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LA JOLLA PHARMACEUTICAL CO

Healthcare · Biological Products, (No Diagnostic Substances) · DE · SEC filings ↗ · Compare ⊕

Signs4 good1 warning3 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY21FY20FY19FY18FY17FY16
Revenue$75.7M$33.4M$23.1M$10.1M$0$0
Operating income$21.8M−$35.8M−$109.8M−$194.1M−$115.4M−$78.4M
Net income$19.7M−$39.4M−$116.5M−$199.5M−$114.8M−$78.2M
Total assets$101.2M$72.2M$132.2M$204.3M$119.5M$70.8M
Total liabilities$168.0M$160.3M$188.2M$168.4M$31.3M$9.8M
Equity−$66.7M−$88.1M−$56.0M$35.9M$88.2M$61.0M
EPS (diluted)$0.58$-1.44
Shares out.27.4M27.2M27.1M22.2M18.3M18.3M

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

Key ratios

from filings · FY2021
Operating margin
28.8%
Net margin
26.0%
Return on equity
−29.5%
Return on assets
19.4%
Return on capital (ROCE)
26.1%
Liabilities / assets
165.9%
Debt / equity
Book value / share
$-2.43
Revenue growth (YoY)
126.6%
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 · FY2021
Altman Z″ (distress)
-29.79distress
Accruals / assets
8.5%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
68
/ 100
Profitability 80Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 25

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. What these scores mean →

Signs

3 severe1 warning4 good
  • Negative shareholder equity
  • Altman Z″ in the distress zone
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • High leverage (liabilities > 70% of assets)
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • 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

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
3 acquisitions7 disposalsnet 19.3M shares · last 10
InsiderDateTypeSharesPrice
Ramsay David ADirectorAug 22, 2022D100,000$6.23
Tang Kevin CDirectorAug 22, 2022U9.6M$6.23
Edwards Larry G.Officer — Chief Executive OfficerAug 22, 2022D11,969$6.23
Johnson Laura L.DirectorAug 22, 2022D500$6.23
Johnson Craig ADirectorAug 22, 2022D12,000$6.23
Hearne Michael SOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerAug 22, 2022D10,186$6.23
Tang Kevin CDirectorAug 22, 2022U9.6M$6.23
Johnson Craig ADirectorJul 8, 2022Option exercise12,000$3.93
Hearne Michael SOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerJun 30, 2022Grant236$2.71
Hearne Michael SOfficer — Chief Financial OfficerJun 15, 2022Grant236$2.72

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

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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