What is Vitreous Glass Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Vitreous Glass's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $25.34 Mil.
Vitreous Glass's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.29 Mil. Vitreous Glass's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 8.80%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Vitreous Glass's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
VCIGF'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 8.6 Med: 12.5 Max: 19.17
Current: 9.82
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Vitreous Glass was 19.17%. The lowest was 8.60%. And the median was 12.50%.
VCIGF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 82.4% of 250
companies
in the Waste Management industry
Industry Median: 3.875
vs VCIGF: 9.82
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) %. Vitreous Glass's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 8.53%. 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.
Vitreous Glass Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Vitreous Glass'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 Vitreous Glass's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Waste Management subindustry, Vitreous Glass'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.
Vitreous Glass's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Waste Management Industry
For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Vitreous Glass's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Vitreous Glass'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.
Vitreous Glasss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as
Vitreous Glass's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2.29 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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Vitreous Glass (Vitreous Glass) Business Description
Vitreous Glass Inc cleans, crushes, and sells waste glass to the fiberglass manufacturing industry. The company also removes the contaminates and crushes the glass to sand and then this sand is sold to fiberglass insulation manufacturers as furnace ready cullet for use in their production facilities. Its sole source of revenue is generated by providing crushed glass to its customers.
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