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RDUS (Radius Recycling) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -31.35% (As of Feb. 2025)


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What is Radius Recycling Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Radius Recycling's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2025 was $949 Mil. Radius Recycling's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2025 was $-297 Mil. Radius Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2025 was -31.35%.

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

RDUS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -38.36   Med: 6.04   Max: 19.85
Current: -21.41

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Radius Recycling was 19.85%. The lowest was -38.36%. And the median was 6.04%.

RDUS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
96.09% of 640 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 5.945 vs RDUS: -21.41

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) %. Radius Recycling's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 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.


Radius Recycling Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Radius Recycling Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Radius Recycling Annual Data
Trend Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23 Aug24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.87 14.33 18.42 -0.74 -30.67

Radius Recycling Quarterly Data
May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24 May24 Aug24 Nov24 Feb25
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 -4.63 -31.25 -30.67 -26.25 -31.35

Competitive Comparison of Radius Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Steel subindustry, Radius Recycling'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.


Radius Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Radius Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Radius Recycling 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.

Radius Recyclings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-294.535/959.86446
=-30.69 %

Radius Recycling's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-297 Mil.



Radius Recycling  (NAS:RDUS) 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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Radius Recycling Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
299 SW Clay Street, Suite 400, Portland, OR, USA, 97201
Radius Recycling Inc is a North American Based company which is involved in recycling of ferrous and nonferrous metal, including end-of-life vehicles, and a manufacturer of finished steel products. As a vertically integrated organization, it offers products and services to meet world-wide demand through the network that includes fifty retail self-service auto parts stores, fifty four metals recycling facilities, and an electric arc furnace steel mill.
Executives
Steven Heiskell officer: SVP & Managing Director, APB 299 SW CLAY ST. SUITE 350, PORTLAND OR 97201
James Matthew Vaughn officer: SVP, GC, & Corp. Secretary ONE MEMORIAL PLAZA, 800 GESSNER ROAD, SUITE 875, HOUSTON TX 77024
Stefano R. Gaggini officer: Corporate Controller 299 SW CLAY ST. SUITE 350, PORTLAND OR 97201
Brian Souza officer: SVP, Chief Ops Mgmt Officer C/O SCHNITZER STEEL INDUSTRIES, INC., 299 SW CLAY ST., PORTLAND OR 97201
Michael R Henderson officer: SVP & Pres Metal Recyling Bus P O BOX 10047, PORTLAND OR 97296
Mark Schuessler officer: VP and CAO C/O SCHNITZER STEEL INDUSTRIES, INC., 299 SW CLAY ST., PORTLAND OR 97201
Gregory R Friedman director C/O CORTEVA, INC., 974 CENTRE ROAD, BLDG. 735, WILMINGTON DE 19805
Wayland R Hicks director PO BOX 330608, MIAMIA FL 33233
Peter B Saba officer: SVP & General Counsel 6903 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE, BETHESDA MD 20817
Leslie L Shoemaker director TETRA TECH, INC., 3475 EAST FOOTHILL BOULEVARD, PASADENA CA 91107
Richard Peach officer: Deputy CFO 299 SW CLAY STREET, SUITE 350, PORTLAND OR 97201
John D Carter director, officer: President and CEO 17575 LITTLE RIVER DRIVE, BEND OR 97707
Glenda J Minor director 17000 ROTUNDA DRIVE, DEARBORN MI 48120
Wilson D Erich officer: SVP, Chief HR Officer 299 SW CLAY ST., SUITE 350, PORTLAND OR 97201
Jeffery Dyck officer: Pres. CascadeSteelRollingMills 299 SW CLAY STREET, PORTLAND OR 97201