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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 4 Hypothesis testing results

From: On valuing biopharmaceutical product pipelines: an effectuation model and evidence

Hypotheses

Results

H1: Biopharmaceutical companies with higher absolute R&D expense will have higher performance in terms of growth in revenues, net income, valuation, and Price-Earning (PE) multiples relative to peer competitors.

Supported

H2: Biopharmaceutical companies with higher R&D expense as percent (%) of revenues will have higher performance.

Supported

H3: Biopharmaceutical companies with higher pipeline valuation as a percent of overall valuation will have higher performance.

Not supported

H4: Effectuation dimensions will have higher predictive power than the traditional discounted value of present cash flow models.

Supported