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Creative Realities (Creative Realities) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.38% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Creative Realities Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Creative Realities's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $36.22 Mil. Creative Realities's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.14 Mil. Creative Realities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.38%.

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

CREX' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -209.48   Med: -20.56   Max: 15.34
Current: 0.29

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Creative Realities was 15.34%. The lowest was -209.48%. And the median was -20.56%.

CREX's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
54.78% of 2844 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.185 vs CREX: 0.29

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) %. Creative Realities'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.


Creative Realities Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Creative Realities Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Creative Realities Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.09 -68.97 4.94 15.58 0.38

Creative Realities Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 15.58 5.07 -2.93 -10.42 0.38

Competitive Comparison of Creative Realities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Application subindustry, Creative Realities'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.


Creative Realities's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Creative Realities 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=0.138/36.21524
=0.38 %

Creative Realities'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 $0.14 Mil.



Creative Realities  (NAS:CREX) 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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Creative Realities (Creative Realities) Business Description

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Address
13100 Magisterial Drive, Suite 100, Louisville, KY, USA, 40223
Creative Realities Inc, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in providing innovative digital marketing technology & solutions to global retail companies, luxury and other individual retail brands, advertising networks, outdoor clients, enterprises, and other organizations. The Company operates in one reportable segment being marketing technology solutions .The company provides solutions related to digital merchandising systems, omnichannel customer engagement systems, interactive digital shopping assistants, advisors and kiosks, and high-end audio-visual networks along with marketing technologies such as mobile, social media, point-of-sale transactions, beaconing, and web-based media.
Executives
Logan William Lindsey Iv officer: CFO 13100 CEDAR FOREST WAY, LOUISVILLE KY 40245
Richard C Mills director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O POMEROY COMPUTER RESOURCES INC, 1020 PETERSBURG ROAD, HEBRON KY 41048
Donald A Harris director C/O NFINANSE INC., 3923 COCONUT PALM DRIVE, SUITE 107, TAMPA FL 33619
Stephen Nesbit director 13100 MAGISTERIAL DRIVE, SUITE 100, LOUISVILLE KY 40223
Slipstream Communications, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Pegasus Investors Iv Gp, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Pegasus Investors Iv, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Bcom Holdings, Lp 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Pegasus Capital Llc 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Craig M Cogut 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Bcom Gp Llc 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Business Services Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Slipstream Funding, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PEGASUS CAPITAL ADVISORS, L.P., 750 EAST MAIN STREET, SUITE 600, STAMFORD CT 06902
Dennis Mcgill director 3601 PLAINS BLVD, STE 1, AMARILLO TX 79102
Alec Machiels director 505 PARK AVENUE, 21ST FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022

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