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Wright Investors' Service Holdings (Wright Investors' Service Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -105.26% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Wright Investors' Service Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $1.09 Mil. Wright Investors' Service Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-1.14 Mil. Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -105.26%.

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

IWSH' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -4684.68   Med: -13.28   Max: 14395.6
Current: -129.87

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Wright Investors' Service Holdings was 14395.60%. The lowest was -4684.68%. And the median was -13.28%.

IWSH's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
97.36% of 644 companies
in the Diversified Financial Services industry
Industry Median: -1.58 vs IWSH: -129.87

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) %. Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 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.


Wright Investors' Service Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Wright Investors' Service Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Wright Investors' Service Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -227.27 112.36 -250.00 67.11 666.67

Wright Investors' Service Holdings Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 2,000.00 149.25 178.57 666.67 -105.26

Competitive Comparison of Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Shell Companies subindustry, Wright Investors' Service Holdings'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.


Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Diversified Financial Services Industry

For the Diversified Financial Services industry and Financial Services sector, Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Wright Investors' Service Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Wright Investors' Service Holdings 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.

Wright Investors' Service Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-1.172/-0.175895
=666.31 %

Wright Investors' Service Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-1.14 Mil.



Wright Investors' Service Holdings  (OTCPK:IWSH) 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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Wright Investors' Service Holdings (Wright Investors' Service Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
118 North Bedford Road, Suite 100, Mount Kisco, NY, USA, 10549
Wright Investors' Service Holdings Inc is a shell company.
Executives
Miller William H Iii 10 percent owner C/O APG LLC, ONE SOUTH STREET, SUITE 2550, BALTIMORE MD 21202
Harvey P Eisen director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO 100 SOUTH BEDFORD ROAD, MT KISCO NY 10549
Cove Street Capital, Llc 10 percent owner 525 SOUTH DOUGLAS STREET, SUITE 225, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Cameron Dort A Iii director
Jeffrey Bronchick 10 percent owner 2101 EAST EL SEGUNDO BOULEVARD, SUITE 302, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Andrew Leaf 10 percent owner 2101 E EL SEGUNDO BOULEVARD, SUITE 302, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Paul Hinkle 10 percent owner 2101 E EL SEGUNDO BOULEVARD, SUITE 302, EL SEGUNDO CA 90245
Eugene Vlad Robin 10 percent owner 2508 FISK LANE, REDONDO BEACH CA 90278
Harold D. Kahn officer: Acting CFO & PAO 177 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Marshall S Geller director 10866 WILSHIRE BLVD., SUITE 1450, LOS ANGELES CA 90024
Amit S Khandwala officer: Co- CEO. The Winthrop Corp. 5 MAYFAIR DRIVE, TRUMBULL CT 06611
Pfenniger Richard C Jr director 4400 BISCAYNE BLVD., MIAMI FL 33137
Peter M. Donovan director, officer: CEO of Operating Subsidiary C/O THE WINTHROP CORPORATION, 440 WHEELERS FARM ROAD, MILFORD CT 06461
Thomas J Hayes officer: Chief Operating Officer 100 SOUTH BEDFORD ROAD, SUITE 2R, MOUNT KISCO NY 10549
Bedford Oak Capital Lp 10 percent owner

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