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Sage Group (The) (Sage Group (The)) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 3.05% (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Sage Group (The) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Sage Group (The)'s Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $13,029 Mil. Sage Group (The)'s EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $400 Mil. Sage Group (The)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 3.05%.

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

SGPYY' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.38   Med: 4.56   Max: 8.27
Current: 2.62

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sage Group (The) was 8.27%. The lowest was 2.38%. And the median was 4.56%.

SGPYY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
57.38% of 2844 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.185 vs SGPYY: 2.62

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) %. Sage Group (The)'s Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 2.70%. 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.


Sage Group (The) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Sage Group (The) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Sage Group (The) Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.90 4.98 4.52 4.68 3.05

Sage Group (The) Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 4.52 - 4.68 - 3.05

Competitive Comparison of Sage Group (The)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Sage Group (The)'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.


Sage Group (The)'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Sage Group (The) 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.

Sage Group (The)s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=403.465/13029.05708
=3.10 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



Sage Group (The)  (OTCPK:SGPYY) 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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Sage Group (The) (Sage Group (The)) Business Description

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The Sage Group is a U.K.-based provider of accounting and enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software, predominantly to customers in the U.S. and Europe. The company was founded in 1981 and historically sold on-premises software products with perpetual software licenses. However, the company is transitioning toward cloud connected and cloud native products, sold via software-as-a-service, or SaaS, contracts. Sage's main cloud native products include Sage Accounting, for small businesses, and Sage Intacct, which Sage acquired in 2017, for midsize businesses.