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LKFLF (Luk Fook Holdings (International)) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 17.04% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Luk Fook Holdings (International) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $1,519 Mil. Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $197 Mil. Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 17.04%.

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

LKFLF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 6.68   Med: 13.14   Max: 27.11
Current: 17.33

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Luk Fook Holdings (International) was 27.11%. The lowest was 6.68%. And the median was 13.14%.

LKFLF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
91.85% of 1117 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.68 vs LKFLF: 17.33

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) %. Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 11.64%. 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.


Luk Fook Holdings (International) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Luk Fook Holdings (International) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Luk Fook Holdings (International) 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 13.19 12.22 17.06 11.99 17.04

Luk Fook Holdings (International) 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 - 11.99 - 17.04 -

Competitive Comparison of Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Luxury Goods subindustry, Luk Fook Holdings (International)'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.


Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Luk Fook Holdings (International)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Luk Fook Holdings (International) 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.

Luk Fook Holdings (International)s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=274.14/1519.04247268
=18.05 %

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.



Luk Fook Holdings (International)  (OTCPK:LKFLF) 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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Luk Fook Holdings (International) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
No. 2 On Yiu Street, 15th, 20th, 25th and 27th Floors, Metropole Square, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, HKG
Luk Fook Holdings (International) Ltd is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company. The company is engaged in the sourcing, designing, wholesaling, trademark licensing and retailing of a variety of gold and platinum jewelry and gem-set jewelry products. It operates through the following five segments: Retailing in Hong Kong, Macau and Overseas; Retailing in Mainland China; Wholesaling in Hong Kong; Wholesaling in Mainland China; and Licensing. The company generates maximum revenue from Retailing in Hong Kong, Macau and Overseas segments.