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Seres Therapeutics (Seres Therapeutics) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -36.50% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Seres Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Seres Therapeutics's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $275.0 Mil. Seres Therapeutics's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-100.5 Mil. Seres Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -36.50%.

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

MCRB' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -263.79   Med: -35.56   Max: -3.3
Current: -47.85

During the past 12 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Seres Therapeutics was -3.30%. The lowest was -263.79%. And the median was -35.56%.

MCRB's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
72.9% of 1395 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -15.58 vs MCRB: -47.85

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) %. Seres Therapeutics'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.


Seres Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Seres Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Seres Therapeutics 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 -36.36 -4.25 -11.96 -35.71 -36.50

Seres Therapeutics 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 -35.71 -33.33 -24.27 -37.31 -36.50

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Seres Therapeutics'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.


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

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

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



Seres Therapeutics 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-100.548/275.0284
=-36.56 %

Seres Therapeutics'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 $-100.5 Mil.



Seres Therapeutics  (NAS:MCRB) 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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Seres Therapeutics (Seres Therapeutics) Business Description

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Address
200 Sidney Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139
Seres Therapeutics Inc is a microbiome therapeutics platform company operating in the United States. The company is engaged in developing biological drugs which are referred as ecobiotic microbiome therapeutics. The drugs discovered by the company are designed to restore health by repairing the function of a dysbiotic microbiome. The company focuses on implementing its microbiome therapeutics platform to develop ecobiotic microbiome therapeutics that treat dysbiosis in the colonic microbiome. SER-109, the company's product, is designed to prevent further recurrences of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), a debilitating infection of the colon. In addition, the company is involved in developing SER-262, SER-287, and SER-401.
Executives
Paula Cloghessy officer: See Remarks C/O TRANSLATE BIO, INC., 29 HARTWELL AVENUE, LEXINGTON MA 02421
Matthew R. Henn officer: Chief Scientific Officer C/O SERES THERAPEUTICS, INC., 200 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Eric D. Shaff officer: CFO and EVP C/O SERES HEALTH, INC., 161 FIRST STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02472
Thomas Desrosier officer: See Remarks 65 HAYDEN AVENUE, LEXINGTON MA 02421
Moltke Lisa Von officer: See Remarks C/O SERESTHERAPEUTICS, INC., 200 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Teresa L. Young officer: See Remarks C/O SERES THERAPEUTICS, INC., SUITE 1750, HOUSTON TX 77098
David S. Ege officer: See Remarks C/O SERES THERAPEUTICS, INC., 200 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
David Arkowitz officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O FLEXION THERAPEUTICS, INC., 10 MALL ROAD, SUITE 301, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Claire Fraser director C/O BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY, FRANKLIN LAKES NJ 07465
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