Graham vs. Greenblatt (Session 4) Buy some cheap earnings

In our last post we looked at Greenblatt’s use of Return on Capital as a means of identifying quality companies that know how to turn a small investment into a substantial return. In this posting we will look at his next criteria earnings yield.

What is it?

What does it tell us?

EBIT is defined as Earning before Interest and Tax, as we discussed in the last posting that works out to the raw income flowing into the company.

Enterprise Value is defined as market capitalization – cash and cash equivalents + preferred stock + debt
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Graham vs. Greenblatt (Session 1)

Graham passed away in September 21, 1976 well before Joel Greenblatt graduated from Wharton in 1979 but a linkage between the two men’s investment theories is not difficult to find. Greenblatt during his time at Wharton went to great lengths to study the value approach that Graham had devised (there are stories that Greenblatt entered vast amounts of stock data by hand into a mainframe and then ran tests on it using Graham’s system). He saw the benefit that could be returned from purchasing companies that were inexpensive.
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