What is Fidelity & Guaranty Life Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was $1,356 Mil.
Fidelity & Guaranty Life's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 was $357 Mil. Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was 26.32%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
FGL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 5.77 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
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) %. Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 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.
Fidelity & Guaranty Life Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Fidelity & Guaranty Life Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, Fidelity & Guaranty Life'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.
Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fidelity & Guaranty Life's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Fidelity & Guaranty Life 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.
Fidelity & Guaranty Lifes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2017 is calculated as
Fidelity & Guaranty Life's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $357 Mil.
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.
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Fidelity & Guaranty Life (Fidelity & Guaranty Life) Business Description
Fidelity & Guaranty Life was incorporated in Delaware. Fidelity and Guaranty Life is engaged in selling of individual life insurance products and annuities through independent agents, managing general agents, and specialty brokerage firms and in selected institutional markets. Its products include FG Life-Elite and FG Life-Choice.
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