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Blacklinefety (TSX:BLN) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -6.90% (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Blacklinefety Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Blacklinefety's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was C$295.7 Mil. Blacklinefety's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was C$-20.4 Mil. Blacklinefety's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was -6.90%.

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

TSX:BLN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -58.21   Med: -8.68   Max: -2.01
Current: -6.82

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Blacklinefety was -2.01%. The lowest was -58.21%. And the median was -8.68%.

TSX:BLN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
74.17% of 2845 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.19 vs TSX:BLN: -6.82

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) %. Blacklinefety's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 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.


Blacklinefety Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Blacklinefety Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Blacklinefety Annual Data
Trend Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -4.02 -2.74 -9.00 -55.56 -10.09

Blacklinefety Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 -31.35 -22.78 -12.11 -10.09 -6.90

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Blacklinefety'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.


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

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

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



Blacklinefety 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.

Blacklinefetys Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-23.377/231.619546
=-10.09 %

Blacklinefety's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was C$-20.4 Mil.



Blacklinefety  (TSX:BLN) 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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Blacklinefety (TSX:BLN) Business Description

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803-24 Avenue S.E., Unit 100, Calgary, AB, CAN, T2G 1P5
Blackline Safety Corp is a connected safety monitoring technology company. The company develops, manufactures, and markets products and services that empower businesses with real-time safety insights to manage emergency responses, evacuations, and gas detection compliance programs. Its operating segments include, Product segment and Service segment which generates the majority of the revenue for the company. Service revenues relate to connectivity, monitoring and data services that it provides to the customers of its safety devices and includes access to the Blackline Safety Cloud, compliance and analytics reports, SOC monitoring, two-way voice functionality and push to talk capability. Geographically, it derives revenue from Canada, Europe, United States and Rest of the World.

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