What is Great Plains Energy Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Great Plains Energy's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2018 was $0.00 Mil.
Great Plains Energy's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2018 was $452.60 Mil. Great Plains Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2018 was 4.50%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Great Plains Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
GXPPRBCL.PFD'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.7 Med: 6.8 Max: 8.5
Current: 4.48
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Great Plains Energy was 8.50%. The lowest was 3.70%. And the median was 6.80%.
GXPPRBCL.PFD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Utilities - Regulated industry.
Industry Median: 6.565
vs GXPPRBCL.PFD: 4.48
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) %. Great Plains Energy's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2018 was -3.17%. 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.
Great Plains Energy Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Great Plains Energy'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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Great Plains Energy Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Great Plains Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Utilities - Regulated Electric subindustry, Great Plains Energy'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.
Great Plains Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry
For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Great Plains Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Great Plains Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Great Plains Energy 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.
Great Plains Energys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2017 is calculated as
Great Plains Energy's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $452.60 Mil.
Great Plains Energy (NYSE:GXPPRBCL.PFD) 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.
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Great Plains Energy (Great Plains Energy) Business Description
Great Plains Energy is the holding company of Kansas City Power & Light and Greater Missouri Operations. The two regulated utilities provide electric service to roughly 900,000 customers in the Kansas City area and nearby western Missouri and eastern Kansas. The company has about 6.5 gigawatts of generating capacity. More than 80% of its electricity generation is from coal-fired plants, approximately 15% comes from its co-owned Wolf Creek nuclear plant, and the remainder is from gas, oil, and wind farms.
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