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Hong Fok (SGX:H30) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.84% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Hong Fok Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Hong Fok's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was S$1,982.4 Mil. Hong Fok's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was S$135.6 Mil. Hong Fok's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.84%.

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

SGX:H30' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.1   Med: 8.36   Max: 22.44
Current: 10.21

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Hong Fok was 22.44%. The lowest was -0.10%. And the median was 8.36%.

SGX:H30's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
76.21% of 1858 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 4.235 vs SGX:H30: 10.21

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) %. Hong Fok's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Hong Fok Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Hong Fok Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Hong Fok Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.35 -0.09 3.36 12.97 6.84

Hong Fok Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 3.36 - 12.97 - 6.84

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

For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Hong Fok'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.


Hong Fok's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Hong Fok's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Hong Fok 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.

Hong Foks Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=135.634/1982.38727
=6.84 %

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.



Hong Fok  (SGX:H30) 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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Hong Fok (SGX:H30) Business Description

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Address
300 Beach Road, No. 41-00, The Concourse, Singapore, SGP, 199555
Hong Fok Corp Ltd is an investment holding company. Its principal activities consist of investment, property development, and construction, property management, investment trading, provision of horticultural services and investment holding and management. The company has three reportable segments: Property investment - which includes investments in investment properties; Property development and construction - which develops retail and residential units, including the sale of residential units, and construction of a hotel; and Property management - which provides maintenance and management services. It generates most of its revenue from the Property investment segment.

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