What is Highlight Communications AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Highlight Communications AG's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was €346.7 Mil.
Highlight Communications AG's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2022 was €13.0 Mil. Highlight Communications AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was 3.79%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Highlight Communications AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
CHIX:HLGd'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.3 Med: 7.96 Max: 14.92
Current: 4.16
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Highlight Communications AG was 14.92%. The lowest was 1.30%. And the median was 7.96%.
CHIX:HLGd's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 56.63% of 1056
companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 2.88
vs CHIX:HLGd: 4.16
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) %. Highlight Communications AG's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was -6.19%. 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.
Highlight Communications AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Highlight Communications AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Highlight Communications AG Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
For the Entertainment subindustry, Highlight Communications 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.
Highlight Communications AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Highlight Communications AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Highlight Communications AG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Highlight Communications 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.
Highlight Communications AGs 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.
Highlight Communications AG (CHIX:HLGd) 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.
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Highlight Communications AG (CHIX:HLGD) Business Description
Highlight Communications AG is a Switzerland-based financial holding company. The company is a film production and license company in German-speaking countries. Its combined operating segments include Film, Sports, and Sports-and Event-Marketing. In the Film segment, the company along with its subsidiaries is a producer and distributor of cinema, video, and TV films. In addition to owning and co-producing, it acquires the exploitation rights to third-party productions. The sports segment mainly comprises activities in the TV and digital areas with the umbrella brand SPORT1 and in the area of production, content solutions services, and content marketing with PLAZAMEDIA. In the Sports- and Event-Marketing segment, the company is engaged in the marketing of international events.
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