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Cava Group (Cava Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.64% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cava Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Cava Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4,890.9 Mil. Cava Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $9.3 Mil. Cava Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.64%.

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

CAVA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.12   Med: -1   Max: 0.1
Current: 0.1

During the past 3 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Cava Group was 0.10%. The lowest was -2.12%. And the median was -1.00%.

CAVA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
72.27% of 357 companies
in the Restaurants industry
Industry Median: 3.54 vs CAVA: 0.10

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) %. Cava Group'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.


Cava Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Cava Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Cava Group Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - 0.64

Cava Group Quarterly Data
Sep21 Dec21 Apr22 Sep22 Dec22 Apr23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - - -1.18 0.64

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

For the Restaurants subindustry, Cava Group'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.


Cava Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Cava Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cava Group 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=31.422/4890.93984
=0.64 %

Cava Group'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 $9.3 Mil.



Cava Group  (NYSE:CAVA) 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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Cava Group (Cava Group) Business Description

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Address
14 Ridge Square NW, Suite 500,, Washington, DC, USA, 20016
Cava Group Inc owns and operates a chain of restaurants. It is the category-defining Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant brand, bringing together healthful food and bold, satisfying flavors at scale. The company's operations are conducted as two reportable segments: CAVA and Zoes Kitchen.
Executives
Philippe Amouyal director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Jennifer Somers officer: Chief Operations Officer C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Kenneth Robert Bertram officer: CLO & Secretary 3404 CHOCO CHASE, MECHNICSBURG NY 17055
Tricia K. Tolivar officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Todd Klein director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Theodoros Xenohristos director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Swan Hospitality 4 Llc 10 percent owner 108 LOUDOUN STREET SW, LEESBURG VA 20175
Act Iii Holdings Llc 10 percent owner 23 PRESCOTT STREET, BROOKLINE MA 02446
Adam David Phillips officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Benjamin Felt director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
David Bosserman director C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Brett Schulman director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO and President C/O CAVA GROUP, INC., 14 RIDGE SQUARE NW, SUITE 500, WASHINGTON DC 20016
Cava Act Iii Trust, Llc 10 percent owner 23 PRESCOTT STREET, BROOKLINE MA 02446
Cava Act Iii, Llc 10 percent owner 23 PRESCOTT STREET, BROOKLINE MA 02446
Todd D Klein director 1717 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, N.W., 10TH FLOOR, WASHINGTON DC 20036

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