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Paya Holdings (Paya Holdings) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 2.50% (As of Dec. 2022)


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What is Paya Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Paya Holdings's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was $1,115.7 Mil. Paya Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2022 was $27.9 Mil. Paya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was 2.50%.

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

PAYA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.68   Med: 1.69   Max: 3.09
Current: 2.04

During the past 5 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Paya Holdings was 3.09%. The lowest was 0.68%. And the median was 1.69%.

PAYA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.19 vs PAYA: 2.04

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) %. Paya Holdings's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 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.


Paya Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Paya Holdings Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Paya Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - 0.99 1.56 2.50

Paya Holdings Quarterly Data
Dec18 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22
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 1.56 1.73 2.49 2.73 2.50

Competitive Comparison of Paya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Paya 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.


Paya Holdings's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Paya 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.

Paya Holdingss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=27.909/1115.67997
=2.50 %

Paya Holdings's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2022 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $27.9 Mil.



Paya Holdings  (NAS:PAYA) 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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Paya Holdings (Paya Holdings) Business Description

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Address
303 Perimeter Center N, Suite 600, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30346
Paya Holdings Inc is a provider of integrated payment and frictionless commerce solutions that help customers accept and make payments, expedite the receipt of money, and increase operating efficiencies. Its operating segment includes Integrated Solutions and Payment Services. The company generates maximum revenue from the Integrated Solutions segment. The Integrated Solutions segment represents the delivery of credit and debit card payment solutions, and to a lesser extent, ACH processing solutions to customers via integrations with software partners across strategic vertical markets. Integrated Solutions partners also include vertical-focused front-end Customer Relationship Management software providers as well as back-end Enterprise Resource Planning and accounting solutions.
Executives
Debora Boyda director 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, ATLANTA GA 30346
Benjamin Nicolas Weiner officer: See Remarks. 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, SUITE 600, ATLANTA GA 30346
Balaji Devarasetty officer: Chief Information Officer 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, ATLANTA GA 30346
Michele Shepard officer: Chief Commercial Officer 303 PERIMETER CIRCLE NORTH, ATLANTA GA 30346
Sid Singh director 1550 PEACHTREE STREET NW, ATLANTA GA 30309
Oni Chukwu director 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, SUITE 600, ATLANTA GA 30346
Melinda Doster officer: GENERAL COUNSEL & HHR 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, SUITE 600, ATLANTA GA 30346
Eric Christopher Bell officer: Chief Accounting Officer 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, SUITE 600, ATLANTA GA 30346
Christine E Larsen director C/O FIRST DATA CORPORATION, FIRST DATA, 225 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10281
Betsy Z Cohen Trust Dated 10/7/99 other: Member of 10% owner group 1845 WALNUT STREET SUITE 1111, PHILADELPHIA PA 19104
Edward E Cohen Trust Dated 10/7/99 other: Member of 10% owner group 1845 WALNUT STREET SUITE 1111, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
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Gtcr Partners Xi/a&c Lp director, 10 percent owner 300 NORTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 5600, CHICAGO IL 60654
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