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Alleghany (Alleghany) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.02% (As of Jun. 2022)


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What is Alleghany Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Alleghany's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was $12,608 Mil. Alleghany's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $759 Mil. Alleghany's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was 6.02%.

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

Y' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.03   Med: 8.9   Max: 16.35
Current: 5.93

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Alleghany was 16.35%. The lowest was 0.03%. And the median was 8.90%.

Y's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Insurance industry.
Industry Median: 5.64 vs Y: 5.93

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) %. Alleghany's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was 28.82%. 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.


Alleghany Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alleghany'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.

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Alleghany Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Alleghany Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.22 1.34 10.15 2.50 13.77

Alleghany Quarterly Data
Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22
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 12.52 10.16 13.77 10.89 6.02

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

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Alleghany'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.


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

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

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



Alleghany 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.

Alleghanys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1515.011/10997.455615
=13.78 %

Alleghany's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $759 Mil.



Alleghany  (NYSE:Y) 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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Alleghany (Alleghany) Business Description

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Address
1411 Broadway, 34th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10018
Alleghany Corp is a property and casualty insurance company that owns and manages subsidiaries that operate reinsurance and insurance operations. The company also executes certain private capital investments. The company classifies its business into three reportable segments: reinsurance, insurance, and Alleghany Capital. These segments' underwriting activities are evaluated separately from investment and corporate activities. Reinsurance contracts are generally classified as a treaty or facultative contracts. Treaty reinsurance provides for the automatic reinsuring of all or a portion of a specified class of risk underwritten by the ceding company. Facultative reinsurance is geared toward individual risks.
Executives
Christopher Kent Dalrymple officer: VP and General Counsel C/O DARWIN PROFESSIONAL UNDERWRITERS INC 9 FARM SPRINGS ROAD FARMINGTON CT 06032
Ian H Chippendale director TRANSATLANTIC HOLDINGS, INC. 80 PINE ST NEW YORK NY 10005
Joseph Patrick Brandon officer: Executive Vice President C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018
Chris H Cheesman director C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018
Kerry J Jacobs officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018
William K Lavin director 375 PARK AVENUE SUITE 3201 NEW YORK NY 10152
John F Shannon officer: SVP, chief investment officer C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018
Phillip M Martineau director 414 EAST THIRD STREET PO BOX 1109 MUSCATINE IA 52761
Lauren M Tyler director C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION, 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10018
Jefferson Kirby director ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 7 TIMES SQUARE TOWER, 17TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10036
Rex D Adams director
Raymond Wong director C/O SPRING MOUNTAIN CAPITAL, LP 650 MADISON AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10022
James F Will director ST VINCENT COLLEGE, 300 PRASER PURCHASE RD, LATROBE PA 15650
Roger Bryce Gorham officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018
Sennott John Langton Jr officer: SVP C/O ALLEGHANY CORPORATION 1411 BROADWAY, 34TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10018

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