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Kforce (Kforce) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 6.33% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Kforce's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,376 Mil. Kforce's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $87 Mil. Kforce's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.33%.

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

KFRC' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -6.06   Med: 7.79   Max: 14.4
Current: 6.79

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Kforce was 14.40%. The lowest was -6.06%. And the median was 7.79%.

KFRC's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
57.57% of 1110 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 5.695 vs KFRC: 6.79

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) %. Kforce's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 19.65%. 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.


Kforce Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Kforce'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.

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Kforce Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.67 8.45 6.51 9.99 6.33

Kforce 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) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.99 8.49 8.05 7.34 6.33

Competitive Comparison

For the Staffing & Employment Services subindustry, Kforce'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.


Kforce Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Kforce's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Kforce 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=87.121/1376.18376
=6.33 %

Kforce'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 $87 Mil.



Kforce  (NAS:KFRC) 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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Kforce (Kforce) Business Description

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Address
1150 Assembly Drive, Suite 500, Tampa, FL, USA, 33607
Kforce Inc provides professional and technical specialty staffing services and solutions. The company operates two business segments: 1) technology segment where the company provides talent solutions with candidates skilled in areas including systems/applications architecture and development, data management and analytics, business and artificial intelligence, machine learning, project and program management, and network architecture and security. 2) FA segment where the company offers consultants in traditional finance and accounting roles such as finance, planning and analysis; business intelligence analysis; general accounting; transactional accounting business and cost analysis; and taxation and treasury. The majority of revenue is earned through the technology segment.
Executives
David M Kelly officer: Sr VP, Chief Financial Officer
N John Simmons director 33 NORTH PINE CIRCLE, BELLEAIR FL 33756
Elaine Rosen director
Andrew G Thomas officer: CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER 1001 E PALM AVE, TAMPA FL 33605
Joseph J Liberatore officer: President
David L Dunkel director, officer: Chief Executive Officer
Jeffrey B. Hackman officer: SVP Finance & Accounting 1001 EAST PALM AVENUE, TAMPA FL 33605
Ralph Struzziero director
Derrick Dewan Brooks director 1001 EAST PALM AVENUE, TAMPA FL 33605
Kye L. Mitchell officer: Chief Operations Officer 1001 EAST PALM AVENUE, TAMPA FL 33605
Mark F Furlong director 770 M WATER ST, MILWAUKEE WI 53202
Michael R Blackman officer: Chief Corporate Dev. Officer
Ann E. Dunwoody director 600 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10016
Catherine Cloudman director 1001 E. PALM AVENUE, TAMPA FL 33605
Richard M Cocchiaro director, officer: Vice Chairman