Pitney Bowes's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2,637 Mil.
Pitney Bowes's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-243 Mil. Pitney Bowes's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -9.21%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Pitney Bowes's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
PBI'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -9.59 Med: 7.18 Max: 13.93
Current: -9.43
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Pitney Bowes was 13.93%. The lowest was -9.59%. And the median was 7.18%.
PBI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 93.92% of 1003
companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 6.98
vs PBI: -9.43
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) %. Pitney Bowes'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.
Pitney Bowes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Pitney Bowes'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.
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Pitney Bowes Annual Data
Trend
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Dec22
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
7.01
-1.01
4.60
7.26
-9.21
Pitney Bowes Quarterly Data
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Dec22
Mar23
Jun23
Sep23
Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
7.26
5.64
0.19
-0.65
-9.21
Competitive Comparison
For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Pitney Bowes'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.
Pitney Bowes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Pitney Bowes's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Pitney Bowes'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.
Pitney Bowess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Pitney Bowes's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-243 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.
Pitney Bowes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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Pitney Bowes is a Global technology company that offers e-commerce solutions to its clients. The company provides various products and services such as domestic delivery, return and fulfillment, cross-border shipping solutions, sorting services for large volumes of postal mails, technological solutions to enable digital mailing, shipping, and other services. The company operates through three business segments: Global e-commerce, presort services, and SendTech Solutions. The company generates majority of its revenue from United States.
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