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Keystone Law Group (LSE:KEYS) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.61% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Keystone Law Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Keystone Law Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was £166.21 Mil. Keystone Law Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was £10.99 Mil. Keystone Law Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 6.61%.

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

LSE:KEYS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.97   Med: 3.57   Max: 7.21
Current: 5.25

During the past 10 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Keystone Law Group was 7.21%. The lowest was 1.97%. And the median was 3.57%.

LSE:KEYS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
51.94% of 1109 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 5.48 vs LSE:KEYS: 5.25

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) %. Keystone Law Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 20.37%. 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.


Keystone Law Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Keystone Law Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Keystone Law Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Keystone Law Group Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.97 3.17 3.24 6.43 6.61

Keystone Law Group Semi-Annual Data
Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.24 - 6.43 - 6.61

Competitive Comparison of Keystone Law Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Keystone Law Group'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.


Keystone Law Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Keystone Law Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Keystone Law Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Keystone Law Group 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.

Keystone Law Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=10.993/166.208711
=6.61 %

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.



Keystone Law Group  (LSE:KEYS) 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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Keystone Law Group (LSE:KEYS) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
48 Chancery Lane, London, GBR, WC2A 1JF
Keystone Law Group PLC is a law firm. The company provides legal services to a client base comprising of small and medium enterprises and private individuals. It offers conventional legal advice in the areas including property, commercial, corporate, employment, family, litigation, and private client. It derives revenue from rendering of services and other revenue. It serves sectors such as Aviation, Education, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, High-Net-Worth Family Office, Hotels, Hospitality and Leisure, In-House Legal, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Marine and Shipping, Media, Satellite, Space and Communications, and others.