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Mersana Therapeutics (Mersana Therapeutics) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: -161.29% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Mersana Therapeutics's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $104.60 Mil. Mersana Therapeutics's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-167.60 Mil. Mersana Therapeutics's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -161.29%.

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

MRSN' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1108.5   Med: -21.89   Max: 1638.7
Current: -66.67

During the past 9 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Mersana Therapeutics was 1638.70%. The lowest was -1108.50%. And the median was -21.89%.

MRSN's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
78.79% of 1400 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: -15.465 vs MRSN: -66.67

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) %. Mersana 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.


Mersana Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

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

* 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.

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Mersana Therapeutics Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -16.64 -5.50 -52.91 -54.05 -161.29

Mersana 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) % 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -54.05 -100.00 -147.06 357.14 -161.29

Competitive Comparison

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Mersana 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.


Mersana Therapeutics Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

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

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



Mersana 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.

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

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=-167.597/104.59984
=-160.23 %

Mersana 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 $-167.60 Mil.



Mersana Therapeutics  (NAS:MRSN) 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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Mersana Therapeutics (Mersana Therapeutics) Business Description

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Address
840 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139
Mersana Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using its differentiated and proprietary ADC platforms to develop targeted drugs with increased tolerability and expanded opportunities to deliver meaningful clinical benefits to patients. The Company's early stage programs include XMT-1660, a Dolasynthen ADC targeting B7-H4, as well as XMT-2056, a STING agonist ADC developed using the Company's Immunosynthen platform and targeting a novel epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. The Company also has two earlier stage preclinical candidates, XMT-2068 and XMT-2175, both of which leverage the Company's Immunosynthen platform and target tumor-associated antigens.
Executives
Anna Protopapas director, officer: President and CEO MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 40 LANDSDOWNE STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Mohan Bala officer: SVP, Chief Development Officer C/O MERSANA THERAPEUTICS, INC., 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Tushar Misra officer: Chief Manufacturing Officer 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Brian Deschuytner officer: Sr. VP, Finance & Product stgy 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 01776
Ashish Mandelia officer: VP, Controller 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Timothy B Lowinger officer: Chief Scientific Officer 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Alejandra Carvajal officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O CERULEAN PHARMA INC., 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, 5TH FLOOR, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Ecor1 Capital, Llc 10 percent owner 357 TEHAMA STREET #3, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Arvin Yang officer: Chief Medical Officer 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Hack Andrew A. F. director 300 THIRD STREET, FIRST FLOOR, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Michael J. Kaufman officer: Sr VP Chmistry, Man & Control 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Allene M. Diaz director C/O ALLENA PHARMACEUTIALS, INC., ONEW NEWTON EXECUTIVE PARK SUITE 202, NEWTON MA 02462
Eva M. Jack officer: CBO, Treasurer & Secretary 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Lawrence M Alleva director 1000 WINTER STREET, SUITE 3300, WALTHAM MA 02451
Scott D Sandell 10 percent owner

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