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The Home Depot (BUE:HD) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 5.49% (As of Jan. 2024)
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The Home Depot's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was ARS42,643,281 Mil. The Home Depot's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was ARS7,992,568 Mil. The Home Depot's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 5.49%.

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

BUE:HD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.68   Med: 6.53   Max: 8.22
Current: 5.7

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of The Home Depot was 8.22%. The lowest was 4.68%. And the median was 6.53%.

BUE:HD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
54.38% of 1118 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.82 vs BUE:HD: 5.70

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) %. The Home Depot's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 17.12%. 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.


The Home Depot Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Home Depot'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.

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The Home Depot Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.67 5.60 5.45 6.39 5.49

The Home Depot Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.39 6.77 6.08 6.79 5.49

Competitive Comparison

For the Home Improvement Retail subindustry, The Home Depot'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.


The Home Depot Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, The Home Depot's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



The Home Depot 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.

The Home Depots Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=17678375.798/42643280.57
=41.46 %

The Home Depot's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was ARS7,992,568 Mil.



The Home Depot  (BUE:HD) 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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The Home Depot (BUE:HD) Business Description

Address
2455 Paces Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30339
Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer, operating more than 2,300 warehouse-format stores offering more than 30,000 products in store and 1 million products online in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Its stores offer numerous building materials, home improvement products, lawn and garden products, and decor products and provide various services, including home improvement installation services and tool and equipment rentals. The acquisition of distributor Interline Brands in 2015 allowed Home Depot to enter the maintenance, repair, and operations business, which has been expanded through the tie-up with HD Supply (2020). Moreover, the additions of the Company Store brought textile exposure to the lineup, while Redi Carpet added multifamily flooring.

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