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Sunway Bhd (XKLS:5211) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 4.84% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Sunway Bhd Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Sunway Bhd's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was RM28,442 Mil. Sunway Bhd's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was RM1,376 Mil. Sunway Bhd's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.84%.

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

XKLS:5211' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.7   Med: 8.3   Max: 29.96
Current: 4.71

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sunway Bhd was 29.96%. The lowest was 2.70%. And the median was 8.30%.

XKLS:5211's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
60.59% of 538 companies
in the Conglomerates industry
Industry Median: 6.88 vs XKLS:5211: 4.71

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) %. Sunway Bhd's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2.69%. 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.


Sunway Bhd Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Sunway Bhd Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Sunway Bhd 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 6.41 4.08 3.45 6.61 6.49

Sunway Bhd Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 6.94 6.65 6.57 6.49 4.84

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

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Sunway Bhd'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.


Sunway Bhd's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Sunway Bhd's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Sunway Bhd 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1313.765/20263.9946
=6.48 %

Sunway Bhd's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was RM1,376 Mil.



Sunway Bhd  (XKLS:5211) 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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Sunway Bhd (XKLS:5211) Business Description

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Sunway is a Malaysian property-construction corporation with business divisions in property, construction, hospitality, retail, leisure, trading and manufacturing, building materials, healthcare, Property Investment / REIT. While based in Malaysia, Sunway has expanded its activities throughout Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. The property development division develops residential and non-residential properties, including retail, healthcare, hospitality, and leisure assets. The construction division is involved in civil engineering, industrial building systems, geotechnical solutions, machinery, and logistics. Other segments include property investment and strategic investments, which consist of trading and manufacturing, quarry, and others.

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