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Waldencast (Waldencast) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -5.74% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Waldencast Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Waldencast's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,636.8 Mil. Waldencast's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.0 Mil. Waldencast's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -5.74%.

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

WALD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -14.01   Med: -1.76   Max: 0.22
Current: -13.62

During the past 4 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Waldencast was 0.22%. The lowest was -14.01%. And the median was -1.76%.

WALD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
80.33% of 2868 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.275 vs WALD: -13.62

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) %. Waldencast's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Waldencast Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Waldencast Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Waldencast Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- 0.21 - -5.74

Waldencast Quarterly Data
Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.64 -1.63 - - -5.74

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Waldencast'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.


Waldencast's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Waldencast's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Waldencast 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.

Waldencasts Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-94.037/1636.79344
=-5.75 %

Waldencast'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 $0.0 Mil.



Waldencast  (NAS:WALD) 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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Waldencast PLC is a beauty and wellness operating platform by developing, acquiring, accelerating, and scaling the next generation of conscious, purpose-driven brands. It is organized into two reportable segments namely Obagi Skincare and Milk Makeup.

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