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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (Amphastar Pharmaceuticals) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 5.95% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,339.9 Mil. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $198.5 Mil. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 5.95%.

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

AMPH' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -6.14   Med: 1.35   Max: 9.27
Current: 8.8

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals was 9.27%. The lowest was -6.14%. And the median was 1.35%.

AMPH's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
80.6% of 1093 companies
in the Drug Manufacturers industry
Industry Median: 2.54 vs AMPH: 8.80

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) %. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 21.82%. 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.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.52 0.52 7.88 9.25 5.95

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals 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) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 9.25 7.14 4.27 7.36 5.95

Competitive Comparison

For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Amphastar 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.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Amphastar 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=198.517/3339.897465
=5.94 %

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals'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 $198.5 Mil.



Amphastar Pharmaceuticals  (NAS:AMPH) 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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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (Amphastar Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
11570 6th Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA, 91730
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses primarily on developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling technically challenging generic and proprietary injectable, inhalation, and intranasal products. Additionally, the company sells insulin API products. The company's finished products are used in hospital or urgent care clinical settings and are contracted and distributed through group purchasing organizations and drug wholesalers. The company has two reportable segments finished pharmaceutical products and API products. Geographically the business presence of the firm is seen in the United States, China and France of which the U.S. accounts for the majority of the revenue.
Executives
Mary Z. Luo director, 10 percent owner, officer: COO and Chief Scientist 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Floyd F. Petersen director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Rong Zhou officer: EVP, Production C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC., 11570 SIXTH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Richard K Prins director
William J Peters officer: CFO, SVP & Treasurer C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Yakob Liawatidewi officer: SVP Corp Admin Center C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC, 11570 SIXTH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Michael A Zasloff director
Gayle Deflin director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Diane G. Gerst officer: EVP, QA & Regulatory Affairs 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Howard Lee director 13F-2, NO. 36, LANE 48, SECTION 3, NAN-JING EAST ROAD, TAIPEI, TAIWAN F4 00000
Jack Y. Zhang director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO & Chief Scientific Officer 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
David Maris director C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Richard Koo director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Jason B. Shandell director, officer: President 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Applied Physics & Chemistry Laboratories, Inc. 10 percent owner 13760 MAGNOLIA AVENUE, CHINO CA 91710