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Guardion Health Sciences (Guardion Health Sciences) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -58.48% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Guardion Health Sciences Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

Guardion Health Sciences's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $5.98 Mil. Guardion Health Sciences's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-3.50 Mil. Guardion Health Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -58.48%.

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

GHSI' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -7502.77   Med: -50.69   Max: 70909.09
Current: -47.85

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Guardion Health Sciences was 70909.09%. The lowest was -7502.77%. And the median was -50.69%.

GHSI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
89.63% of 1090 companies
in the Drug Manufacturers industry
Industry Median: 2.425 vs GHSI: -47.85

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) %. Guardion Health Sciences's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 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.


Guardion Health Sciences Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Guardion Health Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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Guardion Health Sciences Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

Guardion Health Sciences Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -178.57 -28.82 -156.25 -192.31 -909.09

Guardion Health Sciences Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 588.24 -357.14 -256.41 -909.09 -58.48

Competitive Comparison of Guardion Health Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Guardion Health 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.


Guardion Health Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry

For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Guardion Health Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Guardion Health Sciences's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Guardion Health 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.

Guardion Health Sciencess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-3.942/0.4497816
=-876.43 %

Guardion Health Sciences's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-3.50 Mil.



Guardion Health Sciences  (NAS:GHSI) 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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Guardion Health Sciences (Guardion Health Sciences) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2925 Richmond Avenue, Suite 1200, Houston, TX, USA, 77098
Guardion Health Sciences Inc is a specialty health sciences company formed to develop, formulate and distribute condition-specific medical foods with an initial medical food product. The company's Medical Foods include Lumega-Z and GlaucoCetin; Medical Devices include Mapcat SF, VectorVision, CSV-1000 and CSV-2000; Nutraceuticals include ImmuneSF.
Executives
Katharine Joan Cox officer: Chief Accounting Officer 2925 RICHMOND AVENUE, SUITE 1200, HOUSTON TX 77098
Janet Hall officer: CEO & President 2925 RICHMOND AVENUE, SUITE 1200, HOUSTON TX 77098
Bradley Louis Radoff 10 percent owner 2727 KIRBY DRIVE, UNIT 29L, HOUSTON TX 77098
Family Foundation Radoff other: See Footnote 1 2727 KIRBY DRIVE, UNIT 29L, HOUSTON TX 77098
Michaela Griggs director 2925 RICHMOND AVENUE, SUITE 1200, HOUSTON TX 77098
Bret Scholtes director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 2105 CITY WEST BLVD., SUITE 500, HOUSTON TX 77042
Donald A Gagliano director 131 CARDINAL AVE, SAN ANTONIO TX 78209
Jeffrey S Benjamin officer: Chief Accounting Officer 3885 CRESTWOOD PARKWAY, SUITE 550, DULUTH GA 30096
Craig Sheehan officer: Chief Commercial Officer 15150 AVENUE OF SCIENCE, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92128
Andrew C Schmidt officer: Chief Financial Officer 1700 CARNEGIE AVE, SUITE 100, SANTA ANA CA 92705
Kelly Anderson director C/O TOMI ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, INC., 9454 WILSHIRE BLVD., R-1, BEVERLY HILLS CA 90212
David W Evans director, officer: Chief Scientific Officer 4141 JUTLAND DRIVE, SUITE 215, SAN DIEGO CA 92117
Tamara A Evans 10 percent owner 4141 JUTLAND DRIVE, SUITE 215, SAN DIEGO CA 92117
Vincent J Roth officer: General Counsel and Secretary 15150 AVENUE OF SCIENCE, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92128
Robert N Weingarten director 5439 LOCKHURST DRIVE, WOODLAND HILLS CA 91367

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