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iGate (FRA:MS4) Earnings Yield % : 2.36% (As of May. 24, 2024)


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What is iGate Earnings Yield %?

The earnings yield is an indication of how much return shareholders' investment in the company earned over the past 12 months. The higher the earnings yield is, the better.

As of today (2024-05-24), the stock price of iGate is €42.09. iGate's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2015 was €0.99. Therefore, iGate's earnings yield of today is 2.36%.

The earnings yield does not consider the growth of the business. A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. iGate's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2015 was 37.95%. 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.


iGate Earnings Yield % Calculation

Earnings yield is the reciprocal of the P/E Ratio.

iGate's Earnings Yield for today is calculated as

Earnings Yield=Earnings per Share (Diluted) (TTM)/Share Price
=0.994/42.09
=2.36 %

iGate's Earnings per Share (Diluted) for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €0.994 Mil.

* 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.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

Earnings Yield=Net Income /Market Cap

The earnings in the calculation is the Trailing Twelve Months earnings.


iGate  (FRA:MS4) Earnings Yield % Explanation

If the P/E ratio is an indication of how many years it takes for the company to earn back the stock price shareholders pay to buy the shares, the earnings yield is an indication of how much return shareholders' investment in the company earned over the past 12 months. The higher the earnings yield is, the better.

If a company loses money, the earnings yield is negative. This gives a more straightforward indication that the company is losing money. This is an advantage of using earnings yield instead of the P/E ratio in valuation. For valuation purposes, the P/B Ratio and the P/S Ratio should be used for companies that are losing money.

Like the P/E ratio, the earnings yield can be used to compare investments in different industries. It can even be used to compare the attractiveness of different asset classes such as bonds and cash. Of course, the earnings yield should not be the only factor in deciding which asset classes to invest.

Also similar to the P/E ratio, the earnings yield does not consider the growth of the business. A growing company with the same earnings yield should be more attractive than a company that has the same earnings yield but does not grow.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.

Be Aware

Just like the P/E Ratio, non-recurring items such as selling part of the business, selling a previous investment, etc., can affect earnings yield dramatically. The earning yield is also a poor indication for cyclical companies. When a cyclical stock has a high earnings yield it is usually at the peak of its cycle.


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iGate (FRA:MS4) Business Description

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Igate Corp was founded in 1986. The Company is an outsourcing provider of integrated end-to-end offshore centric information technology (IT) and IT-enabled operations solutions and services. The Company delivers various IT services through international integrated onsite and offshore delivery locations mainly in India. The Company provides its services to customers through industry focused practices, including insurance and healthcare (IHC), manufacturing, retail and logistics (MRDL), banking and financial services (BFS"), communications and utilities (CEU), and media and entertainment (MELT) and through technology focused practices. It offers services to customers through industry focused practices, including insurance and healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, retail and logistics, banking and financial services, communications, energy and utilities, product and engineering solutions, government solutions and media and entertainment. Its IT and IT-enabled services include application development, application management, verification and validation, enterprise application solutions, business intelligence and data warehousing, infrastructure management services, enterprise mobility, cloud services, embedded systems development, engineering design services, IT consulting, IT governance and customized learning solutions, business process outsourcing ("BPO") and customer interaction services. The Company has operations in India, Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Turkey, South Korea, China, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company delivers effective solutions to more than 360 Fortune 1000 clients. The Company's main competitors in the IT and IT enabled outsourcing industry include IT outsourcing firms, consulting firms, systems integration-firms and general management consulting firms such as Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Infosys Technologies Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Wipro Limited, Genpact Limited, WNS (Holdings) Limited, EXLService Holdings Inc., Syntel Inc., Mindtree Limited, and Hexaware Technologies Limited. The Company is subject to numerous, and sometimes conflicting, legal regimes on matters as diverse as anticorruption, import/export controls, content requirements, trade restrictions, tariffs, taxation, sanctions, immigration, internal and disclosure control obligations, securities regulation, anti-competition, data privacy and labor relations.

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