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Points.com (Points.com) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.43% (As of Mar. 2022)


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What is Points.com Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Points.com's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was $147.7 Mil. Points.com's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2022 was $3.5 Mil. Points.com's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was 2.43%.

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

PCOM's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Interactive Media 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) %. Points.com's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 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.


Points.com Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Points.com Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Points.com Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.39 14.71 12.99 -4.37 -0.01

Points.com Quarterly Data
Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22
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 -6.53 -2.83 -1.69 -0.01 2.43

Competitive Comparison of Points.com's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, Points.com'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.


Points.com's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, Points.com's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Points.com 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.

Points.coms Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-0.007/130.289268
=-0.01 %

Points.com's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.5 Mil.



Points.com  (NAS:PCOM) 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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Points.com (Points.com) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
111 Richmond Street, Suite 700, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5H 2G4
Points.com Inc is a Canadian company which is engaged in providing web-based solutions to the loyalty program industry. It offers e-commerce services include the retailing and wholesaling of loyalty program currencies, a range of additional e-commerce products and management of an online consumer-focused loyalty points management web-portal. The company's operating segments are Loyalty Currency Retailing, Platform Partners, and Points Travel. It generates maximum revenue from the Loyalty Currency Retailing segment. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the United States.
Executives
D Jonathan Merriman 10 percent owner MERRIMAN CURHAN FORD & CO 600 CALIFORNIA ST., 9TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO CA 94108
Phineus Voyager Fund, Lp 10 percent owner 600 CALIFORNIA STREET 9TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO CA 94108
Tamalpais Management Group, Lp 10 percent owner 600 CALIFORNIA STREET 9TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO CA 94108
Tamalpais Masterfund, Ltd 10 percent owner 600 CALIFORNIA STREET SUITE 540 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94108
Merriman Curhan Ford & Co 10 percent owner 600 CALIFORNIA STREET 9TH FLOOR SAN FRANCISCO CA 94108

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