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Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Lok'n Store Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Lok'n Store Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was £304.24 Mil. Lok'n Store Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was £7.94 Mil. Lok'n Store Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 0.00%.

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

LSE:LOK' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.29   Med: 3.15   Max: 6.98
Current: 1.99

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Lok'n Store Group was 6.98%. The lowest was 1.29%. And the median was 3.15%.

LSE:LOK's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
61.5% of 1857 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 4.21 vs LSE:LOK: 1.99

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) %. Lok'n Store Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 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.


Lok'n Store Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Lok'n Store Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Lok'n Store Group Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
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Lok'n Store Group Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 5.09 - 3.14 -

Competitive Comparison of Lok'n Store Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Lok'n Store 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.


Lok'n Store Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Lok'n Store Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Lok'n Store 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.

Lok'n Store Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=8.816/280.50918
=3.14 %

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.



Lok'n Store Group  (LSE:LOK) 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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Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Business Description

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Address
112 Hawley Lane, Farnborough, Hampshire, GBR, GU14 8JE
Lok'n Store Group PLC operates in the real estate industry based in the United Kingdom. Its business involves buying or leasing warehouses or industrial buildings and letting them out as self-storage units to its customers. Operating through the Self-Storage segments, the company caters to both households and business customers. Its self-storage segment accounts for the bulk of its operations with the provision of storage rooms, student storage, pallet storage, warehouse space, self-storage archiving, flexible office space, and multi-site business storage accounts.

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