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Depomed Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

Nov 07, 2011 | About:
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Depomed Inc. (DEPO) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2011-09-30.

Depomed Inc. has a market cap of $271.28 million; its shares were traded at around $4.9 with a P/E ratio of 5.98 and P/S ratio of 3.36.


This is the annual revenues and earnings per share of DEPO over the last 10 years. For detailed 10-year financial data and charts, go to 10-Year Financials of DEPO.


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For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Company recognized $6.0 million and $27.3 million, respectively, in promotion fee expense to Santarus related to sales of Glumetza by Depomed. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2010, the Company recognized $6.8 million and $23.8 million, respectively, in promotion fee expense to Santarus. Promotion fee expense is classified within selling, general and administrative expense

Glumetza product sales of $9.2 million, Glumetza cost of goods sold of $1.0 million and promotion fee expense to Santarus of $6.0 million during the quarter ended September 2011 represents two months in the quarter of Depomed distributing Glumetza under the prior agreement. Glumetza royalties of $2.1 million during the third quarter of 2011 represents one month in the quarter of royalties from on Santarus’ net sales of Glumetza under the new commercialization agreement. In the corresponding quarter of the prior year, Glumetza product sales were $9.8 million, Glumetza cost of goods sold were $2.5 million and promotion fee expense to Santarus was $6.8 million, which represented a full quarter of Depomed selling product under the parties’ promotion agreement,

Glumetza product sales of $40.7 million, Glumetza cost of goods sold of $3.7 million and promotion fee expense to Santarus of $27.3 million during the nine months ended September 2011 represents eight months in 2011 of Depomed distributing Glumetza under the prior agreement. Glumetza royalties of $2.1 million during the nine months ended September 2011 represents one month in 2011 of royalties on Santarus’ net sales of Glumetza under the new commercialization agreement. In the corresponding period of the prior year, Glumetza product sales were $34.0 million, Glumetza cost of goods sold were $6.9 million and promotion fee expense to Santarus was $23.8 million, which represented nine months of Depomed selling product under the parties’ promotion agreement.

Pursuant to the promotion agreement originally entered into in July 2008, Santarus paid us a $12.0 million upfront fee. The upfront payment received was originally being amortized as revenue ratably until October 2021, which represented the estimated length of time our obligations existed under the promotion agreement related to manufacturing Glumetza and paying Santarus promotion fees on gross margin of Glumetza. The commercialization agreement in August 2011 superseded the promotion agreement and removed our manufacturing and promotion fee obligations. The commercialization agreement includes obligations with respect to manufacturing and regulatory transition to Santarus and managing the ongoing patent infringement lawsuits against Sun and Lupin. These obligations are estimated to be completed in December 2013. Accordingly, on the effective date of the commercialization agreement, the amortization period related to remaining deferred revenue on the $12.0 million upfront fee has been adjusted, and the remaining deferred revenue will be recognized ratably until December 2013. We recognized approximately $0.6 million and $1.0 million of revenue associated with this upfront license fee during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. The remaining deferred revenue balance is $8.8 million at September 30, 2011.

The $10.0 million is being amortized ratably through November 2011, which is the estimated length of time we are obligated to perform formulation work under the agreements. We recognized approximately $3.8 million and $8.6 million of revenue associated with this upfront license fee for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. The remaining deferred revenue balance is $1.4 million at September 30, 2011.

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