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Assured Guaranty (Assured Guaranty) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 12.94% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Assured Guaranty Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Assured Guaranty's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $5,856 Mil. Assured Guaranty's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $758 Mil. Assured Guaranty's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 12.94%.

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

AGO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.12   Med: 13.76   Max: 41.29
Current: 12.74

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Assured Guaranty was 41.29%. The lowest was 4.12%. And the median was 13.76%.

AGO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
69.04% of 491 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.58 vs AGO: 12.74

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) %. Assured Guaranty's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -8.00%. 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.


Assured Guaranty Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Assured Guaranty's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Assured Guaranty Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Assured Guaranty Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.78 13.97 10.95 4.19 12.94

Assured Guaranty Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 4.19 5.43 8.45 12.72 12.94

Competitive Comparison of Assured Guaranty's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Insurance - Specialty subindustry, Assured Guaranty'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.


Assured Guaranty's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Assured Guaranty's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Assured Guaranty's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Assured Guaranty 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.

Assured Guarantys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=758/5855.740559
=12.94 %

Assured Guaranty'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 $758 Mil.



Assured Guaranty  (NYSE:AGO) 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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Assured Guaranty (Assured Guaranty) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
30 Woodbourne Avenue, Hamilton, BMU, HM 08
Assured Guaranty Ltd. provides credit protection products to the United States and international public finance and structured finance markets, and manages assets across collateralized loan obligations as well as opportunity funds and liquid strategy funds that build on its corporate credit, asset-based finance, municipal and healthcare experience. The company is operating in two segments Insurance segment and the Asset Management segment. The majority of the revenue earned by the company is from the Insurance segment.
Executives
G Lawrence Buhl director 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, C/O ASSURED GUARANTY LTD, HAMILTON BERMUDA D0 0000
Stephen Donnarumma officer: Chief Credit Officer 30 WOODOURNE AVENUE, HAMILTON D0 HM08
Dominic Frederico director, officer: Deputy Chairman/President/CEO ACE LTD, ACE BLDG 30 WOODBOURNE AVE HAMILTON BER
Robert Bailenson officer: Chief Accounting Officer ASSURED GUARANTY LTD., 30 WOODBOURNE AVENUE, HAMILTON D0 HM08
Jorge A. Gana officer: Chief Risk Officer 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Howard Albert officer: Chief Risk Officer 31 WEST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
David A. Buzen officer: Head of Asset Management* 850 3RD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Laura Bieling officer: Chief Accounting Officer* 30 WOODBOURNE AVE., 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Holly Horn officer: Chief Surveillance Officer 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Brewer Russell B. Ii officer: Chief Surveillance Officer 31 WEST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Shea Courtney C. director 1555 N. ASTOR STREET, APARTMENT 9W, CHICAGO IL 60610
Michelle Mccloskey director C/O ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN LP, 9TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10105
Lorin Radtke director 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Thomas W Jones director ALTRIA GROUP INC, 6601 WEST BROAD STREET, RICHMOND VA 23230
Andrew T Feldstein officer: Chief Investment Officer 280 PARK AVENUE, 5TH FLOOR EAST, NEW YORK NY 10017