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Amplitude (Amplitude) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: -7.78% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Amplitude's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,212.3 Mil. Amplitude's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-94.4 Mil. Amplitude's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -7.78%.

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

AMPL' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -13.25   Med: -7.58   Max: -1.35
Current: -11.39

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Amplitude was -1.35%. The lowest was -13.25%. And the median was -7.58%.

AMPL's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
78.87% of 2840 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.185 vs AMPL: -11.39

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) %. Amplitude's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.


Amplitude Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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* 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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Amplitude Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -1.35 -8.33 -7.78

Amplitude Quarterly Data
Dec19 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 -8.33 -8.79 -10.07 -9.29 -7.78

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Application subindustry, Amplitude'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.


Amplitude Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Amplitude 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.

Amplitudes Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-94.378/1212.3022
=-7.79 %

Amplitude's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-94.4 Mil.



Amplitude  (NAS:AMPL) 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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Amplitude (Amplitude) Business Description

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Amplitude Inc is a Software company that provides a Digital Analytics Platform that helps companies analyze their customer behavior within digital products. The Company delivers its application over the Internet as a subscription service using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and also it offers customer support related to initial implementation setup, ongoing support services, and application training. The company derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.
Executives
Battery Partners Select Fund I, L.p. 10 percent owner ONE MARINA PARK DRIVE, SUITE 1100, BOSTON MA 02210
Neeraj Agrawal director, 10 percent owner ONE MARINA PARK DRIVE, SUITE 1100, BOSTON MA 02210
Catherine Wong director C/O DOMO, INC., 772 EAST UTAH VALLEY DRIVE, AMERICAN FORK UT 84003
Dharmesh Thakker 10 percent owner ONE MARINA PARK DRIVE, SUITE 1100, BOSTON MA 02210
Patrick W Grady director, 10 percent owner C/O OKTA, INC., 301 BRANNAN STREET 1ST FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Sc Us (ttgp), Ltd. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL RD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Christopher Harms officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O FORESCOUT TECHNOLOGIES INC, 190 WEST TASMAN DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Thomas Neergaard Hansen officer: President C/O UIPATH, INC., 452 FIFTH AVENUE, 22ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10018
Ninos Sarkis officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O AMPLITUDE, INC., 201 THIRD STREET, SUITE 200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Mitchell Lasky 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, STE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Sarah E Tavel 10 percent owner 2965 WOODSIDE ROAD, WOODSIDE CA 94062
Chetan Puttagunta 10 percent owner 2855 SAND HILL ROAD, MENLO PARK CA 94025
An-yen Hu 10 percent owner 2965 WOODSIDE ROAD, WOODSIDE CA 94062
J William Gurley 10 percent owner 2480 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 200, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Sequoia Capital U.s. Growth Fund Ix, L.p. 10 percent owner 2800 SAND HILL ROAD, SUITE 101, MENLO PARK CA 94025