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Symbotic (Symbotic) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -4.61% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Symbotic Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Symbotic's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $3,599 Mil. Symbotic's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-166 Mil. Symbotic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -4.61%.

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

SYM' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -62.38   Med: -15.27   Max: -4.86
Current: -5

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Symbotic was -4.86%. The lowest was -62.38%. And the median was -15.27%.

SYM's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
86.75% of 3041 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 4.16 vs SYM: -5.00

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) %. Symbotic'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.


Symbotic Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Symbotic Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Symbotic Annual Data
Trend Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -37.74 -10.16

Symbotic Quarterly Data
Sep19 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -22.42 -10.25 -10.16 -4.66 -4.61

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

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Symbotic'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.


Symbotic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Symbotic's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Symbotic 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-223.23/2196.730247
=-10.16 %

Symbotic'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 $-166 Mil.



Symbotic  (NAS:SYM) 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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Symbotic (Symbotic) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
200 Research Drive, Wilmington, MA, USA, 01887
Symbotic Inc is an automation technology company that develops technologies to improve operating efficiencies in modern warehouses. The group develops, commercializes, and deploys innovative, end-to-end technology solutions that dramatically improve supply chain operations. Symbotic also automates the processing of pallets and cases in large warehouses or distribution centers for some of the retail and wholesale companies in the world. The company operates in two geographical regions the United States and Canada. Key revenue is generated from the United States.
Executives
Michael David Dunn officer: See Remarks C/O SYMBOTIC INC., 200 RESEARCH DRIVE, WILMINGTON MA 01887
Todd Krasnow director C/O CARBONITE, INC., 177 HUNTINGTON AVENUE, BOSTON MA 02115
Boyd William M Iii officer: Chief Strategy Officer C/O SYMBOTIC INC., 200 RESEARCH DRIVE, WILMINGTON MA 01887
Rollin L. Ford director 702 S.W. 8TH STREET, MAIL STOP # 0215, BENTONVILLE AR 72716-0215
Charles Kane director 289 TURNPIKE RD, WESTBORO MA 01581
David A Ladensohn 10 percent owner C/O SYMBOTIC INC., 200 RESEARCH DRIVE, WILMINGTON MA 01887
Ernst Thomas C Jr officer: Chief Financial Officer 2201 LAKESIDE BLVD., RICHARDSON TX 75082
Richard B Cohen director, 10 percent owner, officer: See Remarks C/O SYMBOTIC INC., 200 RESEARCH DRIVE, WILMINGTON MA 01887
Janet L Cohen 10 percent owner C/O SYMBOTIC INC., 200 RESEARCH DRIVE, WILMINGTON MA 01887
Sunlight Investment Corp. 10 percent owner 300 EL CAMINO REAL, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Svf Ii Strategic Investments Aiv Llc 10 percent owner 300 EL CAMINO REAL, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Svf Ii Spac Investment 3 (de) Llc 10 percent owner 1 CIRCLE STAR WAY, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Softbank Group Corp 10 percent owner 1-7-1 KAIGAN, MINATO-KU, TOKYO M0 105-7537
Northstar Gp Sb 10 percent owner 69 GROSVENOR STREET, LONDON X0 W1K 3JP
Sb Management Ltd 10 percent owner 9TH FLOOR, AL SILA TOWER, ADGM SQUARE, AL MARYAH ISLAND, ABU DHABI C0 NA

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