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Heartland Media Acquisition (Heartland Media Acquisition) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.56% (As of Mar. 2023)


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What is Heartland Media Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Heartland Media Acquisition's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was $250.38 Mil. Heartland Media Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2023 was $-1.40 Mil. Heartland Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was -0.56%.

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

HMA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Diversified Financial Services industry.
Industry Median: -1.63
* 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) %. Heartland Media Acquisition's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 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.


Heartland Media Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Heartland Media Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Heartland Media Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- -0.53

Heartland Media Acquisition Quarterly Data
Feb21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -0.20 -0.35 -0.38 -0.53 -0.56

Competitive Comparison of Heartland Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Heartland Media Acquisition'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.


Heartland Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, Heartland Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Heartland Media Acquisition 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.

Heartland Media Acquisitions Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-1.304/244.442979
=-0.53 %

Heartland Media Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-1.40 Mil.



Heartland Media Acquisition  (NYSE:HMA) 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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Heartland Media Acquisition (Heartland Media Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
3282 Northside Parkway, Suite 275, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30327
Heartland Media Acquisition Corp is a blank check company.
Executives
Prather Robert S Jr director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer
Heartland Sponsor Llc 10 percent owner 3282 NORTHSIDE PKWY NW, STE 275, ATLANTA GA 30327
Shawn Pack officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O HEARTLAND MEDIA ACQUISITION CORP., 3282 NORTHSIDE PKWY, SUITE 275, ATLANTA GA 30327
Alan J Weber director 5 DAKOTA DRIVE, SUITE 300, LAKE SUCCESS NY 11042
John S Zieser director 1716 LOCUST STREET, LS 101-A; ATTN TERESA T. RINKER, DES MOINES IA 50309-3023
Salvatore Muoio director C/O LYNCH INTERACTIVE CORP, 401 THEODORE FREMD AVE, RYE NY 10580
Steven Todd Shapiro director C/O GOLDENTREE ASSET MANAGEMENT, 300 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10022

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