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Check Point Software Technologies (Check Point Software Technologies) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 6.22% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Check Point Software Technologies Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Check Point Software Technologies's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $15,721 Mil. Check Point Software Technologies's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $978 Mil. Check Point Software Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.22%.

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

CHKP' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.11   Med: 6.47   Max: 9.16
Current: 5.88

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Check Point Software Technologies was 9.16%. The lowest was 5.11%. And the median was 6.47%.

CHKP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
73.35% of 2844 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.185 vs CHKP: 5.88

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) %. Check Point Software Technologies's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 11.39%. 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.


Check Point Software Technologies Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Check Point Software Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Check Point Software Technologies Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Check Point Software Technologies Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.63 5.88 7.15 6.84 6.22

Check Point Software Technologies Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.84 6.87 7.19 6.97 6.22

Competitive Comparison of Check Point Software Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Check Point Software Technologies'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.


Check Point Software Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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Check Point Software Technologies 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.

Check Point Software Technologiess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=977.9/15720.90774
=6.22 %

Check Point Software Technologies'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 $978 Mil.



Check Point Software Technologies  (NAS:CHKP) 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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Check Point Software Technologies (Check Point Software Technologies) Business Description

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Address
5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv, ISR, 6789159
Check Point Software Technologies is a pure-play cybersecurity vendor. The company offers solutions for network, endpoint, cloud, and mobile security in addition to security management. Check Point, a software specialist, sells to enterprises, businesses, and consumers. Around 50% of revenue is generated in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 40% from the Americas, and 10% from the Asia-Pacific region. The firm, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, was founded in 1993 and has about 5,000 employees.