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Link Holdings (HKSE:08237) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -13.44% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Link Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Link Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$418.44 Mil. Link Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was HK$-53.78 Mil. Link Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -13.44%.

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

HKSE:08237' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -238.83   Med: 0.12   Max: 10.5
Current: -12.64

During the past 11 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Link Holdings was 10.50%. The lowest was -238.83%. And the median was 0.12%.

HKSE:08237's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
89.67% of 852 companies
in the Travel & Leisure industry
Industry Median: 4.605 vs HKSE:08237: -12.64

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) %. Link Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Link Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Link Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Link Holdings 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 -13.61 -8.24 -25.97 -9.86 -13.44

Link Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -9.86 -38.02 -16.56 -68.49 -13.44

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

For the Lodging subindustry, Link Holdings'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.


Link Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Link Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Link Holdings 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-56.278/418.441
=-13.45 %

Link Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was HK$-53.78 Mil.



Link Holdings  (HKSE:08237) 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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Link Holdings (HKSE:08237) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
No.168-200 Connaught Road Central, Room 3503, 35th Floor West Tower of Shun Tak Centre, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, HKG
Link Holdings Ltd is an investment holding company. It is engaged in the operation of hotel services and properties investment in the Southeast Asia region. The group's reportable segments are on the basis of the geographical locations which are Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and the PRC. The majority of the company's revenue is generated from Singapore. The group carries the Operation of hotel business in Singapore, Indonesia and Japan. and Distressed debt asset management business in the PRC.
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