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Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock (Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 8.40% (As of Oct. 2018)


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What is Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2018 was $23,521 Mil. Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2018 was $1,979 Mil. Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2018 was 8.40%.

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

DVMT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.19
* 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) %. Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2018 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.


Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock Annual Data
Trend Jan17 Jan18
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-3.13 8.49

Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock Quarterly Data
Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 4.82 8.49 8.99 7.99 8.40

Competitive Comparison of Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock'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.


Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock 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.

Dell-VMWare Tracking Stocks Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2018 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1689/18870.3
=8.95 %

Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,979 Mil.



Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock  (NYSE:DVMT) 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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Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock (Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock) Business Description

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Dell-VMWare Tracking Stock was incorporated in the state of Delaware on January 31, 2013 under the name of Denali Holding Inc. It changed its name to Dell Technologies Inc. on August 25, 2016. On September 7, 2016, a merger subsidiary of Dell Technologies merged with and into EMC Corporation, with EMC Corporation surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell Technologies. The company has issued a tracking stock to track the performance of a portion of Dell Technologies' economic interest in the VMware business. It is an information technology company. The company offers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions, which enable organizations to manage IT resources across complex multi-cloud, multi-device environments.
Executives
Richard J Rothberg officer: General Counsel & Secretary ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
William F Scannell officer: President, Global Sales EMC CORPORATION, 176 SOUTH STREET, HOPKINTON MA 01748
Thomas W Sweet officer: Chief Financial Officer ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
Howard D Elias officer: President, Services & Digital C/O EMC CORPORATION, 176 SOUTH STREET, HOPKINTON MA 01748
Ellen Jamison Kullman director UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP, 10 FARM SPRINGS ROAD, FARMINGTON CT 06032
William D Green director C/O ACCENTURE, 161 N CLARK STREET, CHICAGO IL 60601
Radakovich Lynn Vojvodich director C/O BOOKING HOLDINGS INC., 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
David W Dorman director CVS HEALTH., ONE CVS DRIVE, WOONSOCKET RI 02895
Jeffrey W Clarke officer: COO & Vice Chairman C/O DELL INC., ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
Allison Dew officer: Chief Marketing Officer C/O DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC., ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
Steven H Price officer: Chief Human Resources Officer ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
Karen H Quintos officer: Chief Customer Officer ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
Rory P Read officer: Chief Operating Executive ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682
Michael S Dell director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O DELL INC., ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682-2244
Brunilda Rios officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC., ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682

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