What is Stewart Information Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Stewart Information Services's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,963 Mil.
Stewart Information Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $98 Mil. Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.11%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
STC'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.47 Med: 9.67 Max: 29.64
Current: 4.54
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Stewart Information Services was 29.64%. The lowest was 1.47%. And the median was 9.67%.
STC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 53.97% of 491
companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.58
vs STC: 4.54
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) %. Stewart Information Services's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 25.43%. 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.
Stewart Information Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Stewart Information Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Stewart Information Services'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.
Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Stewart Information Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Stewart Information Services 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.
Stewart Information Servicess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Stewart Information Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $98 Mil.
Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) 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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Stewart Information Services (Stewart Information Services) Business Description
Stewart Information Services Corp is a customer-focused, title insurance and real estate services company offering products and services to home buyers and sellers, mortgage lenders and servicers, attorneys, and home builders. It has three operating segments; Title insurance and related services include the functions of searching, examining, closing, and insuring the condition of the title to real property. It also includes home and personal insurance services, Real estate solutions segment supports the real estate mortgage industry by providing appraisal management services, online notarization and closing solutions, credit, and real estate information services, search and valuation services, and Corporate and Other segment is comprised of the parent holding company.
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