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US Foods Holding (US Foods Holding) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.23% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is US Foods Holding Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

US Foods Holding's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $16,068 Mil. US Foods Holding's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,002 Mil. US Foods Holding's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.23%.

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

USFD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.44   Med: 4.64   Max: 8.76
Current: 5.71

During the past 12 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of US Foods Holding was 8.76%. The lowest was -0.44%. And the median was 4.64%.

USFD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
54.23% of 319 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 6.25 vs USFD: 5.71

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) %. US Foods Holding's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 8.51%. 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.


US Foods Holding Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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US Foods Holding Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

US Foods Holding 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 4.88 -0.42 3.13 4.64 6.23

US Foods Holding Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 4.64 5.58 6.05 6.45 6.23

Competitive Comparison of US Foods Holding's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Food Distribution subindustry, US Foods Holding'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.


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

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

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



US Foods Holding 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.

US Foods Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1002/16067.532
=6.24 %

US Foods Holding'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 $1,002 Mil.



US Foods Holding  (NYSE:USFD) 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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US Foods Holding (US Foods Holding) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
9399 West Higgins Road, Suite 100, Rosemont, IL, USA, 60018
us Foods is the second-largest U.S. food service distributor behind Sysco, holding 11% market share of the highly fragmented food service distribution industry. us Foods distributes more than 400,000 food and nonfood products to the healthcare and hospitality industries (collectively 22% of 2021 sales), restaurants (61%), and education, government facilities, and grocers (17%). In addition to its delivery business, the firm has 80 cash-and- carry stores under the Chef'Store banner. After Sysco's attempt to purchase us Foods failed to gain federal approval in 2015, us Foods entered the public market via an initial public offering.
Executives
Scott D. Ferguson director 250 WEST 55TH STREET, 34TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Poe David L Jr officer: EVP, Chief Merchant 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., SUITE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
Martha Ha officer: EVP, General Counsel 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., SUITE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
James D Sturgell officer: EVP, Chief Commercial Officer 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., SUITE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
Randy J Taylor officer: EVP, Field Operations 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., SUITE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
Steven Guberman officer: Chief Merchandising Officer C/O US FOODS HOLDING CORP., 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., STE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
Andrew E. Iacobucci officer: Chief Merchandising Officer C/O US FOODS HOLDING CORP., 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., ROSEMONT IL 60018
Kkr Group Co. Inc. 10 percent owner 30 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Kkr Fresh Holdings L.p. 10 percent owner C/O KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P., 30 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Kkr Group Partnership L.p. 10 percent owner C/O KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS & CO. L.P., 30 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Sunil Gupta director C/O US FOODS HOLDING CORP., 9399 W HIGGINS RD, SUITE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
Jay Kvasnicka officer: See Remarks C/O US FOODS HOLDING CORP., 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., STE 100, ROSEMONT IL 60018
David E Flitman officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O NALCO COMPANY, 1601 WEST DIEHL ROAD, NAPERVILLE IL 60563
Works James David Jr officer: EVP & CHRO 4001 RODNEY PARHAM RD, LITTLE ROCK AR 72212
Dirk J. Locascio officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O US FOODS HOLDING CORP., 9399 W. HIGGINS RD., ROSEMONT IL 60018