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AVTR (Avantor) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 7.11% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Avantor Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Avantor's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $14,838 Mil. Avantor's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $1,056 Mil. Avantor's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 7.11%.

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

AVTR' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.57   Med: 3.32   Max: 8.8
Current: 7.95

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Avantor was 8.80%. The lowest was 1.57%. And the median was 3.32%.

AVTR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
85.33% of 859 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 0.57 vs AVTR: 7.95

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) %. Avantor's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 9.49%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past five 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.


Avantor Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Avantor Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Avantor Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 1.69 2.90 5.55 3.36 5.91

Avantor Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 2.72 3.71 2.82 5.91 7.11

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

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Avantor'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.


Avantor's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Avantor's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Avantor 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.

Avantors Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1072.7/18138.356
=5.91 %

Avantor's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,056 Mil.



Avantor  (NYSE:AVTR) 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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Avantor Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
100 Matsonford Road, Suite 200, Building One, Radnor Corporate Center, Radnor, PA, USA, 19087
Avantor Inc provider of products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. The company has three geographic segments: the Americas, Europe, and AMEA. The company's product group consists of Equipment & instrumentation, Services & specialty procurement, Proprietary materials & consumables, and Third-party materials & consumables. Materials & consumables include high-purity chemicals and reagents, lab products and supplies, specialized formulated silicone materials, customized excipients, customized single-use assemblies, process chromatography resins and columns, analytical sample prep kits, and education and microbiology and clinical trial kits, peristaltic pumps and fluid handling tips.
Executives
Gregory L Summe director C/O GLEN CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC, 800 SOUTH STREET, SUITE 160, WALTHAM MA 02453
Joseph R Massaro director 5725 DELPHI DRIVE, TROY MI 48098
Jonathan M Peacock director ONE AMGEN CENTER DRIVE, THOUSAND OAKS CA 91320-1799
Lan Kang director 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087
James Bramwell officer: EVP, Strategic Partners C/O AVANTOR, INC., 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087
Steven W Eck officer: SVP & Chief Accounting Officer C/O CSS INDUSTRIES, INC., 450 PLYMOUTH ROAD, SUITE 300, PLYMOUTH MEETING PA 19462
Christophe Couturier officer: See Remarks 9 FOURTH AVENUE, C/O OVASCIENCE INC., CAMBRIDGE MA 02451
Benoit Gourdier officer: EVP, Biopharma Production 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087
Frederic Vanderhaegen officer: EVP, Europe C/O AVANTOR, INC., 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087
Brittany Hankamer officer: EVP, Chief HR Officer 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087
R. Brent Jones officer: EVP, Chief Financial Officer C/O PALL CORPORATION, 25 HARBOR PARK DRIVE, PORT WASHINGTON NY 11050
Claudius Sokenu officer: EVP, Chief Legal & Compliance C/O UNISYS CORPORATION, 801 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, BLUE BELL PA 19422
Randy Lee Stone officer: EVP, Proprietary Products 974 CENTRE ROAD, CRP 730, WILMINGTON DE 19805
Gerard Brophy officer: EVP, Biopharma Production C/O AVANTOR, INC., 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087
Kitty Sahin officer: EVP, Strategy&Corp Development 100 MATSONFORD ROAD, RADNOR PA 19087