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KION GROUP AG (WBO:KGX) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 8.22% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is KION GROUP AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

KION GROUP AG's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was €10,680 Mil. KION GROUP AG's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was €879 Mil. KION GROUP AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 8.22%.

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

WBO:KGX' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.57   Med: 7.61   Max: 81.4
Current: 8.76

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of KION GROUP AG was 81.40%. The lowest was 2.57%. And the median was 7.61%.

WBO:KGX's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
50.95% of 210 companies
in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry
Industry Median: 7.49 vs WBO:KGX: 8.76

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) %. KION GROUP AG's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 12.83%. 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.


KION GROUP AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for KION GROUP AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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KION GROUP AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

KION GROUP AG Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
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KION GROUP AG Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 3.42 3.42 6.23 6.77 8.22

Competitive Comparison of KION GROUP AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, KION GROUP AG'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.


KION GROUP AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, KION GROUP AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



KION GROUP AG 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.

KION GROUP AGs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=764.4/11325.2175
=6.75 %

KION GROUP AG's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €879 Mil.



KION GROUP AG  (WBO:KGX) 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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KION GROUP AG (WBO:KGX) Business Description

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Address
Thea-Rasche-Strasse 8, Frankfurt am Main, HE, DEU, 60549
Kion Group is the number-two forklift truck manufacturer globally, after Toyota, and the number-one global warehouse automation equipment supplier. The Germany-headquartered company gets 70% of its revenue from the sale of new forklifts and maintenance services. Another roughly 30%, and growing portion, comes from warehouse automation equipment under the Dematic division, which caters to sectors such as e-commerce, third-party logistics, and supermarkets. Kion's forklift trucks and warehouse equipment service the same end markets.

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