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Zonqing Environmental (HKSE:01855) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.45% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Zonqing Environmental Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Zonqing Environmental's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$7,538 Mil. Zonqing Environmental's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$260 Mil. Zonqing Environmental's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.45%.

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

HKSE:01855' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.66   Med: 3.76   Max: 17.46
Current: 3.14

During the past 7 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Zonqing Environmental was 17.46%. The lowest was -0.66%. And the median was 3.76%.

HKSE:01855's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
67.98% of 1699 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 6.38 vs HKSE:01855: 3.14

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) %. Zonqing Environmental's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.


Zonqing Environmental Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Zonqing Environmental Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Zonqing Environmental Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - 6.41 -1.34 3.45

Zonqing Environmental Semi-Annual Data
Dec17 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.41 - -1.34 - 3.45

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

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Zonqing Environmental'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.


Zonqing Environmental's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Zonqing Environmental's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Zonqing Environmental 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=260.085/7537.618
=3.45 %

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.



Zonqing Environmental  (HKSE:01855) 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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Zonqing Environmental (HKSE:01855) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No.5888, Fuzhi Road, 3rd Floor, Zhongqing Building, Jingyue High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Jilin Province, Changchun, CHN
Zonqing Environmental Ltd is principally engaged in landscaping, ecological restoration, and other related projects. Its business segments include Landscaping; Ecological restoration; and Others including investigation, survey, design, and technical consultancy for municipal construction projects. A majority of revenue is derived from the Landscaping segment which includes public space landscaping, theme park landscaping, private park landscaping, and maintenance projects. The group's revenue is generated in the PRC.

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