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Aqua Metals (Aqua Metals) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -33.90% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Aqua Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Aqua Metals's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $68.70 Mil. Aqua Metals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-23.32 Mil. Aqua Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -33.90%.

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

AQMS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -187.48   Med: -31.44   Max: -6.5
Current: -61.73

During the past 10 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Aqua Metals was -6.50%. The lowest was -187.48%. And the median was -31.44%.

AQMS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
98% of 250 companies
in the Waste Management industry
Industry Median: 3.875 vs AQMS: -61.73

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) %. Aqua Metals'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.


Aqua Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Aqua Metals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Aqua Metals Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -88.50 -12.84 -22.94 -15.50 -33.90

Aqua Metals 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 -15.50 -17.18 -17.57 -17.36 -33.90

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

For the Waste Management subindustry, Aqua Metals'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.


Aqua Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Aqua Metals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Aqua Metals 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-23.317/68.6998
=-33.94 %

Aqua Metals'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 $-23.32 Mil.



Aqua Metals  (NAS:AQMS) 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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Aqua Metals (Aqua Metals) Business Description

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5370 Kietzke Lane, Suite 201, Reno, NV, USA, 89511
Aqua Metals Inc is a United States-based company engaged in the business of recycling Lead through a novel, proprietary and patent-pending process that it developed and named AquaRefining. The company's breakthrough, AquaRefining, delivers a product, at a higher yield, eliminates toxic waste, reduces permitting and is less expensive to build than smelting. AquaRefining process will provide for the recycling of Lead acid batteries and the production of a pure grade Lead with a significantly lower cost of production, and with fewer environmental and regulatory issues, than conventional methods of Lead production.
Executives
Vincent L Divito director 329 DOLPHIN LANE, WEST BABYLON NY 11704
Sung Yi director C/O AQUA METALS.COM, 5370 KIETZKE LN SUITE 201, RENO NV 89511
Peifang Zhang director 21640 E. BRIARWOOD DR., AURORA CO 80016
Edward J Smith director 635 HOOD ROAD, MARKHAM A6 L3R 4N6
David Kanen director 6429 NW 65TH WAY, PARKLAND FL 33067
Philotimo Fund, Lp other: Passive Investor 5850 CORAL RIDGE DRIVE, SUITE 309, CORAL SPRINGS FL 33076
Kanen Wealth Management Llc other: Passive Investor 5850 CORAL RIDGE DRIVE, SUITE 309, CORAL SPRINGS FL 33076
David Mcmurtry officer: Chief Business Officer C/O AQUA METALS.COM, 5370 KIETZKE LN SUITE 201, RENO NV 89511
Stephen Cotton officer: Chief Commercial Officer 1010 ATLANTIC AVE, ALAMEDA CA 94501
Benjamin S. Taecker officer: Chief Eng and Opr Officer C/O AQUA METALS, 2500 PERU DR., MCCARRAN NV 89437
Judd Merrill officer: Chief Financial Officer 2425 CROOKED CANYON CT., RENO NV 89521
S. Shariq Yosufzai director 171 ALPINE TERRACE, OAKLAND CA 94618
Gayle J Gibson director 2500 PERU DRIVE, MCCARRAN NV 89437
Susanne Meline director P.O. BOX 515381, #86506, LOS ANGELES CA 90051
Sushil Kapoor director AQUA METALS, INC., 1010 ATLANTIC AVE STE 101, ALAMEDA CA 94501