What is Arista Networks Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Arista Networks's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $68,529 Mil.
Arista Networks's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $2,257 Mil. Arista Networks's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.29%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Arista Networks's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
ANET'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.89 Med: 3.18 Max: 7.64
Current: 2.87
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Arista Networks was 7.64%. The lowest was 0.89%. And the median was 3.18%.
ANET's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 52.24% of 2473
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.35
vs ANET: 2.87
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) %. Arista Networks's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 21.36%. 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.
Arista Networks Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Arista Networks'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.
Competitive Comparison of Arista Networks's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Arista Networks'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.
Arista Networks's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Arista Networks's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Arista Networks's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Arista Networkss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
Arista Networks'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 $2,257 Mil.
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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Arista Networks (Arista Networks) Business Description
Arista Networks is a networking equipment provider that primarily sells Ethernet switches and software to data centers. Its marquee product is its extensible operating system, or EOS, that runs a single image across every single one of its devices. The firm operates as one reportable segment. It has steadily gained market share since its founding in 2004, with a focus on high-speed applications. Arista counts Microsoft and Meta Platforms as its largest customers and derives roughly three quarters of its sales from North America.
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