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Liberty Defense Holdings (Liberty Defense Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -47.39% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Liberty Defense Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Liberty Defense Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $18.23 Mil. Liberty Defense Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-8.64 Mil. Liberty Defense Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -47.39%.

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

LDDFF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -79.14   Med: -55.79   Max: -37.17
Current: -48.78

During the past 12 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Liberty Defense Holdings was -37.17%. The lowest was -79.14%. And the median was -55.79%.

LDDFF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
96.76% of 1110 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 5.675 vs LDDFF: -48.78

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) %. Liberty Defense Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 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.


Liberty Defense Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Liberty Defense Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Liberty Defense Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -123.46 -20.24 -64.52 -64.10 -56.50

Liberty Defense Holdings Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 -64.10 -51.81 -54.35 -56.50 -47.39

Competitive Comparison of Liberty Defense Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, Liberty Defense Holdings'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.


Liberty Defense Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Liberty Defense Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Liberty Defense Holdings 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-9.086/16.4531696
=-55.22 %

Liberty Defense Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-8.64 Mil.



Liberty Defense Holdings  (OTCPK:LDDFF) 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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Liberty Defense Holdings (Liberty Defense Holdings) Business Description

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Address
187 Ballardvale Street, Suite 110, Wilmington, MA, USA, 01887
Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd provides multi-technology security solutions for concealed weapons and threat detection in high-volume foot traffic areas and locations requiring enhanced walk-through security such as airports, stadiums, and schools. Liberty's HEXWAVE product, licensed from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with patents related to active 3D radar imaging technology, provides layered, stand-off detection capability of metallic and non-metallic weapons. The company has also licensed the millimeter wave-based, High-Definition Advanced Imaging Technology body scanner and shoe scanner technologies as part of its technology portfolio. It is committed towards protecting communities and preserving peace of mind through next-generation security detection solutions.