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The St. Joe Co (The St. Joe Co) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 3.21% (As of Dec. 2023)
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The St. Joe Co's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,075.1 Mil. The St. Joe Co's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $130.7 Mil. The St. Joe Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.21%.

The historical rank and industry rank for The St. Joe Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

JOE' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.17   Med: 3.39   Max: 35.08
Current: 3.42

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of The St. Joe Co was 35.08%. The lowest was -0.17%. And the median was 3.39%.

JOE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
54.66% of 1855 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 4.25 vs JOE: 3.42

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 St. Joe Co's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 17.70%. 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 St. Joe Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for The St. Joe Co'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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The St. Joe Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.81 2.72 3.44 4.09 3.21

The St. Joe 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) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.09 3.71 4.01 3.99 3.21

Competitive Comparison

For the Real Estate - Diversified subindustry, The St. Joe 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 St. Joe Co Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

* The bar in red indicates where The St. Joe Co's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



The St. Joe 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 St. Joe Cos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=130.679/4075.07996
=3.21 %

The St. Joe 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 $130.7 Mil.



The St. Joe Co  (NYSE:JOE) 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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The St. Joe Co (The St. Joe Co) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
130 Richard Jackson Boulevard, Suite 200, Panama City Beach, FL, USA, 32407
The St. Joe Co is a real estate development, asset management, and operating company and it has three operating segments; the Residential segment plans and develops residential communities and sells homesites to homebuilders or retail consumers, the Hospitality segment features a private membership club (the Watersound Club), hotel operations, food and beverage operations, golf courses, beach clubs, retail outlets, gulf-front vacation rentals, management services, marinas, and other entertainment assets, and Commercial segment include leasing of commercial property, multi-family, senior living, self-storage, and other assets and it also oversees the planning, development, entitlement, management, and sale of commercial and rural land holdings.
Executives
Fairholme Funds Inc 10 percent owner 5966 S DIXIE HWY, SUITE 300, SOUTH MIAMI FL 33143
Jorge Luis Gonzalez officer: Sr Vice President-Development 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32461
Marek Bakun officer: Chief Financial Officer 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Elizabeth J Walters officer: SVP, GC & Corporate Secretary 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32641
Rhea Goff officer: SVP & Chief Admin. Officer 133 S WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32461
Howard S Frank director
Kenneth Borick officer: SVP, General Counsel 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Cesar L Alvarez director C/O PEDIATRIX MEDICAL GROUP, LEGAL DEPT 1301- CONCORD TERRACE, SUNRISE FL 33323
Patrick Wayne Murphy officer: SVP, Operations 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Fairholme Capital Management Llc 10 percent owner 5966 S DIXIE HWY, SUITE 300, SOUTH MIAMI FL 33143
James S Hunt director 300 N. BEACH STREET, DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114
Susan D Mermer officer: Chief Accounting Officer 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Vito S Portera director 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
David Harrelson officer: Vice President, Timberland 133 SOUTH WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413
Joanne Kay Viard officer: Chief Accounting Officer 133 S. WATERSOUND PARKWAY, WATERSOUND FL 32413