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

: -4.49% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Kyndryl Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $7,409 Mil. Kyndryl Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-333 Mil. Kyndryl Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -4.49%.

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

KD' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -40.75   Med: -14.18   Max: -4.3
Current: -4.73

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Kyndryl Holdings was -4.30%. The lowest was -40.75%. And the median was -14.18%.

KD's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
70.68% of 2844 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.2 vs KD: -4.73

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) %. Kyndryl Holdings'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.


Kyndryl Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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* 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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Kyndryl Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Mar23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - - -28.57 -12.94

Kyndryl Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec18 Dec19 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 -13.42 -12.94 -11.04 -8.33 -4.49

Competitive Comparison

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Kyndryl 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.


Kyndryl Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Kyndryl 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.

Kyndryl Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-757/5854.852
=-12.93 %

Kyndryl Holdings'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 $-333 Mil.



Kyndryl Holdings  (NYSE:KD) 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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Kyndryl Holdings (Kyndryl Holdings) Business Description

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Address
One Vanderbilt Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Kyndryl Holdings Inc is a technology services and infrastructure services provider company. It provides advisory, implementation, and managed services across a range of technology domains to help customers manage and modernize enterprise IT environments in support of their business and transformation objectives.
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