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Covisint (Covisint) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -25.13% (As of Mar. 2017)


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What is Covisint Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Covisint's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 was $50.55 Mil. Covisint's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2017 was $-12.72 Mil. Covisint's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 was -25.13%.

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

COVS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.27
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.

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) %. Covisint's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 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.


Covisint Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Covisint Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Covisint Annual Data
Trend Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - -15.80 -131.58 -35.59 -25.13

Covisint Quarterly Data
Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17
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 -35.59 -28.17 -25.71 -30.21 -25.13

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Covisint'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.


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

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

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



Covisint 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.

Covisints Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2017 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-12.718/50.548095
=-25.16 %

Covisint's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-12.72 Mil.



Covisint  (NAS:COVS) 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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Covisint (Covisint) Business Description

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Covisint Corp incorporated in April 2008 provides a cloud Platform for the development of identity-centric and IoT solutions. It packages and markets the Covisint Cloud Platform as three different offerings namely, The Covisint Identity Platform, The Covisint IoT Platform, and The Covisint Connected Vehicle Platform. The Covisint Platform offers a complete and tightly integrated set of technologies for one purpose- to enable trusted information sharing and secure interactions across people, systems and things. It offer these capabilities via the public cloud, and exposed via APIs, to enable developers to create custom solutions to transform their businesses.
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William O Grabe director C/O COMPUWARE CORP, DETROIT MI 48226
John F. Smith director ONE DAUCH DR., DETROIT MI 48211
Dr. Homaira Akbari director 13410 SUTTON PARK DRIVE SOUTH, JACKSONVILLE FL 32224

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