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Yellow Pages (TSX:Y) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 38.76% (As of Jun. 2024)


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What is Yellow Pages Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Yellow Pages's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was C$130.8 Mil. Yellow Pages's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2024 was C$50.7 Mil. Yellow Pages's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 38.76%.

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

TSX:Y' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -136.22   Med: 23.64   Max: 41.9
Current: 31.6

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Yellow Pages was 41.90%. The lowest was -136.22%. And the median was 23.64%.

TSX:Y's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
92.52% of 1056 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 1.96 vs TSX:Y: 31.60

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) %. Yellow Pages's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 32.41%. 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.


Yellow Pages Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Yellow Pages Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Yellow Pages 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 29.94 27.62 23.31 31.25 37.04

Yellow Pages Quarterly Data
Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24
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 36.10 35.46 37.04 38.31 38.76

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

For the Publishing subindustry, Yellow Pages'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.


Yellow Pages's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Yellow Pages's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Yellow Pages 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=63.435/171.439056
=37.00 %

Yellow Pages's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$50.7 Mil.



Yellow Pages  (TSX:Y) 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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Yellow Pages Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1751 Richardson Street, Suite 8.300, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3K 1G6
Yellow Pages Ltd is a media and marketing solutions company in Canada, It offers local and national businesses access to digital and print media and marketing solutions to reach consumers in all the provinces and territories of Canada.
Executives
Goldentree Asset Management Lp 10% Security Holder
Sherilyn Ann King Senior Officer
Treena Cooper Director
Franco Sciannamblo Senior Officer
Dany Paradis Senior Officer

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