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Zscaler (Zscaler) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.30% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Zscaler Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Zscaler's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $34,067 Mil. Zscaler's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $-102 Mil. Zscaler's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was -0.30%.

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

ZS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.56   Med: -0.67   Max: -0.27
Current: -0.4

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Zscaler was -0.27%. The lowest was -2.56%. And the median was -0.67%.

ZS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
60.12% of 2846 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.165 vs ZS: -0.40

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) %. Zscaler's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 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.


Zscaler Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Zscaler Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Zscaler Annual Data
Trend Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -0.27 -0.64 -0.63 -1.52 -0.77

Zscaler 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 -1.64 -1.90 -0.77 -0.61 -0.30

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Zscaler'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.


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

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

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



Zscaler 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-176.023/22713.27722
=-0.77 %

Zscaler'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 $-102 Mil.



Zscaler  (NAS:ZS) 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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Zscaler (Zscaler) Business Description

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120 Holger Way, San Jose, CA, USA, 95134
Zscaler is a software-as-a-service, or SaaS, firm focusing on providing cloud-native cybersecurity solutions to primarily enterprise customers. Zscaler's offerings can be broadly partitioned into Zscaler Internet Access, which provides secure access to external applications, and Zscaler Private Access, which provides secure access to internal applications. The firm is headquartered in San Jose, California, and went public in 2018.
Executives
Karen Blasing director 4420 ROSEWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 500, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Amit Sinha director, officer: CTO & EVP of Eng/ Cloud Ops C/O ZSCALER INC, 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Brown Andrew William Fraser director C/O GUIDEWIRE SOFTWARE, INC., 970 PARK PL, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Robert Schlossman officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O ZSCALER, INC., 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Dali Rajic officer: Pres Go-To-Mkt/ Chief Rev Ofcr C/O APPDYNAMICS INC, 303 SECOND STREET NORTH TOWER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Syam Nair officer: CTO 120 HOLGER WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Jagtar Singh Chaudhry director, 10 percent owner, officer: President, CEO & Chairman C/O ZSCALER, INC., 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Remo Canessa officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ZSCALER, INC., 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Scott C Darling director C/O ZSCALER INC, 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Charles H Giancarlo director 170 WEST TASMAN DRIVE, SAN JOSE X1 95134
Ajay Mangal 10 percent owner C/O ZSCALER INC, 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Eileen Naughton director C/O GOOGLE INC., 76 NINTH AVENUE, 4TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10011
Manoj Apte officer: Chief Strategy Officer C/O ZSCALER INC, 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
David Schneider director C/O DATA DOMAIN, INC., 2300 CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY, SANTA CLARA CA 95050
Lane Bess director C/O ZSCALER INC, 110 ROSE ORCHARD WAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134