10/30/2026

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Operator
Conference Call Operator

Good morning and welcome to OmniAb, Inc.'s third quarter 2026 financial results and business update conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would like to now turn the call over to Kurt Gustafson, OmniAb, Inc.'s financial officer. Chief financial officer, you may begin now.

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Kurt Gustafson
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. This is Kurt Gustafson, OmniAB's chief financial officer, and thank you all for joining our third quarter 2026 financial results conference call. There are slides to accompany today's prepared remarks, and they're available in the investor section of our website at OmniAB.com. Before we begin, I'd like to remind listeners that comments made during this call by OmniAB's management will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different from any of the anticipated results. These forward-looking statements are qualified by the cautionary statements contained in today's press release and our SEC filings. Importantly, this conference call contains time-sensitive information that is accurate only as of the date of the live broadcast today, October 30, 2026. Except as required by law, Amechi undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call. Joining me this morning is Matt Foer, Amechi's president and CEO, and Amechi Nwachuku, our chief operating officer. During today's call, Matt is going to cover some highlights. Amechi will provide an update on our exploration program, and I'll go through our financial results and guidance and then we'll open up the call to questions. And with that, let me turn the call over to Matt.

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Matt Foehr
President and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Kurt. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining our third quarter call. I'll start now on slide number four, which includes some highlights from the third quarter. Our business here at OmniAb has been designed to benefit from diversified long-term and durable revenue streams. We continued to drive strong performance in the third quarter as our highly differentiated technology platforms are facilitating growth and partnerships and progression of programs. We have been and continue to be very active from a licensing perspective and announced a major new deal in the quarter with Eli Lilly for a novel ion channel program. We were really pleased to enter into this important new relationship with Lilly as they're obviously focused on delivering medicines to address major unmet medical needs and our differentiated expertise and established technologies that specifically relate to ion channels are well positioned to help facilitate that and drive this new discovery program forward. Under the terms of that license deal, we received an upfront payment and are eligible to receive up to $370 million in research, development, and commercial milestone payments, as well as potential tiered royalties on global net sales. In Q3, we saw increased utilization of our differentiated technologies within our growing ecosystem of partners, and we also saw strong traction with our exploration platform and steady progress across programs that our partners are advancing through various stages of development. These teams were front and center at our Investor and Analyst Day that we held earlier this month, and we really appreciate everyone who joined us for that event here in Emeryville and on the video webcast. As highlighted at that event, Exploration, our AI-powered high-throughput single B-cell screening platform, is now available to all potential customers. This creates valuable opportunities for our business and Amechi will speak to exploration in more detail in his section. And we also launched OmniTides, our new peptide discovery offering powered by our OmniUltra transgenic chicken. OmniTides is designed to provide an integrated discovery to synthesis workflow for partners with available peptide manufacturing by qualified CROs to generate naturally optimized peptides for a range of growing therapeutic applications. And finally, our continued strong business performance has resulted in yet another raise to our 2026 revenue and cash outlook. Kurt will speak to our updated guidance in greater detail during his portion of the presentation this morning. Moving now to slide number five. Our novel technologies here at Onyab reinforce our position as a key enabling technology licensing partner and support both existing and new partnerships. Novel technologies and our capabilities, as well as our vantage point in the industry, keep us at the forefront of next generation therapeutics discovery and we think position us to create meaningful value for our stakeholders. Slide five shows our technology platform organized around how we help partners efficiently create, screen, and ultimately deliver novel therapeutics. This quarter, we advanced important elements of the platform, and I mentioned OmniTides, which incorporates in vivo optimization driven by biological intelligence, which is a term we coined several years back. OmniTides leverages biological intelligence early in discovery, and that can support efficient progression to chemical synthesis and ultimately development. Our novel transgenic chicken-based technologies, specifically OmniDAB and OmniUltra, shown on the left here, continue to attract new partners and drive new programs. Our OmniDeep offering, shown across the bottom of this slide, which is our suite of AI and machine learning tools woven throughout our technology stack also drives significant value. And that's along with the extremely important novel data layers that we have and can generate that can also create substantial business opportunities for us. I'll briefly review now some of our metrics starting with slide number six. At the end of the third quarter, we had 111 active partners, which is a net increase from 110 at the end of the second quarter. New licenses in Q3 included Yamaya, Inc. and Monash University, and that was partially offset by a signal partner attrition event that was triggered by one of our larger partners acquiring one of our smaller ones. We've seen this from time to time and generally see these as positive events for assets that have been discovered with our technologies. We continue to have a nice diversified mix of partners and are proud that now nine of the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world are active partners of OmniAb, which I think demonstrates the quality and the strength of our partner base. Now moving on to slide number seven, you'll see here our active programs metric. We ended the quarter with 433 active programs. That's up from 407 at the end of 2025, reflecting 38 additions and 12 terminations so far this year. And we saw a net increase of eight programs in the third quarter alone. Attrition is obviously a normal part of the business as partners refine their pipelines and their investment and R&D priorities. Importantly, More than 98% of our active programs have contracted Future Economics to OmniAb. And across our portfolio, we have more than $3 billion in total contracted potential milestones with an average royalty rate of approximately 3.4%. On the clinical front, slide number eight here shows our partners' active clinical programs and approved products. At the end of Q3, there were 34 active clinical programs and approved products that leverage our technologies. We've had four new clinical additions so far in 2026, and we continue to anticipate new clinical entrants in the very near term. These active clinical programs carry approximately $340 million in remaining potential milestones to OmniAb. Turning to slide nine, this graphic summarizes the status of our clinical and commercial stage partner pipeline as of September 30th for programs that carry remaining downstream economics to AmeAb. The placement of each program here on this graphic is based on its most advanced status in any geography, market, or indication. The right-hand side of this slide continues to include what some of our partners view as important potential first-in-class or Best in Class Medicines. And I'll review some of those when I cover the next slide. I also note that subsequent to the end of Q3, just last week actually, Bataclumab, which is shown here on slide number nine in the registration column in blue, received approval in China for the treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis in adult patients who are anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody positive. Bataclumab in China represents the fourth drug approved from our platform. So the next time we show this graphic with a full year 2026 status, one of the changes and updates of progression that investors will see is that Bataclumab will slide over to the right into the approved column. Moving now onto slide 10, which calls out a few recent partner program developments. The three programs starting from the left of this slide, IMVT-1402, PEV408, and Precentabart Tocentican all are being described as potential pipeline in a product type assets with either first in class or best in class potential. These are programs that are going after indications with substantial unmet medical needs with partners who are highly committed to rapid advancement. And also highlighted on this slide on the right side, you'll see here the approval update related to Baticlumab in China that I mentioned earlier. So now wrapping up my section on slide 11, we highlight here what we see as OmniAb's pillars of value. Our differentiated discovery technologies, innovative capabilities, and expanding partnerships we think position us to drive durable, long-term value for our stakeholders. We have a growing pipeline and broad partnership base that supports substantial contracted downstream milestones and royalties from a diversified basket of promising potential first in class and best in class programs while providing us unique industry insights that continue to inform our strategic priorities and our areas of focus. In addition, Our expanding suite of innovative discovery technologies, including our chicken-based technologies, drive new partnerships and open additional avenues for licensing value creation both now and in the future. Further, our differentiated exploration platform expands our reach and complements our existing discovery technology offerings while adding durable, meaningful revenue streams to the business. We believe we are now extremely well positioned to deliver for our stakeholders. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Amechi to talk more about exploration. Amechi?

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