What is Sierra Wireless Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Sierra Wireless's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $1,146.9 Mil.
Sierra Wireless's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2022 was $-41.9 Mil. Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was -3.41%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
SWIR'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -46.8 Med: -4.16 Max: 5.31
Current: -3.47
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sierra Wireless was 5.31%. The lowest was -46.80%. And the median was -4.16%.
SWIR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.12
vs SWIR: -3.47
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) %. Sierra Wireless's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 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.
Sierra Wireless Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Sierra Wireless Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Sierra Wireless'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.
Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Sierra Wireless's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Sierra Wireless 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.
Sierra Wirelesss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as
Sierra Wireless's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-41.9 Mil.
Sierra Wireless (NAS:SWIR) 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.
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Sierra Wireless (Sierra Wireless) Business Description
Sierra Wireless Inc is a wireless communication equipment designer and provider of Device-To-Cloud Internet-of-Things solutions. The company's product and services portfolio contain products such as high-speed cellular modules and services such as connectivity services, cloud platforms, and cellular gateways, among others. It operates through two business segments: Internet of Things solutions and Embedded broadband. The vast majority of revenue comes from the company's embedded broadband segment, and more than half of its revenue is earned in the Americas and Asia-Pacific region.
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