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Carreras (XJAM:CAR) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 12.80% (As of Mar. 2023)


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What is Carreras Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Carreras's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was JMD38,100 Mil. Carreras's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2023 was JMD4,876 Mil. Carreras's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was 12.80%.

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

XJAM:CAR' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 7.95   Med: 12.8   Max: 62.56
Current: 11.43

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Carreras was 62.56%. The lowest was 7.95%. And the median was 12.80%.

XJAM:CAR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
67.27% of 55 companies
in the Tobacco Products industry
Industry Median: 5.37 vs XJAM:CAR: 11.43

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) %. Carreras's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was 12.02%. 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.


Carreras Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Carreras Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Carreras Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.27 15.77 12.39 12.99 12.80

Carreras Semi-Annual Data
Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
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 10.27 15.77 12.39 12.99 12.80

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

For the Tobacco subindustry, Carreras'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.


Carreras's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Tobacco Products Industry

For the Tobacco Products industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Carreras's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Carreras 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.

Carrerass Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=4875.897/38099.895
=12.80 %

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.



Carreras  (XJAM:CAR) 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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Carreras (XJAM:CAR) Business Description

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Address
13A Ripon Road, Kingston, JAM, 5
Carreras Ltd is a marketer and distributor of cigarettes and tobacco-related products in Jamaica. The company markets and distributes various brands of cigarettes including Craven A and Matterhorn. The group's activities are limited to the distribution of cigarettes to Jamaican consumers, operating in a single segment.