Raptor Pharmaceutical's EBITDA per Share for the
three
months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-0.10.
Its EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $-0.82.
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The historical rank and industry rank for Raptor Pharmaceutical's EBITDA per Share or its related term are showing as below:
RPTP's 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 6.1 * Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate only.
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Raptor Pharmaceutical EBITDA per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Raptor Pharmaceutical's EBITDA 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.
Raptor Pharmaceutical EBITDA per Share Calculation
EBITDA per Share is the amount of Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) per outstanding share of the company's stock.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Raptor Pharmaceutical's EBITDA per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.82
* 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.
Raptor Pharmaceutical (NAS:RPTP) EBITDA per Share Explanation
EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals EBIT. EBIT is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.
While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.
The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.
EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:
Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners
EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.
A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.
Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.
Be Aware
Although depreciation is not a cash cost, it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.
EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies.
Raptor Pharmaceutical EBITDA per Share Related Terms
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Raptor Pharmaceutical (Raptor Pharmaceutical) Business Description
Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp was initially incorporated in Nevada on July 29, 1997 as Axonyx Inc. In October 2006, Axonyx Inc. and its then wholly-owned subsidiary completed a reverse merger, business combination with TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc., reincorporated in Delaware and changed the corporate name to 'TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc. On September 28, 2009, the Company name was again changed from TorreyPines Therapeutics, Inc., to Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. It is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative treatments for people affected by rare and debilitating diseases. The Company's product PROCYSBI cysteamine bitartrate, delayed-release capsules received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on April 30, 2013 for the management of nephropathic cystinosis in adults and children six years and older. The European equivalent, PROCYSBI gastro-resistant hard capsules of cysteamine, received marketing authorization on September 6, 2013 from the European Commission, as an orphan medicinal product for the management of nephropathic cystinosis for marketing in the European Union. PROCYSBI received 7 years and 10 years of market exclusivity as an orphan drug in the U.S. and the EU, respectively. PROCYSBI is an approved therapy for the management of nephropathic cystinosis, a rare, life-threatening metabolic lysosomal storage disorder that causes the rapid, toxic accumulation of cystine in all cells, tissues and organs in the body. PROCYSBI capsules contain cysteamine bitartrate in the form of microspheronized beads that are individually coated to create delayed and extended-release properties, allowing patients to maintain consistent therapeutic systemic drug levels over a 12-hour dosing period. Cysteamine is a molecule generated in the cell during the metabolism of cysteine. The Company's pipeline products include; its proprietary delayed-release form of cysteamine, or RP103. The Company currently has product candidates in clinical development designed to potentially treat Huntington's disease, Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Leigh syndrome and other mitochondrial disorders and aldehyde dehydrogenase deficiency. The Company's preclinical programs are based upon bioengineered novel drug candidates that are designed to target cancer and other diseases. Its other clinical-stage product candidates include: Convivia its proprietary oral formulation of 4-methylpyrazole, for the potential management of acetaldehyde toxicity due to alcohol consumption by individuals with aldehyde dehydrogenase, or ALDH2, deficiency, an inherited metabolic disorder. With respect to any of the Company's product candidates for which it obtain FDA approval, it will be subject to ongoing FDA obligations and continued regulatory review, which may result in additional expense.
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