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Bens Creek Group (LSE:BEN) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Bens Creek Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Bens Creek Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £84.88 Mil. Bens Creek Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was £-18.17 Mil. Bens Creek Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.00%.

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

LSE:BEN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -92.7   Med: -19.49   Max: 35.05
Current: -71.49

During the past 3 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Bens Creek Group was 35.05%. The lowest was -92.70%. And the median was -19.49%.

LSE:BEN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
99.22% of 639 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 6.81 vs LSE:BEN: -71.49

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) %. Bens Creek Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 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.


Bens Creek Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Bens Creek Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Bens Creek Group Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- 6.09 -19.53

Bens Creek Group Semi-Annual Data
Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial - 6.09 - -19.53 -

Competitive Comparison of Bens Creek Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Coking Coal subindustry, Bens Creek Group'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.


Bens Creek Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Bens Creek Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Bens Creek Group 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.

Bens Creek Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-17.535/89.81032
=-19.52 %

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.



Bens Creek Group  (LSE:BEN) 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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Bens Creek Group (LSE:BEN) Business Description

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Address
15 Stratton Street, London, GBR, W1J 8LQ
Bens Creek Group PLC owns and operates metallurgical coal mines in North America. Its main country of operation is the United States of America. The company is engaged in Ben's creek mining project situated in the southern part of the state of West Virginia and the eastern edge of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The company has two geographical segment, the United Kingdom and the United States of America ("USA"). Activities in the UK are mainly administrative in nature whilst the activities in the USA relate to coal production and sale of coal. Geographically the company derives the majority of its revenue from USA.