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GDS Holdings (GDS Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 1.80% (As of Sep. 2023)
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GDS Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $7,606 Mil. GDS Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was $137 Mil. GDS Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 1.80%.

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

GDS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.39   Med: 0.7   Max: 2.11
Current: 2.04

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of GDS Holdings was 2.11%. The lowest was -0.39%. And the median was 0.70%.

GDS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
54.05% of 2842 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.235 vs GDS: 2.04

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) %. GDS Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was -33.21%. 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.


GDS Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for GDS 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.

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GDS Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.71 0.81 0.62 0.83 1.39

GDS Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.20 1.39 1.45 1.94 1.80

Competitive Comparison

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, GDS 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.


GDS Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



GDS 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.

GDS Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=128.807/9270.84348
=1.39 %

GDS Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $137 Mil.



GDS Holdings  (NAS:GDS) 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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GDS Holdings (GDS Holdings) Business Description

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No. 999 Zhouhai Road, F4/F5, Building C, Sunland International, Pudong, Shanghai, CHN, 200137
GDS Holdings started as an IT service provider in 2001 then moved to the data center business with its first self-developed data center opening in 2010. The company now develops and operates data centers in China and also builds, operates and transfers data centers for other clients. It offers colocation and managed services and mainly targets hyperscale cloud service customers who take large areas of its data centers or even whole data centers under long-term contracts. It has aggressively raised capital over the past four years for expansion. Its data centers are located predominantly in and around the Tier 1 cities in China and it has also started an expanding into Southeast Asia. GDS listed on the NASDAQ in 2016 and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in 2020.

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