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Lineage Cell Therapeutics (XTAE:LCTX) Profitability Rank : 3 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Lineage Cell Therapeutics Profitability Rank?

Lineage Cell Therapeutics has the Profitability Rank of 3. It has had trouble to make a profit.

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way. It is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %
2. Piotroski F-Score
3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.
4. Consistency of the profitability
5. Predictability Rank

Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -461.29%. As of today, Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Piotroski F-Score is 2.


Competitive Comparison of Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Profitability Rank

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Profitability Rank, along with its competitors' market caps and Profitability Rank 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.


Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Profitability Rank Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Profitability Rank distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Profitability Rank falls into.



Lineage Cell Therapeutics Profitability Rank Calculation

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way.

The maximum rank is 10. A rank of 7 or higher means a higher profitability and may stay that way. A rank of 3 or lower indicates that the company has had trouble to make a profit.

Lineage Cell Therapeutics has the Profitability Rank of 3. It has had trouble to make a profit.

Profitability Rank is not directly related to the Financial Strength. But if a company is consistently profitable, its financial strength will be stronger.

Profitability Rank is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %

Operating Margin % - also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin and return on sales (ROS) - is the ratio of Operating Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.

Lineage Cell Therapeutics's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 ) / Revenue (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-24.596 / 5.332
=-461.29 %

* 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.

2. Piotroski F-Score

Warning Sign:

Piotroski F-Score of 2 is low, which usually implies poor business operation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 8 or 9
Bad or low score = 0 or 1

Lineage Cell Therapeutics has an F-score of 2. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.

3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.

Good Sign:

Lineage Cell Therapeutics Inc operating margin is expanding. Margin expansion is usually a good sign.

4. Consistency of the profitability

5. Predictability Rank


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Lineage Cell Therapeutics (XTAE:LCTX) Business Description

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Address
2173 Salk Avenue, Suite 200, Carlsbad, CA, USA, 92008
Lineage Cell Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapies for the treatment of degenerative diseases. The company's pipeline is based on two platform technologies including cell replacement and cell/drug delivery. Lineage Cell's product candidate is OpRegen, a retinal pigment epithelium transplant therapy for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration, OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell therapy for acute spinal cord injuries, and VAC2, allogeneic cancer immunotherapy of antigen-presenting dendritic cells for non-small cell lung cancer, ANP1, an allogeneic auditory neuron progenitor cell transplant for hearing loss, and PNC1, an allogeneic photoreceptor cell transplant for vision loss.

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