icad's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $25.44 Mil.
icad's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-7.07 Mil. icad's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -27.40%.
The historical rank and industry rank for icad's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
ICAD'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -106.63 Med: -11.42 Max: 1.73
Current: -35.59
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of icad was 1.73%. The lowest was -106.63%. And the median was -11.42%.
ICAD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 83.1% of 846
companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 0.205
vs ICAD: -35.59
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) %. icad'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.
icad Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for icad'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 icad's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Medical Devices subindustry, icad'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.
icad's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, icad's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where icad'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.
icads Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
icad'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 $-7.07 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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icad Inc is a medical technology company providing cancer detection and therapy solutions. The Company reports in two segments: Detection and Therapy. The Detection segment include advanced image analysis and workflow solutions that enable healthcare professionals to serve patients by identifying pathologies, comprehensive range of high-performance, Artificial Intelligence and Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems and workflow solutions for 2D and 3D mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography. In the Therapy segment, the Company offers the Xoft System, an isotope-free cancer treatment platform technology. The Xoft System can be used for the treatment of early-stage breast cancer, endometrial cancer, cervical cancer and nonmelanoma skin cancer.
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