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Cray (CRAY) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -7.97% (As of Jun. 2019)


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What is Cray Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Cray's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2019 was $1,331.7 Mil. Cray's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2019 was $-106.1 Mil. Cray's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2019 was -7.97%.

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

CRAY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.35
* 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) %. Cray's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2019 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.


Cray Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Cray Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Cray Annual Data
Trend Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.77 4.12 1.60 -6.32 -10.73

Cray Quarterly Data
Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19
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 -5.56 -7.50 -10.73 -8.26 -7.97

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

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Cray'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.


Cray's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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Cray 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.

Crays Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2018 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-70.199/654.463142
=-10.73 %

Cray's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-106.1 Mil.



Cray  (NAS:CRAY) 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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Cray (CRAY) Business Description

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Cray Inc designs, manufactures and services the high-performance computing market, primarily supercomputers, in addition to providing storage and data analytics solutions. Customers include domestic and foreign government and government-funded entities, academic institutions, and commercial institutions. The firm's supercomputers address computing resource challenges faced by customers today with respect to achieving massive scaling to tens of thousands of processors. Its analytics products apply these supercomputing technologies to complex data analytics use-cases. The firm generates revenue in the United States, Canada, Europe, Middle East, South America, and Asia Pacific.
Executives
Prithviraj Banerjee director C/O CRAY INC., 901 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1000, SEATTLE WA 98164
Peter J Ungaro director, officer: President & CEO 6280 AMERICA CENTER DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95002
Brian V Turner director P.O. BOX 91123, SEATTLE WA 98111-9223
Catriona M. Fallon director C/O MARIN SOFTWARE INCORPORATED, 123 MISSION STREET, 25TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Daniel C Regis director C/O CRAY INC., 901 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1000, SEATTLE WA 98164
Martin J Homlish director C/O CRAY INC., 901 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1000, SEATTLE WA 98164
Daniel J Evans director 411 FIRST AVENUE SOUTH SUITE 600, SEATTLE WA 98014
William Arthur Owens director C/O CENTURYLINK, INC., 100 CENTURYLINK DRIVE, MONROE LA 71203