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SLS (SELLAS Life Sciences Group) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -54.64% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is SELLAS Life Sciences Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $60.02 Mil. SELLAS Life Sciences Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was $-32.77 Mil. SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -54.64%.

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

SLS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2970.37   Med: -16.75   Max: 162492.05
Current: -81.97

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of SELLAS Life Sciences Group was 162492.05%. The lowest was -2970.37%. And the median was -16.75%.

SLS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
81.41% of 1361 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -13.81 vs SLS: -81.97

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) %. SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 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.


SELLAS Life Sciences Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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SELLAS Life Sciences Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

SELLAS Life Sciences Group 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 -116.28 -34.97 -29.07 -95.24 -116.28

SELLAS Life Sciences Group Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 -67.57 -116.28 -92.59 -57.80 -54.64

Competitive Comparison of SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Biotechnology subindustry, SELLAS Life Sciences Group'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.


SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where SELLAS Life Sciences Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



SELLAS Life Sciences Group 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.

SELLAS Life Sciences Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-37.869/32.436874
=-116.75 %

SELLAS Life Sciences Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-32.77 Mil.



SELLAS Life Sciences Group  (NAS:SLS) 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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SELLAS Life Sciences Group Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
7 Times Square, Suite 2503, New York, NY, USA, 10036
SELLAS Life Sciences Group Inc is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for a broad range of cancer indications. The company's product candidates currently include galinpepimut-S, or GPS, a peptide immunotherapy directed against the Wilms tumor 1, or WT1, antigen, and GFH009, a selective small molecule cyclin-dependent kinase 9, or CDK9, inhibitor.
Executives
Angelos M. Stergiou director, officer: President and CEO C/O SELLAS LIFE SCIENCES GROUP, INC., 2000 CROW CANYON PLACE, SUITE 380, SAN RAMON CA 94583
Barbara A Wood officer: EVP, Gen. Counsel, Corp. Sec. 58 S SERVICE RD, MELVILLE NY 11747
John Thomas Burns officer: VP, Finance & Corp Controller 16760 SW UPPER BOONES FERRY RD, SUITE 101, PORTLAND X1 97224
Katherine Bach Kalin director 3201 CARNEGIE AVENUE, CLEVELAND OH 44115
Robert Francomano officer: Chief Commercial Officer C/O STEMLINE THERAPEUTICS, INC., 750 LEXINGTON AVENUE, 11TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Nicholas J. Sarlis officer: Chief Medical Officer and SVP C/O SELLAS LIFE SCIENCES GROUP, INC., 2000 CROW CANYON PLACE, STE. 380, SAN RAMON CA 94583
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