What is Wacker Chemie AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Wacker Chemie AG's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €5,929 Mil.
Wacker Chemie AG's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was €460 Mil. Wacker Chemie AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 7.74%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Wacker Chemie AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
WBO:WCH'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -24.04 Med: 7.7 Max: 31.93
Current: 8.9
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Wacker Chemie AG was 31.93%. The lowest was -24.04%. And the median was 7.70%.
WBO:WCH's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 78.7% of 1573
companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 3.91
vs WBO:WCH: 8.90
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) %. Wacker Chemie AG's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 17.96%. 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.
Wacker Chemie AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Wacker Chemie AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Wacker Chemie AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Wacker Chemie AG'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.
Wacker Chemie AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Chemicals Industry
For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Wacker Chemie AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Wacker Chemie AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Wacker Chemie AG 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.
Wacker Chemie AGs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.
Wacker Chemie AG (WBO:WCH) 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.
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Wacker Chemie AG manufactures and sells chemicals and silicon-based products. The firm organizes itself into four segments based on product type. The Wacker Silicones segment, which generates the most revenue of any segment, sells silicon- and methanol-based products, including durable insulators, lubricants, and sealants. The Wacker Polymers segment provides chemical binders and additives used in construction industry products. The Wacker Biosolutions segment sells chemicals to the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. The Wacker Polysilicon segment sells material for solar power and semiconductors. The majority of revenue comes from Europe, China, India, and South Korea.
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