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Waa Solar (BOM:541445) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 5.22% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Waa Solar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Waa Solar's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was ₹1,889.3 Mil. Waa Solar's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was ₹98.6 Mil. Waa Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 5.22%.

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

BOM:541445' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.81   Med: 12.5   Max: 20.8
Current: 3.26

During the past 12 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Waa Solar was 20.80%. The lowest was 2.81%. And the median was 12.50%.

BOM:541445's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
59.06% of 447 companies
in the Utilities - Independent Power Producers industry
Industry Median: 4.76 vs BOM:541445: 3.26

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) %. Waa Solar's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.35%. 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.


Waa Solar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Waa Solar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Waa Solar Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 20.66 10.41 10.80 13.09 5.22

Waa Solar Semi-Annual Data
Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24
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 10.80 - 13.09 - 5.22

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

For the Utilities - Renewable subindustry, Waa Solar'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.


Waa Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Utilities - Independent Power Producers Industry

For the Utilities - Independent Power Producers industry and Utilities sector, Waa Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Waa Solar 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.

Waa Solars Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=98.628/1889.29396
=5.22 %

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.



Waa Solar  (BOM:541445) 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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Waa Solar (BOM:541445) Business Description

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Address
Madhav House, Near Panchratna Building, Subhanpura, Vadodara, GJ, IND, 390023
Waa Solar Ltd is an Indian firm engaged in electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. The company is focused on the development of renewable energy in terms of Solar Power Generation through Ground Mounted Projects and also by undertaking Solar Rooftop Projects. Some of the projects of the company are the 10.25 MW Solar PV Power Project, 100 KW Solar PV Power Project, 10.42 MW Solar PV Power Project, and many more. It generates substantial revenue from the sale of solar power products.

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