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Designer Brands (Designer Brands) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 4.30% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Designer Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Designer Brands's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $1,684 Mil. Designer Brands's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $72 Mil. Designer Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 4.30%.

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

DBI' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -34.3   Med: 8.06   Max: 20.12
Current: 4.21

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Designer Brands was 20.12%. The lowest was -34.30%. And the median was 8.06%.

DBI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
52.39% of 1088 companies
in the Manufacturing - Apparel & Accessories industry
Industry Median: 4.505 vs DBI: 4.21

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) %. Designer Brands's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 0.00%. 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.


Designer Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Designer Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Designer Brands Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.96 -28.09 10.72 10.24 4.30

Designer Brands 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) % 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 10.24 9.03 8.22 6.32 4.30

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

For the Footwear & Accessories subindustry, Designer Brands'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.


Designer Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Manufacturing - Apparel & Accessories Industry

For the Manufacturing - Apparel & Accessories industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Designer Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Designer Brands 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.

Designer Brandss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=72.368/1684.308109
=4.30 %

Designer Brands'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 $72 Mil.



Designer Brands  (NYSE:DBI) 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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Designer Brands (Designer Brands) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
810 DSW Drive, Columbus, OH, USA, 43219
Designer Brands Inc is a designer, producer and retailer of footwear and accessories. The company operates in three reportable segments: the U.S. Retail segment, the Canada Retail segment, and the Brand Portfolio segment. The U.S. Retail segment operates the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse banner through its direct-to-consumer U.S. stores and e-commerce site. The Canada Retail segment operates The Shoe Company and DSW banners through its direct-to-consumer Canada stores and e-commerce sites. The Brand Portfolio segment earns revenue from the sale of wholesale products to retailers, commissions for serving retailers as the design and buying agent for products under private labels and the sale of branded products through its direct-to-consumer e-commerce site at www.vincecamuto.com.
Executives
Deborah L Ferree officer: Pres. & Chief Mdsing Officer 4150 EAST FIFTH AVE., COLUMBUS OH 43219
Mark Haley officer: SVP, Controller & PAO 4055 TECHNOLOGY FOREST BLVD., STE. 210, THE WOODLANDS TX 77381
William L Jordan officer: SVP, General Counsel 810 DSW DRIVE, COLUMBUS OH 43219
James S. Weinberg officer: EVP; Chief Merchandising Ofcr 810 DSW DR,, COLUMBUS OH 43219
Jared A. Poff officer: SVP, Finance & Interim CFO DSW INC., 810 DSW DRIVE, COLUMBUS OH 43219
Mary Turner officer: EVP; President, Shoe Company 810 DSW DRIVE, COLUMBUS OH 43219
Harvey L Sonnenberg other: Director Nominee 399 THORNALL STREET, EDISON NJ 08837
Laura Denk officer: EVP;Pres DSW Designer ShoeWhse 810 DSW DRIVE, COLUMBUS OH 43219
Tami Fersko director 810 DSW DRIVE, COLUMBUS OH 43219
Richard A. Paul director 80 PINE STREET, SUITE 3202, NEW YORK NY 10005
Joanne Zaiac director DSW INC., 810 DSW DRIVE, COLUMBUS OH 43219
Joanna T Lau director 30 MONUMENT SQUARE, SUITE 220, CONCORD MA 01742
Douglas M. Howe officer: EVP, President of DSW N56 W17000 RIDGEWOOD DRIVE, MENOMONEE FALLS WI 53051-5660
Jay L Schottenstein director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman and CEO 1800 MOLER ROAD, COLUMBUS OH 43207
Joseph A. Schottenstein director 4300 EAST FIFTH AVENUE, COLUMBUS OH 43219