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Atlantic Avenue Acquisition (Atlantic Avenue Acquisition) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.72% (As of Jun. 2022)


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What is Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Atlantic Avenue Acquisition's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was $309.20 Mil. Atlantic Avenue Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $-2.22 Mil. Atlantic Avenue Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was -0.72%.

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

ASAQ's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Diversified Financial Services industry.
Industry Median: -1.75
* 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) %. Atlantic Avenue Acquisition's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 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.


Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- -0.68

Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Quarterly Data
Jul20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial - -0.41 -0.68 -0.75 -0.72

Competitive Comparison of Atlantic Avenue Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Atlantic Avenue 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.


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

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

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



Atlantic Avenue 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.

Atlantic Avenue Acquisitions Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-2.086/305.164
=-0.68 %

Atlantic Avenue Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-2.22 Mil.



Atlantic Avenue Acquisition  (NYSE:ASAQ) 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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Atlantic Avenue Acquisition (Atlantic Avenue Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
2200 Atlantic Street, Stamford, CT, USA, 06902
Atlantic Avenue Acquisition Corp is a newly organized blank check company.
Executives
Glazer Capital, Llc 10 percent owner 250 WEST 55TH STREET, SUITE 30A, NEW YORK NY 10019
Paul J Glazer 10 percent owner 250 WEST 55TH ST, SUITE 30A, NEW YORK NY 10019
Thomas J Neff director SPENCER STUART & ASSOCIATES, 277 PARK AVE, NEW YORK NY 10172
James M Dubin director ONE MADISON PLACE, HARRISON NY 10528
Halmi Robert A Jr director CROWN MEDIA HOLDINGS INC, 6430 S FIDDLERS GREEN CIR STE 500, ENGLEWOOD CO 80111
Ashok Nayyar director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer, Chair 930 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10028
Barry Best officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ATLANTIC STREET ACQUISITION CORP, 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902
Atlantic Street Partners Llc 10 percent owner 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902
David Gelobter officer: Co-President & Secretary C/O ATLANTIC STREET ACQUISITION CORP, 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902
Purvang Desai officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O ATLANTIC STREET ACQUISITION CORP, 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902
Mark Field director C/O ATLANTIC STREET ACQUISITION CORP, 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902
Michael Russell Zimmerman officer: Co-President C/O ATLANTIC STREET ACQUISITION CORP, 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902
Atlantic Avenue Partners Gp Llc 10 percent owner 2200 ATLANTIC STREET, SUITE 501, STAMFORD CT 06902

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