Corcept Therapeutics Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 09, 2012
Corcept Therapeutics Inc. (CORT, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-06-30.

Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated has a market cap of $313.7 million; its shares were traded at around $3.18 with and P/S ratio of 10818.6.

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Sales Returns: Our customers have the right to return Korlym beginning six months before the labeled expiration date and ending 12 months after the labeled expiration date. This right of return is extended to our specialty distributor channels hospital customers who, generally, have the right to return only unopened bottles. The expiration date for our current Korlym inventory is two years after the manufacture of the tablets. We estimate the amount of Korlym that we believe will be returned and deduct that estimated amount from gross revenue at the time we recognize such revenue. When estimating future returns, we analyze quantitative and qualitative information including, but not limited to, actual return rates, the amount of product in the distribution channel, the expected shelf life of such product, current and projected product demand, the introduction of competing products that may erode demand, and broad economic and industry-wide indicators. If we cannot reasonably estimate product returns with respect to a particular sale, we defer recognition of revenue from that sale until we can make a reasonable estimate.

In April 2012, we made Korlym commercially available in the United States to our specialty distributor and specialty pharmacy customers. For the three months ended June 30, 2012, we recognized approximately $875,000 in net product sales compared with none in the comparable period in 2011. To calculate net product sales, we deducted from gross sales estimates of prompt-pay discounts, distribution service fees, rebates and chargebacks owed to government payors and patient assistance programs, which amounts are not material for the quarter ended June 30, 2012.

Cost of sales was approximately $48,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012, which equals 5.5 percent of net product sales, the majority of which represented costs related to stability testing. The amount and timing of stability testing varies from period to period as determined by FDA regulations and our production schedule and is not proportional with sales volumes. In addition, the cost of manufacturing Korlym reflected in our cost of sales in 2012, and for some period thereafter, will not reflect the full cost of production because we have previously expensed the majority of the raw materials, labor and overhead costs incurred to produce the product sold during this period. We expect that our cost of sales as a percentage of net product sales of Korlym will fluctuate from quarter to quarter during 2012 and for some period thereafter as product manufactured prior to FDA approval, and therefore fully expensed, is consumed.

We expect cash used in operating activities to increase during the remainder of 2012 as compared to spending levels in 2011 due to the commercialization of Korlym, the continuation and scale-up of our phase 3 clinical trial of mifepristone for the treatment of psychotic depression and the continued development of our selective GR-II antagonists, which will be only partially offset by sales of Korlym. We expect our funding requirements for operating activities may increase in 2013 and possibly beyond as costs associated with the continuation of our development program for Cushings syndrome, continuation and expansion of our development programs for psychotic depression and our selective GR-II antagonists, research activities, commercialization activities and selling, general and administrative expenses may be only partially offset by revenues from sales of Korlym.

Sales Returns: Our customers have the right to return Korlym beginning six months before the labeled expiration date and ending 12 months after the labeled expiration date. This right of return is extended to our specialty distributor channels hospital customers who, generally, have the right to return only unopened bottles. The expiration date for our current Korlym inventory is two years after the manufacture of the tablets. We estimate the amount of Korlym that we believe will be returned and deduct that estimated amount from gross revenue at the time we recognize such revenue. When estimating future returns, we analyze quantitative and qualitative information including, but not limited to, actual return rates, the amount of product in the distribution channel, the expected shelf life of such product, current and projected product demand, the introduction of competing products that may erode demand, and broad economic and industry-wide indicators. If we cannot reasonably estimate product returns with respect to a particular sale, we defer recognition of revenue from that sale until such time as a reasonable estimate can be made.

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