What is Walmart Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Walmart's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $501,805 Mil.
Walmart's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $24,531 Mil. Walmart's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 4.89%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Walmart's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
WMT'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.97 Med: 5.67 Max: 11.26
Current: 4.6
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Walmart was 11.26%. The lowest was 2.97%. And the median was 5.67%.
WMT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 62.7% of 319
companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 6.25
vs WMT: 4.60
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) %. Walmart's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 6.66%. 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.
Walmart Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Walmart'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.
Competitive Comparison of Walmart's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart'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.
Walmart's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry
For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Walmart's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Walmart'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.
Walmarts Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as
Walmart's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $24,531 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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Walmart serves as the preeminent retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,700 stores in the United States (5,300 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 stores globally. Walmart generated over $420 billion in domestic namesake sales last year, with Sam's Club contributing another $84 billion to the firm's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $100 billion in sales. The company serves around 240 million customers globally each week.
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