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Four Seasons Education (Cayman) (Four Seasons Education (Cayman)) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Aug. 2023)


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What is Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was $-46.37 Mil. Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 was $-1.36 Mil. Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was 0.00%.

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

FEDU' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1355.33   Med: 6.47   Max: 1575.81
Current: 2.82

During the past 8 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Four Seasons Education (Cayman) was 1575.81%. The lowest was -1355.33%. And the median was 6.47%.

FEDU's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Education industry.
Industry Median: 5.46 vs FEDU: 2.82

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) %. Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 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.


Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Annual Data
Trend Feb16 Feb17 Feb18 Feb19 Feb20 Feb21 Feb22 Feb23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 3.05 17.86 -14.81 1.58 11.74

Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Semi-Annual Data
Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23
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 3.86 1.58 - 11.74 -

Competitive Comparison of Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Education & Training Services subindustry, Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'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.


Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Education Industry

For the Education industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Four Seasons Education (Cayman)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Four Seasons Education (Cayman) 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.

Four Seasons Education (Cayman)s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Feb. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-5.009/-42.701584
=11.73 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



Four Seasons Education (Cayman)  (NYSE:FEDU) 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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Four Seasons Education (Cayman) (Four Seasons Education (Cayman)) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
309 Yuyuan Road, Room 1301, Zi'an Building, Jing'an District, Shanghai, CHN, 200040
Four Seasons Education (Cayman) Inc is engaged in the provision of after-school education services for kindergarten, elementary and middle school students. The company is a comprehensive educational enterprise that provides research practice services, educational informatization equipment, high-quality educational resources, and teacher training, as well as a digital publishing business, and continues to expand in educational research and educational informatization.