Nuno, transcrevo-te uma pequena nota, esta manhã, do analista de biotechs do Realmoney que foca aquele ponto de se considerar ou não o GAAP.
Um abraço,
Ulisses
Justin Ferayorni
DNA (and its options) after the call
4/12/2006 8:30 AM EDT
"All in all, a solid quarter out of DNA. Operating metrics were better than expected across the board, and guidance for the year raised slightly.
Why the somber stock? I can't be sure. Rituxan was a bit light in the quarter, but no reason to blow lunch. It is a touchy market now though, so keep it in mind. Avastin was a bit weaker than I was expecting and was probably about in line with street estimates. I think Avastin being in line speaks more to weakness in the stock as the path of growth is in question. Out-quarter and out-year estimates are still pretty lofty, and we need continued sequential increases out of Avastin to get there. Herceptin continues to impress though and should have been an offset.
One thing struck me after going through the numbers and reading the transcript. What were consensus estimates? I know this has been discussed on the site and services like Bloomberg have gone out of their way to rectify GAAP vs. non-GAAP consensus, but we still don't have a good handle on it. The perception of missing will certainly bother stocks -- whether they missed or not. DNA's GAAP EPS = 39 cents. Non-GAAP = 46 cents. Consensus was 41 cents for the "majority" of analysts, and 37 cents for the "minority" of analysts according to Bloomberg. So was it a miss or a beat?
It was a beat to me. I don't think stuff like this matters over time, but you could see stocks get swung around quite a bit as a result of the confusion. Just an observation after my first quarterly report for March 2006.
One last note on options expensing: it just got more complicated to follow. DNA didn't have any COGS options expense in the quarter because all product shipped was produced in 2005 - before FAS 123 went into effect. Thus the COGS options expensing will start to trickle in over the course of 2006. Just another thing to consider for all the other companies out there, for those of you who care.
Position: long non-GAAP and cash flow analysis
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(in www.realmoney.com)