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DVLT (Datavault AI) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -196.08% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Datavault AI Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Datavault AI's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $9.93 Mil. Datavault AI's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $-19.43 Mil. Datavault AI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -196.08%.

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

DVLT' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -17968.47   Med: -37.13   Max: 10552.91
Current: -40.49

During the past 8 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Datavault AI was 10552.91%. The lowest was -17968.47%. And the median was -37.13%.

DVLT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
92.14% of 2849 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.34 vs DVLT: -40.49

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) %. Datavault AI'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.


Datavault AI Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Datavault AI Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Datavault AI Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - -23.92 -149.25 -312.50 -588.24

Datavault AI Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 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 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 -454.55 -588.24 -714.29 -312.50 -196.08

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Datavault AI'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.


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

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

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



Datavault AI 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-21.457/3.728769778
=-575.44 %

Datavault AI'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 $-19.43 Mil.



Datavault AI  (NAS:DVLT) 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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Datavault AI Inc is a data technology and licensing company that enables clients and strategic partners to monetize their Blockchain Data and AI Web 3.0 assets via tokenization, data ownership and digital twins offering two solutions: Data Science licenses High-Performance Computing (HPC) software applications and Web 3.0 data management serving the biotech, energy, education, fintech, real estate, and healthcare industries, among others. Acoustic Science licenses spatial and multichannel HD sound transmission, including proprietary brands ADIO, WiSA and Sumerian, to customers in sports & entertainment, events & venues, restaurants, automotive, finance, and other industries.
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