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AKCEA THERAPEUTICS, INC.

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Signs6 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY19FY18FY17FY16FY15
Revenue$163.8M$17.1M$43.4M$0$0
Operating income$26.2M−$30.3M−$59.9M−$16.0M−$61.4M
Net income$27.2M−$29.6M−$60.4M−$16.0M−$61.4M
Total assets$599.3M$365.3M$268.8M$10.7M
Total liabilities$56.2M$88.5M$89.2M$28.4M
Equity$543.0M$276.7M$179.6M−$17.7M$55.3M
EPS (diluted)
Shares out.89.4M66.6M66.5M0

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2019
Operating margin
16.0%
Net margin
16.6%
Return on equity
5.0%
Return on assets
4.5%
Return on capital (ROCE)
4.7%
Liabilities / assets
9.4%
Debt / equity
0.10×
Book value / share
$6.07
Revenue growth (YoY)
857.5%
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 · FY2019
Altman Z″ (distress)
12.79safe
Accruals / assets
32.8%clean
Piotroski F-Score
8/9strong

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 Score
87
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 100

Our 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.

Signs

6 good
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)
  • Altman Z″ in the safe zone

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

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

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