Avalara's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was $5,779.6 Mil.
Avalara's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 was $-158.8 Mil. Avalara's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 was -2.75%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Avalara's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
AVLR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.07 * 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) %. Avalara's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2022 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.
Avalara Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Avalara'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.
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Avalara Annual Data
Trend
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-
-3.82
-0.96
-0.47
-1.21
Avalara Quarterly Data
Sep17
Dec17
Mar18
Jun18
Sep18
Dec18
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-0.73
-0.80
-1.21
-1.65
-2.75
Competitive Comparison
For the Software - Application subindustry, Avalara'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.
Avalara Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Avalara's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Avalara's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %'s extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Avalaras Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as
Avalara's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-158.8 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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Avalara Inc provides compliance solutions. It provides software solutions that help businesses of all types and sizes comply with tax requirements for transactions worldwide. The company offers a broad and growing suite of compliance solutions for transaction taxes, such as sales and use tax, VAT, fuel excise tax, beverage alcohol, cross-border taxes, lodging tax, and communications tax. These solutions enable customers to automate the process of determining taxability, identifying applicable tax rates, determining and collecting taxes, preparing and filing returns, remitting taxes, maintaining tax records, and managing compliance documents. It generates revenue in the form of subscriptions and professional services.
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