What is Qlik Technologies Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Qlik Technologies's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $2,425.1 Mil.
Qlik Technologies's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $-3.7 Mil. Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was -0.15%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
QLIK's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.29 * 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) %. Qlik Technologies's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was -34.52%. 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.
Qlik Technologies Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Qlik Technologies'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.
Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Qlik Technologies's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Qlik Technologiess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
Qlik Technologies's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-3.7 Mil.
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.
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Qlik Technologies (Qlik Technologies) Business Description
Qlik Technologies Inc was founded in Sweden in 1993. It solves problems for organizations of all sizes, including the enterprises. The Company is a user-driven Business Intelligence solution that enables its customers to make robust and faster business decisions. The Qlikview Business Discovery platform, or QlikView, helps people create and share insights and analysis in groups and across organizations. Business users can explore data, ask and answer their own stream of questions and follow their own path to insight on their own and in teams and groups. The QlikView is powered by its in-memory engine which maintains associations in data and calculates aggregations as needed. The Company operates in one business segment, namely, the development, commercialization and implementation of software products and related services. It offers solution from middle market customers to large enterprises such as Autodesk, The Dannon Company, Inc., Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Hertz, ING, Kraft Foods, L'Oreal, Lifetime Brands, Lockton Insurance, National Health Service (NHS), Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sony Europe, Symantec, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Volvo Car UK Limited. Its products include: QlikView, QlikView Expressor and QlikView.Next. Its customers can renew, and generally have renewed, their maintenance agreements for a fee that is based upon a percentage of the initial license fee paid. Company market and sell its products and services through its direct sales force and an indirect sales channel comprised of partner network. The Company competes with large software corporations, including suppliers of enterprise resource planning software, that provide one or more capabilities competitive with its products, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP AG.
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