Accelr8 Technology Corp Reports Operating Results (10-Q/A)

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Jun 15, 2012
Accelr8 Technology Corp (AXK, Financial) filed Amended Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-04-30.

Acceler8 Tech has a market cap of $32.1 million; its shares were traded at around $2.79 with and P/S ratio of 28.6.

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On June 14, 2010, the Company entered into an Evaluation Agreement and Letter of Intent with Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (“Novartis”) for a technical evaluation project with the Company’s BACcel™ rapid diagnostic technology. Under the agreements with Novartis, Accelr8 received technical development fees of $ 842,408 during the fiscal year ended July 31, 2011 and $140,000 in the quarter ended October 31, 2011. The evaluation agreement with Novartis expired on September 30, 2011 without Novartis exercising its option for licensing the Company’s BACcel™ system intellectual property. During the nine months ended April 30, 2012 and 2011, total revenues from Novartis were $140,000 and $734,908 respectively.

On July 9, 2010, the Company entered into a non-exclusive patent-life OptiChem® license with Nanosphere, Inc. The license grants to Nanosphere the right to apply OptiChem® coatings to Nanosphere’s proprietary analytical products. The products may include FDA-regulated diagnostics devices, unlike other current licensees. Pursuant to the license agreement, Nanosphere paid the Company a nonrefundable first-year fee of $150,000 plus a $15,000 technology transfer fee. On each anniversary of the agreement date, Nanosphere will pay to the Company the amounts of $350,000 in 2011, $600,000 in 2012, and $750,000 in 2013 in order to complete the payments for rights under the remaining patent life. Pursuant to the Company’s revenue recognition policy and generally accepted accounting policies, all of the amounts due from Nanosphere have been recognized as OptiChem® revenue during the fiscal year ended July 31, 2010. During the fiscal years ended July 31, 2011 and 2010, total revenues from Nanosphere were $0 and $1,842,596, respectively or 0% and 82.05% of total revenues.

During the three months ended April 30, 2012, OptiChem(R) revenues were $13,207 as compared to $25,772 during the three month period ended April 30, 2011, a decrease of $12,565 or 48.8%. The decrease was due to the decreased royalties earned from sales of slides H and HS sold by Schott .

During the nine months ended April 30, 2012, OptiChem(R) revenues were $33,543 as compared to $40,813 during the nine month period ended April 30, 2011, a decrease of $7,270 or 17.8%. The decrease was due to reduced royalties earned from sales of slides H and HS sold by Schott. Of the $33,543 of OptiChem(R) revenues, $16,343 was applied toward deferred revenue from pre-paid royalties.

Marketing and sales expenses for the nine months ended April 30, 2012 were $4,560 as compared to $7,739 during the nine months ended April 30, 2011, a decrease of $3,179 or 41.1%. The decreased marketing and sales expenses were primarily due to lower travel related costs in connection with industry conferences and other travel expenses.

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