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Salesforce (Salesforce) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.21% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Salesforce Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Salesforce's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $271,332 Mil. Salesforce's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $5,999 Mil. Salesforce's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 2.21%.

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

CRM' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.94   Med: 0.32   Max: 2.64
Current: 2.28

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Salesforce was 2.64%. The lowest was -0.94%. And the median was 0.32%.

CRM's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
55.22% of 2845 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.19 vs CRM: 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) %. Salesforce's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 22.15%. 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.


Salesforce Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Salesforce Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Salesforce Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.29 0.23 0.23 1.12 2.21

Salesforce Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.12 1.53 1.95 2.76 2.21

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce'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.


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

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

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



Salesforce 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=5999/271332.39
=2.21 %

Salesforce'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 $5,999 Mil.



Salesforce  (NYSE:CRM) 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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Salesforce (Salesforce) Business Description

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Address
415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94105
Salesforce Inc provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. The company offers customer relationship management technology that brings companies and customers together. Its Customer 360 platform helps the group to deliver a single source of truth, connecting customer data across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce. It also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.
Executives
Brian Millham officer: President and COO 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 90403
Sundeep G. Reddy officer: EVP & Chief Accounting Officer 6555 NORTH STATE HWY 161, IRVING TX 75039
Srinivas Tallapragada officer: President, Technology THE LANDMARK AT ONE MARKET STREET, #300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Amy E Weaver officer: EVP, General Counsel THE LANDMARK @ ONE MARKET STREET #300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Parker Harris director, officer: Co-Founder and CTO THE LANDMARK @ ONE MARKET, SUITE 300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Marc Benioff director, officer: Chairman of the Board & CEO 50 FREMONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Brent Hyder officer: President/Chief People Officer 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Miguel Milano officer: President and CRO 415 MISSION ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Sabastian Niles officer: President and CLO 415 MISSION ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Neelie Kroes director VAN BRONCKHORSTLAAN, 2242 PZ WASSENAAR, NETHERLANDS P8 99999
Valueact Capital Management, Llc director, other: See Remarks ONE LETTERMAN DRIVE, BUILDING D, 4TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129
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Arnold W Donald director C/O CARNIVAL CORPORATION, 3655 N.W. 87TH AVENUE, MIAMI FL 33178
G Mason Morfit director, other: See Remarks ONE LETTERMAN DRIVE, BUILDING D, 4TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129
Valueact Holdings Ii, L.p. director, other: See Remarks ONE LETTERMAN DRIVE, BUILDING D, FOURTH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94129

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