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Applied Digital (Applied Digital) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -10.35% (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Applied Digital Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Applied Digital's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $797.9 Mil. Applied Digital's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $-82.6 Mil. Applied Digital's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was -10.35%.

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

APLD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -39.9   Med: -8.26   Max: -2.06
Current: -12.48

During the past 11 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Applied Digital was -2.06%. The lowest was -39.90%. And the median was -8.26%.

APLD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
88.3% of 786 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 2.68 vs APLD: -12.48

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) %. Applied Digital's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 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.


Applied Digital Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Applied Digital Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Applied Digital Annual Data
Trend May03 May04 May05 May06 May07 May08 May20 May21 May22 May23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -23.64 - -7.45 -4.81 -5.04

Applied Digital Quarterly Data
May08 Aug08 Nov08 Feb09 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
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 -15.38 -5.04 -6.73 -4.30 -10.35

Competitive Comparison of Applied Digital's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Capital Markets subindustry, Applied Digital'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.


Applied Digital's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, Applied Digital's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Applied Digital 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.

Applied Digitals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-44.149/875.870272
=-5.04 %

Applied Digital's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-82.6 Mil.



Applied Digital  (NAS:APLD) 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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Applied Digital (Applied Digital) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
3811 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Suite 2100, Dallas, TX, USA, 75219
Applied Digital Corp designs, develops and operates next-generation datacenters across North America to provide digital infrastructure solutions to the rapidly growing high performance computing industry.
Executives
Virginia Moore director 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, C/O APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN,INC., DALLAS TX 75219
Richard N Nottenburg director 1303 EAST ALGONQUIN ROAD, SCHAUMBURG IL 60196
Michael Maniscalco officer: Chief Technology Officer 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, DALLAS TX 75219
Wes Cummins director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO & Chairman 4505 LORRAINE AVE, DALLAS TX 75205
David Rench officer: Chief Financial Officer 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, C/O APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN, INC., DALLAS TX 75219
Regina Ingel officer: EVP - Operations 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, C/O APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN, INC., DALLAS TX 75219
Chuck Hastings director 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, C/O APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN, INC., DALLAS TX 75219
Douglas S Miller director C/O TELENAV, INC., 4655 GREAT AMERICA PK, SUITE 300, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Jason Zhang director 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, C/O APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN, INC., DALLAS TX 75219
Kelli Mcdonald director 3811 TURTLE CREEK BOULEVARD, SUITE 2100, C/O APPLIED BLOCKCHAIN, INC., DALLAS TX 75219
Richard S Rosenfeld officer: CFO 105 STONEBRIDGE ROAD, MONTCLAIR NJ 07042
James A Schwartz director 28 COTTRELL STREET, MYSTIC CT 06355
Riley Investment Partners Master Fund, L.p. 10 percent owner 11100 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD, SUITE 810, LOS ANGELES CA 90025
Riley Investment Management Llc 10 percent owner 11100 SANTA MONICA BLVD., SUITE 810, LOS ANGELES CA 90025
Frank L Rees director, officer: Executive Vice-President

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