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Veralto (Veralto) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 4.64% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Veralto Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Veralto's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $23,686 Mil. Veralto's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $1,098 Mil. Veralto's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.64%.

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

VLTO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.17   Med: 5.01   Max: 5.92
Current: 4.2

During the past 4 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Veralto was 5.92%. The lowest was 4.17%. And the median was 5.01%.

VLTO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
50.07% of 3046 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 4.21 vs VLTO: 4.20

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) %. Veralto's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 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.


Veralto Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Veralto Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Veralto Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - 5.05

Veralto Quarterly Data
Dec20 Dec21 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - - 4.87 5.05 4.64

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

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Veralto'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.


Veralto's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Veralto's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Veralto 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1126/22289.864
=5.05 %

Veralto'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 $1,098 Mil.



Veralto  (NYSE:VLTO) 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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Veralto (Veralto) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
c/o Danaher Corporation, Suite 800W, 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W, Washington DC, WA, USA, 20037
Veralto Corp is company which is a global provider of essential technology solutions that safeguard many of the world's most vital resources. The company operates in two segments such as Water Quality and Product Quality & Innovation. Through WQ segment they improve the quality and reliability of water through leading brands including Hach, Trojan Technologies and ChemTreat. Through PQI segment they promote consumer trust in products and help enable product innovation through leading brands including Videojet, Linx, Esko, X-Rite and Pantone.
Executives
Melissa Aquino officer: SVP, Water Quality 3100 SANDERS ROAD, SUITE 301, NORTHBROOK IL 60062
Sameer Ralhan officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer C/O THE CHEMOURS COMPANY, 1007 MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON DE 19899
Surekha Trivedi officer: SVP, Strategy & Sustainability C/O VERALTO CORPORATION, 225 WYMAN STREET, SUITE 250, WALTHAM MA 02451
Mattias Bystrom officer: SVP-Prod. Quality & Innovation C/O VERALTO CORPORATION, 225 WYMAN STREET, SUITE 250, WALTHAM MA 02451
Lesley Beneteau officer: SVP, Human Resources C/O VERALTO CORPORATION, 225 WYMAN STREET, SUITE 250, WALTHAM MA 02451
Cindy L. Wallis-lage director C/O COMFORT SYSTEMS USA, INC., 675 BERING DRIVE, SUITE 400, HOUSTON TX 77057
Bernard M Skeete officer: VP, Chief Accounting Officer C/O TRINSEO S.A., 1000 CHESTERBROOK BLVD., SUITE 300, BERWYN PA 19312
Sylvia Ann Stein officer: SVP, General Counsel 1500 DEKOVEN AVE., RACINE WI 53403
Shyam Kambeyanda director 2711 CENTERVILLE ROAD, SUITE 400, WILMINGTON DE 19808
Thomas L Williams director 6035 PARKLAND BOULEVARD, CLEVELAND OH 44124
Heath A Mitts director 1925 WEST FIELD COURT, SUITE 200, LAKE FOREST IL 60045
Francoise Colpron director SEALED AIR CORPORATION, 2415 CASCADE POINTE BOUVELVARD, CHARLOTTE NC 28208
William King director 2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW, SUITE 800W, WASHINGTON DC 20037
Walter G Lohr director DANAHER CORP, 2099 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW 12TH FL, WASHINGTON DC 20006
Daniel L Comas director DANAHER CORP, 2099 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW 12TH FL, WASHINGTON DC 20006