* 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.
* 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.
*Note: If the latest quarterly/semi-annual/annual total assets data is 0, then we will use previous quarterly/semi-annual/annual data for all the items in the balance sheet.
Profitability
Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)
Net income before extraordinary items for the year divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.
Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's current Net Income (TTM) was -175.5.
==> Negative ==> Score 0.
Question 2. Cash Flow Return on Assets (CFROA)
Net cash flow from operating activities (operating cash flow) divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.
Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was -41.2.
==> Negative ==> Score 0.
Question 3. Change in Return on Assets
Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's return on assets of this year was -0.3871944. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's return on assets of last year was -0.11020155.
==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)
Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's gearing of this year was 0.61065819. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's gearing of last year was 0.52850132.
==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.
Question 6. Change in Working Capital (Liquidity)
Compare this year's current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) to last year's current ratio.
Score 1 if this year's current ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's current ratio of this year was 1.01676109. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's current ratio of last year was 2.43114535.
==> Last year's current ratio is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 7. Change in Shares in Issue
Compare the number of shares in issue this year, to the number in issue last year.
Score 0 if there is larger number of shares in issue this year, 1 otherwise.
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's number of shares in issue this year was 29.525. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's number of shares in issue last year was 28.681.
==> There is larger number of shares in issue this year. ==> Score 0.
Efficiency
Question 8. Change in Gross Margin
Compare this year's gross margin (Gross Profit divided by sales) to last year's.
Score 1 if this year's gross margin is higher, 0 if it's lower.
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's gross margin of this year was 0.61200466. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's gross margin of last year was 0.818274.
==> Last year's gross margin is higher ==> Score 0.
Question 9. Change in asset turnover
Compare this year's asset turnover (total sales for the year divided by total assets at the beginning of the year) to last year's asset turnover ratio.
Score 1 if this year's asset turnover ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's asset turnover of this year was 0.36316791. Aegerion Pharmaceuticals's asset turnover of last year was 0.59600625.
==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.
Evaluation
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Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
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Aegerion Pharmaceuticals has an F-score of 1. It is a bad or low score, which usually implies poor business operation.
The developer of the system is Joseph D. Piotroski is relatively unknown accounting professor who shuns publicity and rarely gives interviews.
He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1989, received an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, after earning a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, he became an associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago.
He wanted to see if he can develop a system (using a simple nine-point scoring system) that can increase the returns of a strategy of investing in low price to book (referred to in the paper as high book to market) value companies.
What he found was something that exceeded his most optimistic expectations.
Buying only those companies that scored highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 led to an average out-performance over the market of 13.4%.
Even more impressive were the results of a strategy of investing in the highest F-Score companies (8 or 9) and shorting companies with the lowest F-Score (0 or 1).
Over the same period from 1976 to 1996 (20 years) this strategy led to an average yearly return of 23%, substantially outperforming the average S&P 500 index return of 15.83% over the same period.
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Aegerion Pharmaceuticals (Aegerion Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in February 2005. The Company is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of therapies for patients with debilitating rare diseases. The Company currently operates in one business segment focusing on the development and commercialization of its product, lomitapide. The product, lomitapide, received marketing approval, under the brand name JUXTAPID (lomitapide) capsules ("JUXTAPID"). It is an adjunct to a low-fat diet and other lipid-lowering treatments, including low-density lipoprotein ("LDL") apheresis where available, to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ("LDL-C"), total cholesterol ("TC"), apolipoprotein B ("apo B") and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ("non-HDL-C") in adult patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia ("HoFH"). Lomitapide is also approved for the treatment of HoFH in Norway, Iceland, Mexico and Canada. The Company also sells lomitapide, on a named patient basis, in Brazil and in a limited number of other countries outside the U.S. and the EU where such sales are authorized based on the U.S. or the EU approval. The Company also launched JUXTAPID in the U.S. The Company relies on a contract manufacturer to produce drug substance for lomitapide and another contract manufacturer for drug product for its clinical trials and for commercial supplies. It distributes JUXTAPID through a specialty pharmacy that distributes JUXTAPID directly to patients and, under limited circumstances, to other purchasers. The lomitapide patent portfolio consists of five issued U.S. patents and issued patents in Europe, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Japan and pending applications in the U.S., Australia, Japan, Canada, India and South Korea, all of which have been licensed in a specific field. The Company competes with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in collaboration with Sanofi, Roche Holding AG, Pfizer Inc., Amgen Inc., and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The Company's operations are subject to federal, state and local level, the EU and other countries extensively regulations.
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