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Blue Prism Group (Blue Prism Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -5.14% (As of Oct. 2021)


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What is Blue Prism Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Blue Prism Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2021 was $1,341.0 Mil. Blue Prism Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2021 was $-68.8 Mil. Blue Prism Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2021 was -5.14%.

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

BPRMF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -17.79   Med: -3.67   Max: -0.64
Current: -4.51

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Blue Prism Group was -0.64%. The lowest was -17.79%. And the median was -3.67%.

BPRMF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.185 vs BPRMF: -4.51

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) %. Blue Prism Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2021 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.


Blue Prism Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Blue Prism Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Blue Prism Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Blue Prism Group Annual Data
Trend Oct13 Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -1.17 -2.33 -16.00 -6.05 -5.14

Blue Prism Group Semi-Annual Data
Oct13 Oct14 Apr15 Oct15 Apr16 Oct16 Apr17 Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Apr20 Oct20 Apr21 Oct21
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -16.00 - -6.05 - -5.14

Competitive Comparison of Blue Prism Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Blue Prism Group'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.


Blue Prism Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Blue Prism Group 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.

Blue Prism Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2021 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-68.493/1341.03222
=-5.11 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



Blue Prism Group  (OTCPK:BPRMF) 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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Blue Prism Group (Blue Prism Group) Business Description

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Blue Prism Group PLC is a UK based software company. It specializes in the field of Robotic process automation (RPA). RPA enables blue-chip companies to create a digital workforce powered by the company's software robots to automate routine back-office clerical tasks. The company's software enables the automation of manual, rules-based, administrative processes to create a more agile, cost-effective and accurate back-office. The group operates across three regions, EMEA, The Americas, APAC and Japan.