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Highway Holdings (Highway Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -33.56% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Highway Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Highway Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.25 Mil. Highway Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-1.43 Mil. Highway Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -33.56%.

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

HIHO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -259.81   Med: 15.57   Max: 1013.77
Current: -30.4

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Highway Holdings was 1013.77%. The lowest was -259.81%. And the median was 15.57%.

HIHO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
95.88% of 3037 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 4.41 vs HIHO: -30.40

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) %. Highway Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Highway Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Highway Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Highway Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -19.84 36.23 -6.67 10.31 -13.81

Highway Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Dec23
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 23.64 21.41 -13.81 -23.26 -33.56

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

For the Metal Fabrication subindustry, Highway Holdings'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.


Highway Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Highway Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Highway Holdings 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.

Highway Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-0.477/3.4521128
=-13.82 %

Highway Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-1.43 Mil.



Highway Holdings  (NAS:HIHO) 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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Highway Holdings (Highway Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Level 18, Landmark North 39 Lung Sum Avenue, Suite No.1801, Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong, HKG
Highway Holdings Ltd is a holding company. The company is a manufacturer of metal, plastic, electric and electronic components for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and contract manufacturers. Its operating segment includes Metal stamping and mechanical OEM and Electric OEM. The metal stamping segment focuses on the manufacturing and sale of metal parts and components. The company generates maximum revenue from the Metal stamping and mechanical OEM segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Europe and also has a presence in Hong Kong and China, North America, and Other Asian countries.
Executives
Zeff Capital, Lp 10 percent owner 400 S. MCCADDEN PL., LOS ANGELES CA 90020

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