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Defentect Group (Defentect Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Sep. 2010)


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What is Defentect Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Defentect Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2010 was $14.38 Mil. Defentect Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2010 was $-3.11 Mil. Defentect Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2010 was 0.00%.

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

DFTC' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -625   Med: 0   Max: 0
Current: -400

DFTC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.24 vs DFTC: -400.00

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) %. Defentect Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2010 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.


Defentect Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Defentect Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Defentect Group'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.


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

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

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Defentect Group 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.

Defentect Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2009 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-1.312/5.6352
=-23.28 %

Defentect Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2010 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-3.11 Mil.



Defentect Group  (OTCPK:DFTC) 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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Defentect Group (Defentect Group) Business Description

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Defentect Group Inc is a developer and provider of rapid response software applications for the threat detection industry. It develops and markets technologies for the security and risk management industry. The company's products react to the detection of chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats and notify responders and key administrators immediately. Its response technology can be integrated with other manufacturers' sensors, and serve many different markets.

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