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Stantec (TSX:STN) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.98% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Stantec Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Stantec's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was C$15,378 Mil. Stantec's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was C$612 Mil. Stantec's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 3.98%.

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

TSX:STN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.17   Med: 4.59   Max: 7.88
Current: 3.39

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Stantec was 7.88%. The lowest was 3.17%. And the median was 4.59%.

TSX:STN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
65.67% of 1768 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 6.305 vs TSX:STN: 3.39

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) %. Stantec's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 16.73%. 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.


Stantec Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Stantec Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Stantec 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 4.84 3.18 4.43 3.79 3.98

Stantec Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 3.66 3.55 3.77 3.98 3.98

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

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Stantec'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.


Stantec's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Stantec's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Stantec 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=583.1/14652.57626
=3.98 %

Stantec's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$612 Mil.



Stantec  (TSX:STN) 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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Stantec Inc is a sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting company. It offers services through the following business operating units; Environmental Services, Infrastructure, Water, Buildings, and Energy & Resources. Maximum revenue is derived from its Infrastructure business unit, which is engaged in evaluating, planning, and designing infrastructure solutions for transportation, community development, and urban spaces. The company's reportable segments are the United States, which derives maximum revenue, Canada, and Global. These segments provide consulting in engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics services in the area of infrastructure and facilities.
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Shelley Ann Marie Brown Director
Douglas Keith Ammerman Director
Marie-lucie Morin Director
Vito Culmone Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6), Senior Officer
Asifa Samji Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6), Senior Officer
Steve Marvin Fleck Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6), Senior Officer
Robert Gomes Director
Leonardo De Oliveira Castro Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6)
Michael Aloysius Kennedy Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6)
Stuart Lerner Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6), Senior Officer
John David Take Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6), Senior Officer
Ryan Roberts Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6)
Jeffrey Philip Stone Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6)
Bjorn Morisbak Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6)
Paul Jeremy David Alpern Director or Senior Officer of Insider or Subsidiary (other than in 4,5,6), Senior Officer