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KVYO (Klaviyo) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.71% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Klaviyo Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Klaviyo's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $8,739.1 Mil. Klaviyo's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $-62.2 Mil. Klaviyo's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -0.71%.

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

KVYO' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -6.43   Med: -4.7   Max: -0.19
Current: -0.62

During the past 3 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Klaviyo was -0.19%. The lowest was -6.43%. And the median was -4.70%.

KVYO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
63.84% of 2862 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.29 vs KVYO: -0.62

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


Klaviyo Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Klaviyo Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Klaviyo Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -4.71

Klaviyo Quarterly Data
Dec21 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -3.55 -4.71 -5.48 -5.96 -0.71

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Klaviyo'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.


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

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

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



Klaviyo 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.

Klaviyos Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-307.041/6518.20448
=-4.71 %

Klaviyo's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-62.2 Mil.



Klaviyo  (NYSE:KVYO) 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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Klaviyo Business Description

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Klaviyo Inc is a technology company that provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to enable its customers to send the right messages at the right time across email, short message service and push notifications, more accurately measure and predict performance, and deploy specific actions and campaigns. The platform combines proprietary data and application layers into one solution with machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. It is focused on marketing automation within eCommerce as its first application use case. It generates revenue through the sale of subscriptions to its customers for the use of its platform. Geographically the company generates the majority of its revenue from the Americas, followed by EMEA and APAC.
Executives
Landon Edmond officer: Chief Legal Officer KLAVIYO, INC., 125 SUMMER STREET, 6TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02110
Stephen Eric Rowland officer: President 1601 TRAPELO ROAD, SUITE 116, WALTHAM MA 02451
Amanda Whalen officer: Chief Financial Officer KLAVIYO, INC., 125 SUMMER STREET, 6TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02110
Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund Ix-a, L.p. 10 percent owner 222 BERKELEY STREET 18TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Jeff Fagnan 10 percent owner 56 WAREHAM STREET, FLOOR 3, BOSTON MA 02118
Allen Chaves officer: Chief Technology Officer KLAVIYO, INC., 125 SUMMER STREET, 6TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02110
Jennifer Ceran director C/O QUOTIENT TECHNOLOGY INC., 400 LOGUE AVE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
Ledger Susan St. director C/O OKTA, INC., 100 FIRST STREET, SUITE 600, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Tony Weisman director C/O DUNKIN' BRANDS, INC., 130 ROYALL STREET, CANTON MA 02021
Accomplice Fund I, L.p. 10 percent owner 56 WAREHAM STREET, FLOOR 3, BOSTON MA 02118
Astral Capital Abeh, Llc 10 percent owner 36 DENNY ROAD, CHESTNUT HILL MA 02467
Shopify Inc. 10 percent owner 151 O'CONNOR STREET, GROUND FLOOR, OTTAWA A6 K2P 2L8
Shopify Strategic Holdings 3 Llc 10 percent owner 151 O'CONNOR STREET, GROUND FLOOR, OTTAWA A6 K2P 2L8
Accel Leaders Fund Ii Investors (2019) L.l.c. 10 percent owner 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Summit Partners Co-invest (kiwi), Lp 10 percent owner 222 BERKELEY STREET, 18TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116