What is Essential Utilities Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Essential Utilities's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $17,291 Mil.
Essential Utilities's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $715 Mil. Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.14%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
WTRG'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.08 Med: 3.99 Max: 5.59
Current: 4.19
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Essential Utilities was 5.59%. The lowest was 2.08%. And the median was 3.99%.
WTRG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 73.42% of 523
companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 6.86
vs WTRG: 4.19
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) %. Essential Utilities's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 12.77%. 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.
Essential Utilities Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Essential Utilities'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.
Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry
For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Essential Utilities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Essential Utilitiess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Essential Utilities'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 $715 Mil.
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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Essential Utilities (Essential Utilities) Business Description
Essential Utilities is a Pennsylvania-based holding company for U.S. water, wastewater, and natural gas distribution utilities. The company's water business serves 3 million people in eight states. Nearly three fourths of its water earnings come from Pennsylvania, primarily suburban Philadelphia. Its Peoples subsidiary serves more than 700,000 gas distribution customers in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Essential exited its noncore competitive water and energy services businesses.
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