Carnival's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $49,868 Mil.
Carnival's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $2,407 Mil. Carnival's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 4.83%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Carnival's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
CCL'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -25.98 Med: 3.92 Max: 15.87
Current: 4.98
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Carnival was 15.87%. The lowest was -25.98%. And the median was 3.92%.
CCL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 54.34% of 852
companies
in the Travel & Leisure industry
Industry Median: 4.265
vs CCL: 4.98
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) %. Carnival's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 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.
Carnival Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Carnival's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
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Carnival Annual Data
Trend
Nov14
Nov15
Nov16
Nov17
Nov18
Nov19
Nov20
Nov21
Nov22
Nov23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
7.81
-23.04
-17.42
-10.08
4.13
Carnival Quarterly Data
May19
Aug19
Nov19
Feb20
May20
Aug20
Nov20
Feb21
May21
Aug21
Nov21
Feb22
May22
Aug22
Nov22
Feb23
May23
Aug23
Nov23
Feb24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-6.98
-3.34
0.85
4.13
4.83
Competitive Comparison
For the Travel Services subindustry, Carnival'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.
Carnival Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Carnival's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Carnival's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Carnivals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as
Carnival's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2,407 Mil.
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.
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Carnival is the largest global cruise company, with 92 ships in service at the end of fiscal 2023. Its portfolio of brands includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn in North America; P&O Cruises and Cunard Line in the United Kingdom; Aida in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe; and P&O Cruises in Australia. Carnival also owns Holland America Princess Alaska Tours in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Carnival's brands attracted nearly 13 million guests in 2019, prior to COVID-19, a level it has reached again in 2023.
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