The historical rank and industry rank for Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
ASX:FST'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.7 Med: 7.6 Max: 14.6
Current: 6.6
During the past 4 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust was 14.60%. The lowest was 5.70%. And the median was 7.60%.
ASX:FST's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 6.48
vs ASX:FST: 6.60
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) %. Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 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.
Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
* 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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Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust Annual Data
Trend
Jun11
Jun12
Jun13
Jun14
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
14.51
6.49
8.08
7.76
Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust Semi-Annual Data
Competitive Comparison of Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Infrastructure Operations subindustry, Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust'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.
Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Construction Industry
For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust 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.
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.
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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Folkestone Social Infrastructure Trust (ASX:FST) Business Description
Australian Social Infrastructure Fund invests in income producing social infrastructure assets. Its property portfolio includes childcare facilities, a medical center and self-storage facility.
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