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Diodes (Diodes) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 8.01% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Diodes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Diodes's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,541 Mil. Diodes's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $284 Mil. Diodes's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 8.01%.

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

DIOD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.47   Med: 6.3   Max: 14.06
Current: 9.25

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Diodes was 14.06%. The lowest was 1.47%. And the median was 6.30%.

DIOD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
85.87% of 998 companies
in the Semiconductors industry
Industry Median: 2.045 vs DIOD: 9.25

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) %. Diodes's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 23.94%. 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.


Diodes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Diodes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Diodes Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.30 3.90 6.49 11.89 8.01

Diodes Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 11.89 9.82 9.94 10.27 8.01

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

For the Semiconductors subindustry, Diodes'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.


Diodes's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Diodes's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Diodes 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.

Diodess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=283.633/3540.622968
=8.01 %

Diodes's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $284 Mil.



Diodes  (NAS:DIOD) 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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Diodes (Diodes) Business Description

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Address
4949 Hedgcoxe Road, Suite 200, Plano, TX, USA, 75024
Diodes Inc is a manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application-specific products within the broad discrete, logic, analog, and mixed-signal semiconductor markets. It serves the customer electronics, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive markets. The Company's products include diodes; rectifiers; transistors; MOSFETs; GPP bridges; GPP rectifiers; protection devices; function-specific arrays; single gate logic; amplifiers and comparators; Hall-effect and temperature sensors; and power management devices, including LED drivers, AC-DC converters and controllers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, voltage references along with special-function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers.
Executives
Gary Yu officer: SVP, Business Groups 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Andy Tsong officer: President, Diodes Asia 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Peter M Menard director 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Keh Shew Lu director C/O DIODES INC, 3050 E HILLCREST DR, WESTLAKE CA 91362
Emily Yang officer: VP Worldwide Sales/Marketing 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Richard Dallas White officer: Sr. VP of Finance 3050 E. HILLCREST DRIVE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362
Jin Zhao officer: VP, Worldwide Analog Products 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Elizabeth Bull director 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Brett R Whitmire officer: CFO, Effective 3/1/2019 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Michael R Giordano director C/O DIODES INC, 3050 E HILLCREST DR, WESTLAKE CA 91362
Julie Holland officer: VP WW Analog Products 15660 DALLAS PARKWAY, SUITE 850, DALLAS TX 75248
Evan Yu officer: VP Worldwide Analog Products 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Francis Tang officer: VP, Product Development 3050 E. HILLCREST DRIVE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362
C H Chen director, officer: President & CEO C/O DIODES INC, 3050 E HILLCREST DR, WESTLAKE CA 91362
Button Angie Chen director 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024