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DKS (Dick's Sporting Goods) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 8.57% (As of Apr. 2025)


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What is Dick's Sporting Goods Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Dick's Sporting Goods's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was $18,387 Mil. Dick's Sporting Goods's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2025 was $1,576 Mil. Dick's Sporting Goods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was 8.57%.

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

DKS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.03   Med: 10.02   Max: 18.73
Current: 7.54

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Dick's Sporting Goods was 18.73%. The lowest was 2.03%. And the median was 10.02%.

DKS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
69.87% of 1125 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.61 vs DKS: 7.54

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) %. Dick's Sporting Goods's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was 24.96%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past five 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.


Dick's Sporting Goods Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Dick's Sporting Goods Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Dick's Sporting Goods Annual Data
Trend Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.58 19.38 11.35 9.52 7.13

Dick's Sporting Goods Quarterly Data
Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25 Apr25
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 7.37 7.69 8.37 7.13 8.57

Competitive Comparison of Dick's Sporting Goods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Dick's Sporting Goods'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.


Dick's Sporting Goods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

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

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


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Dick's Sporting Goods 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.

Dick's Sporting Goodss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2025 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1572.02/22057.0315
=7.13 %

Dick's Sporting Goods's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Apr. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,576 Mil.



Dick's Sporting Goods  (NYSE:DKS) 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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Dick's Sporting Goods Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
345 Court Street, Coraopolis, PA, USA, 15108
Dick's Sporting Goods retails athletic apparel, footwear, and equipment for sports. Dick's operates digital platforms, about 720 stores under its namesake brand (including outlet stores and House of Sport), and about 130 specialty stores under the Golf Galaxy and other nameplates. Dick's carries private-label merchandise and national brands such as Nike, The North Face, Under Armour, Callaway Golf, and TaylorMade. Based in the Pittsburgh area, Dick's was founded in 1948 by the father of current executive chair and controlling shareholder Edward Stack.
Executives
Julie Lodge-jarrett officer: SVP, Chief People Officer 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Edward W Stack director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman & CEO 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Lawrence J Schorr director 200 PLAZA DRIVE, VESTAL NY 13850
Larry Jr. Fitzgerald director 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Desiree Ralls-morrison director C/O BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, 300 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC WAY, MARLBOROUGH MA 01752
William J Colombo director
Vladimir Rak officer: EVP, Chief Technology Officer 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Navdeep Gupta officer: See Remarks 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Lauren R Hobart officer: SVP & Chief Marketing Officer 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15275
Mark J Barrenechea director C/O SILICON GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CORP, 46600 LANDING PARKWAY, FREMONT CA 94538
William Colombo Trustee U/a Dtd 10/05/2020 Edward W Stack Non-grantor Trust 10 percent owner 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Robert W. Eddy director 350 CAMPUS DRIVE, MARLBOROUGH MA 01752
Sandeep Mathrani director
Hayes John Edward Iii officer: SVP, General Counsel 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108
Anne Fink director 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15108