drugstore.com inc. Achieves GAAP Profitability in the Fourth Quart...(inthe company's financial reporting. How...),Health

Date:2/6/2008

in the company's financial reporting. However, adjusted EBITDA should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for, or as superior to, net income/loss, cash flows, or other consolidated income/loss or cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP, or as a measure of the company's profitability or liquidity. Although adjusted EBITDA is frequently used as a measure of operating performance, it is not necessarily comparable to other similarly titled captions of other companies due to differences in methods of calculation. Net income/loss is the closest financial measure prepared by the company in accordance with GAAP in terms of comparability to adjusted EBITDA. A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income/loss is included with the financial statements attached to this release.

drugstore.com, inc. also uses non-GAAP measures in which CNS sales are excluded from OTC segment sales data. This non-GAAP measure is provided to enhance the user's overall understanding of the company's financial performance in the OTC segment. Management believes that these reporting metrics provide useful information to the company and to investors by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of the company's core operating results in the OTC segment. By excluding CNS sales from OTC sales data, the company can more effectively assess the buying behavior of, and the company's financial performance with respect to, its own core OTC customers (those customers making nonprescription purchases through Web sites owned by drugstore.com, inc. and its subsidiaries). However, these non-GAAP measures should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for, or as superior to, OTC segment sales data prepared in accordance with GAAP, or as a measure of the company's overall performance in the OTC segment. OTC segment sales measures are the closest financial measures prepared by the company in accordance with GAAP in terms of comparability to OTC segment sales measures
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