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Acme United (Acme United) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 14.56% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Acme United Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Acme United's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $177.4 Mil. Acme United's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $26.2 Mil. Acme United's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 14.56%.

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

ACU' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.09   Med: 7.4   Max: 15.25
Current: 14.01

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Acme United was 15.25%. The lowest was 4.09%. And the median was 7.40%.

ACU's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
85.52% of 1947 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 4.99 vs ACU: 14.01

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) %. Acme United's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 13.59%. 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.


Acme United Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Acme United Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Acme United Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.43 7.46 9.96 4.48 14.56

Acme United Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.21 6.03 7.62 14.56 -

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

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Acme United'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.


Acme United's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Acme United's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Acme United 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=25.831/177.370272
=14.56 %

Acme United'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 $26.2 Mil.



Acme United  (AMEX:ACU) 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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Acme United (Acme United) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1 Waterview Drive, Shelton, CT, USA, 06484
Acme United Corp is a supplier of first aid and medical products and cutting technology to the school, home, office, hardware, sporting goods, and industrial markets. Its principal products sold across all segments are first aid kits and medical products, scissors, shears, knives, rulers, pencil sharpeners, and sharpening tools. The Company sells its products to mass market and e-commerce retailers, industrial distributors, wholesale, contract, and retail stationery distributors, office supply superstores, sporting goods stores, and hardware chains. The Company's reportable business segments consist of the United States, Canada, and Europe, out of which a majority of the company's revenue is derived from the United States.
Executives
Brian S Olschan director, officer: Pres, Chief Operations Officer C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Rex Lynn Davidson director 70 BATTERY PLACE #620, NEW YORK NY 10280
Paul G Driscoll officer: Vice President and CFO C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Brian Barker director 55 WALLS DRIVE, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Walter C Johnsen director, officer: See Remarks C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Ward Stevenson E Iii director C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Susan H Murphy director C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Holden Richmond Y Jr director C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
North Star Investment Management Corp. 10 percent owner 20 N. WACKER DRIVE, SUITE # 1416, CHICAGO IL 60606
Gary D Penisten director, officer: Chairman C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
R Scott Asen 10 percent owner 224 E 49TH ST, NEW YORK NY 10017
James A Benkovic officer: Vice President of Sales C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824
Stephen Jr Spinelli director THE COLONNADE RESIDENCES, 118 HUNTINGTON AVE, APT 1102, BOSTON MA 02116
Wayne R Moore director C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 1931 BLACK ROCK TURNPIKE, FAIRFIELD CT 06825
George R Dunbar director C/O ACME UNITED CORP, 60 ROUND HILL ROAD, FAIRFIELD CT 06824