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Matra Petroleum (LSE:MTA) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -101.01% (As of Dec. 2013)


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What is Matra Petroleum Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Matra Petroleum's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was £0.00 Mil. Matra Petroleum's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 was £-3.81 Mil. Matra Petroleum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was -101.01%.

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

LSE:MTA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -108.7   Med: 0   Max: 0
Current: -108.7

LSE:MTA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 6.35 vs LSE:MTA: -108.70

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) %. Matra Petroleum's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 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.


Matra Petroleum Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Matra Petroleum Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Matra Petroleum Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -10.75 - -101.01 -7.74 -101.01

Matra Petroleum Semi-Annual Data
Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only - - - -7.74 -101.01

Competitive Comparison of Matra Petroleum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, Matra Petroleum'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.


Matra Petroleum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Matra Petroleum's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Matra Petroleum 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.

Matra Petroleums Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-3.807/0
= %

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.



Matra Petroleum  (LSE:MTA) 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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Matra Petroleum PLC is an independent oil and gas exploration and production. The Company focuses on building a portfolio of development and producing assets in the Volga/Urals area of Russia.

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