What is WAVE Life Sciences Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
WAVE Life Sciences's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $433.5 Mil.
WAVE Life Sciences's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-68.0 Mil. WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -15.67%.
The historical rank and industry rank for WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
WVE'
s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3543.48 Med: -27.49 Max: 8100.51
Current: -11.67
During the past 11 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of WAVE Life Sciences was 8100.51%. The lowest was -3543.48%. And the median was -27.49%.
WVE's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than 53.43% of 1400
companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -14.76
vs WVE: -11.67
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) %. WAVE Life Sciences'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.
WAVE Life Sciences Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
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WAVE Life Sciences Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart
Competitive Comparison of WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Biotechnology subindustry, WAVE Life Sciences'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.
WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where WAVE Life Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
WAVE Life Sciences 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.
WAVE Life Sciencess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
WAVE Life Sciences'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 $-68.0 Mil.
WAVE Life Sciences (NAS:WVE) 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.
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WAVE Life Sciences (WAVE Life Sciences) Business Description
WAVE Life Sciences Ltd is a clinical-stage RNA medicines company committed to delivering life-changing treatments for people battling devastating diseases. Wave aspires to develop best-in-class medicines across multiple therapeutic modalities using PRISM, the company's proprietary discovery and drug development platform that enables the precise design, optimization, and production of stereopure oligonucleotides. Driven by a resolute sense of urgency, the Wave team is targeting a broad range of genetically defined diseases so that patients and families may realize a brighter future.
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