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Presto Automation (Presto Automation) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -54.64% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Presto Automation Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Presto Automation's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $93.58 Mil. Presto Automation's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-51.26 Mil. Presto Automation's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -54.64%.

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

PRST' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -76.78   Med: -9.35   Max: 10.54
Current: -69.93

During the past 4 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Presto Automation was 10.54%. The lowest was -76.78%. And the median was -9.35%.

PRST's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
94.15% of 2857 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.15 vs PRST: -69.93

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) %. Presto Automation'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.


Presto Automation Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Presto Automation Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Presto Automation Annual Data
Trend Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -6.40

Presto Automation Quarterly Data
Jun20 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 9.96 -7.81 -6.40 -37.04 -54.64

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Presto Automation'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.


Presto Automation's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Presto Automation's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Presto Automation 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.

Presto Automations Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-21.716/339.14521
=-6.40 %

Presto Automation'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 $-51.26 Mil.



Presto Automation  (NAS:PRST) 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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Presto Automation (Presto Automation) Business Description

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Address
985 Industrial Road, San Carlos, CA, USA, 94070
Presto Automation Inc overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. It provides an accurate, next-gen solution that uses artificial intelligence to automate speech recognition for restaurant drive-thru. The Company earns substantially all of its revenue in the United States.
Executives
Keith E Kravcik director 11840 VALLEY VIEW ROAD, EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55344
Dan Mosher officer: Chief Revenue Officer 810 HAMILTON STREET, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
Justin Foster officer: Chief Revenue Officer PRESTO AUTOMATION INC., 985 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Cleveland Avenue Food & Beverage Fund Ii, Lp 10 percent owner 222 N. CANAL STREET, CHICAGO IL 60606
Nathan Cook officer: Interim CFO PRESTO AUTOMATION INC., 985 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Xavier Casanova officer: CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER PRESTO AUTOMATION INC., 985 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Rajat Suri 10 percent owner 525 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD, SUITE 250, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Stanley Mbugua officer: Chief Accounting Officer SKILLZ INC, PO BOX 455, SAN FRAN CA 94104
Scott David Raskin director QUOTIENT TECHNOLOGY INC., 1260 EAST STRINGHAM AVENUE, SUITE 600, SALT LAKE CITY UT 84106
Gail Zauder director 122 EAST 82ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10028
Kim A Lopdrup director 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Jonas Grossman director, 10 percent owner 17 STREET, SUITE 1600, NEW YORK NY 10004
Ashish Ram Gupta officer: Chief Financial Officer 810 HAMILTON STREET, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
William Robert Healey officer: Chief Technology Officer 810 HAMILTON STREET, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
Romulus Elc B3 Special Opportunity, L.p. 10 percent owner 307 HARVARD STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139