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Vicon Industries (STU:VCI) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -69.44% (As of Sep. 2018)


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What is Vicon Industries Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Vicon Industries's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was €3.11 Mil. Vicon Industries's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 was €-3.97 Mil. Vicon Industries's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 was -69.44%.

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

STU:VCI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Business Services industry.
Industry Median: 5.575
* 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) %. Vicon Industries's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2018 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.


Vicon Industries Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Vicon Industries Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Vicon Industries Annual Data
Trend Sep09 Sep10 Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -142.86 -36.76 -200.00 -102.04 -69.44

Vicon Industries Quarterly Data
Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18
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 -102.04 -131.58 -80.00 -71.43 -69.44

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

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Vicon Industries'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.


Vicon Industries's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Vicon Industries's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Vicon Industries 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.

Vicon Industriess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2018 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-4.047/3.1114926
=-130.07 %

Vicon Industries's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €-3.97 Mil.



Vicon Industries  (STU:VCI) 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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Vicon Industries (STU:VCI) Business Description

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Address
135 Fell Court, Hauppauge, NY, USA, 11788
Vicon Industries Inc is a video management software company. It develops video management software and designs and markets a wide range of video system components. The company comprises principally of cameras, network video servers/recorders, encoders and mass storage units, used in security, surveillance, safety and control applications by a broad group of end users. Vicon operates within the electronic protection segment of the security industry. Its product line consists of various elements of a video system, including cameras for image capture, stand-alone network video management system (VMS) software and various video recording, storage, management and output devices and peripherals.

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