What is Federal Signal Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Federal Signal's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $5,430 Mil.
Federal Signal's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $237 Mil. Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.37%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
FSS'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.81 Med: 5.96 Max: 13.72
Current: 4.52
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Federal Signal was 13.72%. The lowest was 3.81%. And the median was 5.96%.
FSS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 52.07% of 3040
companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 4.28
vs FSS: 4.52
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) %. Federal Signal's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 11.07%. 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.
Federal Signal Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Federal Signal Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Federal Signal'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.
Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Federal Signal's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Federal Signal 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.
Federal Signals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Federal Signal'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 $237 Mil.
Federal Signal (NYSE:FSS) 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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Federal Signal (Federal Signal) Business Description
Federal Signal Corp designs and manufactures products and integrated solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial, and airport customers. It operates in the segments of Environmental Solutions Group and the Safety and Security Systems Group. The Environmental solutions group manufactures and supplies street sweeper vehicles, sewer cleaner and vacuum loader trucks, hydro-excavation trucks, high-performance waterblasting equipment, dump truck bodies and trailers. The Safety and Security Systems Group offers comprehensive systems and products such as campus and community alerting, emergency vehicles, first responder interoperable communications, and others. The company generates a majority of its revenue from the Environmental Solutions Group segment.
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