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ZCMD (ZHONGCHAO) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -1.09% (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is ZHONGCHAO Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

ZHONGCHAO's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $31.14 Mil. ZHONGCHAO's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2024 was $-0.34 Mil. ZHONGCHAO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was -1.09%.

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

ZCMD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1926.66   Med: 8.87   Max: 1110.68
Current: -1.5

During the past 8 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of ZHONGCHAO was 1110.68%. The lowest was -1926.66%. And the median was 8.87%.

ZCMD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
69.87% of 687 companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 2.66 vs ZCMD: -1.50

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) %. ZHONGCHAO's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 0.00%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past five 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.


ZHONGCHAO Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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ZHONGCHAO Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

ZHONGCHAO Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 19.49 -1.15 -14.01 588.24 -1.09

ZHONGCHAO Semi-Annual Data
Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24 Dec24
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 -14.01 - 588.24 - -1.09

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

For the Health Information Services subindustry, ZHONGCHAO'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.


ZHONGCHAO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, ZHONGCHAO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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


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ZHONGCHAO 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.

ZHONGCHAOs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-0.34/31.1353
=-1.09 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



ZHONGCHAO  (NAS:ZCMD) 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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ZHONGCHAO Business Description

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Address
841 Yan’An Middle Road, Nanxi Creative Center, Suite 218, Jing’An District, Shanghai, CHN, 200040
ZHONGCHAO Inc is a Cayman Islands-based provider of healthcare information, education, and training services. It provides services to healthcare professionals and the public in China. It offers online and onsite health information services, healthcare education programs, and healthcare training products, consisting of clinical practice training, open classes of popular medical topics, interactive case studies, academic conferences and workshops, continuing education courses, and articles and short videos with educational healthcare content.