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Algernon Pharmaceuticals (Algernon Pharmaceuticals) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -344.83% (As of Nov. 2023)


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What is Algernon Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Algernon Pharmaceuticals's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $0.95 Mil. Algernon Pharmaceuticals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 was $-2.88 Mil. Algernon Pharmaceuticals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was -344.83%.

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

AGNPF' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2000   Med: 0   Max: 105.26
Current: -156.25

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Algernon Pharmaceuticals was 105.26%. The lowest was -2000.00%. And the median was 0.00%.

AGNPF's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
87.67% of 1395 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -15.58 vs AGNPF: -156.25

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) %. Algernon Pharmaceuticals's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Nov. 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.


Algernon Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Algernon Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Algernon Pharmaceuticals Annual Data
Trend Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -32.15 -21.93 -56.18 -53.19 -212.77

Algernon Pharmaceuticals Quarterly Data
Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23
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 -126.58 -158.73 -232.56 -212.77 -344.83

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

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Algernon Pharmaceuticals'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.


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

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

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



Algernon Pharmaceuticals 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.

Algernon Pharmaceuticalss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-3.889/1.79615205
=-216.52 %

Algernon Pharmaceuticals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Nov. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-2.88 Mil.



Algernon Pharmaceuticals  (OTCPK:AGNPF) 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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Algernon Pharmaceuticals (Algernon Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

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Address
601 West Broadway, Suite 400, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V5Z 4C2
Algernon Pharmaceuticals Inc is a clinical-stage drug development company focused on the disease areas of stroke, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic cough. The company's business model is capital efficient and strives to deliver maximum shareholder value. Algernon's approach to drug discovery is based on the concept of drug repurposing. It operates in two reportable segments: the development of repurposed therapeutic drugs in Canada, and the facilitation of the Company's drug candidates into off-label phase II clinical trials (humans) in Australia.

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