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Leader Capital Holdings (Leader Capital Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -2.69% (As of Aug. 2023)


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What is Leader Capital Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Leader Capital Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was $104.42 Mil. Leader Capital Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 was $-2.81 Mil. Leader Capital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2023 was -2.69%.

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

LCHD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -444.68   Med: -12.22   Max: -2.58
Current: -8.46

During the past 7 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Leader Capital Holdings was -2.58%. The lowest was -444.68%. And the median was -12.22%.

LCHD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
76.75% of 2860 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.175 vs LCHD: -8.46

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) %. Leader Capital Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Aug. 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.


Leader Capital Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Leader Capital Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Leader Capital Holdings Annual Data
Trend Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial - -7.19 -3.65 -6.20 -2.69

Leader Capital Holdings Quarterly Data
Nov18 Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23
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 -6.20 -10.40 -46.73 -24.81 -2.69

Competitive Comparison of Leader Capital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Leader Capital Holdings'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.


Leader Capital Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Leader Capital Holdings 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.

Leader Capital Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-2.805/104.4235
=-2.69 %

Leader Capital Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-2.81 Mil.



Leader Capital Holdings  (OTCPK:LCHD) 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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Leader Capital Holdings (Leader Capital Holdings) Business Description

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Address
Zhongqing Road, Room 711, 7F, No. 89, Section 1, North District, Taichung City, Taichung, TWN
Leader Capital Holdings Corp through its subsidiaries owns and operates a mobile application platform that connects the investor with other financial service providers. The company's application helps to meet the generic needs of financial service providers mainly for trust and insurance companies. Investors can use this platform to make their investment decisions in real-time and place investment orders without having to e-mail or fax documents to their investment advisor. The Company operates in one business and industry segment: the provision of investment platform services through mobile application.
Executives
Shui Fung Cheng director, 10 percent owner ROOM 2708-09, METROPOLIS TOWER,, 10 METROPOLIS DRIVE,, HUNG HOM K3 0000000000
Leader Financial Asset Management Ltd 10 percent owner ROOM 2708-09, THE METROPOLIS TOWER,, 10 METROPOLIS DRIVE, HUNG HOM,, HONG KONG K3 0000000000
First Leader Capital Ltd 10 percent owner ROOM 2708-09, THE METROPOLIS TOWER,, 10 METROPOLIS DRIVE, HUNG HOM, HONG KONG K3 0000000000
Cpn Investment Ltd 10 percent owner ROOM 2708-09, THE METROPOLIS TOWER,, 10 METROPOLIS DRIVE, HUNG HOM,, HONG KONG K3 0000000000
Anzhao International Ltd 10 percent owner 4007 CENTRAL PLAZA,, 18 HARBOUR ROAD, WANCHAI, HONG KONG K3 0000000000
Yi-hsiu Lin director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer ROOM 2708-09, METROPOLIS TOWER,, 10 METROPOLIS DRIVE, HONG KONG K3 0000000000

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