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Ashtead Technology Holdings (LSE:AT.) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 5.57% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Ashtead Technology Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Ashtead Technology Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £550.8 Mil. Ashtead Technology Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £30.7 Mil. Ashtead Technology Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 5.57%.

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

LSE:AT.' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.39   Med: 4.21   Max: 6.68
Current: 4.43

During the past 7 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Ashtead Technology Holdings was 6.68%. The lowest was 1.39%. And the median was 4.21%.

LSE:AT.'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
56.83% of 1098 companies
in the Oil & Gas industry
Industry Median: 6.58 vs LSE:AT.: 4.43

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) %. Ashtead Technology Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 21.69%. 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.


Ashtead Technology Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Ashtead Technology Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Ashtead Technology Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - 3.66 6.29 5.57

Ashtead Technology Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Dec18 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.66 - 6.29 - 5.57

Competitive Comparison of Ashtead Technology Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services subindustry, Ashtead Technology 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.


Ashtead Technology Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Ashtead Technology Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ashtead Technology 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.

Ashtead Technology Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=30.688/550.845976
=5.57 %

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.



Ashtead Technology Holdings  (LSE:AT.) 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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Ashtead Technology Holdings (LSE:AT.) Business Description

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Ashtead House, Discovery Drive, Westhill, Aberdeenshire, GBR, AB32 6FG
Ashtead Technology Holdings PLC is a subsea equipment rental and solutions organization supporting the installation, inspection, maintenance, repair, and decommissioning of infrastructure across the offshore energy industry. Its service offering is applicable across the lifecycle of offshore wind farms and offshore oil and gas infrastructure. The company operates in the following four geographic regions, which have been determined as the Group's reportable segments. The operations of each geographic region are similar: Europe; the Americas; Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

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