What is VMware Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
VMware's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was $72,431 Mil.
VMware's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2023 was $2,163 Mil. VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was 2.99%.
The historical rank and industry rank for VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
VMW'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.17 Med: 3.56 Max: 9.63
Current: 3.28
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of VMware was 9.63%. The lowest was 1.17%. And the median was 3.56%.
VMW's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.19
vs VMW: 3.28
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) %. VMware's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was 13.04%. 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.
VMware Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, VMware'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.
VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where VMware's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
VMwares Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2023 is calculated as
VMware's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2,163 Mil.
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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VMware is an industry titan in virtualizing IT infrastructure and became a stand-alone entity after spinning off from Dell Technologies in November 2021. The software provider operates in three segments: licenses; subscriptions and software as a service; and services. VMware's solutions are used across IT infrastructure, application development, and cybersecurity teams, and the company takes a neutral approach to being the cohesion between cloud environments. The Palo Alto, California, firm operates and sells on a global scale, with about half its revenue from the United States, through direct sales, distributors, and partnerships.
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