What is BPZ Resources Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
BPZ Resources's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2015 was €-19.95 Mil.
BPZ Resources's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2015 was €-60.24 Mil. BPZ Resources's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2015 was 294.12%.
The historical rank and industry rank for BPZ Resources's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:NA4'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.8 Med: 259.8 Max: 352.4
Current: 275.32
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of BPZ Resources was 352.40%. The lowest was 0.80%. And the median was 259.80%.
FRA:NA4's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 6.13
vs FRA:NA4: 275.32
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) %. BPZ Resources's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 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.
BPZ Resources Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for BPZ Resources'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 BPZ Resources's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, BPZ Resources'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.
BPZ Resources's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, BPZ Resources's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where BPZ Resources'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.
BPZ Resourcess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
BPZ Resources's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €-60.24 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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BPZ Resources Inc is a Texas corporation, incorporated in 1993. The Company is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas in Peru and Ecuador. The Company is in the process of developing its Peruvian oil and gas reserves. It has completed the installation of the new CX-15 platform in the Corvina field to continue the development of the field and continued its drilling campaign there with completion of the CX-15-1D well. The customer of the Company is Peruvian national oil company, Petroleos del Peru - PETROPERU S.A.
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