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The Travelers (The Travelers) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.99% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is The Travelers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

The Travelers's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $60,067 Mil. The Travelers's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $4,199 Mil. The Travelers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 6.99%.

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

TRV' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.26   Med: 9.85   Max: 15.31
Current: 7.45

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of The Travelers was 15.31%. The lowest was 5.26%. And the median was 9.85%.

TRV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
55.19% of 491 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 5.64 vs TRV: 7.45

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) %. The Travelers's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 17.14%. 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.


The Travelers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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The Travelers Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

The Travelers 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 8.48 8.67 10.85 7.41 7.37

The Travelers Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 7.49 5.83 6.05 7.37 6.99

Competitive Comparison of The Travelers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, The Travelers'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.


The Travelers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, The Travelers's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



The Travelers 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=3747/50850.818
=7.37 %

The Travelers's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4,199 Mil.



The Travelers  (NYSE:TRV) 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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The Travelers (The Travelers) Business Description

Address
485 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Travelers offers a broad product range and participates in both commercial and personal insurance lines. Its commercial operations offer a variety of coverage types for companies of any size but concentrate on serving midsize businesses. Its personal lines are roughly evenly split between auto and homeowners insurance. Travelers derives 6% of its premiums from foreign markets.
Executives
Maria Olivo officer: Executive Vice President THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC., 485 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
William H Heyman officer: Vice Chairman & CIO THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES INC, 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST PAUL MN 55102
Andy F Bessette officer: EVP and Chief Admin Officer THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC., 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Michael Frederick Klein officer: EVP & President, Personal Ins. 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Paul E. Munson officer: SVP & Corp. Controller 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Russell G. Golden director 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
David Donnay Rowland officer: EVP & Co-Chief Invest. Officer 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Avrohom J. Kess officer: Vice Chmn & Chief Legal Off 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Daniel S. Frey officer: Chief Financial Officer 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Jeffrey P. Klenk officer: EVP & Pres., Bond & Spec. Ins. 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Gregory C Toczydlowski officer: EVP & President, Business Ins. 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Diane Kurtzman officer: EVP & Chief HR Officer 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Alan D Schnitzer officer: Vice Chairman 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Daniel Tei-hwa Yin officer: EVP & Co-Chief Invest. Officer 385 WASHINGTON STREET, ST. PAUL MN 55102
Douglas K Russel officer: Controller THE TRAVELERS COMPANIES INC, ONE TOWER SQ, HARTFORD CT 06183