What is Zambia Metal Fabricators Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Zambia Metal Fabricators's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in . 20 was ZMW0.00 Mil.
Zambia Metal Fabricators does not have enough years/quarters to calculate its EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in . 20. Therefore, GuruFocus does not calculate Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) at this moment.
The historical rank and industry rank for Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LUS:ZAMEFA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 4.46 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
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) %. Zambia Metal Fabricators's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in . 20 was 0.00%. 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.
Zambia Metal Fabricators Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Competitive Comparison of Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Zambia Metal Fabricators'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.
Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Zambia Metal Fabricators's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Zambia Metal Fabricators 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.
Zambia Metal Fabricatorss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in . 20 is calculated as
Zambia Metal Fabricators (LUS:ZAMEFA) 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.
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Zambia Metal Fabricators Ltd is engaged in the manufacture of copper rods and copper and aluminum electrical conductors for sale to customers in the domestic and foreign markets. It also sells telecommunications cables which are sourced from within the Reunert group of companies. Its products include Low Voltage Cables (600/1000V), Building Wire, Bare Copper, Earth Wire, Flexible Cables and Wires, Aluminum Overhead Conductors, Aerial Bundle Conductors, Copper Rod, and Copper Shapes.
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