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IDOX (LSE:IDOX) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.13% (As of Oct. 2023)


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What is IDOX Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

IDOX's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was £298.69 Mil. IDOX's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2023 was £9.36 Mil. IDOX's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 3.13%.

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

LSE:IDOX' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -19.92   Med: 2.82   Max: 6.51
Current: 3.02

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of IDOX was 6.51%. The lowest was -19.92%. And the median was 2.82%.

LSE:IDOX's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
59.69% of 2863 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.17 vs LSE:IDOX: 3.02

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) %. IDOX's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Oct. 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.


IDOX Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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IDOX Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

IDOX Annual Data
Trend Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.78 1.59 2.55 2.81 3.13

IDOX Semi-Annual Data
Apr14 Oct14 Apr15 Oct15 Apr16 Oct16 Apr17 Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Apr20 Oct20 Apr21 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.55 - 2.81 - 3.13

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, IDOX'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.


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

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

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



IDOX 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.

IDOXs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=9.359/298.6867
=3.13 %

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.



IDOX  (LSE:IDOX) 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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IDOX PLC is a provider of applications to the United Kingdom's local government related to land, people, and property. The company provides public sector companies tools to manage information and knowledge, documents, content, business processes and workflow, and elections management solutions. Its operating segments include Public Sector Software (PSS), Engineering Information Management (EIM). The company generates maximum revenue from the PSS segment. The PSS segment delivers specialist information management solutions and services to the public sector. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United Kingdom.

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