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Fred's (STU:FR1A) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -102.04% (As of Apr. 2019)


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What is Fred's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Fred's's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2019 was €123 Mil. Fred's's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2019 was €-124 Mil. Fred's's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2019 was -102.04%.

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

STU:FR1A's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Retail - Defensive industry.
Industry Median: 6.27
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.

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) %. Fred's's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2019 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.


Fred's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Fred's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Fred's Annual Data
Trend Jan10 Jan11 Jan12 Jan13 Jan14 Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -7.89 -1.95 -11.49 -45.87 -81.97

Fred's Quarterly Data
Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Apr20
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 -46.51 -32.79 -81.97 -102.04 -

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

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Fred's'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.


Fred's's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Fred's's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Fred's 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.

Fred'ss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2019 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-113.486/142.957993
=-79.38 %

Fred's's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €-124 Mil.



Fred's  (STU:FR1A) 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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Fred's (STU:FR1A) Business Description

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Address
4300 New Getwell Road, Memphis, TN, USA, 38118
Fred's Inc is a U.S.-based company that is principally engaged in operating retail stores. Most of the company's stores are self-owned stores, with a few franchised stores. The company's sales mix consists of pharmaceuticals, consumables, household goods and softlines, and franchise, with pharmaceuticals contributing a material portion of total revenue. The company owns 100% of the equity stake in Reeves-Sain Drug Store. The company generates revenue from merchandise sales and franchise fee from franchisees. It also sells gift cards. The company conducts operation primarily in the southeast of the United States.

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