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CART (Maplebear) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 5.13% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Maplebear Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Maplebear's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $8,864 Mil. Maplebear's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 was $455 Mil. Maplebear's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 5.13%.

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

CART' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -921.9   Med: -22.95   Max: 6.42
Current: 4.42

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Maplebear was 6.42%. The lowest was -921.90%. And the median was -22.95%.

CART's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
52.74% of 1115 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.92 vs CART: 4.42

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) %. Maplebear's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.00%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past five 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.


Maplebear Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Maplebear Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Maplebear Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -48.54 5.17

Maplebear Quarterly Data
Dec21 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -24.10 -31.35 4.14 5.17 5.13

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

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Maplebear'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.


Maplebear's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Maplebear's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Maplebear 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.

Maplebears Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=489/9466.12888
=5.17 %

Maplebear's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $455 Mil.



Maplebear  (NAS:CART) 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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Maplebear Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
50 Beale Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94105
Maplebear (Instacart) operates a leading grocery delivery platform in the United States and Canada. The company partners with various regional and national grocers, which offer their selection of food and other goods to customers through Instacart's ubiquitous platform. Once an item is ordered through Instacart's site, the item is picked and delivered to the customer's home by one of the platform's 600,000 shoppers, who are classified as independent contractors. Instacart earns fees based on average order value and leverages its platform's high usage to sell advertising, mainly to consumer-packaged goods companies. Instacart currently has about 8 million monthly active users (or orderers) on its platform.
Executives
Morgan Fong officer: General Counsel & Secretary C/O MAPLEBEAR INC., 50 BEALE STREET, SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Fidji Simo director, officer: President and CEO C/O SHOPIFY, INC., 151 O'CONNOR STREET, GROUND FLOOR, OTTAWA Z4 K2P 2L8
Alan Ramsay officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O YELP INC., 140 NEW MONTGOMERY ST., 9TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Nick Giovanni officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O MAPLEBEAR INC., 50 BEALE STREET, SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Sequoia Capital Global Growth Fund Ii, L.p. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Sc Us (ttgp), Ltd. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL RD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Sequoia Capital U.s. Venture Partners Fund Xiv (q), L.p. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL RD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Ravi Gupta director, 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Jeffrey D Jordan director 2865 SAND HILL ROAD #101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Sequoia Capital Us/e Expansion Fund I, L.p. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Grosvenor Capital Management, L.p. other: See Explanation of Responses 900 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, SUITE 1100, CHICAGO IL 60611
Gcm Special Opportunities Master Fund, Ltd. other: See Explanation of Responses PO BOX 309 UGLAND HOUSE, GRAND CAYMAN E9 KY1-1104
D1 Capital Partners L.p. director, 10 percent owner, other: See Remarks 9 WEST 57TH STREET, 36TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Gcm Grosvenor Inc. other: See Explanation of Responses 900 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, SUITE 1100, CHICAGO IL 60611
Apoorva Mehta 10 percent owner C/O MAPLEBEAR INC., 50 BEALE STREET, SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105