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CWST (Casella Waste Systems) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 1.14% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Casella Waste Systems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Casella Waste Systems's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $6,943 Mil. Casella Waste Systems's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $79 Mil. Casella Waste Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 1.14%.

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

CWST' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.25   Med: 1.76   Max: 4.77
Current: 1.08

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Casella Waste Systems was 4.77%. The lowest was -2.25%. And the median was 1.76%.

CWST's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
67.19% of 253 companies
in the Waste Management industry
Industry Median: 4.36 vs CWST: 1.08

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) %. Casella Waste Systems's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 15.09%. 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.


Casella Waste Systems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Casella Waste Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Casella Waste Systems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Casella Waste Systems Annual Data
Trend Apr14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.97 1.68 1.59 2.11 1.45

Casella Waste Systems Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 1.64 1.45 1.25 1.39 1.14

Competitive Comparison of Casella Waste Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Waste Management subindustry, Casella Waste Systems'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.


Casella Waste Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Casella Waste Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Casella Waste Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Casella Waste Systems 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.

Casella Waste Systemss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=84.623/5853.8967
=1.45 %

Casella Waste Systems's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $79 Mil.



Casella Waste Systems  (NAS:CWST) 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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Casella Waste Systems Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
25 Greens Hill Lane, Rutland, VT, USA, 05701
Casella Waste Systems Inc is a solid waste removal company, providing resource management services to residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial customers. The company's reportable segments on Geographical basis include Eastern, Western and Mid-Atlantic regions through the Resource solution segment. It generates maximum revenue from the Western region segment. The company services include Recycling, Collection, Organics, Energy, Landfills, Special Waste as well as Professional Services.
Executives
Michael K Burke director C/O LANDAUER, INC., 2 SCIENCE ROAD, GLENWOOD IL 60425
Douglas R Casella director, officer: VICE CHAIRMAN, BD OF DIRECTORS CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC, 25 GREENS HILL LN, RUTLAND VT 05701
John W Casella director, officer: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC, 25 GREENS HILL LN, RUTLAND VT 05701
Sean Steves officer: Sr VP & COO of SW Ops C/O CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Bradford John Helgeson officer: Executive VP and CFO 30 ESSEX PLACE, BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920
Emily Nagle Green director CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Paul Ligon officer: SR VP & CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER C/O CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
William P Hulligan director 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Edmond Coletta officer: PRESIDENT & CFO CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Kevin Drohan officer: VP & CHIEF ACCOUNTING OFFICER C/O CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Shelley E. Sayward officer: SENIOR VP & GENERAL COUNSEL C/O CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Michael Louis Battles director 45 WILLIAM STREET, WELLESLEY MA 02481
Rose M. Kirk director C/O CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701
Joseph Doody director CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC, 25 GREENS HILL LANE PO BOX 866, RUTLAND VT 05701
Gary Sova director CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC., 25 GREENS HILL LANE, RUTLAND VT 05701