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Confluent (Confluent) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: -6.83% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Confluent's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $6,502.2 Mil. Confluent's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-443.9 Mil. Confluent's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -6.83%.

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

CFLT' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -10.5   Med: -6.07   Max: -1.11
Current: -5.46

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Confluent was -1.11%. The lowest was -10.50%. And the median was -6.07%.

CFLT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
72.03% of 2842 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.235 vs CFLT: -5.46

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) %. Confluent'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.


Confluent Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Confluent Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -1.71 -8.22 -6.83

Confluent Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 -8.22 -7.59 -4.89 -5.69 -6.83

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Confluent'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.


Confluent Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Confluent 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-443.919/6502.2048
=-6.83 %

Confluent'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 $-443.9 Mil.



Confluent  (NAS:CFLT) 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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Confluent (Confluent) Business Description

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Address
899 West Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA, 94041
Confluent Inc is a new category of data infrastructure designed to connect all the applications, systems, and data layers of a company around a real-time central nervous system. Its products include Confluent Platform; Connectors; ksqlDB and others. The company generates revenue from the sale of subscriptions and services. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States. It provides solutions to Financial Services; Insurance; Retail and eCommerce; Automotive; Government and other sectors.
Executives
Rohan Sivaram officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CONFLUENT, INC., 899 W. EVELYN AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
Chad Verbowski officer: SVP of Engineering C/O CONFLUENT, INC., 899 W. EVELYN AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
Ying Christina Liu officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O ZENDESK, INC., 1019 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Edward Jay Kreps director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O CONFLUENT, INC., 899 W. EVELYN AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
Erica Schultz officer: President, Field Operations C/O NEW RELIC, INC., 188 SPEAR STREET, STE. 1200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Michelangelo Volpi director C/O HORTONWORKS, INC., 3640 W. BAYSHORE RD., PALO ALTO CA 94303
Stephanie Buscemi officer: Chief Marketing Officer C/O IHS INC., 15 INVERNESS EAST WAY, ENGLEWOOD CO 80107
Jonathan Chadwick director 3401 HILLVIEW AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94304
Lara Caimi director C/O CONFLUENT, INC., 899 W EVELYN AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94041
Steffan Tomlinson officer: Chief Financial Officer PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC., 3300 OLCOTT STREET, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Eric Vishria director, 10 percent owner 2965 WOODSIDE ROAD, WOODSIDE CA 94062
Sequoia Capital Fund, L.p. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Index Ventures Vii Parallel Entrepreneur Fund (jersey), L.p. 10 percent owner C/O EFG WEALTH SOLUTIONS (JERSEY) LTD, NO. 1 SEATON PLACE, ST. HELIER Y9 JE4 8YJ
Sequoia Capital Fund Parallel, Llc 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Index Ventures Vii (jersey), L.p. 10 percent owner C/O EFG WEALTH SOLUTIONS (JERSEY) LTD, NO. 1 SEATON PLACE, ST. HELIER Y9 JE4 8YJ

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