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Penumbra, Inc.
11/5/2025
today's call to discuss Penumbra's earnings release for the third quarter of 2025. A copy of the press release and financial tables, which includes a gap to non-gap reconciliation, With me on today's call are Adam Elsesser, Chairman and CEO, Shruti Narayan, President, and Maggie Yuen, Chief Financial Officer. Also joining us for the Q&A portion of the call is Jason Mills, EVP, Strategy. During the course of this conference call, the company will make forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our financial performance, commercialization, clinical trials, regulatory status, quality, compliance, and business trends. Actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied by our forward-looking statements due to certain risks and uncertainties, including those referenced in our 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC. As a result, we caution you against placing undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and we encourage you to review our periodic filings with the SEC, including the 10-K previously mentioned, for a more complete discussion of these factors and other risks that may affect our future results or the market price of our stock. Penumbra disclaims any duty to update or revise our forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events, developments, or otherwise. On this call, financial results for revenue and gross margin are presented on a gap basis, while operating expenses, operating income, and adjusted EBITDA are presented on a non-gap basis. The corresponding gap measures and a reconciliation of gap to non-gap financial measures are provided in our posted press release. Non-GAAP operating expenses and operating income exclude expenses related to the wind-down of our immersive healthcare business in the third quarter of 2024 of $5 million, and adjusted EBITDA excludes wind-down expenses, stock compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, provision for income taxes, and interest income expenses. And with that, I would like to turn the call over to Adam.
Thank you, Cecilia. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining Penumbra's third quarter 2025 conference call. In the third quarter, we generated total revenue of $354.7 million, representing underlying year-over-year growth of 17.8% on a reported basis and 16.9% on a constant currency basis. Our strong third quarter results reflect broad-based execution against our strategy and significant progress in further enhancing our competitive technological and market positioning across all franchises. Total U.S. revenue was $275 million in the third quarter, an increase of 21.5% compared to the third quarter last of 2024. Total U.S. thrombectomy sales increased 18.5% year over year to $192 million. Our VTE franchise once again led overall corporate growth, delivering 34% year over year growth. U.S. embolization across an access revenue of $83 million increased 29.2% year over year. Growth in our embolization and access business exceeded our expectations, reflecting the benefit of a dedicated peripheral embolization sales team alongside our investment in continuous innovation and new product introductions. Internationally, the work we previously undertook to enhance our long-term market positioning is beginning to play out. We are now operating from a position of portfolio and geographic strength, with our commercial execution in the quarter more than offsetting the China growth comp headwinds we continue to face. Total international revenue of $79.7 million increased 6.6% year over year, or 3% in constant currency. Below the top line, gross margin of 67.8% expanded 130 basis points over the prior year period. and we delivered operating income of $48.8 million, or 13.8% of revenue, with our operating expense in the quarter reflecting the full impact of our embolization sales force build-out. We remain on track and are well-positioned to achieve a gross margin profile of over 70% by the end of 2026 and expect operating margin expansion to outpace gross margin expansion for the foreseeable future as we prioritize delivering profitable growth and an expanding profitability profile. Turning to our US peripheral business, our third quarter thrombectomy performance reflected both the clinical benefit and competitive strength of our CAVT technology alongside enhanced commercial focus from our now peripheral thrombectomy dedicated sales force. We delivered the highest sequential quarterly increase in VTE case volume growth to date in 2025. Our U.S. arterial business also delivered another strong performance with a combination of BOLT7 and BOLT6X supporting further physician conversion from open surgery or the use of lytics to CAVT. Penumbra received FDA clearance during the third quarter for both Lightning Bolt 16 and Lightning Flash 3.0. Lightning Bolt 16 brings proprietary modulated aspiration technology to our 16 French system, and Flash 3.0 improves the fidelity of the algorithm by updating both the hardware and the software. These new products significantly add to the growing portfolio of advanced CAVT devices, opening up a clear path for us to reach the over 800,000 patients in the US who suffer from VTE and arterial clot with our CAVT technology. I also want to remind everyone that the core technology in our CAVT products is protected by a robust patent portfolio. We recently secured a victory from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which summarily and unanimously affirmed the Patent and Trademark Appeal Board's IPR decisions in validating several competitive patents challenged by Penumbra. We will continue to vigorously defend all of our patents and IP for our CAVT technology. At the TCT and VIVA conferences, we presented the landmark results from STORM-PE, the prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial evaluating CAVT plus anticoagulation versus anticoagulation alone for the treatment of acute intermediate high-risk PE. Truthy will provide additional detail on the trial and study outcomes in her prepared remarks. But needless to say, taking into account the medical community's reaction to the data, we are highly optimistic that STORM-PE will act as a major catalyst in positively impacting the treatment of PE while significantly increasing the number of patients receiving intervention with CABT. In our U.S. peripheral embolization business, our new EMBO-dedicated 50-plus member sales team delivered strong 21.2% sequential growth in embolization revenue in the quarter. We believe the team's performance this quarter and the enhanced focus across our comprehensive current COIL portfolio represents a new phase of sustainable growth and our U.S. embolization franchise. Shruti will discuss how the integration of this new team is unfolding. Shifting to our neurovascular business, recent market trends in the macro U.S. stroke market showed a slight decline in the third quarter. Notwithstanding that, our stroke thrombectomy portfolio delivered positive growth and share gain. Historically, new innovation has catalyzed the stroke market, and we are optimistic that with the anticipated introduction of Thunderbolt, we will see a similar dynamic play out. In neuroembolization, the recent interest we've seen in utilizing our swift coil for MMA embolization continues to translate into extremely strong above-market procedure growth. further contributing to sustainable growth in the US embolization franchise. Now I'd like to give you an update on Thunderbolt. In October, we submitted thorough responses to all the outstanding questions received from the FDA during the 510 review process. We are now in the stage where we address any final questions or provide any required clarifications to our answers. for obvious reasons, will be prudent in our discussion today about Thunderbolt. However, we remain excited about the prospect of introducing CAVT to the neurovascular field. Overall, based on our third quarter performance and reflecting the trends we've seen in our business and our target markets highlighted previously, we are raising our revenue guidance for the year to $1,375,000,000 to $1,380,000,000. We reiterate 20 to 21% year-over-year growth for 2025 for US thrombectomy. Now I will turn the call over to Shruti, who will discuss a few details on the expansion of our sales team, as well as the STORM PE trial.
Thank you, Adam. Good afternoon, everyone. Starting off with an update on our recent commercial expansion initiatives. Based on the significant ramp in physician interest in CAVT we experienced throughout 2023 and 2024, entering 2025, we made the strategic decision to build out an additional peripheral sales team to focus on our embolization business, enabling our existing peripheral sales team to shift exclusive focus to CAVT. Through the first half of 2025, we added over 50 new peripheral embolization sales reps under our existing peripheral sales leadership team. The build-out and integration went extremely well with the new team fitting seamlessly into our organization. This allowed the team to execute the launch of RubyXL while also maintaining our momentum in our established portfolio, achieving strong 21.2% sequential growth in embolization revenue in the third quarter. As we execute the shift in our commercial structure, our existing team helped integrate our new team and supported the transition of embolization case coverage across our accounts. This transition process will taper in the fourth quarter while positioning our teams to enter 2026 fully focused on their respective sales objectives, CAVT and embolization. Turning to Storm PE at the TCT conference early last week, Dr. Rob Lukstein presented the study's primary endpoints alongside key safety data. Additional secondary endpoint data, including key physiological and functional outcomes, was presented by Dr. Rachel Rozovsky at VIVA earlier this week. The trial proved CAVT superior in reducing right heart strain in intermediate high-risk PE patients with a comparable safety profile to the current standard of care. In addition, while not powered to show statistical significance on secondary endpoints, The trial data demonstrated statistical significance in favor of CAVT across multiple secondary endpoints. In addition, the initial trial results were published in circulation on Monday. Storm PE proved CAVT superior to the current standard of care across the primary as well as multiple secondary endpoints showing CAVT patients recovered earlier and have significant long-term improvement in functional outcomes. The trial also highlighted the ability of the field's most advanced technology to deliver faster procedure and device times, reestablishing the baseline and expectations around acceptable case times. With procedurals in the trial requiring minimal prior experience with FLASH ahead of enrolling patients in STORM-PE, the strong results also highlight CAVT's ease of use and exceptional safety profile. The physician feedback across the interventional and non-interventional community has been enthusiastically positive. Since the presentations, we are seeing a shift to CAVT from older mechanical thrombectomy options for PE. We expect to see this continue. We are also working with societies and organizations to disseminate the now published data from STORM-PE to hospitals so they can update their current hospital protocols. Over the next year, this will be one of our top priorities. We are executing at a high level across our peripheral and neuro business units and are well positioned to continue to build off our groundwork to date. As we look toward 2026 and beyond, We remain highly confident in our long-term strategy, grounded in meaningful innovation, data generation, and investment in our team, supporting durable, profitable growth and the ability to treat a significant number of patients with our technologies. I'll now turn the call over to Maggie to go over our financial results for the third quarter of 2025.
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