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DRDGold (DRDGold) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 11.93% (As of Jun. 2023)
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DRDGold's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was $784.9 Mil. DRDGold's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 was $93.7 Mil. DRDGold's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was 11.93%.

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

DRD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49   Med: 8.59   Max: 46.24
Current: 15.34

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of DRDGold was 46.24%. The lowest was 0.49%. And the median was 8.59%.

DRD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
95.94% of 2663 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: -12.22 vs DRD: 15.34

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) %. DRDGold's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was 23.68%. 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.


DRDGold Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for DRDGold'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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DRDGold Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.99 4.83 18.98 25.45 11.93

DRDGold Semi-Annual Data
Jun04 Jun05 Jun06 Jun07 Jun08 Jun09 Jun10 Jun11 Jun12 Jun13 Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.99 4.83 18.98 25.45 11.93

Competitive Comparison

For the Gold subindustry, DRDGold'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.


DRDGold Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, DRDGold's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



DRDGold 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=93.722/784.936904
=11.94 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



DRDGold  (NYSE:DRD) 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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DRDGold (DRDGold) Business Description

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Cnr 14th Avenue and Hendrik Potgieter Road, Constantia Office Park, Cycad House, Building 17, Ground Floor, Weltevreden Park, ZAF, 1709
DRDGold Ltd is a South African gold mining company engaged in surface gold tailings retreatment including exploration, extraction, processing, and smelting. It has two operating segments: the Ergo which is a surface gold retreatment operation that treats old slime dams and sand dumps to the south of Johannesburg's central the business district as well as the East and Central Rand goldfields; and the FWGR which is a surface gold retreatment operation and treats old slime dams in the West Rand goldfields. The Ergo segment derives a vast majority of the revenue.

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