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3SBio, (FRA:YFK) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 5.17% (As of Dec. 2016)


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What is 3SBio, Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

3SBio,'s Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2016 was €0.0 Mil. 3SBio,'s EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2016 was €135.9 Mil. 3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2016 was 5.17%.

The historical rank and industry rank for 3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:YFK' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3   Med: 4.1   Max: 22.36
Current: 22.36

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of 3SBio, was 22.36%. The lowest was 3.00%. And the median was 4.10%.

FRA:YFK's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: -15.58 vs FRA:YFK: 22.36

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) %. 3SBio,'s Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2016 was -13.36%. 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.


3SBio, Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for 3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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3SBio, Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

3SBio, Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 16.47 11.78 - 2.89 5.17

3SBio, Semi-Annual Data
Jun06 Dec06 Jun07 Dec07 Jun08 Dec08 Jun09 Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16
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 - 0.71 2.89 - 5.17

Competitive Comparison of 3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Biotechnology subindustry, 3SBio,'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.


3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, 3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where 3SBio,'s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



3SBio, 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.

3SBio,s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=136.694/0
= %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



3SBio,  (FRA:YFK) 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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3SBio, (FRA:YFK) Business Description

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3SBio Inc is engaged in the healthcare sector based in China. It is a pharmaceutical products company and its core activities pertain to developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceuticals. Its portfolio of products comprises of TPIAO and Yisaipu. TPIAO is the only commercialized recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTPO) product in the world and Yisaipu is a TNF inhibibator product and accounts for the major share in the pharmaceutical industry in China. Most of the company's activities are focused on China while having a minor footprint in a foreign land.

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