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Liberty Media Acquisition (Liberty Media Acquisition) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.36% (As of Sep. 2022)


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What is Liberty Media Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Liberty Media Acquisition's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $717.45 Mil. Liberty Media Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2022 was $45.61 Mil. Liberty Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was 6.36%.

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

LMACA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Diversified Financial Services industry.
Industry Median: -1.63
* 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) %. Liberty Media Acquisition's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 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.


Liberty Media Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Liberty Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Liberty Media Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Liberty Media Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- -3.22

Liberty Media Acquisition Quarterly Data
Oct20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial -1.98 -3.22 9.66 6.82 6.36

Competitive Comparison of Liberty Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Liberty Media Acquisition'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.


Liberty Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, Liberty Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Liberty Media Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Liberty Media Acquisition 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.

Liberty Media Acquisitions Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-23.812/739.316
=-3.22 %

Liberty Media Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $45.61 Mil.



Liberty Media Acquisition  (NAS:LMACA) 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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Liberty Media Acquisition (Liberty Media Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
12300 Liberty Boulevard, Englewood, CO, USA, 80112
Liberty Media Acquisition Corp is a blank check company.
Executives
Gregory B Maffei director, officer: President/CEO 12300 LIBERTY BLVD, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Liberty Media Corp director, 10 percent owner 12300 LIBERTY BOULEVARD, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Albert E Rosenthaler officer: Chief Corp. Dev. Officer 12300 LIBERTY BLVD, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Geoffrey Y Yang director 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, 2-290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Brian J Wendling officer: CAO/PFO 12300 LIBERTY BOULEVARD, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Renee L Wilm director, officer: Chief Legal/Admin Officer 12300 LIBERTY BOULEVARD, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Welsh John E Iii director AVALON CAPITAL PARTNERS, 181 MAIN ST, COLD SPRING HARBOR NY 11724
Ajay Menon director C/O CONVERA CORPORATION, 1921 GALLOWS RD., VIENNA VA 22182