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Pegasystems (Pegasystems) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 1.88% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Pegasystems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Pegasystems's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $5,454 Mil. Pegasystems's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $103 Mil. Pegasystems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.88%.

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

PEGA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -7.91   Med: 0.59   Max: 6.08
Current: 1.96

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Pegasystems was 6.08%. The lowest was -7.91%. And the median was 0.59%.

PEGA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
53.87% of 2846 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.165 vs PEGA: 1.96

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) %. Pegasystems's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 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.


Pegasystems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Pegasystems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Pegasystems Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -2.13 -0.97 -1.31 -4.79 2.41

Pegasystems Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 -3.71 -2.33 -0.62 2.41 1.88

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Pegasystems'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.


Pegasystems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Pegasystems 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=102.316/4254.3534
=2.40 %

Pegasystems's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $103 Mil.



Pegasystems  (NAS:PEGA) 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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Pegasystems (Pegasystems) Business Description

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Address
One Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02142
Founded in 1983, Pegasystems provides a suite of solutions for customer engagement and business process management. The company's key offering is the Pega Infinity platform, which combines business process management, or BPM, with customer relationship management, or CRM, applications. The company focuses on enterprise-size customers, specifically within the financial, insurance, and healthcare verticals.
Executives
Efstathios A Kouninis officer: VP of Finance & CAO 26 GRANDVIEW DRIVE, DOVER NH 03820
Rifat Kerim Akgonul officer: Chief Product Officer ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Leon Trefler officer: SVP, Global Customer Success 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Kenneth Stillwell officer: CFO, SVP ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRDIGE MA 02142
Richard H Jones director C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
John Gerard Higgins officer: Chief, Client &Partner Success C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Michael R Pyle officer: Senior VP, Engineering C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIGE MA 02142
Christopher Lafond director 56 TOP GALLANT RD, STAMFORD CT 06904
Sharon T Rowlands director 195 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY 10007
Dianne Ledingham director ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Larry Weber director C/O MIVA, INC., 5220 SUMMERLIN COMMONS BLVD., SUITE 500, FORT MYERS FL 33907
Douglas I Kra officer: SVP, Global Customer Success 101 MAIN STREET, C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Hayden Stafford officer: President ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Peter Gyenes director 50 WASHINGTON ST, WESBOROUGH MA 012581
Alan Trefler 10 percent owner, officer: C.E.O. & Chairman C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142