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Exponent (Exponent) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 2.59% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Exponent's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,293.6 Mil. Exponent's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $111.3 Mil. Exponent's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.59%.

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

EXPO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.37   Med: 3.23   Max: 8.98
Current: 2.94

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Exponent was 8.98%. The lowest was 1.37%. And the median was 3.23%.

EXPO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
69.5% of 1692 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 6.69 vs EXPO: 2.94

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) %. Exponent's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 12.63%. 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.


Exponent Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Exponent'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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Exponent Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.53 1.87 1.88 2.89 2.59

Exponent 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) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.89 2.69 2.55 2.72 2.59

Competitive Comparison

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Exponent'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.


Exponent Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Exponent's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Exponent 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=111.322/4293.55792
=2.59 %

Exponent'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 $111.3 Mil.



Exponent  (NAS:EXPO) 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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Exponent (Exponent) Business Description

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Address
149 Commonwealth Drive, Menlo Park, CA, USA, 94025
Exponent Inc provides engineering and scientific consulting services on a project-by-project basis. The company's consultant team is composed of scientists, physicians, engineers, as well as business and regulatory consultants. The company currently operates through two segments. The engineering and other scientific segments, which accounts for the majority of revenue, provides servicing encompassing biomechanics, biomedical engineering, buildings and structures, civil engineering, construction consulting, etc. The environmental and health segment covers chemical regulation and food safety, ecological and biological sciences, environmental and earth sciences and others. The company generates almost all of its revenues from America.
Executives
Reitman Maureen T. F. officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Bradley A James officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Steven J Murray officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Richard Reiss officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Joseph Rakow officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEATH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Eric Guyer officer: Group Vice Presient 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Harri Kytomaa officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Carol Lindstrom director 5994 SILVERADO TRAIL, NAPA CA 94558
Sally Shepard officer: VP, Human Resources 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
George H. Brown director 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Paul R Johnston officer: Chief Operating Officer EXPONENT INC, 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
John Joseph Doyle officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Schlenker Richard L Jr officer: Chief Financial Officer EPONENT INC, 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
John Pye officer: Group Vice President 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Debra Zumwalt director 149 COMMONWEALTH DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025