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Pure Cycle (Pure Cycle) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 3.94% (As of Feb. 2024)
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Pure Cycle's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $226.67 Mil. Pure Cycle's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $8.94 Mil. Pure Cycle's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 3.94%.

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

PCYO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -10.09   Med: -0.13   Max: 10.21
Current: 4.25

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Pure Cycle was 10.21%. The lowest was -10.09%. And the median was -0.13%.

PCYO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
73.61% of 523 companies
in the Utilities - Regulated industry
Industry Median: 7.08 vs PCYO: 4.25

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) %. Pure Cycle's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 20.54%. 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.


Pure Cycle Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pure Cycle'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.

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Pure Cycle Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.21 1.39 7.88 5.90 2.61

Pure Cycle Quarterly Data
May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.77 5.95 2.61 3.98 3.94

Competitive Comparison

For the Utilities - Regulated Water subindustry, Pure Cycle'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.


Pure Cycle Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Pure Cycle's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Pure Cycle 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.

Pure Cycles Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=6.426/245.888913
=2.61 %

Pure Cycle's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $8.94 Mil.



Pure Cycle  (NAS:PCYO) 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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Pure Cycle (Pure Cycle) Business Description

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Address
34501 E. Quincy Avenue, Building 65, Suite A, Watkins, CO, USA, 80137
Pure Cycle Corp is a diversified land and water resource development company. It designs, constructs, manages, operates, and maintains water and wastewater systems. The firm operates in two business segments namely Water and wastewater resource development and Land development. It generates maximum revenue from the Land development segment. The company's services include water production, storage, treatment, bulk transmission to retail distribution systems, wastewater collection and treatment, irrigation water treatment and transmission, construction management, billing, and collection. The land resource development segment includes all the activities necessary to develop and sell finished lots.
Executives
Mark W Harding director, officer: President and CFO 8451 DELAWARE STREET, THORNTON CO 80260
Marc Stephen Spezialy officer: Vice President and CFO 34501 E. QUINCY AVE. BLDG 65, WATKINS CO 80137
Kevin Blain Mcneill officer: Chief Financial Officer 34501 E. QUINCY AVE, BLDG 34, WATKINS CO 80018
Plaisance Spv I, Llc 10 percent owner 250 FILLMORE, SUITE 525, DENVER CO 80206
Wanda J Abel director 34501 QUINCY AVENUE BLDG. 34, WATKINS CO 80109
Fendel Frederick A. Iii director C/O PURE CYCLE CORP., 34501 E. QUINCY AVE., BLDG. 34, WATKINS CO 80137
Plaisance Capital Llc 10 percent owner 250 FILLMORE, SUITE 525, DENVER CO 80206
Patrick Beirne director 8 VIKING DR, ENGLEWOOD CO 80113
Jeffrey G Sheets director 5291 E. YALE AVE., DENVER CO 80222
Par Investment Partners Lp 10 percent owner 200 CLARENDON STREET, FL 48, BOSTON MA 02116
Daniel R Kozlowski 10 percent owner 250 FILLMORE, SUITE 525, DENVER CO 80206
Par Capital Management Inc 10 percent owner 200 CLARENDON STREET, FL 48, BOSTON MA 02116
Par Group Ii, L.p. 10 percent owner 200 CLARENDON STREET, 48TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Epker Arthur G Iii director C/O PURE CYCLE CORPORATION, 8451 DELAWARE ST., THORNTON CO 80260
Harrison E Augur director PO BOX 4389, ASPEN CO 81611