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Forum Energy Metals (Forum Energy Metals) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: -23.47% (As of Nov. 2023)
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Forum Energy Metals's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $20.47 Mil. Forum Energy Metals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 was $-4.81 Mil. Forum Energy Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was -23.47%.

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

FDCFF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -73.53   Med: 0   Max: 0
Current: -20.24

FDCFF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
62.08% of 2666 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: -12.1 vs FDCFF: -20.24

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) %. Forum Energy Metals's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Nov. 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.


Forum Energy Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

* Premium members only.

Forum Energy Metals Annual Data
Trend Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -14.45 -5.35 -14.18 -29.33 -23.47

Forum Energy Metals Quarterly Data
Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -29.33 -29.07 -32.36 -32.47 -23.47

Competitive Comparison

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Forum Energy 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.


Forum Energy Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Forum Energy 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.

Forum Energy Metalss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-4.741/20.470264
=-23.16 %

Forum Energy Metals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-4.81 Mil.



Forum Energy Metals  (OTCPK:FDCFF) 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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Forum Energy Metals (Forum Energy Metals) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
800 West Pender Street, Suite 615, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6C 2V6
Forum Energy Metals Corp is a Canadian-based mineral resource company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and development of energy metals: copper, cobalt, uranium, and palladium. Its projects include Fir Island uranium property, Henday Lake uranium property, Janice Lake Sedimentary Copper Project, Love Lake Copper-Nickel-Palladium Project, Quartz Gulch Cobalt Project, Idaho, Key Lake Road uranium project, Maurice Point uranium project, and North West Athabasca among others.