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Donegal Investment Group (DUB:DQ7A) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 7.21% (As of Aug. 2023)


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What is Donegal Investment Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Donegal Investment Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was €20.69 Mil. Donegal Investment Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 was €1.49 Mil. Donegal Investment Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was 7.21%.

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

DUB:DQ7A' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.22   Med: 5.04   Max: 29.98
Current: 7.87

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Donegal Investment Group was 29.98%. The lowest was -0.22%. And the median was 5.04%.

DUB:DQ7A's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
67.44% of 1947 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 4.94 vs DUB:DQ7A: 7.87

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) %. Donegal Investment Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was -17.67%. 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.


Donegal Investment Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Donegal Investment Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Donegal Investment Group Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.34 5.82 4.98 -0.28 7.21

Donegal Investment Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23
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 4.98 - -0.28 - 7.21

Competitive Comparison of Donegal Investment Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Farm Products subindustry, Donegal Investment 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.


Donegal Investment Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Donegal Investment Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Donegal Investment 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.

Donegal Investment Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1.491/20.68722
=7.21 %

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.



Donegal Investment Group  (DUB:DQ7A) 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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Donegal Investment Group (DUB:DQ7A) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Ballyraine, Co. Donegal, Letterkenny, IRL
Donegal Investment Group PLC is engaged in the development, purchase, and sale of seed potatoes and the rental and sale of property assets. Its only segment being Produce. The Group operates in three geographical segments: Ireland; Europe and the Rest of the World; generating a vast majority of its revenue within Ireland.

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