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PZRXQ (PhaseRx) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -133.33% (As of Sep. 2017)


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What is PhaseRx Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

PhaseRx's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was $9.77 Mil. PhaseRx's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 was $-12.95 Mil. PhaseRx's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 was -133.33%.

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

PZRXQ's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: -13.64
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.

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) %. PhaseRx's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2017 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.


PhaseRx Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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PhaseRx Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

PhaseRx Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
- - -217.39

PhaseRx Quarterly Data
Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -97.09 -217.39 -169.49 -158.73 -133.33

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, PhaseRx'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.


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

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

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



PhaseRx 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.

PhaseRxs Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-18.079/8.343965
=-216.67 %

PhaseRx's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-12.95 Mil.



PhaseRx  (OTCPK:PZRXQ) 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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PhaseRx Business Description

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Address
410 West Harrison Street, Suite 300, Seattle, WA, USA, 98119
PhaseRx Inc is a biopharmaceutical company. It is developing a portfolio of products for the treatment of inherited enzyme deficiencies in the liver using intracellular enzyme replacement therapy, or i-ERT. The approach is enabled by proprietary Hybrid messenger RNA, or mRNA, Technology platform, which allows synthesis of the missing enzyme inside the cell. The product portfolio targets the three urea cycle disorders ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, or OTCD, argininosuccinate lyase deficiency, or ASL deficiency, and argininosuccinate synthetase deficiency, or ASS1 deficiency.
Executives
Gordon Brandt officer: Chief Medical Officer 410 WEST HARRISON STREET, SEATTLE WA 98119
Paul H Johnson director 3450 MONTE VILLA PARKWAY, BOTHELL WA 98053
Peggy V Phillips director C/O DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, 2929 SEVENTH STREET, SUITE 100, BERKELEY CA 94710
Michelle Renee Griffin director 19723 NE 65TH LANE, KIRKLAND WA 98033
Brian G Atwood director, 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 1650, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Schmidt John A Jr director 300 THIRD ST, CAMBRIDGE X1 02142
Steven Gillis director, 10 percent owner 8755 W. HIGGINS ROAD, SUITE 1025, CHICAGO IL 60631
Samuel D Colella 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 3630, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Robert Nelsen 10 percent owner 8755 W. HIGGINS ROAD, SUITE 1025, CHICAGO IL 60631
Rebecca B Robertson 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 1650, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Barbara N Lubash 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 3630, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Donald B Milder 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 1650, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Charles M Warden 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 1650, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Versant Side Fund Iii, L.p. 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 1650, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Versant Venture Capital Iii, L.p. 10 percent owner ONE SANSOME STREET, SUITE 1650, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104

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