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Guanwei Recycling (Guanwei Recycling) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -185.19% (As of Dec. 2015)


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What is Guanwei Recycling Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Guanwei Recycling's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was $2.74 Mil. Guanwei Recycling's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $-1.75 Mil. Guanwei Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was -185.19%.

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

GPRC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Waste Management industry.
Industry Median: 3.89
* 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) %. Guanwei Recycling's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 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.


Guanwei Recycling Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Guanwei Recycling Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Guanwei Recycling Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 384.62 312.50 72.46 -52.91 -185.19

Guanwei Recycling Semi-Annual Data
Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial 384.62 312.50 72.46 -52.91 -185.19

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

For the Waste Management subindustry, Guanwei Recycling'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.


Guanwei Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Guanwei Recycling's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Guanwei Recycling 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.

Guanwei Recyclings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-1.751/2.736702
=-63.98 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



Guanwei Recycling  (GREY:GPRC) 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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Guanwei Recycling (Guanwei Recycling) Business Description

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Address
Rong Qiao Economic Zone, Fuqing City, Fujian, CHN, 350301
Guanwei Recycling Corp is a plastic recycling company. It is primarily engaged in the manufacture and distribution of low-density polyethylene and other recycled plastic products using the imported raw material in the form of plastic waste. The plastic polymers include Polyethylene terephthalate, High-density polyethylene, Polyvinyl chloride, Low-density polyethylene, Polypropylene, and Polystyrene. Geographically, the activities of the group are functioned through China.

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