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Wharf Real Estate Investment Co (HKSE:01997) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.67% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Wharf Real Estate Investment Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$120,652 Mil. Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$8,043 Mil. Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.67%.

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

HKSE:01997' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -5.19   Med: 4.26   Max: 12.18
Current: 7.57

During the past 10 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Wharf Real Estate Investment Co was 12.18%. The lowest was -5.19%. And the median was 4.26%.

HKSE:01997's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
65.19% of 1856 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 4.305 vs HKSE:01997: 7.57

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) %. Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Wharf Real Estate Investment Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Wharf Real Estate Investment Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Wharf Real Estate Investment Co 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 3.58 -3.37 3.87 -3.43 6.67

Wharf Real Estate Investment Co Semi-Annual Data
Dec14 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 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 3.87 - -3.43 - 6.67

Competitive Comparison of Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Wharf Real Estate Investment Co'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.


Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Wharf Real Estate Investment Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Wharf Real Estate Investment Co 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.

Wharf Real Estate Investment Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=8043/120652.472
=6.67 %

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.



Wharf Real Estate Investment Co  (HKSE:01997) 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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Wharf Real Estate Investment Co (HKSE:01997) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
https://www.wharfreic.com/en/investor/reports, 16th Floor, Ocean Centre, Harbour City, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKG
Wharf spun off Wharf Real Estate Investment Co in November 2017. It is a leading property investor with a focus in prime retail assets in Hong Kong. Rental income from two flagship assets Harbour City and Times Square account for around 80% of revenue. The balance is made up of The Murray hotel, a suburban mall in Plaza Hollywood, two offices in Central CBD. The group also holds two malls in Singapore and a mixed-development in Suzhou. Wharf was originally a shipping company but transformed into a property developer and investor in the 1960s by redeveloping its unused industrial assets, many located in city-center and waterfront locations. The Harbour City site was previously wharfs, and the Times Square site was a tram depot in the 1970s. Wheelock holds a 45% stake in WREIC.

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