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Life Electric Vehicles Holdings (Life Electric Vehicles Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -4.33% (As of Aug. 2023)


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What is Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was $10.56 Mil. Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 was $-0.46 Mil. Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was -4.33%.

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

LFEV' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -26.85   Med: -17.61   Max: -7.63
Current: -7.63

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Life Electric Vehicles Holdings was -7.63%. The lowest was -26.85%. And the median was -17.61%.

LFEV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
88.75% of 1307 companies
in the Vehicles & Parts industry
Industry Median: 5.69 vs LFEV: -7.63

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) %. Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 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.


Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Annual Data
Trend Nov98 Nov99 Nov00 Nov01 Nov02 Nov03 Nov04 Nov05 Nov06 Nov07
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -20.83 21.60 30.30 -13.59 -23.31

Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Quarterly Data
May04 Aug04 Nov04 Feb05 May05 Aug05 Nov05 Feb06 May06 Aug06 Nov06 Feb07 May07 Aug07 Nov07 Feb08 May08 Aug08 Aug22 Aug23
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 -23.31 -23.09 -27.03 -3.19 -4.33

Competitive Comparison of Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Recreational Vehicles subindustry, Life Electric Vehicles Holdings'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.


Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry

For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Life Electric Vehicles Holdings 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.

Life Electric Vehicles Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2007 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-0.832/3.567865
=-23.32 %

Life Electric Vehicles Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.46 Mil.



Life Electric Vehicles Holdings  (OTCPK:LFEV) 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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Life Electric Vehicles Holdings (Life Electric Vehicles Holdings) Business Description

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Address
460 Hillsboro Technology Drive, Deerfield Beach, FL, USA, 33441
Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Inc is a developer, manufacturer, and distributor in the light electric vehicle industry. The business model includes the launching, acquisition, and consolidation of multiple brands of e-bikes, e-trikes, e-scooters, and light EV companies to become an industry leader in the American micro-mobility market.

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