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Seatech Ventures (Seatech Ventures) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -1.42% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Seatech Ventures Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Seatech Ventures's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $23.98 Mil. Seatech Ventures's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-0.34 Mil. Seatech Ventures's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -1.42%.

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

SEAV' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -14.13   Med: -0.25   Max: -0.05
Current: -7.29

During the past 6 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Seatech Ventures was -0.05%. The lowest was -14.13%. And the median was -0.25%.

SEAV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
75.8% of 2868 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.275 vs SEAV: -7.29

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) %. Seatech Ventures'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.


Seatech Ventures Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Seatech Ventures Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Seatech Ventures Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - -0.08 -0.09 -3.37 -0.72

Seatech Ventures 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 -1.83 -3.04 -0.17 -0.72 -1.42

Competitive Comparison of Seatech Ventures's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Seatech Ventures'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.


Seatech Ventures's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Seatech Ventures's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Seatech Ventures 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.

Seatech Venturess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-0.303/42.338416
=-0.72 %

Seatech Ventures'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 $-0.34 Mil.



Seatech Ventures  (OTCPK:SEAV) 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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Seatech Ventures (Seatech Ventures) Business Description

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11-05 & 11-06, Tower A, Avenue 3, Vertical Business Suite, Jalan Kerinchi, Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur, MYS, 59200
Seatech Ventures Corp is engaged in the business of providing business mentoring services, nurturing and incubation services relating to client businesses and corporate development advisory services to entrepreneurs in the broader technology industry, but with a specific focus on the information and communication technology industry. The services of the company are designed to assist tech-based entrepreneurs in solving ICT industry pain points caused by technical insufficiencies, inappropriate financial modelling and weak strategic positioning.