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Sonos (SONO) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.79% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Sonos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Sonos's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,730 Mil. Sonos's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-14 Mil. Sonos's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.79%.

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

SONO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -5.48   Med: 0.99   Max: 8.74
Current: -0.8

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sonos was 8.74%. The lowest was -5.48%. And the median was 0.99%.

SONO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
71.05% of 2473 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.35 vs SONO: -0.80

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) %. Sonos'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.


Sonos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Sonos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Sonos Annual Data
Trend Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.12 -1.34 4.48 4.55 0.35

Sonos 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 2.85 -0.66 -1.58 0.35 -0.79

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

For the Consumer Electronics subindustry, Sonos'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.


Sonos's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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



Sonos 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=5.127/1451.09974
=0.35 %

Sonos'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 $-14 Mil.



Sonos  (NAS:SONO) 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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Sonos (SONO) Business Description

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Address
614 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 93101
Sonos Inc is engaged in providing home sound systems. The company's product profile includes speaker sets and other accessories like boost, mounts, stands, and cables and networking. Geographically, the company operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Generating a majority of its revenue from the Americas.
Executives
Joanna Coles director C/O SNAP INC., 3000 31ST STREET, SANTA MONICA CA 90405
Maxime Bouvat-merlin officer: Chief Product Officer C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Edward P Lazarus officer: CFO & CLO C/O TRIBUNE COMPANY, 435 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL 60611
Shamayne Braman officer: Chief People Officer C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA ST., SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Nicholas Millington officer: Chief Innovation Officer C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Patrick Spence director, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Thomas Conrad director 2101 WEBSTER STREET, SUITE 1650, OAKLAND CA 94612
Christopher Scott Mason officer: Principal Accounting Officer C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Matthew O. Siegel officer: Chief Commercial Officer C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Brittany Bagley director C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Anna Fraser officer: Chief People Officer C/O SONOS INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
Michelangelo Volpi director C/O HORTONWORKS, INC., 3640 W. BAYSHORE RD., PALO ALTO CA 94303
Julius Genachowski director C/O INTERACTIVECORP, 152 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Panos Panay director 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101
John Maeda director C/O SONOS, INC., 614 CHAPALA STREET, SANTA BARBARA CA 93101