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Battery Future Acquisition (Battery Future Acquisition) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -3.75% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Battery Future Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Battery Future Acquisition's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $151.72 Mil. Battery Future Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-5.70 Mil. Battery Future Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -3.75%.

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

BFAC' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -11.03   Med: 0   Max: 0.41
Current: -3.77

During the past 3 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Battery Future Acquisition was 0.41%. The lowest was -11.03%. And the median was 0.00%.

BFAC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
64.01% of 653 companies
in the Diversified Financial Services industry
Industry Median: -1.75 vs BFAC: -3.77

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) %. Battery Future Acquisition's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 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.


Battery Future Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Battery Future Acquisition Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Battery Future Acquisition Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- -0.35 -2.29

Battery Future Acquisition Quarterly Data
Jul21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -2.78 -6.34 -7.52 -2.29 -3.75

Competitive Comparison of Battery Future Acquisition's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Battery Future 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.


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

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

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



Battery Future 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-3.43/149.571345
=-2.29 %

Battery Future Acquisition's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-5.70 Mil.



Battery Future Acquisition  (NYSE:BFAC) 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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Battery Future Acquisition (Battery Future Acquisition) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
777 Brickell Avenue, No.500-97545, Miami, FL, USA, 33131
Battery Future Acquisition Corp is a blank check company.
Executives
Josh Payne officer: Chief Operating Officer 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Adrian Griffin director 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Simon Hay director 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Greg Martyr director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Battery Future Sponsor Llc 10 percent owner 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Kristopher Salinger director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Financial Officer 51 NW 26TH STREET SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Erez Ichilov director 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Nicholas O'loughlin officer: Chief Development Officer 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Natalia Streltsova director C/O BATTERY FUTURE ACQUISITION CORP., 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127
Jessica Fung director C/O BATTERY FUTURE ACQUISITION CORP., 51 NW 26TH STREET, SUITE 533, MIAMI FL 33127