What is Scholastic Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Scholastic's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $1,151 Mil.
Scholastic's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $67 Mil. Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 5.84%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
SCHL'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -15.41 Med: 3.51 Max: 12.33
Current: 6.46
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Scholastic was 12.33%. The lowest was -15.41%. And the median was 3.51%.
SCHL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 65.62% of 1053
companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 2.76
vs SCHL: 6.46
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) %. Scholastic's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 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.
Scholastic Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Publishing subindustry, Scholastic'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.
Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Scholastic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Scholastics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2023 is calculated as
Scholastic's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $67 Mil.
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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Scholastic Corp is an American publishing and education media company that focuses on books and educational material for schools, teachers, parents, and children. The company is one of the world's largest publishers of children's books and also owns exclusive rights to various books, including Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. Some of the company's original titles include Clifford the Big Red Dog, Goosebumps, and The Magic School Bus. It has three reportable segments Children's Book Publishing and Distribution, Education Solutions and International. It majority of its revenue is from the Children's Book Publishing and Distribution segment.
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