What is Lancaster Colony Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Lancaster Colony's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $5,562 Mil.
Lancaster Colony's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $206 Mil. Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 3.71%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LANC'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.73 Med: 4.7 Max: 8.65
Current: 4.03
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Lancaster Colony was 8.65%. The lowest was 2.73%. And the median was 4.70%.
LANC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 56.2% of 1943
companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 4.91
vs LANC: 4.03
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) %. Lancaster Colony's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 3.33%. 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.
Lancaster Colony Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Lancaster Colony'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.
Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lancaster Colony's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Lancaster Colonys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as
Lancaster Colony'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 $206 Mil.
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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Lancaster Colony (Lancaster Colony) Business Description
Lancaster Colony Corp is a manufacturer and marketer of speciality food products. The company's segments include Retail and Foodservice. By product segment, the company divides its portfolio into non frozen (roughly 70% of net sales) and frozen food. The key products and brands are salad dressing and sauces (Cardini's, Girard's, Marzetti), frozen garlic breads (New York Brand Bakery, Mamma Bella), vegetable dips and fruit dips (Marzetti), frozen parkerhouse-style yeast rolls and dinner rolls (Sister Schubert's, Mary B's), premium dry egg noodles (Amish Kitchen), frozen speciality noodles (Reames, Aunt Vi's), croutons and salad toppings, flatbread wraps, and pizza crusts.
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