Cubist Beats Zacks Estimate – Analyst Blog
Zacks Market Commentaries (October 16th, 2009) Writes:
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CBST) reported a third-quarter net income of 65 cents per share, which was much higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 33 cents. The company’s net income was 48 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. The higher profit in the quarter was primarily because of increased sales coming from all the segments.
Revenues in the quarter increased 28% to $143.5 million. U.S. product revenues increased 26.1% to $137.66 million in the quarter. Cubist recorded international product revenues of $3.93 million as against $1.43 million last year. Service revenues came in at $1.50 million from $1.42 million, and other revenues increased to $0.45 million from $0.39 million.
Research & Development (R&D) spend for the quarter increased 24.1% to $35.5 million. Sales & Marketing expenses for the quarter decreased 15% to $18.9 million. General & Administrative (G&A) spend increased to $12.8 million from $9.3 ...


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