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Avient (Avient) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.75% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Avient Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Avient's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $5,404 Mil. Avient's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $203 Mil. Avient's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.75%.

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

AVNT' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.84   Med: 5.05   Max: 11.51
Current: 3.66

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Avient was 11.51%. The lowest was 1.84%. And the median was 5.05%.

AVNT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
53.05% of 1574 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 4.205 vs AVNT: 3.66

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) %. Avient's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 9.19%. 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.


Avient Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Avient Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Avient 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 5.18 4.28 4.32 3.92 3.75

Avient 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 3.92 2.61 1.86 2.61 3.75

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

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Avient'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.


Avient's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Avient's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Avient 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=202.6/5403.984
=3.75 %

Avient'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 $203 Mil.



Avient  (NYSE:AVNT) 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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Avient (Avient) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
33587 Walker Road, Avon Lake, OH, USA, 44012
Avient Corp manufactures and sells a variety of chemical and plastic-based products to designers and processors of plastics. The firm operates in three segments: Specialty Engineered Materials; Distribution; and Color, Additives, & Ink. The company's product portfolio includes concentrated color and ink blends, plastic resins, and various specialized polymer materials used in industries such as food packaging, construction, transportation, cosmetics, and healthcare. The color, additives, & ink segment and the distribution segment together generate a vast majority of revenue. More than half of the total revenue is derived from the United States.
Executives
Robert M Patterson director, officer: Chairman, President & CEO 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Joel R. Rathbun officer: SVP, Mergers & Acquisitions 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Kristen Gajewski officer: SVP & CHRO 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Lisa K. Kunkle officer: SVP Gnrl Counsel & Secretary 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Neil Green director 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Ernest Nicolas director 1201 S. 2ND STREET, MILWAUKEE WI 53204
Michael A Garratt officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Robert Vinod Purayath officer: SVP & Chief Technology Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Jamie A. Beggs officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Cathy Dodd officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
J Scott Horn officer: SVP, President Distribution 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Richard H Fearon director 1239 GERBING ROAD, AMELIA ISLAND FL 32034
Midea M. John Jr. officer: SVP, Glbl Ops & Process Imprv 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Woon Keat Moh officer: SVP, President of CAI 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Patricia Verduin director ONE CONAGRA DRIVE, OMAHA NE 68102

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