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International Battery Metals (International Battery Metals) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -7.34% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is International Battery Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

International Battery Metals's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $111.50 Mil. International Battery Metals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-8.13 Mil. International Battery Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -7.34%.

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

IBATF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -171.6   Med: 0   Max: 0.05
Current: -5.67

During the past 10 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of International Battery Metals was 0.05%. The lowest was -171.60%. And the median was 0.00%.

IBATF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
64.2% of 2673 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: -12 vs IBATF: -5.67

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) %. International Battery Metals's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.


International Battery Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for International Battery Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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International Battery Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

International Battery Metals Annual Data
Trend Jan12 Jan13 Jan14 Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -2.20 -27.25 -60.24 -26.95 -28.74

International Battery Metals Quarterly Data
Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -1.40 -2.92 -4.88 -5.58 -7.34

Competitive Comparison of International Battery Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, International Battery Metals'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.


International Battery Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, International Battery Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where International Battery Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



International Battery Metals 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.

International Battery Metalss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-11.298/39.78585
=-28.40 %

International Battery Metals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-8.13 Mil.



International Battery Metals  (OTCPK:IBATF) 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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International Battery Metals (International Battery Metals) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1055 West Georgia Street, Suite 1750, Royal Centre, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6E 3P3
International Battery Metals Ltd is a technology company focused on lithium extraction from salars, geothermal brines and oil field brines. The company is in the process of creating and applying intellectual property related to lithium extraction from brines. Its extraction process is environmentally friendly, low cost, and has the potential to produce commercial-grade lithium at a faster rate.