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Vivus

pharmaceutical Company
Organization business Q7937957
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 4 annual filings
Revenue
$69.76M
▲ 7.2% YoY FY2019
Net Income
-$31.50M
▲ 14.7% YoY FY2019
Assets
$218.31M
▼ 27.7% YoY FY2019
EPS (diluted)
$-3.48
▼ 20.4% YoY FY2018
$0.00$34.17M$68.34M$102.51M$136.68M FY2016: $124.26M · NI $23.30M (18.8% margin)FY2017: $65.37M · NI -$30.51M (-46.7% margin)FY2018: $65.06M · NI -$36.95M (-56.8% margin)FY2019: $69.76M · NI -$31.50M (-45.2% margin) '16'17'18'19
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2019-12-31 · accession 0001558370-20-001956

Vivus

Summary

Vivus is a business[1]. Vivus ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (180 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Vivus is in the country of United States[3].
  • Vivus is in the country of US[4].
  • Vivus's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • Vivus's instance of is recorded as public company[6].
  • Vivus's headquarters location is recorded as Mountain View[7].
  • Vivus's stock exchange is recorded as Nasdaq[8].
  • Vivus's industry is recorded as pharmaceutical industry[9].
  • 1991 marks the founding of Vivus[10].
  • Vivus's official website is recorded as http://www.vivus.com/[11].
  • Vivus's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[12].
  • Vivus's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[13].

Product Details

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GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300PC33SFMFILV612[14]

  • Registered legal name: Vivus, Inc.[15]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[16]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[17]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[18]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[19]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[20]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-06-07[21]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[22]

  • LEI next renewal: 2015-06-05[23]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[24]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[25]

  • Authority entity ID: 2624559[26]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[27]

Body

Founding

1991 marks the founding of Vivus[10].

Operations

Vivus's headquarters location is recorded as Mountain View[7].

Industry

Vivus's industry is recorded as pharmaceutical industry[9].

Ownership

Vivus's stock exchange is recorded as Nasdaq[8].

Why It Matters

Vivus ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (180 views/month).[2]

Related Entities

business Nasdaq public company United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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