Cisco Systems's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $189,163 Mil.
Cisco Systems's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $16,482 Mil. Cisco Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 8.71%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Cisco Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
CSCO'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.74 Med: 8.82 Max: 16.09
Current: 9.07
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Cisco Systems was 16.09%. The lowest was 5.74%. And the median was 8.82%.
CSCO's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 77.98% of 2475
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.38
vs CSCO: 9.07
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) %. Cisco Systems's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 9.58%. 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.
Cisco Systems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Cisco Systems'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.
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Cisco Systems'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.
Cisco Systems Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Cisco Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Cisco Systems's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Cisco Systems 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.
Cisco Systemss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as
Cisco Systems's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $16,482 Mil.
Cisco Systems (NAS:CSCO) 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.
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Cisco Systems (Cisco Systems) Business Description
Cisco Systems is the largest provider of networking equipment in the world and one of the largest software companies in the world. Its largest businesses are selling networking hardware and software (where it has leading market shares) and cybersecurity software like firewalls. It also has collaboration products, like its Webex suite, and observability tools. It primarily outsources its manufacturing to third parties and has a large sales and marketing staff—25,000 strong across 90 countries. Overall, Cisco employees 80,000 employees and sells its products globally.
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