What is Kindred Healthcare Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Kindred Healthcare's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2018 was $4,196 Mil.
Kindred Healthcare's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2018 was $-148 Mil. Kindred Healthcare's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2018 was -3.54%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Kindred Healthcare's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
KND's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry.
Industry Median: 2.59 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
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) %. Kindred Healthcare's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2018 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.
Kindred Healthcare Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Kindred Healthcare'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 Kindred Healthcare's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Kindred Healthcare'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.
Kindred Healthcare's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry
For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Kindred Healthcare's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Kindred Healthcare'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.
Kindred Healthcares Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2017 is calculated as
Kindred Healthcare's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-148 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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Kindred Healthcare (Kindred Healthcare) Business Description
Kindred Healthcare Inc is a healthcare-services company in the United States that operates in four divisions: hospitals, Kindred at Home, Kindred Rehabilitation Services, and nursing centers. The hospital division provides long-term acute-care services through a network of transitional-care hospitals. The Kindred at Home division provides home health and hospice care for patients in their homes, nursing centers, and other residential settings. This segment contributes the majority of the firm's total revenue. The Rehabilitation Services division provides physical and occupational therapy to residents of nursing centers, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and assisted living facilities. Kindred's nursing center division operates nursing centers and assisted-care facilities.
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