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Chicago, IL – June 03, 2015 - Stocks in this week’s article include: Gilead Sciences (GILD), Goodyear Tire (GT), Kraton (KRA), Aecom (ACM) and Teekay Tankers ( TNK). Kevin Matras shows why stocks with new analyst coverage are stocks you want to have.
Screen of the Week written by Kevin Matras of Zacks Investment Research:
What Is Your Stock's Earnings Yield?
With the market near its all-time highs, but with growing concerns for sell-off, investors are both excited but also a little worried about the market's next move.
People are naturally turning to valuations like the P/E ratio to gauge whether the market is undervalued or overvalued.
But I think one of the best metrics to use is the Earnings Yield.
A stock's earnings yield measures just that, the anticipated yield (or return) an investment in a stock could give you based on the earnings and the price paid for the stock.
The calculation is the inverse of the P/E ratio.
The P/E of course is the Price / Earnings
So a stock trading at a Price of $35 with Earnings of $3 has a P/E ratio of 11.67. That means it's selling at 11.67 times earnings. Another way of looking at it is you're paying $11.67 for $1 of earnings.
The Earnings Yield is calculated as Earnings / Price
Using the example above, a stock with $3 of Earnings trading at a Price of $35 ($3 / $35) has an earnings yield of 0.0857 or 8.57%. The Earnings Yield, also known as the E/P Ratio, is expressed as a percentage. So a yield of 8.57% would also mean 8.57 cents of earnings for $1 of investment.
Of course, this is all potential, because prices and earnings change.
How To Use It
The most common way people will use this ratio is to compare it to other stocks and to compare the yields to the 10 Year T-Bill.
Conventional wisdom has it that if the yield on the stock market (S&P 500 for example) is lower than the yield on the 10 Year Treasury, then stocks might be considered overvalued.
If the yield on the S&P 500 is greater than the 10 Year T-Bill, stocks would be considered undervalued.
The theory behind this is that Bonds and Stocks are competing for investors' dollars. And to attract investment interest in stocks, a higher yield needs to be paid to the stock investor for the extra risk he's assuming compared to the virtual risk-free investment offered in US backed Treasuries.
If earnings go up, the yield goes up. If earnings go down, so does the yield.
Prices also affect the yield, but they move inversely. If Prices go up, the yield goes down. And if prices go down, the yield goes up.
Forecasting Market Upturns and Downturns with the Earnings Yield
In June of 2007, the yield on the 10 Yr. T-Bill was 4.95%.
However, the earnings yield on the S&P 500 was 4.19%.
Not much of a risk premium on a risk based investment.
Remember, if the earnings yield on stocks is below the T-Bill rate, stocks are considered overvalued. (I should point out that within months, the market began to falter.)
I also happened to write about the earnings yield in March of 2009. This time, the earnings yield was high. Back then, the earnings yield on the S&P 500 using the 12 Month Projected Earnings Estimate was 9.51% compared to the 10 Yr. Treasury of 2.89%.
With yields well above the 10 Year, conventional wisdom said that stocks were 'undervalued'. Of course, they could have continued to get more undervalued. But the market was quickly bid up - resulting in one of the largest rallies we've ever seen. And it's still going.
So where is it now?
Currently, the earnings yield for the S&P is 5.90% compared to the 10 Year Treasury of 2.19%
So stocks are still the more attractive investment, assuming you're ok with the risk that comes along with it.
Screen Parameters
The screen I'm running today looks for the following:
• Price greater than or equal to $5
• Volume (Avg. 20 Day Shares) greater than or equal to 100,000
• Earnings Yield greater than or equal to 7%
(For those using the Research Wizard, the calculation looks like this:
(i642/i5)*100
That's the 12 Month Forward Looking Estimate (i642) divided by the Current Price (i5))
• 12 Month Projected Growth Rate greater than or equal to S&P 500
• Zacks Rank less than or equal to 2
Stocks
Here are 5 stocks from this week's screen:
( GILD ) Gilead Sciences
(9.13% Earnings Yield)
(GT) Goodyear Tire
(9.78% Earnings Yield)
(KRA) Kraton
(8.77% Earnings Yield)
(ACM) Aecom
(10.20% Earnings Yield)
(TNK) Teekay Tankers
(13.80% Earnings Yield)
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