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Alphinat (Alphinat) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -5.05% (As of May. 2023)


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What is Alphinat Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Alphinat's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in May. 2023 was $2.57 Mil. Alphinat's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2023 was $-0.07 Mil. Alphinat's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in May. 2023 was -5.05%.

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

APHTF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -19.14   Med: 2.73   Max: 13.04
Current: -2.02

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Alphinat was 13.04%. The lowest was -19.14%. And the median was 2.73%.

APHTF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.175 vs APHTF: -2.02

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) %. Alphinat's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in May. 2023 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.


Alphinat Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Alphinat Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Alphinat Annual Data
Trend Aug13 Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -4.91 3.16 5.03 2.24 3.53

Alphinat Quarterly Data
Aug18 Nov18 Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23
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 5.46 3.53 2.06 4.01 -5.05

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Alphinat'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.


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

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

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



Alphinat 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.

Alphinats Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2022 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=0.143/3.53894385
=4.04 %

Alphinat's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.07 Mil.



Alphinat  (OTCPK:APHTF) 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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Alphinat Inc is a software company that has developed the SmartGuide suite that allows the user to create web applications and self-service tools that automate interactions between an organization and its customers, employees, and partners. Its software suite simplifies, accelerates and improves interactions with all business constituents. The company technology provides solutions to the public sector, healthcare, telecommunications, and financial institutions. It derives the majority of its revenue from solutions provider for Public Sector Agencies. Geographically, it generates maximum revenue from Canada and also has a presence in France, the United States, and Other Countries.