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Kingswood Acquisition (Kingswood Acquisition) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -8.05% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Kingswood Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Kingswood Acquisition's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.00 Mil. Kingswood Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $-3.48 Mil. Kingswood Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was -8.05%.

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

KWACU' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -12.14   Med: 0   Max: 0
Current: -7.3

KWACU's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
75.79% of 665 companies
in the Diversified Financial Services industry
Industry Median: -1.68 vs KWACU: -7.30

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) %. Kingswood Acquisition's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 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.


Kingswood Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Kingswood Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Kingswood Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- -0.83 -13.28

Kingswood Acquisition Quarterly Data
Aug20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 -7.86 -13.28 -11.93 -8.46 -8.05

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

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Kingswood 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.


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

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

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



Kingswood 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.

Kingswood Acquisitions Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-4.784/0
= %

Kingswood Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-3.48 Mil.



Kingswood Acquisition  (OTCPK:KWACU) 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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Kingswood Acquisition (Kingswood Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
17 Battery Place, Room 625, New York, NY, USA, 10004
Kingswood Acquisition Corp is a blank check company.
Executives
Jeffrey A Altman 10 percent owner 640 FIFTH AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Owl Creek Asset Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 640 FIFTH AVENUE, 20TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Polar Asset Management Partners Inc. 10 percent owner 16 YORK STREET SUITE 2900, TORONTO A6 M5J 0E6
Goldman Sachs & Co. Llc 10 percent owner 200 WEST STREET, NEW YORK NY 10282
Goldman Sachs Group Inc 10 percent owner 200 WEST STREET, NEW YORK NY 10282
Jeremy Wilder director 21 ELMRIDGE, SCARSDALE NY 10583
Gary Wilder director, 10 percent owner, other: Executive Chairman 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Caroline O'connell director 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
David Hudd director, 10 percent owner 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Jonathan Massing director, 10 percent owner 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Michael Nessim director, 10 percent owner 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Ralph Lawrence Roth director 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Lisa Roth director 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Kingswood Global Sponsor Llc 10 percent owner 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004
Howard Garland director, 10 percent owner 17 BATTERY PLACE, ROOM 625, NEW YORK NY 10004