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Flywire (Flywire) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.18% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Flywire Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Flywire's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2,184.3 Mil. Flywire's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-4.0 Mil. Flywire's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.18%.

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

FLYW' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.68   Med: -0.95   Max: -0.14
Current: -0.21

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Flywire was -0.14%. The lowest was -2.68%. And the median was -0.95%.

FLYW's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
59.28% of 2851 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.19 vs FLYW: -0.21

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) %. Flywire's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Flywire Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Flywire Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Flywire Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -0.65 -1.55 -0.18

Flywire Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -1.55 -1.02 -0.73 -0.28 -0.18

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Flywire'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.


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

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

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



Flywire 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-3.98/2184.3062
=-0.18 %

Flywire's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-4.0 Mil.



Flywire  (NAS:FLYW) 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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Flywire (Flywire) Business Description

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Address
141 Tremont Street, Suite 10, Boston, MA, USA, 02111
Flywire Corp provides a secure global payments platform, offering its clients an innovative and streamlined process to receive reconciled domestic and international payments in a more cost-effective and efficient manner. The company's solutions are built on three core elements namely a payments platform; a proprietary global payment network and vertical-specific software backed by its deep industry expertise. Geographically, the majority of revenue is from the Americas.
Executives
Michael G Ellis officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O FLYWIRE CORPORATION, 141 TREMONT STREET, SUITE 10, BOSTON MA 02111
Peter Butterfield officer: General Counsel and CCO C/O FLYWIRE CORPORATION, 141 TREMONT STREET, SUITE 10, BOSTON MA 02111
Rob Orgel officer: President and COO C/O FLYWIRE CORPORATION, 141 TREMONT STREET, SUITE 10, BOSTON MA 02111
Michael Massaro director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O FLYWIRE CORPORATION, 141 TREMONT STREET, SUITE 10, BOSTON MA 02111
David R. King officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O FLYWIRE CORPORATION, 141 TREMONT STREET, SUITE 10, BOSTON MA 02111
Gretchen Howard director 707 MENLO AVENUE, SUITE 110, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Matthew C Harris director, 10 percent owner 1 BANK STREET, 2ND FLOOR, WILLIAMSTOWN MA 01267
Edwin J Santos director 234 MOURNING DOVE DRIVE, SAUNDERSTOWN RI 02874
Bain Capital Venture Investors, Llc 10 percent owner 200 CLARENDON STREET, BOSTON MA 02116
Bain Capital Venture Coinvestment Fund Ii, L.p. 10 percent owner 200 CLARENDON STREET, BOSTON MA 02116
Enrique T Salem 10 percent owner SYMANTEC CORPORATION, 20330 STEVENS CREEK BLVD., CUPERTINO CA 95014
Ajay Agarwal 10 percent owner C/O BAIN CAPITAL VENTURE INVESTORS, LLC, 200 CLARENDON STREET, BOSTON MA 02116
Alex Finkelstein director, 10 percent owner C/O WAYFAIR INC, 4 COPLEY PLACE, 7TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
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