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US Ecology (US Ecology) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 1.34% (As of Mar. 2022)


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What is US Ecology Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

US Ecology's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was $2,221 Mil. US Ecology's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2022 was $30 Mil. US Ecology's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was 1.34%.

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

ECOL' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -20.17   Med: 4.99   Max: 10.6
Current: 1.33

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of US Ecology was 10.60%. The lowest was -20.17%. And the median was 4.99%.

ECOL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Waste Management industry.
Industry Median: 4.18 vs ECOL: 1.33

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) %. US Ecology's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 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.


US Ecology Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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US Ecology Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

US Ecology Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.48 4.48 2.65 -18.90 2.28

US Ecology Quarterly Data
Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22
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 -3.24 -3.53 -3.69 2.28 1.34

Competitive Comparison of US Ecology's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Waste Management subindustry, US Ecology'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.


US Ecology's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, US Ecology's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



US Ecology 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.

US Ecologys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=39.068/1714.0368
=2.28 %

US Ecology's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $30 Mil.



US Ecology  (NAS:ECOL) 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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US Ecology (US Ecology) Business Description

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Address
101 S. Capitol Boulevard, Suite 1000, Boise, ID, USA, 83702
US Ecology Inc operates as an environmental service provider to commercial and government entities. The company's operating segments include Waste Solutions, Field Services, and Energy Waste. Waste Solutions provides a broad range of specialty material management services including transportation, recycling, treatment and disposal of hazardous, non-hazardous and radioactive waste; Field Services, provides specialty field services and total waste management solutions to commercial and industrial facilities and to government entities, and Energy Waste provides energy-related services and waste disposal services predominately to upstream energy customers.
Executives
Simon G Bell officer: EVP & COO 300 E. MALLARD SUITE 300 BOISE ID 83706
Mack L Hogans director WEYERHAEUSER CO, P O B 9777, FEDERAL WAY WA 98063
E Renae Conley director 414 SILVER AVE SW MS 1275, ALBUQUERQUE NM 87102-3289
Burke Richard L. Jr. director 90 FORT WADE ROAD, PONTE VEDRA FL 32081
Katina Dorton director US ECOLOGY, INC., 251 E. FRONT ST., SUITE 400, BOISE ID 83702
Stephen A Romano director
Jeffrey R Feeler director, officer: President & CEO 300 E. MALLARD DR. SUITE 300 BOISE ID 83706
Daniel Fox director 300 E. MALLARD DR., SUITE 300 BOISE ID 83706
John T. Sahlberg director C/O BOISE CASCADE, L.L.C., 1111 WEST JEFFERSON STREET, SUITE 300, BOISE ID 83702-5389
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