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High Liner Foods (High Liner Foods) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 11.01% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is High Liner Foods Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

High Liner Foods's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $526 Mil. High Liner Foods's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $59 Mil. High Liner Foods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 11.01%.

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

HLNFF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.48   Med: 7.53   Max: 13.87
Current: 10.78

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of High Liner Foods was 13.87%. The lowest was 3.48%. And the median was 7.53%.

HLNFF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
78.02% of 1947 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 4.94 vs HLNFF: 10.78

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) %. High Liner Foods's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 24.73%. 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.


High Liner Foods Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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High Liner Foods Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

High Liner Foods Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.38 9.80 9.67 11.64 11.01

High Liner Foods Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 11.64 10.74 9.78 11.21 11.01

Competitive Comparison of High Liner Foods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, High Liner Foods'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.


High Liner Foods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, High Liner Foods's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



High Liner Foods 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.

High Liner Foodss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=58.799/525.710208
=11.18 %

High Liner Foods'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 $59 Mil.



High Liner Foods  (OTCPK:HLNFF) 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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High Liner Foods (High Liner Foods) Business Description

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Address
100 Battery Point, P.O. Box 910, Lunenburg, NS, CAN, B0J 2C0
High Liner Foods Inc is a Canadian company which is mainly engaged in the processing and marketing of prepared and packaged frozen seafood products. The company sells its products to institutions, health care facilities, and quick-service family and casual dining establishments. Its foodservice brands include High Liner Culinary, Mirabel, FPI, Viking, American Pride, High Liner, Fisher Boy, Sea Cuisine and others.

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