What is Liquidity Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Liquidity Services's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $430.9 Mil.
Liquidity Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $23.0 Mil. Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 5.34%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LQDT'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -88.62 Med: 2.97 Max: 20.9
Current: 5.33
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Liquidity Services was 20.90%. The lowest was -88.62%. And the median was 2.97%.
LQDT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 52.41% of 1120
companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 4.855
vs LQDT: 5.33
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) %. Liquidity Services's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.
Liquidity Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Internet Retail subindustry, Liquidity Services'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.
Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry
For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Liquidity Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Liquidity Servicess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as
Liquidity Services'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 $23.0 Mil.
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.
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Liquidity Services (Liquidity Services) Business Description
Liquidity Services Inc is an online auction marketplace. It manages and sells inventory and equipment for business and government clients by operating a network of e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an efficient, automated environment offering across different product categories. The company has four reportable segments: GovDeals, Capital Assets Group (CAG), Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG), and Machinio. It generates majority of its revenue from Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG) segment which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations located in the United States and Canada to sell excess, returned, and overstocked consumer goods. Geographically, a substantial portion the company's revenue is generated from its business in United States.
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