What is Unit4 NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Unit4 NV's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was €0.0 Mil.
Unit4 NV's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2013 was €34.5 Mil. Unit4 NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was 2.78%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Unit4 NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:UNT'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.7 Med: 2.8 Max: 2.8
Current: 2.8
During the past 12 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Unit4 NV was 2.80%. The lowest was 2.70%. And the median was 2.80%.
FRA:UNT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.13
vs FRA:UNT: 2.80
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) %. Unit4 NV's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was 1.17%. 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.
Unit4 NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Unit4 NV'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.
Competitive Comparison of Unit4 NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Software - Application subindustry, Unit4 NV'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.
Unit4 NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Unit4 NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Unit4 NV'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.
Unit4 NVs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as
For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.
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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Unit4 NV was founded on 1980. The Company is a cloud business software and services company that helps dynamic public sector and commercial services organizations to embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively in a market sector that call 'Businesses Living IN Change' (BLINC). The Group incorporates a number of change embracing software brands, including UNIT4 Agresso, our flagship ERP suite for mid-sized services intensive organizations. The Company's UNIT4 Coda, best-of-class financial management software; and FinancialForce.com, the cloud enterprise applications company formed with investment from salesforce.com. Its software products and services are designed to meet the needs of an ever changing business. The Company has about 300 customers with about 80,000 active users and local installations in around 20 countries.
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