Holcim's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $53,073 Mil.
Holcim's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $5,388 Mil. Holcim's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 10.56%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Holcim's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
HCMLF'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.86 Med: 7.49 Max: 13.9
Current: 9.37
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Holcim was 13.90%. The lowest was -0.86%. And the median was 7.49%.
HCMLF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 66.07% of 389
companies
in the Building Materials industry
Industry Median: 5.7
vs HCMLF: 9.37
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) %. Holcim's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 13.96%. 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.
Holcim Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Holcim'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 Building Materials subindustry, Holcim'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.
Holcim Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Building Materials industry and Basic Materials sector, Holcim's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Holcim'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.
Holcims Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
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.
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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Holcim is a global manufacturer of construction materials such as cement, aggregates, and concrete. The company is the result of a merger between Lafarge and Holcim, completed in 2015, which created a leader in the building materials sector. Holcim has a global presence, operating in over 70 countries with 72,000 employees.
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