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Finisar (Finisar) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.20% (As of Jul. 2019)


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What is Finisar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Finisar's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was $2,475 Mil. Finisar's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2019 was $-5 Mil. Finisar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was -0.20%.

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

FNSR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 3.15
* 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) %. Finisar's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was -11.42%. 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.


Finisar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Finisar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Finisar Annual Data
Trend Apr10 Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.77 3.24 9.10 1.63 -0.41

Finisar Quarterly Data
Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Jul19
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 -1.36 -2.13 -1.08 -0.41 -0.20

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Finisar'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.


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

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

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



Finisar 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.

Finisars Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2019 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-10.057/2443.04466
=-0.41 %

Finisar's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-5 Mil.



Finisar  (NAS:FNSR) 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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Finisar (Finisar) Business Description

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Founded in 1987, Finisar is a California-based large provider of fiber optical modules and components that are used in data communications and telecommunications. Its products include transceivers and wavelength switches for data center interconnects, and intracity/metro and long-haul communications. Finisar sells to manufacturers of storage systems and network equipment and their OEMs, which in turn sell to telecom service providers and cloud vendors.
Executives
Michael L Dreyer director C/O F5 NETWORKS, INC., 401 ELLIOTT AVE. WEST, SEATTLE WA 98119
Michael C Child director 125 HIGH ST STE 2500, BOSTON MA 02110
Thomas E Pardun director C/O WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION, 3355 MICHELSON DR, SUITE 100, IRVINE CA 92612
Helene Simonet director
Jerry S Rawls director 1308 MOFFETT PARK DRIVE, SUNNYVALE CA 94089-1133
Robert Stephens director 3102 MONTANA DEL SOL, SAN CLEMENTE CA 92673
Kurt Adzema officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer 1389 MOFFETT PARK DRIVE, SUNNYVALE CA 94089
Michael E. Hurlston director, officer: CEO 5300 CALIFORNIA AVENUE, IRVINE CA 92617
Eitan Gertel director, officer: CEO 11780 U.S. HIGHWAY 1, SUITE 600, PALM BEACH GARDENS FL 33408
Dominique Trempont director 5 RANDALL PLACE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Christopher J Crespi director C/O SIRENZA MICRODEVICES, INC., 303 SOUTH TECHNOLOGY COURT, BROOMFIELD CO 80021
Morgan M Jones director C/O BATTERY VENTURES, 20 WILLIAM ST STE 200, WELLESLEY MA 02481
Frank H Levinson director 3736 FALLON ROAD #428, DUBLIN CA 94568
Harold Hughes director C/O RAMBUS INC., 1050 ENTERPRISE WAY, SUITE 700, SUNNYVALE CA 94089