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Alamo Group (Alamo Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 7.44% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Alamo Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Alamo Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2,703 Mil. Alamo Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $201 Mil. Alamo Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 7.44%.

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

ALG' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.27   Med: 7.42   Max: 10.83
Current: 7.76

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Alamo Group was 10.83%. The lowest was 4.27%. And the median was 7.42%.

ALG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
51.43% of 210 companies
in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry
Industry Median: 7.05 vs ALG: 7.76

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) %. Alamo Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 17.54%. 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.


Alamo Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Alamo Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Alamo Group 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 5.11 5.12 6.06 7.64 7.44

Alamo Group 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 7.64 6.97 7.56 8.67 7.44

Competitive Comparison of Alamo Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, Alamo Group'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.


Alamo Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, Alamo Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Alamo Group 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=201.213/2703.408198
=7.44 %

Alamo Group'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 $201 Mil.



Alamo Group  (NYSE:ALG) 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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Alamo Group (Alamo Group) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1627 East Walnut, Seguin, TX, USA, 78155
Alamo Group Inc is engaged in the design and manufacturing of agricultural equipment and infrastructure maintenance equipment. Its products include tractor-mounted mowing and other vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, excavators, vacuum trucks, snow removal equipment, leaf collection equipment, pothole patchers, zero-turn radius mowers, agricultural implements, and related aftermarket parts. The company's reportable segments are Vegetation Management and Industrial Equipment. It generates a majority of its revenue from Vegetation Management. Geographically, the company generates majority of the revenue from the United States.
Executives
Richard Hodges Raborn officer: VP & Gen Mgr Agricultural Div 1627 E. WALNUT ST., SEGUIN TX 78155
Richard J Wehrle officer: VP and Controller 1502 EAST WALNUT, SEGIN TX 78155
Dan Edward Malone officer: EVP & CFO 1502 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Edward Rizzuti officer: VP & General Counsel 5550 SW MACADAM AVENUE, SUITE 200, PORTLAND OR 97239
Eric Etchart director ROOM F, 22F CROSS REGION PLAZA, 899 LINGLING ROAD, SHANGHAI F4 200030
Jeffery Allen Leonard other: EVP NA Industrial Div (USA) 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Robert P Bauer director 415 HOLIDAY DRIVE, PITTSBURGH PA 15220
Nina C Grooms director 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Ronald A Robinson director, officer: President & CEO 1627 EAST WALNUT, SEGUIN TX 78155
Janet S Pollock officer: VP, Human Resources 1627 E WALNUT ST., SEGUIN TX 78155
Michael A Haberman officer: EVP 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Lorie Tekorius director ONE CENTERPOINTE DRIVE, SUITE 200, LAKE OSWEGO OR 97035
Lori L Sullivan officer: VP, Internal Audit 1627 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155-5259
David W Grzelak director 1502 E WALNUT ST, SEGUIN TX 78155
Rick Parod director 2707 N 108TH STREET STE102, OMAHA NE 68164