UCP's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 was $334.4 Mil.
UCP's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2017 was $12.3 Mil. UCP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 was 3.68%.
The historical rank and industry rank for UCP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
UCP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Homebuilding & Construction industry.
Industry Median: 7.655 * 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) %. UCP's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 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.
UCP Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for UCP'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.
Competitive Comparison of UCP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Residential Construction subindustry, UCP'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.
UCP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Homebuilding & Construction Industry
For the Homebuilding & Construction industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, UCP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where UCP'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.
UCPs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as
UCP's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $12.3 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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UCP Inc was incorporated in the state of Delaware in May 2013. The Company is engaged in acquiring land, entitling and developing it for residential construction and selling residential lots to third-party homebuilders. It operates in two segments; homebuilding and land development. It competes with numerous national and regional homebuilding companies and with smaller local homebuilders and land developers for, among other things, home buyers, financing, desirable land parcels, raw materials and skilled management and labor resources. The Company is subject to numerous local, state, federal and other statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations.
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