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Elastic NV (BSP:E2ST34) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -0.82% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Elastic NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Elastic NV's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was R$57,110 Mil. Elastic NV's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was R$-462 Mil. Elastic NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was -0.82%.

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

BSP:E2ST34' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -4.73   Med: -2.01   Max: -0.71
Current: -0.91

During the past 7 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Elastic NV was -0.71%. The lowest was -4.73%. And the median was -2.01%.

BSP:E2ST34's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
61.24% of 2851 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.11 vs BSP:E2ST34: -0.91

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) %. Elastic NV's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 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.


Elastic NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Elastic NV Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Elastic NV Annual Data
Trend Apr17 Apr18 Apr19 Apr20 Apr21 Apr22 Apr23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial -1.69 -3.35 -1.15 -2.56 -3.65

Elastic NV Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 -4.09 -3.65 -2.60 -1.97 -0.82

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Elastic NV'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.


Elastic NV's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Elastic NV 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.

Elastic NVs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-962.712/27563.2242
=-3.49 %

Elastic NV's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was R$-462 Mil.



Elastic NV  (BSP:E2ST34) 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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Elastic is a software company based in Mountain View, California, focusing on search-adjacent products. Its search engine allows it to process both structured and unstructured data while gleaning insights from that data. The firm's primary focus is on enterprise search, observability, and security.

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