eLong's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was $500.0 Mil.
eLong's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $-188.8 Mil. eLong's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 was -37.74%.
The historical rank and industry rank for eLong's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LONG's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Travel & Leisure industry.
Industry Median: 4.18 * 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) %. eLong's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
eLong Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for eLong'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 eLong's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Leisure subindustry, eLong'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.
eLong's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry
For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, eLong's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where eLong'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.
eLongs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
eLong's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-188.8 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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eLong Inc was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on April 4, 2001. The Company is in the business of mobile and online hotel reservations in China, offering consumers a hotel network of domestic and international properties. It enable travelers to make informed hotel and air ticket booking decisions through its website and mobile applications and easy to use tools such as destination guides, photos, virtual tours, maps and user reviews. Its largest shareholders are Expedia and Tencent. Its revenues are mainly derived from hotel reservations, and to a lesser extent from air ticketing. The Company offers 24-hour hotel booking, and various options with a variety of booking models, price points and payment choices for its customers, including budget, three-, four- and five-star hotels, short-stay apartments, and groupbuy hotels. The Company acts mainly as an agent in its hotel transactions. It makes room reservations based on customer inquiries and, upon the completion of a customer's stay, it calculate its commissions, which are generally a percentage of the nightly hotel room rate or a fixed amount per room night, which the hotels pay to it on a monthly basis. It also confirms with the hotel the length of the customer's stay. It also provides 24-hour air ticketing services through its toll-free customer service center, mobile applications and websites. It acts as an agent for all main airlines in China as well as international airlines that operate flights originating in China. It makes flight reservations through TravelSky GDS, which is the operator of the nationwide system for air ticket reservations in China, and issue air tickets using its branch offices and local agents. The Company markets its services through a combination of online marketing, media advertising, co-marketing with established brands of other companies and direct marketing. It competes with other online travel agencies such as Ctrip, as well as groupbuy companies which provide online hotel booking such as Meituan and travel search companies which provide online hotel booking such as Qunar. The air ticketing business is subject to the supervision of the CAAC and its regional branches. The travel agency industry is subject to the supervision of the CNTA and local tourism administrations.
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