The historical rank and industry rank for Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Net Cash per Share or its related term are showing as below:
ALXA's Price-to-Net-Cash is not ranked *
in the Drug Manufacturers industry.
Industry Median: 7.7 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Cash only.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals Net Cash per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Net Cash 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.
Competitive Comparison of Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Net Cash per Share
For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Net-Cash, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Cash 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.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Net-Cash Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry
For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals Net Cash per Share Calculation
In the calculation of a company's Net Cash per Share, assets other than cash and short term investments are considered to be worth nothing. But the company has to pay its debt and other liabilities in full. This is an extremely conservative way of valuation. Most companies have negative Net Cash per Share. But sometimes a company's price may be lower than its net-cash.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals's Net Cash 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.
Alexza Pharmaceuticals (OTCPK:ALXA) Net Cash per Share Explanation
Ben Graham invested in situations where the company's stock price was lower than its net-cash. He assigned some value to the company's other current asset. The value is called Net Current Asset Value (NCAV). One research study, covering the years 1970 through 1983 showed that portfolios picked at the beginning of each year, and held for one year, returned 29.4 percent, on average, over the 13-year period, compared to 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 Index. Other studies of Graham's strategy produced similar results.
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Alexza Pharmaceuticals (Alexza Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
Alexza Pharmaceuticals Inc was incorporated in the state of Delaware on December 19, 2000 as FaxMed, Inc. In June 2001, it changed the name to Alexza Corporation and in December 2001 it became Alexza Molecular Delivery Corporation. In July 2005, it changed the name to Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. It is a pharmaceutical company, engaged in the research, development and commercialization of novel proprietary products for the acute treatment of central nervous system conditions. ADASUVE is its only approved product & there is one product candidate in active development, AZ-002 (Staccato alprazolam), which is being developed for the treatment of acute repetitive seizures, sometimes called cluster seizures or ARS. ADASUVE, or Staccato loxapine, and its product candidates are based on its proprietary technology, the Staccato system. The Staccato system vaporizes an excipient-free drug to form a condensation aerosol that, when inhaled, allows for rapid systemic drug delivery. Because of the particle size of the aerosol, the drug is quickly absorbed through the deep lung into the bloodstream, providing speed of therapeutic onset that is comparable to intravenous, or IV, administration but with greater ease, patient comfort and convenience. The pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are intensely competitive. Many pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, public and private universities, government agencies and research organizations are actively engaged in research and development of products targeting the same markets as ADASUVE and its other product candidates. The names "Alexza Pharmaceuticals," "Alexza," "Staccato" and "ADASUVE" are trademarks of the Company. It helds 195 issued and allowed U.S. and international patents. The testing, manufacturing, labeling, advertising, promotion, distribution, export and marketing of the Company's product candidates are subject to extensive regulation by governmental authorities in the United States and other countries.
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