What is Aquarius Platinum Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Aquarius Platinum's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was $158.3 Mil.
Aquarius Platinum's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $-108.4 Mil. Aquarius Platinum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was 0.00%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Aquarius Platinum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
AQPTY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: -12.7 * 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) %. Aquarius Platinum's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
Aquarius Platinum Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Aquarius Platinum'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 Aquarius Platinum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Aquarius Platinum'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.
Aquarius Platinum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry
For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Aquarius Platinum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Aquarius Platinum'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.
Aquarius Platinums Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as
For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.
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.
Aquarius Platinum Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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Aquarius Platinum Ltd was incorporated in Bermuda as an exempted company and is subject to Bermudian law. The Company is a producer of the platinum group metals, which comprise platinum, palladium, rhodium, osmium, ruthenium and iridium. The Ruthenium and iridium are produced in smaller quantities as co-products, with the base metals nickel, copper and chrome produced as by-products. The Company's operations include Kroondal and Mimosa. The Kroondal is located up-dip of Amplat's Rustenburg Platinum Mine, exploits the UG2 reef in the Townlands and Kroondal ore bodies via five operating decline shafts to depths of up to 700m. The Mimosa is located on the Wedza sub-chamber of the southern portion of the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe.
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