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Tucows (Tucows) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: -9.31% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Tucows's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $658.6 Mil. Tucows's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-61.3 Mil. Tucows's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -9.31%.

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

TCX' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -11.14   Med: 4.02   Max: 8.84
Current: -11.04

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Tucows was 8.84%. The lowest was -11.14%. And the median was 4.02%.

TCX's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
78.56% of 2840 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.185 vs TCX: -11.04

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) %. Tucows'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.


Tucows Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Tucows'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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Tucows Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.87 1.58 1.08 -2.22 -9.31

Tucows 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) % 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 -2.22 -5.75 -7.98 -10.02 -9.31

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Tucows'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.


Tucows Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Tucows 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-61.299/658.6058
=-9.31 %

Tucows'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 $-61.3 Mil.



Tucows  (NAS:TCX) 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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Tucows (Tucows) Business Description

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Address
96 Mowat Avenue, Toronto, ON, CAN, M6K 3M1
Tucows Inc provides us consumers and small businesses with mobile phone services nationally and high-speed fixed Internet access in selected towns. The Company offers Mobile Service Enabler (MSE) solutions, as well as professional services to other retail mobile providers. The Company is also a global distributor of Internet services, including domain name registration, digital certificates, and email. It provides these services primarily through a global Internet-based distribution network of Internet Service Providers, web hosting companies, and other providers of Internet services to end-users. It operates in three segments: Domain Services, Mobile Services, and Fiber Internet Services. It generates the majority of its revenue from Domain Services.
Executives
Elliot Noss director, officer: Chief Executive Officer
Robin Chase director 96 MOWAT AVENUE, TORONTO A6 M6K3M1
Lee Matheson director 96 MOWAT AVE, TORONTO A6 M6K 3M1
Gigi Sohn director 96 MOWAT AVE, TORONTO A6 M6K 3M1
Blacksheep Fund Management Ltd 10 percent owner ROCK HOUSE, MAIN STREET, BLACKROCK, CO. DUBLIN L2 A94 YY39
Michael Alan Koenig officer: Chief Operating Officer 96 MOWAT AVE, TORONTO A6 M6K 3M1
Blacksheep Master Fund Ltd. 10 percent owner C/O MOURANT GOVERNANCE SERVICES, PO BOX 1348, 94 SOLARIS AVE., GRAND CAYMAN E9 KY1-1108
Herdwick Capital Ltd 10 percent owner C/O BLACKSHEEP FUND MANAGEMENT LIMITED, ROCK HOUSE, MAIN STREET, BLACKROCK, CO. DUBLIN L2 A94 YY39
Alexis Fortune 10 percent owner C/O BLACKSHEEP FUND MANAGEMENT LIMITED, ROCK HOUSE, MAIN STREET, BLACKROCK, CO. DUBLIN L2 A94 YY39
David John Woroch officer: VP Sales & Customer Support 96 MOWAT AVENUE, TORONTO A6 M6K 3M1
Marlene Carl director 96 MOWAT AVENUE, TORONTO A6 M6K3M1
Bret Fausett officer: Chief Legal Officer & VP 96 MOWAT AVENUE, TORONTO A6 M6K3M1
Jessica Sybil-lynne Johannson officer: VP HR 612-11 BRONTE ROAD, OAKVILLE A6 L6L0E1
Justin Reilly officer: CPO 96 MOWAT AVENUE, TORONTO A6 M6K3M1
Jill Szchumacher officer: EVP Networks 96 MOWAT AVENUE, TORONTO A6 M6K3M1