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Zymergen (Zymergen) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -333.33% (As of Jun. 2022)


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What is Zymergen Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Zymergen's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was $100.23 Mil. Zymergen's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $-338.27 Mil. Zymergen's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was -333.33%.

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

ZY' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -998.47   Med: -136.52   Max: -10.56
Current: -149.25

During the past 3 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Zymergen was -10.56%. The lowest was -998.47%. And the median was -136.52%.

ZY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Chemicals industry.
Industry Median: 4.295 vs ZY: -149.25

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) %. Zymergen's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 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.


Zymergen Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Zymergen Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Zymergen Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -100.00

Zymergen Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -8.67 -37.31 -100.00 -163.93 -333.33

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

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Zymergen'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.


Zymergen's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

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

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



Zymergen 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-347.029/347.21905
=-99.95 %

Zymergen's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-338.27 Mil.



Zymergen  (NAS:ZY) 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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Zymergen Inc is a biofacturing company. Zymergen partners with nature to design, develop and manufacture bio-based breakthrough products that deliver value to customers in a broad range of industries. A unique combination of biology, chemistry, software and automation enables the company to design and create new materials.
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Enakshi Singh officer: Chief Financial Officer 5980 HORTON ST., STE 105 EMERYVILLE CA 94608
Mina Kim officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O ACELYRIN, INC., 4149 LIBERTY CANYON RD., AGOURA HILLS CA 91301
Zachariah Serber director, officer: Chief Science Officer 5980 HORTON ST., STE 105 EMERYVILLE CA 94608
Aaron Kimball officer: Chief Technology Officer 5980 HORTON ST., STE 105 EMERYVILLE CA 94025
Jay T Flatley director 9885 TOWNE CENTRE DR, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
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Josh Hoffman director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 5980 HORTON ST., STE 105 EMERYVILLE CA 94608
Erik Jedidiah Dean officer: VP Operations and Engineering 5980 HORTON ST., STE 105 EMERYVILLE CA 94608
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