Hestia Insight (Hestia Insight) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.27% (As of Feb. 2024)

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What is Hestia Insight Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Hestia Insight's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $13.84 Mil. Hestia Insight's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $-0.04 Mil. Hestia Insight's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was -0.27%.

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

HSTA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -11.04 Med: -2.48 Max: 16.81
Current: -0.79

During the past 2 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Hestia Insight was 16.81%. The lowest was -11.04%. And the median was -2.48%.

HSTA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
61.7% of 2859 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.35 vs HSTA: -0.79

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) %. Hestia Insight's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 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.

Hestia Insight Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Hestia Insight Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Hestia Insight Annual Data

Trend

Nov22

Nov23

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

-2.11

-2.19

Hestia Insight Quarterly Data
	Feb22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial			-	-	7.20	-2.19	-0.27

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Hestia Insight'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.

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

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

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

Hestia Insight 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.

Hestia Insights Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)	=	EBIT	/	Enterprise Value
	=	-0.302	/	13.80265
	=	-2.19 %

Hestia Insight's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.04 Mil.

Hestia Insight (OTCPK:HSTA) 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

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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Hestia Insight Inc provides strategic consulting and capital market advisory services for micro, small and medium-sized companies in the healthcare, biotech and fintech sectors. It also provides access to seed capital and mezzanine funding for qualified emerging companies in these industries. The firm derives all of its revenue from consulting services.