The earnings yield is an indication of how much return shareholders' investment in the company earned over the past 12 months. The higher the earnings yield is, the better.
The earnings yield does not consider the growth of the business. A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. Ikanos Communications's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 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.
Ikanos Communications's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €-2.736 Mil.
* 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.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
If the P/E ratio is an indication of how many years it takes for the company to earn back the stock price shareholders pay to buy the shares, the earnings yield is an indication of how much return shareholders' investment in the company earned over the past 12 months. The higher the earnings yield is, the better.
If a company loses money, the earnings yield is negative. This gives a more straightforward indication that the company is losing money. This is an advantage of using earnings yield instead of the P/E ratio in valuation. For valuation purposes, the P/B Ratio and the P/S Ratio should be used for companies that are losing money.
Like the P/E ratio, the earnings yield can be used to compare investments in different industries. It can even be used to compare the attractiveness of different asset classes such as bonds and cash. Of course, the earnings yield should not be the only factor in deciding which asset classes to invest.
Also similar to the P/E ratio, the earnings yield does not consider the growth of the business. A growing company with the same earnings yield should be more attractive than a company that has the same earnings yield but does not grow.
Just like the P/E Ratio, non-recurring items such as selling part of the business, selling a previous investment, etc., can affect earnings yield dramatically. The earning yield is also a poor indication for cyclical companies. When a cyclical stock has a high earnings yield it is usually at the peak of its cycle.
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Ikanos Communications (FRA:I9J1) Business Description
Ikanos Communications Inc was incorporated in the State of California in April 1999 and reincorporated in the State of Delaware in September 2005. The Company is a provider of advanced broadband semiconductor products and software for delivering high speed broadband solutions to the digital home. The Company's broadband multi-mode and digital subscriber line processors and other semiconductor offerings power carrier infrastructure and customer premise equipment for network equipment manufacturers who, in turn, serve telecommunications service providers. The Company has developed programmable, scalable chip architectures, which form the foundation for deploying and delivering multi-play services. This communications processor architecture with wire-speed packet processing capabilities enables high-performance end user devices capable of distributing advanced services in the home. These products support telecommunications services providers' multi-play deployment plans to the digital home while keeping their capital and operating expenditures low and have been deployed by service providers in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. The Company outsources all of its semiconductor fabrication, assembly, and test functions, which allows focusing on the design, development, sales, and marketing of its products and reduces the level of its capital investment. It offers multiple product lines that are designed to address different segments of the communications processor and the high-speed broadband DSL markets. The Company currently competes or expects to compete with, among others, Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom Corporation, Cavium, Inc., Cortina Systems, Inc., Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., PMC-Sierra, Inc., Metanoia Communication, QUALCOMM Incorporated, Realtek Semiconductor Corp., and MediaTek Inc. As of December 29, 2013, the Company had over 285 patents issued in the United States and more than 35 companion patents issued in foreign jurisdictions.
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