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Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund (Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $-5.46 (As of Sep23)


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What is Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Sep23, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's earnings power value is $-5.46. *

* 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.


Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Asset Management subindustry, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund'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.


Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund 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.

Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 5 Years Last Year
Revenue 49.06
DDA 0.00
Operating Margin % 0.00
SGA * 25% 0.32
Tax Rate % 0.00
Maintenance Capex 0.00
Cash and Cash Equivalents 0.00
Short-Term Debt 0.00
Long-Term Debt 225.00
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 41.24

1. Start with "Earnings" not including accounting adjustments (one-time charges not excluded unless policy has changed). "Earnings" are "Operating Income.

2. Look at average margins over a business/Industry cycle: Average Operating Margin = 0.00%

To normalize margins and eliminate the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle, it is usually best to take a long-term average of operating margins. Ideally this would be as long as 10 years and include at least one economic downturn. However, since most of companies do not have as long as 10-year history, here GuruFocus uses the latest 5 years data to do the calculation. To smooth out unusual years but reflect recent developments, we take an average of the 5 year margin.

3. Multiply average margins by sustainable revenues and then adjust for maintenance SGA. This yields "normalized" EBIT:

To be conservative, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year revenues as the sustainable revenue.
EPV analysis recognises that part of SG&A expenditure is made to maintain and replace the existing assets, while part is made to grow sales. Since EPV is only interested in what it costs a going concern to maintain its existing asset base, it adds back a percentage of SG&A (between 15% and 50% - this is a matter of judgment and industry knowledge) to make up for the fact that some of this expenditure went to fund growth and shouldn't be accounted for. To start off, we assume 25% for the sake of prudence.
Sustainable Revenue = $49.06 Mil, Average Operating Margin = 0.00%, Average Adjusted SGA = 0.32,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 49.06 * 0.00% +0.32 = $ Mil.

4. Multiply by one minus Average Tax Rate (NOPAT):

Same as average operating margin calculation, GuruFocus takes an average of the 5 years tax rates.
Average Tax Rate = 0.00%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $ Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = * ( 1 - 0.00% ) = $0 Mil.

5. Add back Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate). This yields "normalized" Earnings:

Excess Depreciation = Average DDA * % of Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate) = 0.00 * 0.5 * 0.00% = $0 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = 0 + 0 = $0 Mil.

6. Adjusted for Maintenance Capital Expenditure:

First, calculate the revenue change regarding to the previous year. If the revenue decreased from the previous year, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
Second, if the revenue increased from the previous year, then calculate the percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue.
Third, calculate Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was negative, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was positive, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
Fourth, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year maintenance capital expenditures as maintenance CAPEX.
Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $0.00 Mil *.
* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

7. Investors require a return of "WACC" for the risk they are taking: WACC = 9%

8. Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's current cash and cash equivalent = $0.00 Mil.
Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 225.00 + 0.00 = $225 Mil.
Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 41.24 Mil.

Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Sep23 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( 0 - 0.00)/ 9%+0.00-225 )/41.24
=-5.46

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( -5.4559761390916-20.14 )/-5.4559761390916
= N/A

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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


Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund  (NYSE:THQ) 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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Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund (Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1900 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19103
Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund is a non-diversified closed-end fund in the United States. The fund's investment objective is to seek current income and long-term capital appreciation through investments in U.S. and non-U.S. companies in the healthcare industry (including equity securities, debt securities, and pooled investment vehicles). The fund invests in securities of public and private companies.
Executives
Bill Maher director 600 WEST BROADWAY, 30TH FL., SAN DIEGO CA 92101
Aberdeen Standard Investments Inc. other: Adviser 1900 MARKET ST., 2ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Rose Dimartino director C/O ABRDN, 1900 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Jaclyn Marie Matsick other: Director of Adviser C/O ABRDN, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Marika Tooze other: Director of Adviser C/O ABRDN, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Todd Reit director C/O ABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
James Joseph O'connor other: Director of Adviser C/O ABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS, 1900 MARKET STREET, SUITE 200, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Lucia Sitar officer: VP and Chief Legal Officer 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Christian Pittard officer: President ONE BOW CHURCHYARD, LONDON X0 EC4M 9HH
Megan Kennedy officer: Secretary and Vice President 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Jennifer A Nichols other: Director of Adviser 1735 MARKET STREET, 37TH FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Stephen Bird director 388 GREENWICH STREET, 17TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Joseph Andolina officer: Chief Compliance Officer & VP 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Alan R Goodson officer: Vice President 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103
Sharon Ferrari officer: Treasurer and CFO 1735 MARKET STREET, 32ND FLOOR, PHILADELPHIA PA 19103

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