What is Lennox International Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Lennox International's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $17,382 Mil.
Lennox International's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $793 Mil. Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.56%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LII'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.53 Med: 5.12 Max: 7.52
Current: 4.43
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Lennox International was 7.52%. The lowest was 3.53%. And the median was 5.12%.
LII's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 62.42% of 1695
companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 6.54
vs LII: 4.43
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) %. Lennox International's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 13.91%. 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.
Lennox International Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Lennox International Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Building Products & Equipment subindustry, Lennox International'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.
Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Construction Industry
For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lennox International's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Lennox International 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.
Lennox Internationals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Lennox International'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 $793 Mil.
Lennox International (NYSE:LII) 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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Lennox International (Lennox International) Business Description
Lennox International manufactures and distributes heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration products to replacement (75% of sales) and new construction (25% of sales) markets. In fiscal 2022, residential HVAC was 68% of sales, commercial HVAC was 19%, and refrigeration accounted for the remaining 13% of sales. The company goes to market with multiple brands, but Lennox is the company's flagship HVAC brand. The Texas-based company will be focused on North America after the sale of its European HVAC and refrigeration businesses in late 2023.
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