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Clean Energy Fuels (Clean Energy Fuels) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -8.10% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Clean Energy Fuels Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Clean Energy Fuels's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $958.5 Mil. Clean Energy Fuels's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-77.6 Mil. Clean Energy Fuels's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -8.10%.

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

CLNE' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -31.68   Med: -4.07   Max: 12.52
Current: -12.92

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Clean Energy Fuels was 12.52%. The lowest was -31.68%. And the median was -4.07%.

CLNE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
84.23% of 1091 companies
in the Oil & Gas industry
Industry Median: 6.56 vs CLNE: -12.92

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) %. Clean Energy Fuels'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.


Clean Energy Fuels Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Clean Energy Fuels Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Clean Energy Fuels 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 4.30 -0.25 -7.30 -4.81 -8.10

Clean Energy Fuels Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -4.81 -6.83 -5.80 -8.73 -8.10

Competitive Comparison of Clean Energy Fuels's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing subindustry, Clean Energy Fuels'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.


Clean Energy Fuels's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Clean Energy Fuels's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Clean Energy Fuels 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-77.597/958.45041
=-8.10 %

Clean Energy Fuels'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 $-77.6 Mil.



Clean Energy Fuels  (NAS:CLNE) 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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Clean Energy Fuels (Clean Energy Fuels) Business Description

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Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
4675 MacArthur Court, Suite 800, Newport Beach, CA, USA, 92660
Clean Energy Fuels Corp is a natural gas marketer and retailer operating in the United States and Canada. The company supplies compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and renewable natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicles. The majority of revenue is generated within the U.S. and mostly consists of compressed natural gas. The company operates by purchasing natural gas from local utilities; compressing, cooling, or liquefying it at company-owned plants; and selling natural gas products through company-owned or customer-owned fueling stations. The company also builds, operates, and maintains natural gas fueling stations for customers. The company's target markets include heavy-duty trucking, airports, public transit, institutional energy users, and government fleets.
Executives
Mathieu Soulas director 4675 MACARTHUR CT, STE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Parker Anders Weil director 262 MCKINLEY PLACE, RIDGEWOOD NJ 07450
Lizabeth A Ardisana director 328 S. SAGINAW ST., FLINT MI 48430
Mitchell W Pratt officer: Sr. VP, Eng., Opp & Public Aff C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP, 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Barclay Corbus officer: Sr. VP, Strategic Development C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP, 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Andrew J Littlefair director, officer: President and CEO C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP, 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Lorraine Paskett director C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Karine Boissy-rousseau director C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Laurent Rene Wolffsheim director C/O SUNPOWER CORPORATION, 77 RIO ROBLES, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Robert M. Vreeland officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP, 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Total Marketing Services S.a. 10 percent owner 24 COURS MICHELET DEFENSE 10, PUTEAUX I0 92800
Thomas Maurisse director C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Kenneth M Socha director C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Miller James C Iii director C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP., 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660
Vincent C Taormina director C/O CLEAN ENERGY FUELS CORP, 4675 MACARTHUR COURT, SUITE 800, NEWPORT BEACH CA 92660