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Processa Pharmaceuticals (Processa Pharmaceuticals) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -285.71% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Processa Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Processa Pharmaceuticals's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.05 Mil. Processa Pharmaceuticals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-11.46 Mil. Processa Pharmaceuticals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -285.71%.

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

PCSA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -833.33   Med: -3.91   Max: -0.99
Current: -769.23

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Processa Pharmaceuticals was -0.99%. The lowest was -833.33%. And the median was -3.91%.

PCSA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
97.87% of 1408 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -14.54 vs PCSA: -769.23

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) %. Processa Pharmaceuticals's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 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.


Processa Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Processa Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Processa Pharmaceuticals Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -3.96 -19.27 -19.08 -178.57 -285.71

Processa Pharmaceuticals Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -178.57 -1,250.00 -500.00 2,500.00 -285.71

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Processa Pharmaceuticals'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.


Processa Pharmaceuticals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Processa Pharmaceuticals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



Processa Pharmaceuticals 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.

Processa Pharmaceuticalss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-11.457/4.050912
=-282.83 %

Processa Pharmaceuticals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-11.46 Mil.



Processa Pharmaceuticals  (NAS:PCSA) 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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Processa Pharmaceuticals (Processa Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

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Address
7380 Coca Cola Drive, Suite 106, Hanover, MD, USA, 21076
Processa Pharmaceuticals Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in the United States. It focuses on the development of drug products that are intended to improve the survival and quality of life for patients who have an unmet medical need. The company's lead product, PCS499 is an oral tablet that is an analog of an active metabolite of an already approved drug. It focuses on fibrotic related diseases such as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Its pipeline products comprise PCS6422, PCS12852, and PCS100.
Executives
Wendy Guy officer: Chief Administrative Officer 7380 COCA COLA DRIVE, SUITE 106, HANOVER MD 21076
James H Stanker officer: Chief Financial Officer 9008 SHADYBROOK DRIVE, FREDERICK MD 21701
Patrick Lin officer: Chief Business - Strategy Off 7380 COCA COLA DRIVE, SUITE 106, HANOVER MD 21076
George K Ng officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6042 CORNERSTONE COURT WEST, SUITE B, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Khoso Baluch director 1430 US HIGHWAY 206, SUITE 200, BEDMINSTER NJ 07921
James R Neal director 2910 SEVENTH STREET, BERKELEY CA 94710
Virgil Thompson director 319 SOUTH NARDO, SOIANA BEACH CA 92075
Justin W Yorke director C/O JMG EXPLORATION, 180 SOUTH LAKE AVENUE, PASADENA CA 91101
Geraldine Pannu director 7380 COCA COLA DRIVE, SUITE 106, HANOVER MD 21076
David Young director, 10 percent owner, officer: President & CEO 8850 STANFORD BOULEVARD, SUITE 2500, COLUMBIA MD 21045
Robert Michael Floyd officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O PROCESSA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 7300 COCA COLA DRIVE, SUITE 106, HANOVER MD 21076
James E Besser 10 percent owner 3 WEST HILL PLACE, BOSTON MA 02114
Khalid Islam director C/O IMMUNOMEDICS, INC., 300 THE AMERICAN ROAD, MORRIS PLAINS NJ 07950
Sian Bigora officer: Chief Development Officer 7380 COCA COLA DRIVE, SUITE 106, HANOVER MD 21076

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