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electroCore (electroCore) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : -54.95% (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is electroCore Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

electroCore's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $30.87 Mil. electroCore's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-16.92 Mil. electroCore's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -54.95%.

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

ECOR' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -32529.63   Med: -87.43   Max: 307560.71
Current: -47.17

During the past 8 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of electroCore was 307560.71%. The lowest was -32529.63%. And the median was -87.43%.

ECOR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
87.34% of 853 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 0.08 vs ECOR: -47.17

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) %. electroCore'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.


electroCore Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

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electroCore Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

electroCore Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial -169.49 -46.73 -277.78 -1,666.67 -74.07

electroCore 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 -158.73 -147.06 -90.09 -74.07 -54.95

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

For the Medical Devices subindustry, electroCore'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.


electroCore's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, electroCore's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

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



electroCore 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-19.269/26.022053497
=-74.05 %

electroCore'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 $-16.92 Mil.



electroCore  (NAS:ECOR) 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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electroCore (electroCore) Business Description

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Address
200 Forge Way, Suite 205, Rockaway, NJ, USA, 07866
electroCore Inc is a commercial stage bioelectronic medicine company with a platform for non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation therapy initially focused on neurology. The company's product gammaCore is Food and Drug Administration cleared in the United States for adjunctive use for the preventive treatment of cluster headache in adult patients, the acute treatment of pain associated with episodic cluster headache in adult patients, the acute treatment of pain associated with migraine headache in adult patients and the prevention of migraine in adult patients. The gammaCore is CE-marked in the European Union for the acute and/or prophylactic treatment of primary headache, Bronchoconstriction and Medication Overuse Headache in adults.
Executives
Daniel S Goldberger director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 24 CARPENTER ROAD, CHESTER NY 10918
Joseph P Errico director, 10 percent owner, officer: See Remarks 150 ALLEN ROAD, SUITE 201, BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920
Thomas J. Errico director, 10 percent owner 150 ALLEN ROAD, SUITE 201, BASKING RIDGE NJ 97920
Trevor J Moody director 150 ALLEN ROAD, SUITE 201, BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920
John P Gandolfo director 62 TERRACE ROAD, WAYNE NJ 07470
Julie Ann Goldstein director 205 FORGE WAY, ROCKAWAY NJ 07866
Patricia Wilber director 205 FORGE WAY, SUITE 205, ROCKAWAY NJ 07866
Brian M Posner officer: Chief Financial Officer 1590 REED ROAD, PENNINGTON NJ 08534
Tullis James L L director 100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE, STAMFORD CT 06907
Thomas M Patton director C/O OSTEOTCH INC., 51 JAMES WAY, EATONTOWN NJ 07724
F Peter Cuneo director 10 EAST 40TH ST, NEW YORK NY 10016
Stephen Ondra director 150 ALLEN ROAD, SUITE 201, BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920
Nicholas Colucci director 150 ALLEN ROAD, SUITE 201, BASKING RIDGE NJ 07920
Michael G Atieh director MERCK MEDCO MANAGED CARE INC, 100 SUMMIT AVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Carrie Smith Cox director SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION, 2000 GALLOPING HILL ROAD, KENILWORTH NJ 07033