The Walt Disney Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $210,870 Mil.
The Walt Disney Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $7,903 Mil. The Walt Disney Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.75%.
The historical rank and industry rank for The Walt Disney Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
DIS'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.77 Med: 6.74 Max: 9.13
Current: 3.19
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of The Walt Disney Co was 9.13%. The lowest was -0.77%. And the median was 6.74%.
DIS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 52.19% of 1050
companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 2.745
vs DIS: 3.19
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) %. The Walt Disney Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -6.58%. 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.
The Walt Disney Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for The Walt Disney Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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The Walt Disney Co Annual Data
Trend
Sep14
Sep15
Sep16
Sep17
Sep18
Sep19
Sep20
Sep21
Sep22
Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
5.18
-0.09
1.09
3.09
3.41
The Walt Disney Co 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) %
3.39
3.57
2.90
3.41
3.75
Competitive Comparison
For the Entertainment subindustry, The Walt Disney 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.
The Walt Disney Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, The Walt Disney Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where The Walt Disney Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
The Walt Disney 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.
The Walt Disney Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as
The Walt Disney Co'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 $7,903 Mil.
The Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) 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.
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The Walt Disney Co (The Walt Disney Co) Business Description
Disney operates in three global business segments: entertainment, sports, and experiences. Entertainment and experiences both benefit from franchises and characters the firm has created over the course of a century. Entertainment includes the ABC broadcast network, several cable television networks, and the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services. Within the segment, Disney also engages in movie and television production and distribution, with content licensed to movie theaters, other content providers, or, increasingly, kept in-house for use on Disney's own streaming platform and television networks. The sports segment houses ESPN and the ESPN+ streaming service. Experiences contains Disney's theme parks and vacation destinations, and also benefits from merchandise licensing.
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