The historical rank and industry rank for Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
XZIM:FIDL.ZW'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -88.11 Med: 174.37 Max: 175.73
Current: -88.11
During the past 7 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe was 175.73%. The lowest was -88.11%. And the median was 174.37%.
XZIM:FIDL.ZW's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 96.33% of 491
companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.72
vs XZIM:FIDL.ZW: -88.11
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) %. Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 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.
Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
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Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Insurance - Life subindustry, Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe'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.
Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry
For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe 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.
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.
Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe (XZIM:FIDL.ZW) 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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Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe (XZIM:FIDL.ZW) Business Description
Fidelity Life Assurance of Zimbabwe Ltd is involved in the insurance business. The company's operating segment includes Insurance, Property Investment, Microlending, and Others. The Insurance segment of the company is involved in life assurance and pensions and the Microlending segment is involved in consumer loans, business loans, and loans to farmers. The company generates maximum revenue from the Insurance segment. Geographically, the company derives a majority of its revenue from Zimbabwe and also has a presence in Malawi.
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