Is Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation (ZWS) a Joel Greenblatt Stock?
Partial match - either cheap or high-quality, but not both.
1/5 criteria passed
+4 sector-quality lift. Top-quintile within its sector on 2 of 5 quality metrics. Raw pillar score 47 → lifted to 51 before grade derivation.
Capped from C to D. ROIC under 10% on both TTM and 5y - Greenblatt's Magic Formula explicitly screens for high ROIC; EV/EBIT over 30 means EBIT yield below ~3% - too expensive to qualify for Magic Formula What are deal-breaker caps?
Joel Greenblatt's Criteria, Applied to ZWS
EBIT/EV yield ≥ 10%
ROIC ≥ 25%
EV/EBIT ≤ 12
Gross margin ≥ 30%
How ZWS Scores on Other Strategies
Live Financial Snapshot
Market cap
$7.66B
P/E (TTM)
40.2x
ROIC (TTM)
9.49%
Gross margin
43.69%
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