Workday's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2023 was $44,118 Mil.
Workday's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2023 was $-158 Mil. Workday's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2023 was -0.36%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Workday's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
WDAY'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -5.02 Med: -1.12 Max: 0.1
Current: -0.3
During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Workday was 0.10%. The lowest was -5.02%. And the median was -1.12%.
WDAY's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than 56.52% of 2760
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.07
vs WDAY: -0.30
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) %. Workday's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2023 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.
Workday Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Workday'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.
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Workday Annual Data
Trend
Jan14
Jan15
Jan16
Jan17
Jan18
Jan19
Jan20
Jan21
Jan22
Jan23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
-0.92
-1.00
-0.38
0.05
-0.36
Workday Quarterly Data
Apr18
Jul18
Oct18
Jan19
Apr19
Jul19
Oct19
Jan20
Apr20
Jul20
Oct20
Jan21
Apr21
Jul21
Oct21
Jan22
Apr22
Jul22
Oct22
Jan23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
0.05
-0.01
-0.39
-0.50
-0.36
Competitive Comparison
For the Software - Application subindustry, Workday'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.
Workday Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Workday's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Workday's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %'s extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Workdays Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2023 is calculated as
Workday's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-158 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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Workday is a software company that offers human capital management, or HCM, financial management, and business planning solutions. Known for being a cloud-only software provider, Workday is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 2005, Workday now employs over 12,000 employees.
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