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Invensys (FRA:SBPD) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Sep. 2013)


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What is Invensys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Invensys's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2013 was €3,338 Mil. Invensys's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2013 was €94 Mil. Invensys's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2013 was 0.00%.

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

FRA:SBPD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 4.37
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.

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) %. Invensys's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2013 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.


Invensys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Invensys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Invensys Annual Data
Trend Mar04 Mar05 Mar06 Mar07 Mar08 Mar09 Mar10 Mar11 Mar12 Mar13
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 16.05 9.05 9.72 4.37 1.63

Invensys Semi-Annual Data
Mar03 Sep04 Mar05 Sep05 Mar06 Sep06 Mar07 Sep07 Mar08 Sep08 Mar09 Sep09 Mar10 Sep10 Mar11 Sep11 Mar12 Sep12 Mar13 Sep13
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 14.31 4.37 9.73 1.63 -

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

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Invensys'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.


Invensys's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Invensys's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Invensys 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.

Invensyss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2013 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=50.069/3160.89852
=1.58 %

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.



Invensys  (FRA:SBPD) 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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Invensys (FRA:SBPD) Business Description

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Invensys PLC is a technology company that works in partnership with industrial and commercial customers to design and supply advanced technologies that optimise operational performance and profitability. The Company is grouped into four new business segments - Software, Industrial Automation, Energy Controls and Appliance. The Company's divisions include; Invensys Operations Management which is a technology, software and consulting business that creates and applies technologies to enable the safe and efficient operation of industrial and commercial operations such as oil refineries, fossil fuel and nuclear power plants, petrochemical works and other manufacturing sites. Invensys Controls designs, engineers and manufactures products, components, systems and services used in appliances, heating, air conditioning/cooling and refrigeration products across a range of industries in residential and commercial markets. The Software segment consists of the software businesses previously within Invensys Operations Management and includes Wonderware, SimSciTM and Avantis brands. Industrial Automation segment consists of the systems businesses of our Foxboro distributed control systems (DCS) and Triconex safety systems with the addition of the Foxboro measurement and instrumentation products previously within the equipment business of Invensys Operations Management. Energy Controls segment consists of the Eurotherm and IMServ businesses previously included within the equipment business of Invensys Operations Management, together with the residential heating and commercial businesses that were formerly part of Invensys Controls. Appliance segment consists of the Appliance controls line of business previously within Invensys Controls, together with the appliance replacement parts business formerly within Wholesale, also part of the former Invensys Controls.

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