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Securitas AB (Securitas AB) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 5.61% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Securitas AB Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Securitas AB's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $9,350 Mil. Securitas AB's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $486 Mil. Securitas AB's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 5.61%.

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

SCTBF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.79   Med: 6.73   Max: 10.34
Current: 5.26

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Securitas AB was 10.34%. The lowest was 4.79%. And the median was 6.73%.

SCTBF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
52.25% of 1110 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 5.645 vs SCTBF: 5.26

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) %. Securitas AB's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 19.96%. 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.


Securitas AB Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Securitas AB Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Securitas AB 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 6.81 6.10 7.61 7.34 5.61

Securitas AB 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 7.34 7.63 8.38 9.00 5.61

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

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Securitas AB'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.


Securitas AB's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Securitas AB's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Securitas AB 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=519.81/9349.9895
=5.56 %

Securitas AB'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 $486 Mil.



Securitas AB  (OTCPK:SCTBF) 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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Securitas AB (Securitas AB) Business Description

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Lindhagensplan 70, PO Box 12307, Stockholm, SWE, SE-102 28
Securitas is an international security services, consulting, and investigation group based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its primary activities are centered on manned security, mobile security, monitoring, and risk assessment. Securitas operates in more than 50 countries and is the second-largest security firm in the world and the largest in manned guarding.

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