Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.
Anacor Pharmaceuticals Tangible Book per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Tangible Book per Share can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
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Anacor Pharmaceuticals Tangible Book per Share Chart
Competitive Comparison of Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Tangible Book per Share
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Tangible-Book data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Tangible-Book falls into.
Anacor Pharmaceuticals Tangible Book per Share Calculation
Anacor Pharmaceuticals's Tangible Book Value Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Theoretically it is what the shareholders will receive if the company is liquidated. Total equity is a balance sheet item and equal to total assets less total liabilities of the company. Since intangibles such as goodwill cannot be sold when the company liquidates, tangible book value per share is considered more accurate in reflecting how much shareholders will receive when the company liquidates.
Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NAS:ANAC) Tangible Book per Share Explanation
Usually a company's book value and Tangible Book per Share may not reflect its true value. The assets may be carried on the balance sheets at the original cost minus depreciation. This may underestimate the true economic values of the assets. It also may over-estimate their true economic value because the assets can become obsolete.
For financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, their assets may be reported in current market value of the assets owned. Book values of financial companies are more accurate indicator of the economic value of the company.
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Anacor Pharmaceuticals (Anacor Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc was incorporated in Delaware in December 2000 and began business operations in March 2002. It is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in discovering, developing and commercializing novel small-molecule therapeutics derived from its boron chemistry platform. It has discovered, synthesized and developed eight molecules that are currently in development. The Company's main product candidates include two topically administered dermatologic compounds, tavaborole (formerly referred to as AN2690) and AN2728. Tavaborole is a topical treatment for onychomycosis, a fungal infection of the nail and nail bed. AN2728 is its main topical anti-inflammatory product candidate for the treatment of atopic dermatitis and psoriasis, chronic inflammatory skin diseases that affect millions of people. In addition, the Company has three other wholly-owned clinical product candidates; AN2718 and AN2898, which are backup compounds to tavaborole and AN2728, respectively, and AN3365 (formerly referred to as GSK2251052, or GSK '052), an antibiotic for the treatment of infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria, which previously was licensed to GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK). It has also discovered three other compounds that it has out-licensed for further development; one is licensed to Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), for the treatment of an animal health indication; a second compound, AN5568, also referred to as SCYX-7158, is licensed to Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, or sleeping sickness); and a third compound is licensed to GSK for tuberculosis (TB). As of February 1, 2014, the company was the owner of record, either solely or with a collaborator, of 23 issued U.S. patents. The Company and its third-party manufacturers are subject to periodic inspections of facilities by the FDA and other authorities, including procedures and operations used in the testing and manufacture of its products to assess its compliance with applicable regulations.
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