What is Sonic Automotive Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Sonic Automotive's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $5,918 Mil.
Sonic Automotive's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $493 Mil. Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 8.33%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
SAH'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.5 Med: 6.55 Max: 13.24
Current: 8.12
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sonic Automotive was 13.24%. The lowest was -0.50%. And the median was 6.55%.
SAH's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 62.05% of 1320
companies
in the Vehicles & Parts industry
Industry Median: 5.865
vs SAH: 8.12
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) %. Sonic Automotive's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 21.16%. 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.
Sonic Automotive Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Sonic Automotive Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Auto & Truck Dealerships subindustry, Sonic Automotive'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.
Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry
For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sonic Automotive's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Sonic Automotive 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.
Sonic Automotives Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as
Sonic Automotive's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $493 Mil.
Sonic Automotive (NYSE:SAH) 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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Sonic Automotive is one of the largest auto dealership groups in the United States. The company has 108 franchised stores in 18 states, primarily in metropolitan areas in California, Texas, and the Southeast, plus 18 EchoPark used-vehicle stores, 16 collision centers, and 15 powersports locations. The franchise stores derive revenue from new and used vehicles plus parts and collision repair, finance, insurance, and wholesale auctions. Luxury and import dealerships make up about 86% of franchise new-vehicle revenue, while Honda, BMW, Mercedes, and Toyota constitute about 59% of new-vehicle revenue. BMW is the largest brand at about 25%. 2024's revenue was $14.2 billion, with Texas and California comprising 51% of the total. EchoPark's portion was $2.1 billion.
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