5/8/2025

speaker
Elle
Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Elle, and I will be your operator today. Welcome to Knight Therapeutics' first quarter 2025 results conference call. Before turning the call over to Samira Sakia, President and CEO of Knight, listeners are reminded that portions of today's discussion may, by their nature, necessarily involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking statements. The company considers the assumptions on which these forward-looking statements are based to be reasonable at the time they were prepared, but cautions that these assumptions regarding the future events, many of which are beyond the control of the company and its subsidiaries, may ultimately prove to be incorrect. The company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether a result of new information, future events, except as required by law. We would also like to remind you, questions during today's call will be taken from analysts only. Should there be any further questions please contact Knight's Investor Relations Department via email to ir.knighttx.com or via phone at 514-484-4483. I would like to remind everyone that this call is being recorded today, May 8, 2025, and would now like to turn the meeting over to your host for today's call, Samira Sakia. Please go ahead, Ms. Sacchia.

speaker
Samira Sakia
President and CEO

Thank you, Elle. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Knight Therapeutics' first quarter 2025 conference call. I'm joined on today's call with Amal Khoury, our Chief Business Officer, and Arvind Uchina, our Chief Financial Officer. I'm pleased to announce that for the three months ended March 31st, 2025, we reported revenues of $88 million and an adjusted EBITDA of over $12 million. Our revenues increased by $2 million or 3% over the same period last year. The increase was mainly driven by our promoted portfolio, which accounts for over 75% of our total revenues. During the quarter, this portfolio grew by $9 million or 16% on a constant currency basis. In addition, we continue to execute on the business development front. As previously announced, we entered into an agreement with Endo to acquire all of the assets of Paladin for $100 million plus $20 million of inventory. Furthermore, Knight may pay future contingent payments of up to US $15 million upon achievement of certain milestones. Also, we have expanded our relationship with Helsin with the addition of Onisit for certain LATAM countries. Onisit is used for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, as well as the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. Moving to our pipeline, we continue to advance our portfolio with the regulatory submission of Tavalis in Argentina and the regulatory approval of Pemezir in Mexico. In addition to the regulatory process during the quarter, we launched Minjuvi in Mexico and relaunched Onisit in Brazil and Mexico. On to the NCIB. During the quarter, we purchased 605,000 common shares under the NCIB at an average purchase price of $5.53 for aggregate cash consideration of $3.3 million. I will now turn the call over to Arvind to provide an update on our financial results.

speaker
Arvind Uchina
Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Samira. When speaking of our financial results, I will refer to adjusted EBITDA and financial results at constant currency, which are non-FRS measures. as well as adjusted EBITDA per share, which is a non-average ratio. NITE defines adjusted EBITDA as operating income or loss, excluding amortization and impairment of non-current assets, depreciation, the impact of accounting under hyperinflation, and acquisition and transaction costs, but to include costs related to leases. We define adjusted EBITDA per share as adjusted EBITDA over the number of common shares outstanding at the end of the respective period. In addition, revenues and financial results at constant currency are also non-GAAP measures. Financial results at constant currency are obtained by translating the prior period results at the average point exchange rates in effect during the current period, except for Argentina, where we only exclude hyperinflation. Furthermore, my discussion on the operating results will refer to figures that exclude hyperinflation unless otherwise indicated. For the first quarter of 2025, we delivered revenues of $88 million, representing an increase of $2 million or 3% versus Q1 last year. On a constant currency basis, revenues increased by $6.6 million or 8%, driven by the growth of our key promoted products, partly offset by declines in our mature products. In the first quarter of 2025, our oncology and hematology portfolio delivered $32 million of revenues, a growth of $1 million, or 3%. On a constant currency basis, the portfolio grew by $2 million, or 6%, compared to the same period last year. This increase was driven by the continued growth of our key promoted brands, which contributed $4 million of incremental revenues, mainly coming from Landvima, Akinzeo, 12 Star, Minjuvi, as well as the addition of Oneset. This growth was partially offset by a decline in our mature and branded generic products due to the lifecycle and the market entrance of new competitors, as well as the impact of LATAM currency depreciation. Our infectious disease portfolio delivered $36 million, a decrease of $2 million, or 4%. On a constant currency basis, the portfolio actually grew by $1 million, or 3%, compared to the same period last year. The increase was due to purchasing patterns of certain customers, including ambisomes deliveries to the Ministry of Health in Brazil or MOH. As a reminder, in January 2025, we signed a third contract with the MOH and we expect to deliver $22.4 million in 2025, of which $13 million were already delivered in Q1 compared to $9 million in Q1 2024. Turning to our other specialty therapeutics areas. The portfolio generated $20 million in revenues, representing an increase of $3 million, or 18%, mainly driven by the launch of Invexi and Bidruva in Canada, as well as purchasing patterns of certain customers. Now moving on to gross margin. We reported $41 million, or a gross margin, per set of 47% of revenues in the first quarter of 2025, remaining relatively unchanged compared to the same period last year. I will now turn to our operating expenses, excluding amortization. For the first quarter, our operating expenses were $30.2 million, an increase of $3 million, or 10% compared to the same period last year. The increase in operating expenses was driven by an increase in commercial spend and structure behind our new launches, including Minjuvi, Invexi, Bijuva, and JoinAPM, as well as transaction fees related to the acquisition of Paradigm. Moving on to adjusted EBITDA. For the first quarter of 2025, we reported $12.1 million of adjusted EBITDA, a decrease of $1.5 million, or 11%, compared to the same period last year. Our adjusted EBITDA per share was 12 cents, a decrease of 8% compared to the same period last year. I will now cover our financial assets, which were valued at $127 million. During the quarter, we recorded a total net loss of $3.8 million on our financial assets, driven by the mark-to-market revaluation of our strategic fund investments and the change in value of certain equities. As a reminder, our funds continue to be a source of cash, and for the first quarter, we received a distribution of $3 million. Moving on to our cash flows. At the end of Q1, we held $141 million in cash and marketable securities. during the quarter we generated cash inflows from operations of 3.7 million dollars and invested 11.5 million dollars in working capital driven by an increase in our accounts receivable due to the timing of collections from certain customers in addition at the end of the quarter our inventory was valued at 140 million dollars an increase of 37 million dollars compared to the end of 2024. this is investment is due to the growth of our portfolio including our recent launches as well as timing of orders and deliveries of certain products including ambison to the moh subsequent to the quarter we closed the u.s 40 million dollars working capital line of credit from citibank of which we have withdrawn u.s 35 million dollars the maturity date of the debt is at the end of september this year the proceeds from the line of credit will be used to settle the accounts available for the inventory purchase during the first quarter I will now turn the call back to Summer.

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