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Great Taipei Gas (TPE:9908) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 12.22% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Great Taipei Gas Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Great Taipei Gas's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$11,036 Mil. Great Taipei Gas's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$1,350 Mil. Great Taipei Gas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 12.22%.

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

TPE:9908' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.47   Med: 8.88   Max: 13.91
Current: 13.91

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Great Taipei Gas was 13.91%. The lowest was 4.47%. And the median was 8.88%.

TPE:9908's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
77.92% of 530 companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 6.805 vs TPE:9908: 13.91

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) %. Great Taipei Gas's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 10.00%. 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.


Great Taipei Gas Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Great Taipei Gas Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Great Taipei Gas 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 9.02 7.83 8.88 8.94 12.03

Great Taipei Gas Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 9.83 11.49 11.93 12.03 12.22

Competitive Comparison of Great Taipei Gas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Great Taipei Gas'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.


Great Taipei Gas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Great Taipei Gas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Great Taipei Gas 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.

Great Taipei Gass Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1368.571/11370.2825
=12.04 %

Great Taipei Gas's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was NT$1,350 Mil.



Great Taipei Gas  (TPE:9908) 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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Great Taipei Gas (TPE:9908) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
No. 35, Lane 11, Guangfu N. Raod, 5th Floor, Songshan District, Taipei, TWN, 105
Great Taipei Gas Corp is a Taiwanese gas utility company that provides natural gas services to districts throughout the city of Taipei, Taiwan. The company's core activity is the selling of a variety of gas utility-related products and supplies, such as natural gas, gas equipment, gas meters, and gas instruments, which are sourced primarily from Europe, America, and Japan. Great Taipei Gas then distributes natural gas to end users in the Taiwanese capital city by operating a network of gas pipelines and storage facilities.

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