What is Ocata Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?
Ocata Therapeutics's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was $150.74 Mil.
Ocata Therapeutics's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $-24.91 Mil. Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was -16.53%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:
OCAT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: -14.54 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % only.
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) %. Ocata Therapeutics's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 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.
Ocata Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Ocata 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.
Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Ocata Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.
In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.
Ocata Therapeuticss Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
Ocata Therapeutics's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-24.91 Mil.
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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Ocata Therapeutics (Ocata Therapeutics) Business Description
Ocata Therapeutics Inc was incorporated in Nevada under the name Two Moon Kachinas Corp. on May 18, 2000. The Company is a biotechnology company, engaged in the development and commercialization of human pluripotent stem cell technology in the field of regenerative medicine. It is actively conducting clinical trials for treating dry age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt's macular degeneration, in addition to several clinical and preclinical programs for other ocular therapies. It also has a preclinical development pipeline in areas outside of ophthalmology, including; autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and wound healing. Its intellectual property portfolio includes pluripotent human embryonic stem cell, or hESC; induced pluripotent stem cell, or iPSC, platforms; and other cell therapy research programs. It has developed a human photoreceptor progenitor cell. In the U.S., one of the Company's ongoing clinical trials is a Phase 1/2 study for treating dry AMD patients by injection of RPE cells made in culture from an hESC line. It is also conducting Phase 1/2 studies in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the treatment of SMD patients using the RPE cell injections. The Company is conducting three trials in cooperation with retinal surgeons at the top eye hospitals in the U.S. and the U.K. including: Jules Stein Eye Institute (UCLA), Wills Eye Institute, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (University of Miami) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. As of March 27, 2014, the Company had 46 issued patents and 178 pending patent applications filed, a substantial portion of which pertain to its active product development programs. The Company competes with Pfizer, Regenerative Patch Technologies and the Riken Center for Developmental Biology (Japan), among others. The Company's research and development activities are subject to regulation for safety and efficacy by numerous governmental authorities in the United States and other countries.
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