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Low & Bonar (LSE:BD90.PFD) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -27.93% (As of Nov. 2019)


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What is Low & Bonar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Low & Bonar's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2019 was £0.00 Mil. Low & Bonar's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2019 was £-55.70 Mil. Low & Bonar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2019 was -27.93%.

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

LSE:BD90.PFD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -41.7   Med: 7.3   Max: 16
Current: -26.6

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Low & Bonar was 16.00%. The lowest was -41.70%. And the median was 7.30%.

LSE:BD90.PFD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Building Materials industry.
Industry Median: 5.205 vs LSE:BD90.PFD: -26.60

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) %. Low & Bonar's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2019 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.


Low & Bonar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Low & Bonar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Low & Bonar Annual Data
Trend Nov10 Nov11 Nov12 Nov13 Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.88 9.27 -4.21 -15.13 -27.93

Low & Bonar Semi-Annual Data
May10 Nov10 May11 Nov11 May12 Nov12 May13 Nov13 May14 Nov14 May15 Nov15 May16 Nov16 May17 Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19
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 -4.21 - -15.13 - -27.93

Competitive Comparison of Low & Bonar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Building Materials subindustry, Low & Bonar'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.


Low & Bonar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Building Materials Industry

For the Building Materials industry and Basic Materials sector, Low & Bonar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Low & Bonar 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.

Low & Bonars Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2019 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-55.7/0
= %

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.



Low & Bonar  (LSE:BD90.PFD) 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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Low & Bonar Business Description

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Address
One Connaught Place, London, GBR, W2 2ET
Low & Bonar PLC manufactures and supplies performance materials to create yarns, fibers, industrial and coated fabrics, and composite materials. Its reportable segments include the Colbond segment, selling products to the building, flooring, industrial and automotive industries, and comprising the Group's Colback and Enka technologies, along with the woven product produced in China. This segment comprises three business segments, organized regionally, being EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The Coated Technical Textiles segment producing coated fabrics. The majority of the revenue is derived from Colbond segment.

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