Sellas Life Sciences Stock Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

SLS Stock  USD 1.17  0.05  4.10%   
Considering the 90-day investment horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Sellas Life Sciences is 'Strong Sell'. A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Sellas Life Sciences given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Sellas Life. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Sellas Life Sciences, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell Sellas LifeBuy Sellas Life
Strong Sell

Market Performance

Very WeakDetails

Volatility

RiskyDetails

Hype Condition

StaleDetails

Current Valuation

UndervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

LowDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Barely shadows the marketDetails

Investor Sentiment

AlarmedDetails

Analyst Consensus

Strong BuyDetails

Financial Strenth (F Score)

FrailDetails

Financial Leverage

Not RatedDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

Unlikely ManipulatorDetails
For the selected time horizon Sellas Life Sciences has a Mean Deviation of 2.22, Standard Deviation of 3.09 and Variance of 9.55
We provide advice to complement the current expert consensus on Sellas Life. Our dynamic recommendation engine harnesses a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the firm's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available at the time. To make sure Sellas Life Sciences is not overpriced, please validate all Sellas Life fundamentals, including its cash and equivalents, as well as the relationship between the cash flow from operations and market capitalization . Given that Sellas Life Sciences is a hitting penny stock territory we recommend to closely look at its price to book.

Sellas Life Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Sellas Life Sciences generated a negative expected return over the last 90 days
Sellas Life Sciences may become a speculative penny stock
Sellas Life Sciences has high historical volatility and very poor performance
Reported Net Loss for the year was (37.34 M) with profit before taxes, overhead, and interest of 900 K.
Sellas Life Sciences has about 26.99 M in cash with (31.41 M) of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 1.31, which can makes it an attractive takeover target, given it will continue generating positive cash flow.
Sellas Life Sciences has a frail financial position based on the latest SEC disclosures
Latest headline from news.google.com: Sellas Life Sciences options imply 22.6 percent move in share price post-earnings - TipRanks

Sellas Life Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Sellas Life's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Sellas Life's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Sellas Life daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Sellas Life Sciences price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Sellas Life returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Sellas Life.
Mean Return
-0.13
Value At Risk
-4
Potential Upside
5.60
Standard Deviation
3.09
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Sellas Life historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Sellas Stock Institutional Investors

The Sellas Life's institutional investors refer to entities that pool money to purchase Sellas Life's securities or originate loans. These institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds.
Shares
Virtu Financial Llc2024-06-30
63.8 K
Xtx Topco Ltd2024-09-30
62.8 K
Springbok Capital Management, Llc2024-09-30
58.3 K
Lpl Financial Corp2024-09-30
51.9 K
Citadel Advisors Llc2024-09-30
47.3 K
Mariner Wealth Advisors Llc2024-06-30
44.9 K
Jane Street Group Llc2024-06-30
28 K
Two Sigma Investments Llc2024-09-30
16.6 K
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc2024-09-30
16.2 K
Vanguard Group Inc2024-09-30
2.3 M
Anson Funds Management Lp2024-09-30
793.8 K
Note, although Sellas Life's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

Sellas Life Cash Flow Accounts

201920202021202220232024 (projected)
Change In Cash1.9M28.0M(13.9M)(4.2M)(14.6M)(13.9M)
Free Cash Flow(17.6M)(10.4M)(26.0M)(28.3M)(36.9M)(38.8M)
Other Non Cash Items586K(87K)(4.2M)10.1M1.2M621.0K
Net Income(19.3M)(16.8M)(20.7M)(41.3M)(37.3M)(39.2M)
End Period Cash Flow7.4M35.4M21.5M17.2M2.6M2.5M
Depreciation1.7M282K5.7M457K525.6K992.1K
Change To Netincome3.3M750K2.3M11.9M13.6M14.3M

Sellas Life Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Sellas Life or Biotechnology sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Sellas Life's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Sellas stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
-0.15
β
Beta against Dow Jones0.13
σ
Overall volatility
3.12
Ir
Information ratio -0.08

Sellas Life Volatility Alert

Sellas Life Sciences exhibits very low volatility with skewness of 1.16 and kurtosis of 2.82. Sellas Life Sciences is a potential penny stock. Although Sellas Life may be in fact a good instrument to invest, many penny stocks are speculative in nature and are subject to artificial price hype. Please make sure you totally understand the upside potential and downside risk of investing in Sellas Life Sciences. We encourage investors to look for signals such as email spams, message board hypes, claims of breakthroughs, volume upswings, sudden news releases, promotions that are not reported, or demotions released before SEC filings. Please also check biographies and work history of current and past company officers before investing in high volatility instruments, penny stocks, or equities with microcap classification. You can indeed make money on Sellas instrument if you perfectly time your entry and exit. However, remember that penny stocks that have been the subject of artificial hype usually unable to maintain their increased share price for more than just a few days. The price of a promoted high volatility instrument will almost always revert back. The only way to increase shareholder value is through legitimate performance backed up by solid fundamentals.

Sellas Life Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Sellas Life's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Sellas Life's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Sellas Life and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Sellas Life or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Sellas Life's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Sellas Life by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Sellas Life to competition
FundamentalsSellas LifePeer Average
Return On Equity-8.88-0.31
Return On Asset-1.29-0.14
Current Valuation61.89 M16.62 B
Shares Outstanding70.38 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders0.24 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions7.36 %39.21 %
Number Of Shares Shorted8.61 M4.71 M
Price To Book5.18 X9.51 X
Price To Sales26.90 X11.42 X
Gross Profit900 K27.38 B
EBITDA529 K3.9 B
Net Income(37.34 M)570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents26.99 M2.7 B
Cash Per Share1.31 X5.01 X
Total Debt906 K5.32 B
Debt To Equity0.06 %48.70 %
Current Ratio2.36 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share(0.25) X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations(31.41 M)971.22 M
Short Ratio14.07 X4.00 X
Earnings Per Share(0.67) X3.12 X
Target Price5.83
Number Of Employees1618.84 K
Beta2.4-0.15
Market Capitalization82.35 M19.03 B
Total Asset6.22 M29.47 B
Retained Earnings(217.24 M)9.33 B
Working Capital(10.56 M)1.48 B
Net Asset6.22 M
Note: Acquisition by Kalin Katherine Bach of 19000 shares of Sellas Life subject to Rule 16b-3 [view details]

Sellas Life Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Sellas . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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