What is Iridium Communications Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Iridium Communications's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $4,611.9 Mil.
Iridium Communications's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $112.1 Mil. Iridium Communications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2.43%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Iridium Communications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
IRDM'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.8 Med: 1.55 Max: 10.6
Current: 2.28
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Iridium Communications was 10.60%. The lowest was -2.80%. And the median was 1.55%.
IRDM's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 64.91% of 399
companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 5.51
vs IRDM: 2.28
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) %. Iridium Communications's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 19.27%. 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.
Iridium Communications Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Iridium Communications'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.
Competitive Comparison of Iridium Communications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Telecom Services subindustry, Iridium Communications'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.
Iridium Communications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry
For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Iridium Communications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Iridium Communications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Iridium Communicationss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Iridium Communications's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $112.1 Mil.
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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Iridium Communications (Iridium Communications) Business Description
Iridium Communications Inc offers voice and data communications services and products to businesses, U.S. and international government agencies, and other customers on a global basis. The company is a provider of mobile voice and data communications services through a constellation of low earth-orbiting satellites. Reaching across land, sea, and air, including the polar regions, Iridium's solutions are ideally suited for industries such as maritime, aviation, government/military, emergency/humanitarian services, mining, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, transportation, and utilities. Iridium also provides service to subscribers from the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as other civil and government agencies around the world.
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