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Snail (SNAL) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -34.97% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Snail Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Snail's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $23.88 Mil. Snail's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-8.34 Mil. Snail's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -34.97%.

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

SNAL' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -47.33   Med: -25.88   Max: -0.66
Current: -32.79

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Snail was -0.66%. The lowest was -47.33%. And the median was -25.88%.

SNAL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
85.39% of 575 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 0 vs SNAL: -32.79

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) %. Snail'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.


Snail Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Snail Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Snail Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -0.91 -25.84

Snail Quarterly Data
Dec19 Dec20 Jun21 Sep21 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -19.46 -23.42 -38.91 -25.84 -34.97

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

For the Electronic Gaming & Multimedia subindustry, Snail'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.


Snail's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Snail's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Snail 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-9.963/38.551177
=-25.84 %

Snail'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 $-8.34 Mil.



Snail  (NAS:SNAL) 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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Snail (SNAL) Business Description

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Address
12049 Jefferson Boulevard, Culver City, CA, USA, 90230
Snail Inc is a global independent developer and publisher of interactive digital entertainment for consumers around the world, with a premier portfolio of premium games designed for use on a variety of platforms, including consoles, PC's and mobile devices. Geographic presence of company is in United States and International majority of its revenue comes from United States.
Executives
Heidy Kingwan Chow officer: Chief Financial Officer 92 KESTREL, IRVINE CA 92618
Neil Foster director 320 W. 37TH STREET, 13TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10018
Hai Shi director 12049 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY CA 90230
Jim S. Tsai officer: Chief Executive Officer 12049 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY CA 90230
Sandra Pundmann director 12049 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY CA 90230
Peter Yung Kang officer: Chief Operating Officer 12049 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY CA 90230
Ying Zhou director 12049 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD, CULVER CITY CA 90230
Xiaoming Ye 10 percent owner ROOM 1702, BUILDING 1, NO. 9 CUIWEI STREET, SUZHOU F4 215123
Qianrong Capital Ltd 10 percent owner ROOM 1702, BUILDING 1, NO. 9 CUIWEI STREET, SUZHOU F4 215123
Suzhou Ding Rong Investment Management Ltd 10 percent owner ROOM 1702, BUILDING 1, NO. 9 CUIWEI STREET, SUZHOU F4 215123
Hua Yuan International Ltd 10 percent owner ROOM 8201, INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE CENTRE, 1 AUSTIN ROAD WEST, KOWLOON, HONG KONG K3 999077
Ancient Jade (east) Holdings Ltd 10 percent owner FLOOR 12 - TOWER D, NO.1 XUANWUMENWAI ST, XICHENG DISTRICT, BEIJING F4 100000