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Sainsbury (J) (Sainsbury (J)) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Sainsbury (J) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Sainsbury (J)'s Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $13,374 Mil. Sainsbury (J)'s EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $778 Mil. Sainsbury (J)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 0.00%.

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

JSNSF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.14   Med: 6.75   Max: 18.52
Current: 5.78

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sainsbury (J) was 18.52%. The lowest was 1.14%. And the median was 6.75%.

JSNSF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
54.55% of 319 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 6.25 vs JSNSF: 5.78

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) %. Sainsbury (J)'s Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 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.


Sainsbury (J) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Sainsbury (J) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Sainsbury (J) Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Feb15 Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.45 6.25 1.81 9.17 5.46

Sainsbury (J) Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
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 - 9.57 5.46 - -

Competitive Comparison of Sainsbury (J)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Sainsbury (J)'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.


Sainsbury (J)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Sainsbury (J)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Sainsbury (J) 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.

Sainsbury (J)s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Feb. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=768.116/13814.532
=5.56 %

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.



Sainsbury (J)  (OTCPK:JSNSF) 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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Sainsbury (J) (Sainsbury (J)) Business Description

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Address
33 Holborn, London, GBR, EC1N 2HT
Founded in 1869, Sainsbury's is the second-largest U.K. grocery chain with around 16% market share. It operates around 600 supermarkets and 800 convenience stores, all in the U.K. The company has diversified away from core food by selling clothing, telecom equipment, and other nonfood items. In September 2016, it took a step further into nonfood retailing with the purchase of Home Retail Group, operating the Habitat and Argos chains (general merchandise and electronics stores), for GBP 1.10 billion. It has been selling products online since 1997.

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