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ZeroFox Holdings (ZeroFox Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -125.00% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is ZeroFox Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

ZeroFox Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $277.8 Mil. ZeroFox Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $-348.9 Mil. ZeroFox Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was -125.00%.

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

ZFOX' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -309.61   Med: -113.5   Max: -6.42
Current: -112.36

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of ZeroFox Holdings was -6.42%. The lowest was -309.61%. And the median was -113.50%.

ZFOX's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
96.04% of 2857 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.15 vs ZFOX: -112.36

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) %. ZeroFox Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 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.


ZeroFox Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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ZeroFox Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

ZeroFox Holdings Annual Data
Trend Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - - -125.00

ZeroFox Holdings Quarterly Data
Jan20 Jan21 Apr21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 - -270.27 -250.00 -56.50 -125.00

Competitive Comparison of ZeroFox Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, ZeroFox 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.


ZeroFox Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



ZeroFox 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.

ZeroFox Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-348.854/277.8229698
=-125.57 %

ZeroFox Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-348.9 Mil.



ZeroFox Holdings  (NAS:ZFOX) 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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ZeroFox Holdings (ZeroFox Holdings) Business Description

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1834 South Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, USA, 21230
ZeroFox Holdings Inc is a cybersecurity company. It provides external threat intelligence and protection to disrupt threats to brands, people, assets and data across the public attack surface in one, comprehensive platform. With complete global coverage across the surface, deep and dark web and an artificial intelligence-based analysis engine, the ZeroFox Platform identifies and remediates targeted phishing attacks, credential compromise, data exfiltration, brand hijacking, executive and location threats and more.
Executives
James Christopher Foster director, officer: See Remarks 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Prestridge Iii John R officer: Chief Marketing Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Michael Morgan Price officer: Chief Technology Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Kevin T Reardon officer: Chief Operating Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Scott O'rourke officer: Chief Revenue Officer 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Thomas P Fitzgerald officer: See Remarks 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 21230
Timothy S Bender officer: See Remarks 1834 S. CHARLES ST., BALTIMORE MD 10020
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