What is Fortrea Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Fortrea Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $1,868 Mil.
Fortrea Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $-636 Mil. Fortrea Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was -34.01%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Fortrea Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
FTRE'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -39.41 Med: -0.3 Max: 3.9
Current: -39.37
During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Fortrea Holdings was 3.90%. The lowest was -39.41%. And the median was -0.30%.
FTRE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 71.27% of 1312
companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -13.255
vs FTRE: -39.37
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) %. Fortrea Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.00%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past five 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.
Fortrea Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Fortrea Holdings'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 Fortrea Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Fortrea Holdings'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.
Fortrea Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Fortrea Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Fortrea Holdings'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.
Fortrea Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as
Fortrea Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-636 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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Fortrea Holdings is a late-stage contract research organization, or CRO, that provides comprehensive Phase I through IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, and patient access solutions. The company works with emerging and large biopharma, medical device, and diagnostic companies to run their clinical trials as a functional-service provider, full-service provider, and offers hybrid trials. In 2023, Fortrea was formed as an independent, publicly traded company after Labcorp spun off its clinical development business, which it acquired via its purchase of Covance in 2015 for $6.1 billion. Fortrea has 19,000 staff members across 90 countries.
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