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Sphere 3D (Sphere 3D) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -43.86% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Sphere 3D Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Sphere 3D's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $50.45 Mil. Sphere 3D's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-22.92 Mil. Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -43.86%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

ANY' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1415.53   Med: -33.47   Max: -1.01
Current: -116.28

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Sphere 3D was -1.01%. The lowest was -1415.53%. And the median was -33.47%.

ANY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
95.89% of 2846 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.165 vs ANY: -116.28

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) %. Sphere 3D's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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.


Sphere 3D Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Sphere 3D Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Sphere 3D 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 -33.33 -20.12 -9.01 -357.14 -43.86

Sphere 3D Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -357.14 -555.56 -476.19 -714.29 -43.86

Competitive Comparison of Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Sphere 3D'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.


Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sphere 3D's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Sphere 3D 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.

Sphere 3Ds Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-22.134/50.454352
=-43.87 %

Sphere 3D's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-22.92 Mil.



Sphere 3D  (NAS:ANY) 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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Sphere 3D (Sphere 3D) Business Description

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Address
4 Greenwich Office Park, Suite 100, 1st Floor, Greenwich, CT, USA, 06831
Sphere 3D Corp provides solutions for stand-alone storage and technologies that converge the traditional silos of compute, storage, and network into integrated hyper-converged or converged solution. Its Disk systems include HVE Converged and Hyper-converged Infrastructure. It generates the majority of its revenue from the services it offers. All of its revenue comes from the Americas. The Company has two operating segments: Digital Mining and Service and Product. The Digital Mining segment generates revenue from the digital currency, it earns through its bitcoin mining activities. The Service and Product segment generates revenue from long-term customer contracts for service contracts and extended service contract and the sale of products related to the Company's data storage product line.
Executives
Kurt L. Kalbfleisch officer: SVP and CFO C/O OVERLAND STORAGE, INC., 4820 OVERLAND AVENUE, SAN DIEGO CA 92123
Joseph O'daniel officer: President 100 EXECUTIVE CT. , SUITE 2, WAXAHACHIE TX 75165
Patricia Trompeter director, officer: CEO 309 LUKES WOOD ROAD, NEW CANAAN CT 06840
Duncan J Mcewan director SPHERE 3D CORP, 9112 SPECTRUM CENTER BLVD, SAN DIEGO CA 92123
Timothy P. Hanley director 9796 NICKEL RIDGE CIRCLE, NAPLES FL 34120
David C. Danziger director 717 WAREHOUSE STREET, LOS ANGELES CA 90021
Sue Harnett director P.O. BOX 195115, SAN JUAN PR 00919-5115
Vivekanand Mahadevan director OVERLAND STORAGE, INC., 9112 SPECTRUM CENTER BLVD., SAN DIEGO CA 92123
Mf Ventures, Llc 10 percent owner 201 SPEAR STREET, 14TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Cyrus Capital Partners, L.p. 10 percent owner 65 EAST 55 STREET, 35TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Fbc Holdings S.a.r.l. 10 percent owner C/O CYRUS CAPITAL PARTNERS, L.P., 65 EAST 55TH STREET, 35TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Stephen C Freidheim 10 percent owner C/O CYRUS CAPITAL PARTNERS, L.P., 65 EAST 55TH STREET, 35TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Cyrus Capital Partners Gp, Llc 10 percent owner 65 EAST 55TH STREET, 35TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Jenny C Yeh officer: SVP & General Counsel SPHERE 3D CORP, 9112 SPECTRUM CENTER BLVD, SAN DIEGO CA 92123
Eric Kelly director, officer: CEO & Chairman 691 S. MILPITAS BLVD, MILPITAS CA 95035

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