What is Vivint Solar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Vivint Solar's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was $2,798.0 Mil.
Vivint Solar's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2020 was $-216.7 Mil. Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was -8.00%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
VSLR'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -35.43 Med: -8.18 Max: -3.21
Current: -3.26
During the past 8 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Vivint Solar was -3.21%. The lowest was -35.43%. And the median was -8.18%.
VSLR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Semiconductors industry.
Industry Median: 2.04
vs VSLR: -3.26
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) %. Vivint Solar's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 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.
Vivint Solar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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Vivint Solar Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Solar subindustry, Vivint Solar'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.
Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry
For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Vivint Solar's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
Vivint Solar 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.
Vivint Solars Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2019 is calculated as
Vivint Solar's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2020 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-216.7 Mil.
Vivint Solar (NYSE:VSLR) 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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Vivint Solar Inc is a United States-based solar company. Vivint distributes electricity to residential customers through long-term contracts. It has designed and engineered its own solar energy systems for customer use by using proprietary processes. The company operates in a single segment of Residential.
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