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Metro One Telecommunications (Metro One Telecommunications) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -33.11% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Metro One Telecommunications Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Metro One Telecommunications's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $22.95 Mil. Metro One Telecommunications's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $-7.61 Mil. Metro One Telecommunications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was -33.11%.

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

WOWI' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -318.72   Med: -16.69   Max: -3.44
Current: -285.71

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Metro One Telecommunications was -3.44%. The lowest was -318.72%. And the median was -16.69%.

WOWI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
98.46% of 2853 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.14 vs WOWI: -285.71

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) %. Metro One Telecommunications's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 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.


Metro One Telecommunications Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Metro One Telecommunications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Metro One Telecommunications Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Metro One Telecommunications Annual Data
Trend Dec00 Dec01 Dec02 Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec21 Dec22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 384.62 -322.58 -555.56 -31.75 -11.51

Metro One Telecommunications Quarterly Data
Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07 Dec07 Mar08 Jun08 Sep08 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 -7.37 -11.51 -14.29 -13.76 -33.11

Competitive Comparison of Metro One Telecommunications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Metro One Telecommunications'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.


Metro One Telecommunications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Metro One Telecommunications's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Metro One Telecommunications 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.

Metro One Telecommunicationss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-2.608/22.662895
=-11.51 %

Metro One Telecommunications's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-7.61 Mil.



Metro One Telecommunications  (OTCPK:WOWI) 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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Metro One Telecommunications (Metro One Telecommunications) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
30 North Gould Street, Suite 2990, Sheridan, WY, USA, 82801
Metro One Telecommunications Inc is a mobile commerce platform company. Its product includes Mobile Commerce Merchant Platform; Mobile Commerce Enterprise Platform and Instore Engagement Suite.
Executives
James F. Hensel officer: Chief Executive Officer METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., 11200 MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
Keller Richard B. Ii director C/O METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., 11200 SW MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
Jeana Randall officer: Controller METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., 11200 MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
Bruce Galloway 10 percent owner C/O GALLOWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC, 720 FIFTH AVENUE 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Gary L Herman 10 percent owner 720 FIFTH AVE, 10TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Galloway Capital Management, Llc 10 percent owner 1325 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 26TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Strategic Turnaround Equity Partners Lp Cayman 10 percent owner PO BOX 2150 GT 4TH FLOOR, 1 CAYMAN FINANCIAL CENTER, GRAND CAYMAN E9 00000
Elchanan Maoz director 11200 SW MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
Everest Special Situations Fund Lp 10 percent owner PLATINUM HOUSE, 21 HA'ARBA'A STREET, TEL AVIV ISREAL L3 64739
Maoz Everest Fund Management, Ltd. 10 percent owner PLATINUM HOUSE, 21 HA'ARBA'A STREET, TEL AVIV L3 64739
Jonathan A Ater director 11200 SW MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
William K Hergenhan officer: Interim CFO 11200 MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
Lynne L Michaelson officer: Senior Vice President - HR 11200 MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
John S Miller officer: Sr. VP Voice Technology 11200 MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007
Philip A Ljubicich officer: President, M1 Data & Analytics 11200 MURRAY SCHOLLS PLACE, BEAVERTON OR 97007