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To: VLAD who wrote (20603)4/16/1999 3:52:00 AM
From: Andreas Samson  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 23519
 
Any chance they booked a deal under the wire at the close of the quarter? By the estimates you posted...

>>1)Domestic sales about $3.5M
2)International sales about 1/2 of Q4 1998--my guess is about $3.5M
3)Milestone payments of $4M accounts for 12.5 cents profits.<<

To break even before milestone would require a $3.36M cut in OPEX from $10.36M Q498, which looked like this:

Cost of goods sold 6,133
Research and development 2,266
Selling, general and administrative 1,961
Total 10,360

Where would the $3.36M have come from? OPEX is already down 67% from a year ago. Domestic sales may better than you think, which would be, of course, a good sign.

Blood, baby, blood



To: VLAD who wrote (20603)4/16/1999 8:13:00 AM
From: betty moyers  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23519
 
Vlad, To get to 12.5 cents. International sales have to be up if domestic sales are down.

They may have lowered costs a little more. But they were really pretty barebones last Q