Enact Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,733 Mil.
Enact Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $903 Mil. Enact Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 19.08%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Enact Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
ACT'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 16.36 Med: 20.07 Max: 25.15
Current: 19.01
During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Enact Holdings was 25.15%. The lowest was 16.36%. And the median was 20.07%.
ACT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 79.8% of 490
companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.65
vs ACT: 19.01
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) %. Enact 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.
Enact Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Enact Holdings'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.
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Enact Holdings Annual Data
Trend
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Dec22
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-
-
20.28
22.88
19.08
Enact Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec19
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Dec22
Mar23
Jun23
Sep23
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
22.88
25.25
22.52
20.04
19.08
Competitive Comparison
For the Insurance - Specialty subindustry, Enact 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.
Enact Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Enact Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Enact Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Enact Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Enact 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 $903 Mil.
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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Enact Holdings (Enact Holdings) Business Description
Enact Holdings Inc is a private mortgage insurance company serving the United States housing finance market. The company is engaged in the business of writing and assuming residential mortgage guaranty insurance. Its product offerings include Primary mortgage insurance, which provides protection on individual loans at specified coverage percentages. Primary mortgage insurance is placed on individual loans at the time of origination and is typically delivered to the company on a loan-by-loan basis, and Pool mortgage insurance provides coverage on a finite set of individual loans identified by the pool policy.
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