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Knowledge Tower Trading Co (SAU:9551) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Knowledge Tower Trading Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was ﷼144.20 Mil. Knowledge Tower Trading Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was ﷼5.03 Mil. Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.00%.

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

SAU:9551' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.99   Med: 5.02   Max: 6.45
Current: 5.15

During the past 3 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Knowledge Tower Trading Co was 6.45%. The lowest was 2.99%. And the median was 5.02%.

SAU:9551's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
51.66% of 1115 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.9 vs SAU:9551: 5.15

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) %. Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 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.


Knowledge Tower Trading Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Knowledge Tower Trading Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Knowledge Tower Trading Co Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - 4.96

Knowledge Tower Trading Co Semi-Annual Data
Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - - 4.96 -

Competitive Comparison of Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Knowledge Tower Trading Co'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.


Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Knowledge Tower Trading Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Knowledge Tower Trading Co 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.

Knowledge Tower Trading Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=6.021/121.37
=4.96 %

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.



Knowledge Tower Trading Co  (SAU:9551) 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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Knowledge Tower Trading Co (SAU:9551) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Ibn Yaqout Al-Hamawi Road, Al-Muraikbat District, Dammam, SAU, 7222 -32253
Knowledge Tower Trading Co is engaged in marketing and selling educational books for schools, universities, training institutes, and government educational institutions, developing educational programs for schools, providing electronic educational platforms, providing modern educational resources for training, and designing educational models.

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