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Great Basin Scientific (Great Basin Scientific) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $-43.55 (As of Mar17)


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What is Great Basin Scientific Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Mar17, Great Basin Scientific's earnings power value is $-43.55. *

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

Margin of Safety is N/A.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future. Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.


Great Basin Scientific Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Great Basin Scientific's Earnings Power Value (EPV) can be seen below:

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Great Basin Scientific Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Great Basin Scientific's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, Great Basin Scientific's Earnings Power Value (EPV), along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Power Value (EPV) 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.


Great Basin Scientific's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, Great Basin Scientific's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Great Basin Scientific's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Great Basin Scientific Earnings Power Value (EPV) Calculation

Earnings Power Value also known as just Earnings Power is a valuation technique popularised by Bruce Greenwald, an authority on value investing at Columbia University. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. This valuation tool excludes the potential growth that a company may have so that needs to be looked at separately. Since future growth is excluded from the analysis, only the maintenance capital expenditures are subtracted from after-tax EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) and growth capex is ignored.


Great Basin Scientific  (GREY:GBSNQ) Earnings Power Value (EPV) Explanation

Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.

Earnings power value (EPV) uses a very basic equation which assumes no growth, although it does rely on an assumption about the cost of capital as well as the fact that current earnings are sustainable. It also involves several adjustments to clean up the underlying Earnings figures.


Be Aware

Though using today's earnings in calculating Earnings Power Value, GuruFocus is normalizing these earnings to the business cycle. This eliminates the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle. This means that we are considering the average earnings over 5 years.


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Great Basin Scientific (Great Basin Scientific) Business Description

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420 East South Temple, Suite 520, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 84111
Great Basin Scientific Inc is the United States based molecular diagnostic testing company. It is focused on the development and commercialization of molecular diagnostic platform designed to test for the infectious disease, especially hospital-acquired infections. Molecular diagnostic testing reduces test time from days to hours compared to culture methods. The company's system includes an analyzer, which it provides for the customers' use without charge in the United States, and a diagnostic cartridge, which it sells to the customers. The group derives its revenue from the sale of single-use assays sold in the United States, the European Union, and New Zealand, of which majority of the revenue is generated from the United States.

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