What is Foresight 2 VCT Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Foresight 2 VCT's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2015 was £59.61 Mil.
Foresight 2 VCT's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2015 was £0.57 Mil. Foresight 2 VCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2015 was 0.00%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Foresight 2 VCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LSE:FTNI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Asset Management industry.
Industry Median: 0 * 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) %. Foresight 2 VCT's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2015 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.
Foresight 2 VCT Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Foresight 2 VCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
For the Asset Management subindustry, Foresight 2 VCT'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.
Foresight 2 VCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Asset Management Industry
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Foresight 2 VCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Foresight 2 VCT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Foresight 2 VCTs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as
For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.
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.
Foresight 2 VCT Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Related Terms
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Foresight 2 VCT PLC is a venture capital company. The Company's investment objective is to provide private investors with attractive returns by investing in range of securities including ordinary and preference shares, loan stock as well as cash. Foresight Group is the manager of the Company and provides investment management and other administrative services.
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