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Forte Biosciences (Forte Biosciences) Net-Net Working Capital : $0.74 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Forte Biosciences Net-Net Working Capital?

In calculating the Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC), Benjamin Graham assumed that a company's accounts receivable is only worth 75% its value, its inventory is only worth 50% of its value, but its liabilities have to be paid in full. In addition, Graham believed that preferred stock belongs on the liability side of the balance sheet, not as part of capital and surplus. This is a conservative way of estimating the company's value.

Forte Biosciences's Net-Net Working Capital for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.74.

The industry rank for Forte Biosciences's Net-Net Working Capital or its related term are showing as below:

FBRX's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital is ranked better than
91.63% of 908 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 4.125 vs FBRX: 0.78

Forte Biosciences Net-Net Working Capital Historical Data

The historical data trend for Forte Biosciences's Net-Net Working Capital 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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Forte Biosciences Net-Net Working Capital Chart

Forte Biosciences Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Net-Net Working Capital
4.40 2.73 1.81 0.92

Forte Biosciences Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Net-Net Working Capital 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 1.53 1.15 1.07 0.92 0.74

Competitive Comparison of Forte Biosciences's Net-Net Working Capital

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Forte Biosciences's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital 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.


Forte Biosciences's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Forte Biosciences's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Forte Biosciences's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital falls into.



Forte Biosciences Net-Net Working Capital Calculation

Forte Biosciences's Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC) per share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Net-Net Working Capital(A: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities+0.75 * Accounts Receivable+0.5 * Total Inventories-Total Liabilities
-Preferred Stock-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(37.125+0.75 * 0+0.5 * 0-3.666
-0-0)/36.3351
=0.92

Forte Biosciences's Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC) per share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Net-Net Working Capital(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities+0.75 * Accounts Receivable+0.5 * Total Inventories-Total Liabilities
-Preferred Stock-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(30.444+0.75 * 0+0.5 * 0-3.332
-0-0)/36.3949
=0.74

* 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.

In calculating the Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC), Benjamin Graham assumed that a company's accounts receivable is only worth 75% its value, its inventory is only worth 50% of its value, but its liabilities have to be paid in full.

In addition, Graham believed that preferred stock belongs on the liability side of the balance sheet, not as part of capital and surplus. In "Security Analysis", preferred stock is dubbed "an imperfect creditorship position" that is best placed on the balance sheet alongside funded debt.

This is a conservative way of estimating the company's value.


Forte Biosciences  (NAS:FBRX) Net-Net Working Capital Explanation

One research study, covering the years 1970 through 1983 showed that portfolios picked at the beginning of each year, and held for one year, returned 29.4 percent, on average, over the 13-year period, compared to 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 Index. Other studies of Graham's strategy produced similar results.

Benjamin Graham looked for companies whose market values were less than two-thirds of their net-net value. They are collected under our Net-Net screener.


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Forte Biosciences (Forte Biosciences) Business Description

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Address
3060 Pegasus Park Drive, Building 6, Dallas, TX, USA, 75247
Forte Biosciences Inc is a biopharmaceutical company that is advancing through preclinical trials its product candidate, FB-102, which is a proprietary therapeutic molecule with potentially broad autoimmune applications in such indications as graft-versus-host disease ("GvHD"), vitiligo and alopecia areata ("AA"). The company is developing a live biotherapeutic, FB-401, for the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases. FB-401 has completed Phase 1/2a testing in adult and pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis. It plans to advance FB-401 into a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial.
Executives
Paul A. Wagner director, officer: See Remarks C/O PFENEX INC., 10790 ROSELLE STREET, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
David W Gryska director 749 N MARY AVE, SUNNYVALE CA 94085
Scott C. Brun director C/O CABALETTA BIO, INC., 2929 ARCH STREET, SUITE 600, PHILADELPHIA PA 19104
Hubert C Chen officer: See remarks C/O PFENEX INC., 10790 ROSELLE STREET, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Stephen K Doberstein director 129 ELSIE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94110
Barbara K Finck director C/O PROTINE DESIGN LAB, 3858 JACKSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94118
Antony A Riley officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O KRYSTAL BIOTECH, INC., 2100 WHARTON STREET, SUITE 701, PITTSBURGH PA 94538
Thomas E Darcy director C/O SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTL CORP, 10260 CAMPUS POINT DR., SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Donald Allen Williams director C/O PRYOR CASHMAN LLP, 7 TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK NY 10036
Patricia S Walker director 5540 EKWILL ST STE D, SANTA BARBARA CA 93111
Lawrence Eichenfield director C/O FORTE BIOSCIENCES, INC., 1124 W. CARSON ST., MRL BLDG 3-320, TORRANCE CA 90502
Steven Kornfeld director C/O FORTE BIOSCIENCES, INC., 1124 W. CARSON ST., MRL BLDG 3-320, TORRANCE CA 90502
Steven Michael Oliveira 10 percent owner 18 FIELDSTONE COURT, NEW CITY NY 10956
Fairooz Kabbinavar officer: SVP Clinical Development C/O TOCAGEN INC., 4242 CAMPUS POINT COURT, STE. 500, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Mark G Foletta officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS INC, 9360 TOWNE CENTRE DR, SAN DIEGO CA 92121

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