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Lithium Americas (TSX:LAC) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.44% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Lithium Americas Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Lithium Americas's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was C$1,116.99 Mil. Lithium Americas's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was C$-19.40 Mil. Lithium Americas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.44%.

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

TSX:LAC' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -5.52   Med: 0   Max: 0
Current: -1.74

TSX:LAC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
75.33% of 2671 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: -11.95 vs TSX:LAC: -1.74

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) %. Lithium Americas'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.


Lithium Americas Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Lithium Americas Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Lithium Americas Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -0.44

Lithium Americas Quarterly Data
Dec20 Dec21 Mar22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only - - - - -0.44

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

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Lithium Americas'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.


Lithium Americas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Lithium Americas's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Lithium Americas 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-4.874/1116.985
=-0.44 %

Lithium Americas'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 C$-19.40 Mil.



Lithium Americas  (TSX:LAC) 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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Lithium Americas (TSX:LAC) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
900 West Hastings Street, Suite 300, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V6C 1E5
Lithium Americas is a pure-play lithium producer. The firm owns one resource, Thacker Pass, that is located in northwest Nevada. Thacker Pass recently began construction and is expected to begin production in the mid-2020s. Thacker Pass is one of the largest known lithium resources in the world. The project would be the first clay-based asset to enter production, and we estimate it will be in bottom half of the global cost curve. Management plans to develop Thacker Pass into a fully integrated lithium production site, with downstream refining capabilities on site, and will sell into the lithium chemical market.

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