Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured. ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's intangible assets for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was $0.8 Mil.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Intangible Assets Historical Data
The historical data trend for ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Intangible Assets can be seen below:
* 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.
Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot be seen, touched or physically measured. Examples of intangible assets include trade secrets, copyrights, patents, trademarks. If a company acquires assets at the prices above the book value, it may carry goodwill on its balance sheet. Goodwill reflects the difference between the price the company paid and the book value of the assets.
If a company (company A) received a patent through their own work, though it has value, it does not show up on its balance sheet as an intangible asset. However, if company A sells this patent to company B, it will show up on company B's balance sheet as an intangible asset.
The same applies to brand names, trade secrets etc. For instance, Coca-Cola's brand is extremely valuable, but the brand does not appear on its balance sheet, because the brand was never acquired.
Some intangibles are amortized. Amortization is the depreciation of intangible assets.
Many intangibles are not amortized. They may still be written down when the company decides the asset is impaired.
Whenever you see an increase in goodwill over a number of years, you can assume it's because the company is out buying other businesses above book value. GOOD if buying businesses with durable competitive advantage.
If goodwill stays the same, the company when acquiring other companies is either paying less than book value or not acquiring. Businesses with moats never sell for less than book value.
Intangibles acquired are on balance sheet at fair value.
Internally developed brand names (Coke, Wrigleys, Band-Aid) however are not reflected on the balance sheet.
One of the reasons competitive advantage power can remain hidden for so long.
Be Aware
Companies may change the way intangible assets are amortized, and this will affect their reported earnings.
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ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (ARIAD Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc was organized as a Delaware corporation in April 1991. It is an oncology company. The Company is focused on discovery and development of breakthrough medicines to treat cancers by regulating cell signaling with small molecules. The Company's first approved cancer medicine, Iclusig (ponatinib), and its product candidates, AP26113 and ridaforolimus, were discovered internally by its scientists based on the expertise in computational and structure-based drug design. AP26113 is an investigational inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK. In non-clinical studies, AP26113 also demonstrated that it can inhibit epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, and c-ros oncogene-1, or ROS1. . Iclusig and its drug candidates and preclinical compounds are small molecules that can be readily synthesized by processes that it has developed. The Company do not own or operate manufacturing facilities for the production of clinical or commercial quantities of Iclusig or its product candidates. The company's competitors includes pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca PLC, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Celgene Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, the Roche Group, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Merck KGaA, Novartis AG, Pfizer, Inc., Sanofi-Aventis, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.Inc.
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