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Victorian Plumbing Group (LSE:VIC) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.51% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Victorian Plumbing Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Victorian Plumbing Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £244.0 Mil. Victorian Plumbing Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £15.9 Mil. Victorian Plumbing Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 6.51%.

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

LSE:VIC' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.48   Med: 6.59   Max: 21.49
Current: 7.35

During the past 6 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Victorian Plumbing Group was 21.49%. The lowest was 2.48%. And the median was 6.59%.

LSE:VIC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
64.7% of 1116 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.71 vs LSE:VIC: 7.35

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) %. Victorian Plumbing Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 24.72%. 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.


Victorian Plumbing Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Victorian Plumbing Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Victorian Plumbing Group Annual Data
Trend Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - 2.53 15.58 6.51

Victorian Plumbing Group Semi-Annual Data
Sep18 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.53 - 15.58 - 6.51

Competitive Comparison of Victorian Plumbing Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Home Improvement Retail subindustry, Victorian Plumbing 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.


Victorian Plumbing Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Victorian Plumbing Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Victorian Plumbing 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.

Victorian Plumbing Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=15.9/244.04096
=6.52 %

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.



Victorian Plumbing Group  (LSE:VIC) 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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Victorian Plumbing Group (LSE:VIC) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
22 Grimrod Place, Skelmersdale, GBR, WN8 9UU
Victorian Plumbing Group PLC is an online retailer of bathroom products and accessories, offering a one-stop-shop solution for the entire bathroom. It offers a wide range of over 24,000 products to business to customer and trade customers, with more than 125 brands across a wide spectrum of price points and it also design and develops exclusive new products in-house.

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