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SCOTF (Scout24 SE) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.86% (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Scout24 SE Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Scout24 SE's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $5,936.3 Mil. Scout24 SE's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2024 was $257.9 Mil. Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 3.86%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

SCOTF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.19   Med: 3.34   Max: 5.11
Current: 2.95

During the past 11 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Scout24 SE was 5.11%. The lowest was 1.19%. And the median was 3.34%.

SCOTF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
56.08% of 567 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 1.02 vs SCOTF: 2.95

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) %. Scout24 SE's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 22.08%. 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.


Scout24 SE Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Scout24 SE Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Scout24 SE Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.21 3.12 5.03 5.12 3.86

Scout24 SE Semi-Annual Data
Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24 Dec24
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 5.03 1.44 5.12 - 3.86

Competitive Comparison of Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Scout24 SE'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.


Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Scout24 SE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.


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Scout24 SE 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.

Scout24 SEs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=254.486/5936.335
=4.29 %

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.



Scout24 SE  (OTCPK:SCOTF) 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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Scout24 SE Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Invalidenstrasse 65, Berlin, BY, DEU, 10557
Scout24 SE is a German digital company that operates a digital marketplace, ImmoScout24, for residential and business real estate. In addition, it offers software solutions for real estate valuations to banks and the real estate sector. Through ImmoScout24, the company is engaged in developing new products and building a digital ecosystem for rentals, purchases, and commercial real estate in Germany and Austria. It has different brands offering digital services in the real estate industry, such as FlowFact, Vermietet.de, Immoverkauf24, Propstack, BauFi, and others. Its operating segments are Professional, which generates maximum revenue by offering digital real estate products to its professional clients, and Private. Geographically, the group derives its key revenue from Germany.

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