What is Medpace Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Medpace Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $12,251 Mil.
Medpace Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $354 Mil. Medpace Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2.89%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Medpace Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
MEDP'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.93 Med: 3.61 Max: 5.46
Current: 3
During the past 11 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Medpace Holdings was 5.46%. The lowest was 1.93%. And the median was 3.61%.
MEDP's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 70.94% of 234
companies
in the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry
Industry Median: -2.4
vs MEDP: 3.00
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) %. Medpace Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 22.11%. 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.
Medpace Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Medpace Holdings'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.
Competitive Comparison of Medpace Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, Medpace 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.
Medpace Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry
For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, Medpace Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Medpace Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Medpace Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Medpace Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $354 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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Medpace Holdings (Medpace Holdings) Business Description
Medpace is a late-stage contract research organization, or CRO, that provides full-service drug development and clinical trial services to small and midsized biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device firms. Medpace also offers ancillary services such as bio-analytical laboratory services and imaging capabilities. The company was founded over 30 years ago, and it has over 5,400 employees across 40 countries. Medpace is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and its operations are principally based in the U.S., but it also operates in Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia. Cinven, a global private equity firm, acquired Medpace for $915 million in February 2014, and it exited Medpace in August 2018.
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