What is Luna Innovations Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Luna Innovations's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $233.0 Mil.
Luna Innovations's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.4 Mil. Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.19%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
LUNA'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -185.8 Med: -1.19 Max: 3.97
Current: 0.4
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Luna Innovations was 3.97%. The lowest was -185.80%. And the median was -1.19%.
LUNA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 66.91% of 2475
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.38
vs LUNA: 0.40
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) %. Luna Innovations's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was -3.40%. 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.
Luna Innovations Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Luna Innovations Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Luna Innovations'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.
Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Luna Innovations's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Luna Innovations 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.
Luna Innovationss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as
Luna Innovations's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.4 Mil.
Luna Innovations (NAS:LUNA) 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.
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Luna Innovations (Luna Innovations) Business Description
Luna Innovations Inc is engaged in optical technology, providing high-performance fiber optic test, measurement, and control products for the telecommunications, and photonics industries, and distributed fiber optic sensing solutions that measure and monitor materials and structures for applications in aerospace, automotive, oil, and gas, security, and infrastructure. Its Lightwave segment develops, manufactures, and markets optical measurements technologies like Sensing including short, medium, and long-range distributed fiber optic sensing solutions and Terahertz measurement products, and Communications test and photonic control including test equipment for communications devices and networks and specialty laser and photonic components. It derives a majority of its revenue from the U.S.
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