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BLK (BlackRock) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.80% (As of Jun. 2024)


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What is BlackRock Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

BlackRock's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was $118,309 Mil. BlackRock's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2024 was $8,044 Mil. BlackRock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 6.80%.

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

BLK' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.28   Med: 6.93   Max: 10.39
Current: 5.56

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of BlackRock was 10.39%. The lowest was 5.28%. And the median was 6.93%.

BLK's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
83.26% of 1714 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0 vs BLK: 5.56

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) %. BlackRock's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 10.82%. 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.


BlackRock Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for BlackRock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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BlackRock Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

BlackRock Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.53 6.02 5.98 6.08 6.13

BlackRock Quarterly Data
Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 6.49 7.10 6.13 6.19 6.80

Competitive Comparison of BlackRock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Asset Management subindustry, BlackRock'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.


BlackRock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, BlackRock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



BlackRock 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.

BlackRocks Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=7447/121540.3
=6.13 %

BlackRock's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $8,044 Mil.



BlackRock  (NYSE:BLK) 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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BlackRock Business Description

Industry
Address
50 Hudson Yards, New York, NY, USA, 10001
BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, with $10.646 trillion in assets under management at the end of June 2024. Its product mix is fairly diverse, with 55% of managed assets in equity strategies, 26% in fixed income, 9% in multiasset classes, 7% in money market funds, and 3% in alternatives. Passive strategies account for around two thirds of long-term AUM, with the company's ETF platform maintaining a leading market share domestically and on a global basis. Product distribution is weighted more toward institutional clients, which by our calculations account for around 80% of AUM. BlackRock is geographically diverse, with clients in more than 100 countries and more than one third of managed assets coming from investors domiciled outside the US and Canada.
Executives
Mark Wiedman officer: Senior Managing Director 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
J. Richard Kushel officer: Senior Managing Director BLACKROCK, INC., 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Laurence Fink director, officer: Chairman and CEO BLACKROCK, INC., 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Pamela Daley director C/O PATHEON N.V., HERENGRACHT 483, AMSTERDAM P7 1017 BT
Rachel Lord officer: Senior Managing Director 55 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10055
Stephen Cohen officer: Senior Managing Director 55 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10055
Christopher J. Meade officer: General Counsel and CLO BLACKROCK, INC., 55 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10055
Marc D. Comerchero officer: Principal Accounting Officer BLACKROCK, INC., 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Martin Small officer: CFO & Senior Managing Director 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Amin H. Nasser director 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Caroline Heller officer: Senior Managing Director 50 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Manish Mehta officer: Senior Managing Director 55 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10055
Mark Mccombe officer: Senior Managing Director BLACKROCK, INC., 55 EAST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10055
Robert Kapito director, officer: President 100 BELLEVUE PARKWAY, WILMINGTON DE 19809
William E Ford director 55 EAST 52ND STREET, 32ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10055