We study the dependence on the quark mass of the compositeness of the lowest-lying odd parity hyperon states. Thus, we pay attention to Λ−like states in the strange, charm and beauty, sectors which are dynamically generated using a unitarized meson-baryon model. In the strange sector we use an SU(6) extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa meson-baryon interaction, and we further implement the heavy-quark spin symmetry to construct the meson-baryon interaction when charmed or beauty hadrons are involved. In the three examined flavor sectors, we obtain two J P = 1/2 − and one J P = 3/2 − Λ states. We find that the Λ states which are bound states (the three Λ b ) or narrow resonances (one Λ(1405) and one Λc(2595)) are well described as molecular states composed of s-wave meson-baryon pairs. The