Buffalo Wild Wings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was $2,038 Mil.
Buffalo Wild Wings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 was $100 Mil. Buffalo Wild Wings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was 4.89%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Buffalo Wild Wings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
BWLD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Restaurants industry.
Industry Median: 3.5 * 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) %. Buffalo Wild Wings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was 20.29%. 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.
Buffalo Wild Wings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Buffalo Wild Wings'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.
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Buffalo Wild Wings Annual Data
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Dec07
Dec08
Dec09
Dec10
Dec11
Dec12
Dec13
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
6.23
3.73
4.10
4.48
4.84
Buffalo Wild Wings Quarterly Data
Dec12
Mar13
Jun13
Sep13
Dec13
Mar14
Jun14
Sep14
Dec14
Mar15
Jun15
Sep15
Dec15
Mar16
Jun16
Sep16
Dec16
Mar17
Jun17
Sep17
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
5.60
4.84
4.39
4.39
4.89
Competitive Comparison
For the Restaurants subindustry, Buffalo Wild Wings'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.
Buffalo Wild Wings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Buffalo Wild Wings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Buffalo Wild Wings'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.
Buffalo Wild Wingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as
Buffalo Wild Wings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $100 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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Buffalo Wild Wings (Buffalo Wild Wings) Business Description
Buffalo Wild Wings operates and franchises restaurants under the names Buffalo Wild Wings, R Taco, and PizzaRev. The Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants, which provide the vast majority of company revenue, have sports-bar atmospheres and feature Buffalo-style chicken wings. The restaurants are designed for group gatherings and feature projection screens and dozens of televisions. About half of the company's restaurants are franchised. The company has a centralized supply chain that serves all company-owned and franchised restaurants. The majority of its restaurants are in the United States, but the company has a small presence in Canada and Mexico and is expanding to the Middle East and Asia.
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