Geron Corp. (GERN) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2011-09-30.
Geron Corp. has a market cap of $299.7 million; its shares were traded at around $2.28 with and P/S ratio of 84.1. Geron Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 7.8% over the past 5 years.
This is the annual revenues and earnings per share of GERN over the last 10 years. For detailed 10-year financial data and charts, go to 10-Year Financials of GERN.
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We recognized revenues from collaborative agreements of zero and $300,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively, compared to $203,000 and $653,000 for the comparable 2010 periods. Revenues in 2011 and 2010 reflect revenue recognized under our collaboration with GE Healthcare UK, Ltd. (GE Healthcare).We have entered into license and option agreements with companies involved in oncology, diagnostics, research tools, agriculture and biologics production. In each of these agreements, we have granted certain rights to our technologies. In connection with the agreements, we are entitled to receive license fees, option fees, milestone payments and royalties on future sales, or any combination thereof. We recognized license fee revenues of $165,000 and $1.1 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively, compared to $295,000 and $1.2 million for the comparable 2010 periods related to our various agreements. Current revenues may not be predictive of future revenues.
We received royalties of $55,000 and $813,000 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively, compared to $48,000 and $610,000 for the comparable 2010 periods on product sales of telomerase detection and telomere measurement kits to the research-use-only market, cell-based research products and nutritional products. License and royalty revenues are dependent upon additional agreements being signed and future product sales.
In connection with each disbursement, we are obligated to issue to CIRM a warrant to purchase our common stock. The number of shares underlying each of the warrants will be equal to 50% of the applicable disbursement amount divided by the average of the closing sales price of our common stock as reported by The NASDAQ Global Select Market for the ten consecutive trading days immediately preceding the corresponding disbursement (the Average Closing Price). The exercise price of each warrant shall also be equal to the Average Closing Price preceding the issuance of such warrant. Each of the warrants and the underlying common stock will be unregistered and each warrant shall have a term of ten years from the respective date of issuance.






