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GRGTF (Grainger) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.38% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Grainger Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Grainger's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $4,436.7 Mil. Grainger's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $105.1 Mil. Grainger's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 2.38%.

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

GRGTF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.69   Med: 5.88   Max: 11.6
Current: 2.44

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Grainger was 11.60%. The lowest was 1.69%. And the median was 5.88%.

GRGTF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
56.24% of 1835 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 3.68 vs GRGTF: 2.44

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) %. Grainger's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -10.09%. 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.


Grainger Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Grainger's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Grainger Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Grainger Annual Data
Trend Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23 Sep24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.32 5.58 11.12 1.85 2.38

Grainger Semi-Annual Data
Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24 Sep24
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 11.12 - 1.85 - 2.38

Competitive Comparison of Grainger's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Grainger'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.


Grainger's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Grainger's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Grainger 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.

Graingers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=104.365/4436.71666
=2.35 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



Grainger  (OTCPK:GRGTF) 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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Grainger Business Description

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Address
St James\' Boulevard, Citygate, Newcastle upon Tyne, GBR, NE1 4JE
Grainger PLC owns, leases, and manages residential properties. The company derives the vast majority of its revenue through property sales and rental income. The business categorizes its operations into U.K. residential, retirement solutions, fund and third-party management, the U.K. and European development, German residential, and others. U.K. Residential represents the bulk of the group's revenue, with retirement solutions and the UK and European development also contributing a substantial portion. The company also offers residential fund- and asset management services. The two segments for the company are PRS which derives maximum revenue, and Reversionary.

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