The historical rank and industry rank for KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
KBSR'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.28 Med: 0.93 Max: 7.77
Current: -1.97
During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III was 7.77%. The lowest was -3.28%. And the median was 0.93%.
KBSR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 87.18% of 897
companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 2.78
vs KBSR: -1.97
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) %. KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -8.63%. 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.
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
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KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the REIT - Office subindustry, KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III'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.
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the REITs Industry
For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III 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.
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-37.1 Mil.
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III (OTCPK:KBSR) 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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KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III (KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III) Business Description
KBS Real Estate Investment Trust III Inc is a real estate investment trust. The company invests in a diverse portfolio of real estate properties. It holds investments in office properties and mixed-use office/retail properties. The investment objective is to preserve and return stockholders capital contributions and to provide the stockholders with attractive and stable cash distributions.
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