Hyster-Yale Inc. Class A common stock (HY) : juste valeur

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Hyster-Yale designs and builds lift trucks (forklifts) under the Hyster and Yale brands, plus the Nuvera fuel-cell power modules that go into them, and sells through dealers and its own channels. The case for a closer look rests on the forward multiple: at 9.5x forward earnings against a trailing P/E that is effectively zero, the market is pricing a recovery that the current numbers do not yet show. The problem is that revenue fell 15.0% in the latest period, operating margin is -6.5%, and gross margin is only 14.4%, so there is no earnings base to speak of until volumes and pricing stabilize. The near-term swing factor is whether order intake for lift trucks turns and whether cost actions take hold, and a PM should look for evidence of both in the next reporting cycle before treating the forward estimate as credible. At a 524M USD market cap with a 29/100 score and no index membership, this is a turnaround screen rather than a quality compounder, and it earns a deeper look only if the thesis rests on margin recovery in the North American and European lift truck businesses.