HELICOS BIOSCIENCES CORP
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Financials
SEC XBRL · annual| FY11 | FY10 | FY09 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $12.2M | $4.4M | $3.0M |
| Operating income | −$180.5M | −$22.8M | −$28.9M |
| Net income | −$174.1M | −$18.8M | −$28.0M |
| Total assets | $2.6M | $7.0M | — |
| Total liabilities | $13.5M | $13.2M | — |
| Equity | −$10.9M | −$6.2M | $5.7M |
| EPS (diluted) | — | — | — |
| Shares out. | 87.2M | 86.6M | 65.8M |
Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.
Key ratios
from filings · FY2011- Operating margin
- −1479.6%
- Net margin
- −1427.0%
- Return on equity
- 1591.7%
- Return on assets
- −6790.9%
- Return on capital (ROCE)
- —
- Liabilities / assets
- 526.6%
- Debt / equity
- —
- Book value / share
- $-0.13
- Revenue growth (YoY)
- 177.5%
- Net income growth (YoY)
- —
Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.
Financial health
forensic scores · FY2011- Altman Z″ (distress)
- -746.67distress
- Accruals / assets
- −1378.2%clean
- Beneish M-Score
- -66.93normal
- Piotroski F-Score
- 2/9weak
Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.
Quality score
EDS ScoreOur own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast. What these scores mean →
Signs
● 3 severe● 4 warning● 3 good- Negative shareholder equity
- Altman Z″ in the distress zone
- Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
- Operating losses (negative operating margin)
- Reported a net loss
- High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
- Negative operating cash flow
- Strong return on equity (>15%)
- Revenue is growing year-over-year
- Clean earnings (low accruals)
Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.
Risk flags
late SEC filings- NT 10-Qmissed a reporting deadline ↗Nov 15, 2012
- NT 10-Qmissed a reporting deadline ↗Nov 16, 2010
- NT 10-Kmissed a reporting deadline ↗Mar 31, 2010
A Form NT means the company notified the SEC it would file a periodic report late — often an accounting, audit or liquidity warning sign. Also search SEC enforcement actions for this company.
Insider transactions
SEC Form 4 · most recent| Insider | Date | Type | Shares | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trifunovich IvanOfficer — Chairman, President & CEO | Oct 14, 2011 | Tax withholding | 607,431 | $0.09 |
| Moore Jeffrey R.Officer — SVP, CFO & Treasurer | Jul 1, 2011 | Tax withholding | 5,953 | $0.08 |
| Moore Jeffrey R.Officer — SVP, CFO & Treasurer | Jan 3, 2011 | Tax withholding | 6,740 | $0.12 |
| Trifunovich IvanOfficer — Chairman, President & CEO | Oct 14, 2010 | Grant | 1.5M | $0.00 |
| Lowy Ronald AOfficer — President & CEO | Oct 1, 2010 | Tax withholding | 62,205 | $0.49 |
| Lowy Ronald AOfficer — President & CEO | Jul 1, 2010 | Tax withholding | 62,205 | $0.45 |
| Moore Jeffrey R.Officer — SVP, CFO & Treasurer | Jul 1, 2010 | Tax withholding | 5,953 | $0.45 |
| Levine Marc SOfficer — SVP, Product Development | Jul 1, 2010 | Tax withholding | 3,968 | $0.45 |
| Moore Jeffrey R.Officer — SVP, CFO & Treasurer | Jun 30, 2010 | Tax withholding | 6,429 | $0.44 |
| Levine Marc SOfficer — SVP, Product Development | Jun 30, 2010 | Tax withholding | 6,548 | $0.44 |
| Levine Marc SOfficer — SVP, Product Development | Jun 21, 2010 | Grant | 20,625 | $0.00 |
| Moore Jeffrey R.Officer — SVP, CFO & Treasurer | Jun 21, 2010 | Grant | 20,250 | $0.00 |
Headline trade per Form 4 (officers, directors, 10%+ owners). Buy/sell read from the filing's structured data — blank where a field isn't cleanly tagged.
Material events
SEC Form 8-K · most recent- Changed auditorDec 10, 2012
- Bankruptcy or receivership · Debt acceleration / triggering eventNov 15, 2012
- Director / officer changeSep 6, 2012
- Other material eventAug 31, 2012
- Entered a material agreement · Director / officer changeAug 29, 2012
- Entered a material agreement · Other material eventAug 6, 2012
- Entered a material agreement · Other material eventApr 10, 2012
- Other material eventMar 9, 2012
Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.
Recent SEC filings
All filings ↗Event-driven situations (1)
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