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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (Amphastar Pharmaceuticals) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow : 0.16 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow?

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow assesses how much of a company’s cash flow from operations is being devoted to capital expenditure. It’s also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not.

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capital Expenditure for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-8.79 Mil. Its Cash Flow from Operations for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $55.29 Mil.

Hence, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.16.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow 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.

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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Chart

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.00 0.59 0.28 0.27 0.21

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.24 0.17 0.16 0.40 0.16

Competitive Comparison of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow

For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry

For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow falls into.



Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Calculation

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow=- Capital Expenditure / Cash Flow from Operations
=- (-38.166) / 183.503
=0.21

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow=- Capital Expenditure / Cash Flow from Operations
=- (-8.793) / 55.291
=0.16

* 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.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals  (NAS:AMPH) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Explanation

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio assesses how much of a company’s Cash Flow from Operations is being devoted to Capital Expenditure. It is a good indicator in terms of how much the company is focused on growth. In general, a high Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio indicates that the company is investing more in physical assets and is focused on growth and expansion. Conversely, lower ratio could indicate that a company has reached maturity and is no longer pursuing aggressive growth.

Moreover, the ratio is also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not. If the ratio is large, then the company tends to be capital intensive. Lower ratio suggests that it’s a capital-light business. The ratio can be combined with ROIC % to identify whether the company is an asset-light business that has a high return on invested capital. This is one question investors commonly ask to see if a company qualifies as a good company.


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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (Amphastar Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

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Address
11570 6th Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA, 91730
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses primarily on developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling technically challenging generic and proprietary injectable, inhalation, and intranasal products. Additionally, the company sells insulin API products. The company's finished products are used in hospital or urgent care clinical settings and are contracted and distributed through group purchasing organizations and drug wholesalers. The company has two reportable segments finished pharmaceutical products and API products. Geographically the business presence of the firm is seen in the United States, China and France of which the U.S. accounts for the majority of the revenue.
Executives
Mary Z. Luo director, 10 percent owner, officer: COO and Chief Scientist 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Floyd F. Petersen director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Rong Zhou officer: EVP, Production C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC., 11570 SIXTH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Richard K Prins director
William J Peters officer: CFO, SVP & Treasurer C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Yakob Liawatidewi officer: SVP Corp Admin Center C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC, 11570 SIXTH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Michael A Zasloff director
Gayle Deflin director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Diane G. Gerst officer: EVP, QA & Regulatory Affairs 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Howard Lee director 13F-2, NO. 36, LANE 48, SECTION 3, NAN-JING EAST ROAD, TAIPEI, TAIWAN F4 00000
Jack Y. Zhang director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO & Chief Scientific Officer 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
David Maris director C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Richard Koo director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Jason B. Shandell director, officer: President 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Applied Physics & Chemistry Laboratories, Inc. 10 percent owner 13760 MAGNOLIA AVENUE, CHINO CA 91710