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Harvest Technology (MAL:HRV) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.36% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Harvest Technology Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Harvest Technology's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €25.48 Mil. Harvest Technology's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was €0.86 Mil. Harvest Technology's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.36%.

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

MAL:HRV' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.36   Med: 9.47   Max: 15.88
Current: 3.42

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Harvest Technology was 15.88%. The lowest was 3.36%. And the median was 9.47%.

MAL:HRV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.37 vs MAL:HRV: 3.42

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) %. Harvest Technology's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.


Harvest Technology Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Harvest Technology Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Harvest Technology Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- 13.91 13.19 6.82 3.36

Harvest Technology Semi-Annual Data
Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 13.19 - 6.82 - 3.36

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

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Harvest Technology'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.


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

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

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



Harvest Technology 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.

Harvest Technologys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=0.856/25.48472
=3.36 %

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.



Harvest Technology  (MAL:HRV) 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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Harvest Technology (MAL:HRV) Business Description

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Harvest Technology PLC is an investment and holding company. It provides delivery of business solutions and technology (including integrated and automated solutions) and payment solutions and related services. The company's portfolio consists of entities delivering systems engineering, security solutions, e-commerce platforms, electronic payments solutions, networking and system maintenance, automation products, product development and IT outsourcing. The Group operates two business activities which are the sale of payment processing services and the provision of IT solutions and security systems.

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