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FAT Brands (FAT Brands) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 1.46% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is FAT Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

FAT Brands's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,447.3 Mil. FAT Brands's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $21.2 Mil. FAT Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.46%.

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

FAT' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -6.21   Med: 1.09   Max: 14.92
Current: 1.44

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of FAT Brands was 14.92%. The lowest was -6.21%. And the median was 1.09%.

FAT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
66.67% of 357 companies
in the Restaurants industry
Industry Median: 3.58 vs FAT: 1.44

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) %. FAT Brands'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.


FAT Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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FAT Brands Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

FAT Brands Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 9.64 -5.36 -0.49 -1.07 1.46

FAT Brands Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -1.07 -1.08 -0.81 -0.63 1.46

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

For the Restaurants subindustry, FAT Brands'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.


FAT Brands's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

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

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



FAT Brands 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=21.166/1447.287606
=1.46 %

FAT Brands'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 $21.2 Mil.



FAT Brands  (NAS:FAT) 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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FAT Brands (FAT Brands) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
9720 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA, USA, 90212
FAT Brands Inc is a multi-brand restaurant franchising company. It develops, markets, acquires and manages quick service, fast casual, casual dining and polished casual dining restaurant concepts around the world. The company operates as a franchisor of restaurants, where the company generally does not own or operate the restaurant locations but rather generates revenue by charging franchisees an initial franchise fee as well as ongoing royalties. For some of the company's brands, it also directly owns and operates restaurant locations. The primary sources of revenue are the sale of food and beverages at company restaurants and the collection of royalties, franchise fees and advertising revenue from sales of food and beverages at franchised restaurants.
Executives
Andrew Wiederhorn director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O WILSHIRE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC, 1776 SW MADISON STREET, PORTLAND OR 97205
John Stephen Allen director P.O. BOX 2732, GEARHART OR 97138
James G Ellis director C/O QUIKSILVER, INC., 15202 GRAHAM STREET, HUNTINGTON BEACH CA 92649
Fog Cutter Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner 9720 WILSHIRE BLVD, SUITE 500, BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
Matthew Green director
Peter R Feinstein director
John Cameron Metz director 13153 FABERGE PLACE, PALM BEACH GARDENS FL 33418
Kenneth Kepp director 27929 SW 95TH AVENUE, SUITE 1101, WILSONVILLE OR 97070
Mark Elenowitz director 400 PROFESSIONAL DRIVE, SUITE 310, GAITHERSBURG MD 20879
Tyler Berchtold Child director P.O. BOX 254, ROSS CA 94957
Vidal Paba Maria Carmen director CARRER CAVALLERS NUMBER 56-58, 4TH FLOOR 1ST DOOR, BARCELONA U3 08034
Mason Alan Wiederhorn director 9720 WILSHIRE BLVD., PH, BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
Lynne Leigh Collier director 8523 FOREST HILLS BLVD, DALLAS TX 75218
John Squire Junger director 16600 PARK LANE CIRCLE, LOS ANGELES CA 90049
Taylor Andrew Wiederhorn officer: Chief Development Officer 9720 WILSHIRE BLVD,, SUITE 500, BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212