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AAR (FRA:ARZ) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.93% (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is AAR Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

AAR's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was €2,384 Mil. AAR's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was €96 Mil. AAR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 3.93%.

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

FRA:ARZ' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -14.32   Med: 5.83   Max: 12.36
Current: 3.9

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of AAR was 12.36%. The lowest was -14.32%. And the median was 5.83%.

FRA:ARZ's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
66.45% of 310 companies
in the Aerospace & Defense industry
Industry Median: 2.57 vs FRA:ARZ: 3.90

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) %. AAR's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 9.21%. 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.


AAR Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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AAR Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

AAR Annual Data
Trend May14 May15 May16 May17 May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.44 4.07 4.29 5.94 6.67

AAR Quarterly Data
May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
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 6.23 6.67 4.07 3.83 3.93

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

For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, AAR'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.


AAR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry

For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, AAR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



AAR 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.

AARs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=122.728/1904.790488
=6.44 %

AAR's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €96 Mil.



AAR  (FRA:ARZ) 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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AAR (FRA:ARZ) Business Description

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Address
1100 N. Wood Dale Road, One AAR Place, Wood Dale, IL, USA, 60191
AAR Corp is engaged in providing products and services to aviation, government, and defense market. It operates in two segments namely Aviation Services and Expeditionary Services. The Aviation Services segment consists of aftermarket support and services businesses that provide spares and maintenance support for aircraft operated by it's commercial and government/defense customers. The Expeditionary Services segment consists of businesses that provide products and services supporting the movement of equipment and personnel by the U.S. Department of Defense, foreign governments, and non-governmental organizations. It generates a majority of its revenue from the Aviation Services Segment.

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