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Rubicon Water (ASX:RWL) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Rubicon Water Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Rubicon Water's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was A$94.25 Mil. Rubicon Water's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was A$-9.03 Mil. Rubicon Water's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.00%.

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

ASX:RWL' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -12.88   Med: 0   Max: 0.51
Current: -11.19

During the past 2 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Rubicon Water was 0.51%. The lowest was -12.88%. And the median was 0.00%.

ASX:RWL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
95.22% of 523 companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 6.81 vs ASX:RWL: -11.19

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) %. Rubicon Water's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.


Rubicon Water Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Rubicon Water's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Rubicon Water Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Rubicon Water Annual Data
Trend Jun22 Jun23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-0.14 -8.42

Rubicon Water Semi-Annual Data
Dec20 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Rubicon Water's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Rubicon Water'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.


Rubicon Water's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Rubicon Water's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Rubicon Water's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Rubicon Water 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.

Rubicon Waters Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-11.266/133.7097
=-8.43 %

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.



Rubicon Water  (ASX:RWL) 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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Rubicon Water (ASX:RWL) Business Description

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Address
1 Cato Street, Hawthorn East, Melbourne, VIC, AUS, 3123
Rubicon Water Ltd is engaged in the water technology solutions business that designs, manufactures, installs, and maintains irrigation automation software and hardware. It generates revenue through sales of hardware, software, and services, as well as from ongoing maintenance of the installed end-to-end solution base.

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