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Porvair (LSE:PRV) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 7.75% (As of Nov. 2023)


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What is Porvair Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Porvair's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £271.0 Mil. Porvair's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 was £21.0 Mil. Porvair's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was 7.75%.

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

LSE:PRV' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.83   Med: 6.04   Max: 8.47
Current: 6.98

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Porvair was 8.47%. The lowest was 3.83%. And the median was 6.04%.

LSE:PRV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
67.21% of 3047 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 4.26 vs LSE:PRV: 6.98

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) %. Porvair's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was 15.28%. 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.


Porvair Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Porvair Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Porvair Annual Data
Trend Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.40 4.87 4.87 7.97 7.75

Porvair Semi-Annual Data
May14 Nov14 May15 Nov15 May16 Nov16 May17 Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 May20 Nov20 May21 Nov21 May22 Nov22 May23 Nov23
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 4.87 - 7.97 - 7.75

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

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Porvair'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.


Porvair's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Porvair's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Porvair 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.

Porvairs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=21.001/271.015428
=7.75 %

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.



Porvair  (LSE:PRV) 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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Porvair (LSE:PRV) Business Description

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7 Regis Place, Bergen Way, King's Lynn, Norfolk, GBR, PE30 2JN
Porvair PLC is an environmental treatment control company. It develops filtration solutions to be used by various types of industries. The company caters to its clients through three divisions, Aerospace and Industrial, Laboratory and Metal Melt Quality. Aerospace and Industrial Division is a key revenue generator, designs and manufactures specialist filtration equipment for application in aerospace, energy, bioscience, water and industrial applications. Laboratory Division designs and manufactures instruments and consumables for use in environmental and bioscience laboratories. Metal Melt Quality Division designs and manufactures porous ceramic filters for the filtration of molten metals. The company generates majority of its manufacturing revenue from sales in the United States.

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