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D2L (DTLIF) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 1.61% (As of Oct. 2024)


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What is D2L Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

D2L's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $454.9 Mil. D2L's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2024 was $7.4 Mil. D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was 1.61%.

The historical rank and industry rank for D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

DTLIF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -42.54   Med: -6.3   Max: 1.54
Current: 1.26

During the past 6 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of D2L was 1.54%. The lowest was -42.54%. And the median was -6.30%.

DTLIF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
50.61% of 2851 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.34 vs DTLIF: 1.26

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) %. D2L's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Oct. 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.


D2L Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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D2L Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

D2L Annual Data
Trend Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - - -19.38 -6.83 -0.86

D2L Quarterly Data
Jan19 Jan20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24
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 -5.99 -0.86 -1.16 0.35 1.61

Competitive Comparison of D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Application subindustry, D2L'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.


D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where D2L's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



D2L 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.

D2Ls Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-2.576/301.142531
=-0.86 %

D2L's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $7.4 Mil.



D2L  (OTCPK:DTLIF) 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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D2L Inc is a learning innovation company. It provides cloud-based learning software for higher education institutions, kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) schools and districts, and private sector enterprises. The company serves K-12, higher education, associations, and the corporate sector. Its product includes D2L Brightspace and D2L Wave.