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Zevra Therapeutics (Zevra Therapeutics) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -17.95% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Zevra Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Zevra Therapeutics's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $248.08 Mil. Zevra Therapeutics's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-44.55 Mil. Zevra Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -17.95%.

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

ZVRA' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -56.16   Med: -15.79   Max: -0.07
Current: -26.95

During the past 11 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Zevra Therapeutics was -0.07%. The lowest was -56.16%. And the median was -15.79%.

ZVRA's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
62.29% of 1395 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -15.58 vs ZVRA: -26.95

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) %. Zevra Therapeutics'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.


Zevra Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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Zevra Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Zevra Therapeutics 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 -20.00 -4.87 -4.19 -29.50 -17.95

Zevra Therapeutics 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) % 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 -29.50 -34.48 -16.64 -17.30 -17.95

Competitive Comparison of Zevra Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Zevra 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.


Zevra Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

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

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



Zevra Therapeutics 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-44.548/248.080285
=-17.96 %

Zevra Therapeutics'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 $-44.55 Mil.



Zevra Therapeutics  (NAS:ZVRA) 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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Zevra Therapeutics (Zevra Therapeutics) Business Description

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1180 Celebration Boulevard, Suite 103, Celebration, FL, USA, 34747
Zevra Therapeutics Inc is a rare disease company melding science, data and patient needs to create transformational therapies for diseases with limited or no treatment options. The firm's data-driven clinical, regulatory, and commercialization strategies overcome complex drug development challenges to bring much-needed therapies to patients. Its product candidate comprises Arimoclomol, orally delivered investigational product candidate for the treatment of Niemann-Pick type C (NPC). KP1077 is Zevra's lead clinical candidate being developed as a treatment for idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) and narcolepsy.
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Tamara A Seymour director C/O SIGNAL GENETICS, INC., 5740 FLEET STREET, CARLSBAD CA 92008
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