Move's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €447.8 Mil.
Move's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €-10.5 Mil. Move's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was -2.91%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Move's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
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s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.1 Med: 1.4 Max: 3.2
Current: -2.1
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Move was 3.20%. The lowest was -2.10%. And the median was 1.40%.
FRA:HMZN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Interactive Media industry.
Industry Median: 0
vs FRA:HMZN: -2.10
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) %. Move's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 1.61%. 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.
Move Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Move'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 Move's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Move'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.
Move's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry
For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Move's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Move'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.
Moves Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as
Move's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €-10.5 Mil.
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.
Move Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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Move, Inc. was incorporated in the State of Delaware in 1993 under the name of InfoTouch Corporation. The Company and its subsidiaries operate an online network of websites for real estate information marketplace connecting consumers with the information and the expertise they need to make informed home buying, selling, financing and renting decisions. It provides consumers with a powerful combination of breadth, depth and accuracy of information about homes for sale, new construction, homes for rent, multi-family rental properties, senior living communities, home financing, home improvement and moving resources. Its flagship consumer web sites are REALTOR.com, Move.com and Moving.comTM. The Company also supplies management software and marketing services for real estate agents and brokers through its Top Producer and TigerLead businesses. The Company categorizes its products and services into two groups: Consumer Advertising and Software and Services. The Company's Consumer Advertising products are focused on providing real estate consumers with the information, tools and professional expertise they need to make informed home buying, selling, financing and renting decisions through its operation of realtor.com and other consumer-facing web sites. Realtor.com is the official web site of the National Association of Realtors (the "NAR"), the largest trade association in the U.S. that represents residential and commercial real estate professionals, including brokers, agents, property managers, appraisers, counselors and others engaged in all aspects of the real estate industry. The Company's Software and Services products are committed to delivering valuable connections to real estate professionals by providing them with advertising systems, productivity and management tools, and reporting with the goal of helping to make them more successful. It separately operates several other websites providing single family and multi-family rental listings, senior housing and moving-related content and services to its consumer audience. Realtor.com competes in a highly fragmented and highly complex local real estate marketplace. Competition within realtor.com falls into two general categories: (i) online real estate media companies; and (ii) offline advertising offerings, including newspaper classifieds, direct mail and other traditional offline media. The Company has nine patents issued in the U.S.
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