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Woolworths Group (Woolworths Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Woolworths Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Woolworths Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $39,489 Mil. Woolworths Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $599 Mil. Woolworths Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.00%.

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

WOLWF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.66   Med: 5.67   Max: 12.96
Current: 1.72

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Woolworths Group was 12.96%. The lowest was 1.66%. And the median was 5.67%.

WOLWF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
77.74% of 319 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 6.28 vs WOLWF: 1.72

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) %. Woolworths Group'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.


Woolworths Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Woolworths Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Woolworths Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Woolworths Group Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.21 3.39 3.67 3.64 3.92

Woolworths Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 - 3.64 - 3.92 -

Competitive Comparison of Woolworths Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Woolworths Group'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.


Woolworths Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Woolworths Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Woolworths Group 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1663.087/42541.59
=3.91 %

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.



Woolworths Group  (OTCPK:WOLWF) 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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Woolworths Group (Woolworths Group) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1 Woolworths Way, P.O. Box 8000, Bella Vista, Baulkham Hills, Sydney, NSW, AUS, 2153
Woolworths is Australia's largest retailer. Operations include supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand, and the Big W discount department stores. The Australian food division constitutes the majority of group EBIT, followed by New Zealand supermarkets, while Big W is a minor contributor.

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