Richard Sloan from the University of Michigan was first to document what is referred to as the "accrual anomaly". His 1996 paper found that shares of companies with small or negative accruals vastly outperform (+10%) those of companies with large ones.
When sloan ratio (-58.41)% higher than 25% or lower than -25%, earnings are more likely to be made up of accruals.
As of Sep. 2024, ClearSign Technologies has a Sloan Ratio of 3.51%, indicating the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.
ClearSign Technologies Sloan Ratio % Historical Data
* 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 ClearSign Technologies's Sloan Ratio %
For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, ClearSign Technologies's Sloan Ratio %, along with its competitors' market caps and Sloan Ratio % 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.
ClearSign Technologies's Sloan Ratio % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, ClearSign Technologies's Sloan Ratio % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where ClearSign Technologies's Sloan Ratio % falls into.
ClearSign Technologies Sloan Ratio % Calculation
Earnings contain a lot of non cash earnings which is called accruals. The Sloan ratio is a way to identify firms with low non-cash or accrual-derived earnings relative to their cash flow.
ClearSign Technologies's Sloan Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
ClearSign Technologies's Net Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was -0.955 (Dec. 2023 ) + -1.108 (Mar. 2024 ) + -1.872 (Jun. 2024 ) + -1.155 (Sep. 2024 ) = $-5.09 Mil.
ClearSign Technologies's Cash Flow from Operations for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was -1.45 (Dec. 2023 ) + -1.001 (Mar. 2024 ) + -1.524 (Jun. 2024 ) + -1.433 (Sep. 2024 ) = $-5.41 Mil.
ClearSign Technologies's Cash Flow from Investing for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2024 was -0.105 (Dec. 2023 ) + -0.034 (Mar. 2024 ) + -0.083 (Jun. 2024 ) + -0.06 (Sep. 2024 ) = $-0.28 Mil.
* 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.
ClearSign Technologies (NAS:CLIR) Sloan Ratio % Explanation
A former University of Michigan researcher, Richard Sloan's 1996 paper found that shares of companies with small or negative accruals vastly outperform (+10%) those of companies with large ones. In fact, for the 40-year period between 1962 and 2001, buying the lowest accrual companies and shorting the highest accrual companies resulted in an average annual compounded return of 18%, more than double the S&P 500's 7.4% annual return over the same period.
If the Sloan Ratio is between -10% and 10%, the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.
If the Sloan Ratio is less than between -25% and -10% on the negative side, and between 10% and 25% on the positive side, this is a warning stage of accrual build up.
If the Sloan Ratio is less than -25% or greater than 25%, and this ratio is consistent over several quarters or even years, be careful. Earnings are highly likely to be made up of accruals.
As of Sep. 2024, ClearSign Technologies has a Sloan Ratio of 3.51%, indicating the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.
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ClearSign Technologies Corp is engaged in providing solutions to some of the pressing productivity, energy efficiency, and pollution problems affecting the energy, oil, and gas production, boiler, and processing industries. It believes that its patented ClearSign Core technology can enhance the performance of combustion systems in a broad range of markets, including the energy (upstream oil production and downstream refining), institutional, commercial, and industrial boiler, chemical, and petrochemical industries. The company offers products that include process burners, boiler burners, flares, and ClearSign Eye.
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