What is A.O. Smith Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
A.O. Smith's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $9,476 Mil.
A.O. Smith's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $698 Mil. A.O. Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 7.36%.
The historical rank and industry rank for A.O. Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
AOS'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.23 Med: 5.82 Max: 8.83
Current: 6.92
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of A.O. Smith was 8.83%. The lowest was 2.23%. And the median was 5.82%.
AOS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 72.22% of 3042
companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 3.555
vs AOS: 6.92
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) %. A.O. Smith's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 14.26%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past five 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.
A.O. Smith Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for A.O. Smith'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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A.O. Smith Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of A.O. Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, A.O. Smith'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.
A.O. Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, A.O. Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where A.O. Smith's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
A.O. Smith 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.
A.O. Smiths Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as
A.O. Smith's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $698 Mil.
A.O. Smith (NYSE:AOS) 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.
A.O. Smith Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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A.O. Smith manufactures a broad lineup of water heaters, boilers, and water treatment products. The company has two reporting segments: North America (75% of sales) and rest of world (25% of sales). A.O. Smith is the leading manufacturer of water heaters in North America for the residential and commercial markets, with approximately 37% and 54% market share, respectively. Residential water heaters account for most of North American sales and are distributed equally through wholesale and retail channels. Most of A.O. Smith's international revenue is from China, a market the company entered during the mid-1990s.
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