Fastenal Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $44,411 Mil.
Fastenal Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $1,531 Mil. Fastenal Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 3.45%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Fastenal Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
FAST'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.16 Med: 5.22 Max: 7.88
Current: 3.94
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Fastenal Co was 7.88%. The lowest was 3.16%. And the median was 5.22%.
FAST's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 76.87% of 147
companies
in the Industrial Distribution industry
Industry Median: 10.41
vs FAST: 3.94
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) %. Fastenal Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 11.17%. 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.
Fastenal Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Fastenal Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Industrial Distribution subindustry, Fastenal Co'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.
Fastenal Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Industrial Distribution industry and Industrials sector, Fastenal Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fastenal Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Fastenal Co 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.
Fastenal Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Fastenal Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,531 Mil.
Fastenal Co (NAS:FAST) 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.
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Fastenal opened its first fastener store in 1967 in Winona, Minnesota. Since then, Fastenal has greatly expanded its footprint as well as its products and services. Today, Fastenal serves its 400,000 active customers through approximately 1,600 branches, over 1,700 on-site locations, and 14 distribution centers. Since 1993, the company has added other product categories, but fasteners remain its largest category at about 30%-35% of sales. Fastenal also offers customers supply-chain solutions, such as vending and vendor-managed inventory.
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