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London Stock Exchange Group (LSE:LSEG) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.47% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is London Stock Exchange Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

London Stock Exchange Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £59,777 Mil. London Stock Exchange Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was £1,476 Mil. London Stock Exchange Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.47%.

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

LSE:LSEG' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.51   Med: 3.57   Max: 8.62
Current: 2.67

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of London Stock Exchange Group was 8.62%. The lowest was 1.51%. And the median was 3.57%.

LSE:LSEG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
51.15% of 786 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 2.425 vs LSE:LSEG: 2.67

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) %. London Stock Exchange Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 22.82%. 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.


London Stock Exchange Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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London Stock Exchange Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

London Stock Exchange Group Annual Data
Trend Mar14 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 2.47 1.64 2.30 2.92 2.47

London Stock Exchange Group Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Jun15 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.30 - 2.92 - 2.47

Competitive Comparison of London Stock Exchange Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges subindustry, London Stock Exchange 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.


London Stock Exchange Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, London Stock Exchange Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



London Stock Exchange 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.

London Stock Exchange Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1476/59776.72266
=2.47 %

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.



London Stock Exchange Group  (LSE:LSEG) 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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London Stock Exchange Group (LSE:LSEG) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
10 Paternoster Square, London, GBR, EC4M 7LS
London Stock Exchange Group is a fully integrated financial exchange company covering the financial market value chain from primary and secondary markets across multiple asset classes over data, index and analytics down to clearing and post-trading reporting. With the acquisition of Refinitiv, LSEG generates about two thirds of its revenue from data and analytics including its FTSE Russell and WM/Refinitiv benchmarks as well as data feeds and terminals. The group is also a majority shareholder in Tradeweb, one of the dominant global fixed income trading venues, as well as LCH, the largest clearing house for over-the-counter swaps globally.

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