ATHENAHEALTH, INC. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Feb 11, 2013
ATHENAHEALTH, INC. (ATHN, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2012-12-31.

Athenahealth, Inc. has a market cap of $3.22 billion; its shares were traded at around $88.48 with a P/E ratio of 180.3 and P/S ratio of 8.2. Athenahealth, Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 21.8% over the past 5 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

For the year ended December 31, 2012, we generated revenue of $422.3 million from the sale of our services compared to $324.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, and $245.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2010. Given the scope of our market opportunity, we have increased our spending each year on growth, innovation, and infrastructure.

Our clients typically purchase one-year contracts that renew automatically upon completion. In most cases, our clients may terminate their agreements with 90 days notice without cause. We typically retain the right to terminate client agreements in a similar timeframe. Our clients are billed monthly, in arrears, based either upon a percentage of collections posted to athenaNet, minimum fees, flat fees, or per-claim fees where applicable. Invoices are generated within the first two weeks of the subsequent month and delivered to clients primarily by email. For most of our clients, fees are then deducted from a pre-defined bank account one week after invoice receipt via an auto-debit transaction. Amounts that have been accrued are recorded as revenue or deferred revenue, as appropriate, and are included in our accounts receivable balances.

As the implementation service is not separable from the ongoing business services, we record implementation fees as deferred revenue until the implementation service is complete, at which time we recognize revenue ratably on a monthly basis over the longer of the estimated expected customer life or contract life.

The year over year decrease in cash used in operating assets and liabilities is mainly driven by the change in deferred revenue. The increase in the deferred revenue balance of $3.0 million in the year ended December 31, 2012, compared to $10.0 million in the year ended December 31, 2011, is primarily due to the fact that we began waiving implementation fees for remote implementations and for some sales offerings.

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