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					140.00	-260.00	-92.00	97.00	155.00

WH Smith Semi-Annual Data
	Aug14	Feb15	Aug15	Feb16	Aug16	Feb17	Aug17	Feb18	Aug18	Feb19	Aug19	Feb20	Aug20	Feb21	Aug21	Feb22	Aug22	Feb23	Aug23	Feb24
EBIT	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															34.00	63.00	66.00	89.00	52.00

Competitive Comparison of WH Smith's EBIT

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, WH Smith's EV-to-EBIT, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-to-EBIT 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.

WH Smith's EV-to-EBIT Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, WH Smith's EV-to-EBIT distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where WH Smith's EV-to-EBIT falls into.

WH Smith EBIT Calculation

EBIT, sometimes also called Earnings Before Interest and Taxes, is a measure of a firm's profit that includes all expenses except interest and income tax expenses. It is the difference between operating revenues and operating expenses. When a firm does not have non-operating income, then Operating Income is sometimes used as a synonym for EBIT and operating profit.

EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £141 Mil.

* 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.

WH Smith  (LSE:SMWH) EBIT Explanation

1. EBIT or Operating Income is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

WH Smith's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as:

where

Note: The Operating Income data used here is two times the semi-annual (Feb. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

WH Smith's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as:

where Working Capital is:

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is two times the semi-annual (Feb. 2024) EBIT data.

3. It is also linked to Joel Greenblatt's definition of Earnings Yield:

WH Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % for today is calculated as:

* 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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