What is Lithia Motors Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Lithia Motors's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $22,165 Mil.
Lithia Motors's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $1,556 Mil. Lithia Motors's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 7.02%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Lithia Motors's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LAD'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.16 Med: 7.52 Max: 16.15
Current: 6.84
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Lithia Motors was 16.15%. The lowest was 5.16%. And the median was 7.52%.
LAD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 54.5% of 1312
companies
in the Vehicles & Parts industry
Industry Median: 5.775
vs LAD: 6.84
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) %. Lithia Motors's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 21.59%. 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.
Lithia Motors Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Lithia Motors'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.
Competitive Comparison of Lithia Motors's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Auto & Truck Dealerships subindustry, Lithia Motors'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.
Lithia Motors's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry
For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Lithia Motors's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lithia Motors's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Lithia Motorss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Lithia Motors's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,556 Mil.
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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Lithia Motors is a retailer of new and used vehicles and related services. The company offers over 50 brands of vehicles at nearly 500 stores globally across the US, Canada, and UK. The company has expanded largely through the acquisition of dealerships in smaller regional markets but now seeks to grow in any part of the US and we expect more deals over time in the US and, at times, abroad. Annual revenue in 2023 was $31 billion and we see over $50 billion possible in a few years. The US was 90% of 2023 revenue and the UK second at 6%, the latter should rise to around 20% with the 2024 Pendragon acquisition. In 2023, new-car sales were about 49% of total revenue. Lithia was founded in 1946, went public in 1996, and is the largest US auto dealer. It is based in Medford, Oregon.
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