What is Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was $745.0 Mil.
Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $-79.8 Mil. Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was -10.71%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
RNF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Agriculture industry.
Industry Median: 4.66 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
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) %. Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
The historical data trend for Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Agricultural Inputs subindustry, Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP'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.
Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Agriculture Industry
For the Agriculture industry and Basic Materials sector, Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Rentech Nitrogen Partners LPs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-79.8 Mil.
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.
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Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP (Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP) Business Description
Rentech Nitrogen Partners LP is a Delaware limited partnership formed in July 2011. The Company is engaged in manufacturing of nitrogen fertilizer. The Company owns and operates two fertilizer facilities: East Dubuque Facility and Pasadena Facility. The East Dubuque Facility produces ammonia, UAN, liquid and granular urea, nitric acid and food-grade carbon dioxide, or CO2, using natural gas as its primary feedstock. Some of these products are final products sold to customers, and others, including ammonia, are both final products and feedstocks for other products, such as UAN, nitric acid, liquid urea and granular urea. The Pasadena Facility ceased production of diammonium phosphate and monoammonium phosphate. Its Pasadena Facility is the producer of synthetic ammonium sulfate and the third largest producer of ammonium sulfate in North America. The Pasadena Facility's products are applied to many types of crops including soybeans, potatoes, cotton, canola, alfalfa, corn and wheat. The Company is subject to a number of federal and state laws and regulations related to safety, including the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, and comparable state statutes, the purpose of which are to protect the health and safety of workers.
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