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Direct Digital Holdings (Direct Digital Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.90% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Direct Digital Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Direct Digital Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $239.3 Mil. Direct Digital Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $6.9 Mil. Direct Digital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.90%.

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

DRCT' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.35   Med: 7.07   Max: 16.2
Current: 6.75

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Direct Digital Holdings was 16.20%. The lowest was 1.35%. And the median was 7.07%.

DRCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
66.86% of 1053 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 2.84 vs DRCT: 6.75

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) %. Direct Digital Holdings'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.


Direct Digital Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Direct Digital Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Direct Digital Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - 13.51 2.90

Direct Digital Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec19 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 13.51 11.11 10.24 16.18 2.90

Competitive Comparison of Direct Digital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Direct Digital Holdings'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.


Direct Digital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Direct Digital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Direct Digital Holdings 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.

Direct Digital Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=6.932/239.319384
=2.90 %

Direct Digital Holdings'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 $6.9 Mil.



Direct Digital Holdings  (NAS:DRCT) 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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Direct Digital Holdings (Direct Digital Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1177 West Loop South, Suite 1310, Houston, TX, USA, 77027
Direct Digital Holdings Inc is an end-to-end, full-service programmatic advertising platform primarily focused on providing advertising technology, data-driven campaign optimization and other solutions to underserved and less efficient markets on both the buy- and sell-side of the digital advertising ecosystem.
Executives
W Keith Smith director, 10 percent owner, officer: President
Diana P Diaz officer: Interim CFO 9220 KIRBY DRIVE SUITE 500, HOUSTON TX 77054
Mistelle Locke director C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1177 WEST LOOP SOUTH, SUITE 1310, HOUSTON TX 77027
Maria Vilchez Lowrey officer: Chief Growth Officer C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1177 WEST LOOP SOUTH STE 1310, HOUSTON TX 77027
Timothy Grittani 10 percent owner PO BOX 20551, COLUMBUS OH 43220
Richard Cohen director C/O DUNE ENERGY, INC., TWO SHELL PLAZA, 777 WALKER STREET, SUITE 2300, HOUSTON TX 77002
Antoinette Renee Leatherberry director C/O ZOETIS INC., 10 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Susan Echard officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O TRINITY CAPITAL INC., 3075 WEST RAY ROAD, SUITE 525, CHANDLER AZ 85226
Mark D Walker director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chairman and CEO C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1233 WEST LOOP SUITE 1170, HOUSTON TX 77027
Anu Pillai officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O DIRECT DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC., 1233 WEST LOOP SUITE 1170, HOUSTON TX 77027
Direct Digital Management, Llc 10 percent owner 1233 WEST LOOP S., SUITE 1170, HOUSTON TX 77027