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Powin Energy (Powin Energy) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -10.19% (As of Sep. 2018)


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What is Powin Energy Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Powin Energy's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was $90.56 Mil. Powin Energy's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 was $-8.93 Mil. Powin Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was -10.19%.

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

PWON's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 4.29
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.

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) %. Powin Energy's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 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.


Powin Energy Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Powin Energy Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Powin Energy Annual Data
Trend Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -11.74 -18.32 -34.84 -8.90 -3.34

Powin Energy Quarterly Data
Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18
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 -7.08 -3.34 -8.76 -9.51 -10.19

Competitive Comparison of Powin Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, Powin Energy'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.


Powin Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Powin Energy's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Powin Energy 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.

Powin Energys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2017 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-7.77/233.0245
=-3.33 %

Powin Energy's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-8.93 Mil.



Powin Energy  (OTCPK:PWON) 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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Powin Energy (Powin Energy) Business Description

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Address
20550 South West 115th Avenue, Tualatin, OR, USA, 97062
Powin Energy Corp is a designer and developer of safe and scalable energy storage solutions for utilities and microgrid. The company is focused on the rapidly growing advanced energy storage industry, supported by its patented Battery Pack Operating System. The company's BESS is the battery storage system gives multi-layer visibility into the health of their energy storage system - down to the cell level - through its patented Battery Pack Operating System. It is also the only portable large-scale energy storage system, giving facilities managers unprecedented flexibility in how, where, and when their storage system is deployed.
Executives
Craig S. Eastwood officer: Chief Financial Officer 1111 MAIN STREET, SUITE 660, VANCOUVER WA 98660

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