Capex-to-Operating-Income measures a company's investments in physical assets such as property, industrial buildings or equipment to its operating income.
Hence, VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2015 was 0.42.
VirtualScopics Capex-to-Operating-Income Historical Data
The historical data trend for VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income 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.
Competitive Comparison of VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income
For the Medical Devices subindustry, VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Operating-Income 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.
VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where VirtualScopics's Capex-to-Operating-Income falls into.
* 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.
Capex-to-Operating-Income assesses how much emphasis a company is placing upon investing in capital-intensive projects. The ratio is generally a good gauge to quantify how much focus on growth a company has. Typically, smaller companies that are still growing and expanding will have a higher Capex to Operating Income Ratio, since such businesses are likely investing more in physical assets. Lower ratios could indicate that a company has reached maturity and it is no longer pursuing aggressive growth.
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VirtualScopics (VirtualScopics) Business Description
VirtualScopics Inc. is a provider of quantitative imaging for clinical trials serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company has developed a software platform for analysis and modeling of both structural and functional medical images. This platform provides information about the biological activity of drugs and devices in clinical trial patients. VirtualScopics is an imaging core lab providing central reads and quantitative imaging solutions for drug and medical device clinical trials for the areas of oncology, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, neurology, and cardiovascular studies utilizing MRI, PET, CT, Ultrasound, and X-ray imaging modalities. The Company's image-based measurement and visualization tools enable automated and reproducible measurement of minute changes that occur in anatomic structures in musculoskeletal, oncological, cardiological and neurological diseases. The Company's image analysis provides a degree of accuracy and reproducibility that cannot be duplicated by manual techniques. The Company's quantitative imaging replaces subjective evaluation. It has developed a suite of patented semi-automated tools for the identification and measurement of carotid plaques. Evaluating diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy, and Alzheimer's requires the identification and measurement of neurological structures and lesions. The Company's competition is largely comprised of a limited number of university research centers that are working on developing the next generation of image analysis tools. The Company's main customers are Novartis, Merck Serono and Amgen. The Company's main competitors are clinical research organizations (CROs) providing clinical trial services to pharmaceutical companies. Healthcare in the United States is heavily regulated by the federal government, and by state and local governments.
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