Polycom (STU:PLY) EV-to-EBIT : 36.73 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)

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What is Polycom EV-to-EBIT?

EV-to-EBIT is calculated as Enterprise Value divided by its EBIT. As of today, Polycom's Enterprise Value is €1,504 Mil. Polycom's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was €41 Mil. Therefore, Polycom's EV-to-EBIT for today is 36.73.

The historical rank and industry rank for Polycom's EV-to-EBIT or its related term are showing as below:

STU:PLY's EV-to-EBIT is not ranked ^*
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 16.195
* Ranked among companies with meaningful EV-to-EBIT only.

Joel Greenblatt calls the inversion of this ratio Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %. Polycom's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was €937 Mil. Polycom's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was €41 Mil. Polycom's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 4.37%.

Polycom EV-to-EBIT Historical Data

The historical data trend for Polycom's EV-to-EBIT can be seen below:

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Polycom EV-to-EBIT Chart

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17.65

198.35

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29.37

13.97

Polycom Quarterly Data
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EV-to-EBIT	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															11.72	10.25	13.97	15.09	23.26

Competitive Comparison of Polycom's EV-to-EBIT

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Polycom's EV-to-EBIT, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-to-EBIT 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.

Polycom's EV-to-EBIT Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Polycom's EV-to-EBIT distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Polycom's EV-to-EBIT falls into.

Polycom EV-to-EBIT Calculation

Polycom's EV-to-EBIT for today is calculated as:

EV-to-EBIT	=	Enterprise Value (Today)	/	EBIT (TTM)
	=	1503.826	/	40.944
	=	36.73

Polycom's current Enterprise Value is €1,504 Mil.
Polycom's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €41 Mil.

Polycom (STU:PLY) EV-to-EBIT Explanation

This is a more accurate valuation of companies' operation because it considers the debt and cash on its balance sheet, and non-operating items such as interest payment, tax, and one-time items are not included in the Operating Income.

Joel Greenblatt calls the inversion of this ratio Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %.

Polycom's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as:

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % (Q: Jun. 2016 )	=	EBIT	/	Enterprise Value (Q: Jun. 2016 )
	=	40.944	/	937.07629
	=	4.37 %

Polycom's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was €937 Mil.
Polycom's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €41 Mil.

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Polycom Inc was incorporated in December 1990 in Delaware. The Company provides an open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice, video and content collaboration solutions. Its solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich application programming interfaces (APIs) that interoperate with a set of communication, business, mobile, and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration across different environments. The Company is engaged in helping organizations achieve new levels of teamwork, efficiency and productivity by unleashing the power of human collaboration. The Company sells its solutions through a high-touch sales model that leverages its network of channel partners, including distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators; communications services providers, and retailers. The Company serves in three geographical segments; Americas, EMEA and APAC. Its products and solutions are; UC Group Systems, which includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. UC Platform, which includes collaboration servers, virtualization management "distributed media optimization", resource management, recording and streaming, open API's and remote access technologies that constitute the RealPresence Platform, and UC Personal Devices, which includes desktop video devices and desktop voice products. It competes in the UC&C market with products and solutions that enable voice, video and content collaboration on-premises, across intranets, extranets, mobile devices, and the Internet via its customer premises-based RealPresence Platform, web-based social-collaboration business platforms, and video collaboration-as-a-service offerings delivered from the cloud. These competitors include but are not limited to Cisco Systems, Inc., Acano, Avaya Inc., Blue Jeans Networks, Inc., ClearOne Communications, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Logitech International S.A./LifeSize, PexIP, Snom Technology Ag, Vidyo, Inc., Yamaha Corporation/Revolabs, Inc., Yealink, ZTE Corporation and others. Its products and services are subject to various federal, state, local, and foreign laws and regulations.

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