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Four Seas Mercantile Holdings (HKSE:00374) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Four Seas Mercantile Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was HK$1,523 Mil. Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was HK$91 Mil. Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 0.00%.

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

HKSE:00374' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.77   Med: 5.84   Max: 33.99
Current: 5.88

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Four Seas Mercantile Holdings was 33.99%. The lowest was 1.77%. And the median was 5.84%.

HKSE:00374's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
52.47% of 1980 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 5.515 vs HKSE:00374: 5.88

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) %. Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 0.00%. 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.


Four Seas Mercantile Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Four Seas Mercantile Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Four Seas Mercantile Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.79 4.53 3.94 3.54 6.56

Four Seas Mercantile Holdings 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 - 3.54 - 6.56 -

Competitive Comparison of Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Four Seas Mercantile Holdings'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.


Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Four Seas Mercantile Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.


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Four Seas Mercantile Holdings 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.

Four Seas Mercantile Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=95.578/1456.477
=6.56 %

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.



Four Seas Mercantile Holdings  (HKSE:00374) 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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Four Seas Mercantile Holdings Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No. 23 Wang Tai Road, 21st Floor, Manhattan Place, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKG
Four Seas Mercantile Holdings Ltd is an investment holding company. The company's geographical segment includes Hong Kong; Mainland China and Japan. It generates maximum revenue from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong segment is engaged in the operation of restaurants, the manufacture and trading of snack foods, confectionery, beverages, frozen food products, ham and ham-related products and noodles, as well as the retailing of snack foods, confectionery and beverages, and providing catering services in Hong Kong.
Executives
Special Access Limited
Careful Guide Limited
Advance Finance Investments Limited
Capital Season Investments Limited
Hong Kong Food Investment Holdings Limited
Tai Tak Fung
Wu Mei Yung
Manureen Holdings Limited 2101 Beneficial owner
Realord Group Holdings Limited 2101 Beneficial owner
Lin Xiaohui 2201 Interest of corporation controlled by you
Su Jiaohua 2202 Interest of your spouse

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