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Cepton (Cepton) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -1,250.00% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cepton Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Cepton's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.03 Mil. Cepton's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-50.70 Mil. Cepton's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -1,250.00%.

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

CPTN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -17560.19   Med: -21.3   Max: 11597.15
Current: -2500

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Cepton was 11597.15%. The lowest was -17560.19%. And the median was -21.30%.

CPTN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
99.88% of 2476 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.12 vs CPTN: -2500.00

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) %. Cepton'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.


Cepton Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Cepton Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Cepton Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -29.76 -1,250.00

Cepton Quarterly Data
Dec19 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 Premium Member Only -29.76 1,111.11 -666.67 -555.56 -1,250.00

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

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Cepton'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.


Cepton's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Cepton's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cepton 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-50.703/4.02511
=-1,259.67 %

Cepton'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 $-50.70 Mil.



Cepton  (NAS:CPTN) 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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Cepton (Cepton) Business Description

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399 West Trimble Road, San Jose, CA, USA, 95131
Cepton Inc provides lidar-based solutions for a range of markets such as automotive, smart cities, smart spaces and smart industrial applications. The company's patented MMT-based lidar technology enables reliable, scalable and cost-effective solutions that deliver long range, high resolution 3D perception for smart applications.
Executives
Ming Qiu officer: Controller C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Liqun Han officer: SVP of Operations C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Jun Pei director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO and President C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Mark Mccord officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Hideharu Konagaya director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 WEST TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Paul Anawalt officer: General Counsel and Secretary C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Hull Xu officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Jinying Chen officer: Corporate Controller C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Ldv Partners Fund I, L.p. 10 percent owner 24201 SUMMERHILL AVENUE, LOS ALTOS CA 94024
Xiaogang Zhang director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 10 percent owner 4-8-3, TAKANAWA, MINATO-KU, TOKYO M0 1088711
May Wang director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Winston S Fu director, 10 percent owner, officer: CFO and Secretary 24201 SUMMERHILL AVENUE, LOS ALTOS CA 94024
Takayuki Katsuda director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Dongyi Liao officer: SVP of Applications C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131