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SINA (SINA) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 9.78% (As of Jun. 2020)


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What is SINA Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

SINA's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was $2,736 Mil. SINA's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2020 was $267 Mil. SINA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was 9.78%.

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

SINA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 5.7   Med: 11   Max: 22.42
Current: 8.4

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of SINA was 22.42%. The lowest was 5.70%. And the median was 11.00%.

SINA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Interactive Media industry.
Industry Median: 0 vs SINA: 8.40

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) %. SINA'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.


SINA Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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SINA Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

SINA Annual Data
Trend Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.65 11.35 7.57 15.11 13.62

SINA Quarterly Data
Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 17.48 19.16 13.62 9.86 9.78

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

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, SINA'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.


SINA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, SINA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



SINA 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.

SINAs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2019 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=289.787/3074.029486
=9.43 %

SINA'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 $267 Mil.



SINA  (NAS:SINA) 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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SINA (SINA) Business Description

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Address
Courtyard 10, the West Xibeiwang East Road, No. 8 SINA Plaza, Haidian District, Beijing, CHN, 100193
Sina is a leading online media company in China, established in 1998. In 2009, Sina launched the first Twitter-like social media platform in China, Weibo, which has reached 361 million monthly active users and 159 million daily active users. Sina holds 46% of shares and has 72% voting power in Weibo, and Alibaba holds 31.4% of shares and 14.8% voting power. About 85% of net revenue is from online advertising, with 29.5% from portal advertising and 55.4% from Weibo advertising.
Executives
Hurst Lin director
Yan Wang director
Benjamin S Tsiang officer: Executive Vice President
Pehong Chen director 460 SEAPORT COURT, SUITE 102, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
Yongji Duan director NO 2 HAIDIAN ROAD C/O PATRICK NG ZHONGGUANCUN F4 00000
Ter Fung Tsao director 2988 CAMPUS DRIVE STE 100 SAN MATEO CA 94403
Yi Chen Zhang director 28/F CITIC TOWER 1 TIM MEI AVENUE HONG KONG K3 00000
Xiaotao Chen director C/O STONE ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY 27/F, K. WAH CENTRE, 191 JAVA ROAD NORTH POINT K3
Song-yi Zhang director C/O: 10/F, FUNG HOUSE, 19-20 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONG KONG K3 -
Lip Bu Tan director ONE CALIFORNIA STREET 28TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Charles Guowei Chao director, officer: CEO & President
Herman Yu officer: Acting Chief Financial Officer C/O SINA, 20F, IDEAL PLAZA NO. 58, NORTH 4TH RING ROAD WEST HAIDIAN DISTRICT, BE F4 100080
Daniel Chiang director
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd 10 percent owner NO. 208 JULI ROAD PUDONG NEW AREA SHANGHAI F4 201203
Skyline Media Ltd 10 percent owner PALM GROVE HOUSE P.O. BOX 438 ROAD TOWN, TORTOLA D8 00000