What is The Cooper Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
The Cooper's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $21,168 Mil.
The Cooper's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $520 Mil. The Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 2.46%.
The historical rank and industry rank for The Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
COO'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.46 Med: 2.78 Max: 5.66
Current: 2.53
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of The Cooper was 5.66%. The lowest was 1.46%. And the median was 2.78%.
COO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 60.76% of 846
companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 0.205
vs COO: 2.53
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 Cooper's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 6.38%. 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 Cooper Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for The Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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The Cooper Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of The Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, The Cooper'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 Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, The Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where The Cooper's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
The Cooper 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 Coopers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as
The Cooper'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 $520 Mil.
The Cooper (NAS:COO) 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.
The Cooper Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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The Cooper Companies is one of the largest eye care companies in the U.S. It operates in two segments: CooperVision and CooperSurgical. CooperVision is a pure-play contact lens business and is composed of a suite of spherical, multifocal, and toric contact lenses. The company also has one of the most comprehensive specialty lens portfolios in the world. With brands including Proclear, Biofinity, MyDay, and clariti, Cooper controls roughly a quarter of the U.S. contact lens market. CooperSurgical, founded in 1990, is made up of equipment related to reproductive care, fertility, and women's care. Cooper has the broadest medical device coverage of the entire IVF cycle. It also has Paragard, the only hormone-free IUD in the U.S., and controls 17% of the U.S. IUD market.
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