What is Caspian Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Caspian Services's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $68.23 Mil.
Caspian Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $-30.86 Mil. Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was -45.25%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
CSSV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 6.215 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
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) %. Caspian Services's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.00%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven 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.
Caspian Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Oil & Gas Equipment & Services subindustry, Caspian Services'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.
Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Caspian Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Caspian Servicess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2015 is calculated as
Caspian Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-30.86 Mil.
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.
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Caspian Services (Caspian Services) Business Description
Caspian Services Inc provides oilfield services to oil & gas industry in Kazakhstan. The company operates in three reportable segments including Vessel operations, Geophysical services, and Marine base services. Vessel operations consist of chartering a fleet of shallow draft offshore support vessels to customers performing oil and gas exploration activities in the Caspian Sea. Geophysical services consist of providing seismic data acquisition services to oil and gas companies operating onshore in Kazakhstan. Marine base service consists of operating a marine base with a boat repair and drydocking services yard located at the port of Bautino on the North Caspian Sea. It generates the majority of the revenue from Vessel operations segment.
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