General DataComm Industries (General DataComm Industries) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Jun. 2010)

General DataComm Industries Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

General DataComm Industries Annual Data
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Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					17.92	1.74	24.45	-1.09	-9.93

General DataComm Industries Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of General DataComm Industries's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, General DataComm Industries'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.

General DataComm Industries's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, General DataComm Industries's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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

General DataComm Industries 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.

General DataComm Industriess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2009 is calculated as

General DataComm Industries's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2010 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-1.70 Mil.

General DataComm Industries  (GREY:GNRD) 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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