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Cyngn (CYN) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -1,000.00% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cyngn Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Cyngn's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.22 Mil. Cyngn's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-23.35 Mil. Cyngn's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -1,000.00%.

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

CYN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -158859.55   Med: -143.36   Max: 7879.21
Current: -588.24

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Cyngn was 7879.21%. The lowest was -158859.55%. And the median was -143.36%.

CYN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
99.26% of 2851 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.11 vs CYN: -588.24

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) %. Cyngn'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.


Cyngn Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Cyngn Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Cyngn Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -9.66 -5,000.00 -1,000.00

Cyngn Quarterly Data
Dec19 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 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 -5,000.00 -85.47 -73.53 -256.41 -1,000.00

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Cyngn'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.


Cyngn's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Cyngn's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cyngn 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.

Cyngns Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-23.346/2.21876886
=-1,052.21 %

Cyngn'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 $-23.35 Mil.



Cyngn  (NAS:CYN) 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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Cyngn (CYN) Business Description

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Cyngn Inc an industrial autonomous vehicle technology company. Its flagship innovation is DriveMod, an autonomous driving solution that can be flexibly deployed on multiple vehicle types in various environments.
Executives
Karen M Macleod director C/O TRACK GROUP, INC., 200 E 5TH AVENUE STE 100, NAPERVILLE IL 60563
Redpoint Associates Iv, Llc 10 percent owner 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, BUILDING 2, SUITE 290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Andreessen Horowitz Fund Iii-q, L.p. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
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Andreessen Horowitz Fund Iii-b, L.p. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
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Ah Equity Partners Iii, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 2865 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Redpoint Ventures Iv, Llc 10 percent owner 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, BUILDING 2, SUITE 290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Redpoint Ventures Iv, L.p. 10 percent owner 3000 SAND HILL ROAD, BUILDING 2, SUITE 290, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Benchmark Capital Partners Vii, L.p. 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Benchmark Founders' Fund Vii, L.p. 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Benchmark Founders' Fund Vii-b, L.p. 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
James Mcdonnell director 6001 36TH AVE WEST, EVERETT WA 98203-1264
Donald Alvarez officer: Chief Financial Officer 1015 O'BRIEN DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Cunningham Colleen director 1015 O'BRIEN DRIVE, MENLO PARK CA 94025