Interim Report, Q1 2024
May 2024
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Contents
Summary4
Management review | 8 |
Financial statements | 13 |
Statement by the Board and | 23 |
Executive Management
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On 2 May 2024, the Board of Directors has accepted the interim report for the first quarter of 2024 (the period 1 January
- 31 March 2024) for ViroGates A/S. The interim report is unaudited.
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Contents
Summary | 4 |
Management review | 8 |
Financial statements | 13 |
Statement by the Board and | 23 |
Executive Management
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The performance of Q1, 2024, reflects that there is still much work to be done on the revamping of hospital customers as well as building up business in general health, and quarterly revenue amounted to ~1.2 DKKm
Financial results in Q1, 2024
(Q1, 2023 results in brackets)
- Revenue increased by 14% to TDKK 1,199 (TDKK 1,049)
- Operating expenses increased by 18% to TDKK -4,916 (TDKK -4,165)
- Operating loss increased by 13% to TDKK -3,710 (TDKK -3,279)
- Net loss increased by 22% to TDKK -3,596 (TDKK -2,942)
- Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period amounted to TDKK 12,229 (TDKK 6,462)
TDKK+14%
Revenue 1,049 1,199
Operating+13% loss
-3,279-3,710
"Our revenue for the first quarter of 2024 reflects that customer activity, especially in the hospital segment, is still in the lower end. While continuing our work to get the hospital customers to place orders, both in acute care and in guiding treatment, we are also excited to build up a whole new customer segment within general health and longevity. Sales cycles in this segment are shorter, however, the volume of purchasing orders are also lower than those in the hospital segment."
Josephine Baum Jørgensen, CFO
Josephine Baum
Jørgensen
12,229
6,462
Cash balance
Q1, 2023 | Q1, 2024 |
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In Q1, 2024, we promoted the sepsis application to hospital customers, continued the close collaboration with Sobi on making suPARnostic® available in the US market, and reached +1,000 papers on suPAR
Business highlights in Q1, 2024 | "The continuing low revenue levels stems | ||
• | Promoted the sepsis application case to existing and new | ||
from the transition period that ViroGates is | |||
hospital customers and booked the first revenue based on the | currently in, having to rebuild most of our | ||
implementation of suPARnostic® in sepsis treatment | business in acute care and starting from | ||
scratch in the general health and longevity | |||
• Continued working closely with Sobi on commercializing | market. However, we are appreciative of our | ||
suPARnostic® in the US in response to the EUA post- | strengthened position in sepsis, as this | ||
presents a very concrete selling point to our | |||
Jakob Knudsen | |||
authorization requirement by the FDA from 2022 for Sobi's | hospital customers and serves to the clear | ||
Kineret® product | benefit of sepsis patients. We are also very | ||
• | Reached 1,000 papers on suPAR on PubMed, manifesting the | excited to enter the market of general | |
health and have worked to align our | |||
importance of suPAR and chronic inflammation in disease | marketing and sales material accordingly." |
development, progression, and risk of premature mortality | Jakob Knudsen, CEO |
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The full year financial guidance for 2024 is maintained at 8 to 10 DKKm in revenue - EBIT is expected to be between -10 and -12 DKKm
Full year outlook, 2024
- Revenue levels continue to be in the lower end, but we expect our efforts in revamping hospital customers and the traction within general health to pay off into Q2, 2024 and forward.
- We also continue to see revenue from research customers globally, and despite revenue from this segment typically being one-off sales to a specific project, several of our research customers (e.g. universities and medical institutes) are placing recurring orders spread across the year.
- In addition, we are working actively to broaden our distributor network into markets that have not previously been serviced
- this enables us, with a relatively low added cost, to widen our reach and tap into a larger potential for suPARnostic®. - We therefore maintain our financial guidance for 2024.
Full year financial guidance, 2024
8 to 10 DKKm
revenue in 2024
-10 to -12 DKKm
EBIT in 2024
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Contents
Summary4
Management review | 8 |
Financial statements | 13 |
Statement by the Board and | 23 |
Executive Management
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In Q1, 2024, ViroGates witnessed continued lower activity among hospital customers, promoted new use cases, and continued the collaboration with
Sobi on a 510K/"De Novo" application with the US FDA
Jakob Knudsen,
CEO
Low customer activity | Promoting new use cases |
Although the quarter is slightly up in terms | Our sales and marketing teams have, throughout Q1, |
of revenue compared to the same period | 2024, worked actively to promote suPARnostic® in guiding |
last year (+14%), revenue continues to be | sepsis treatment to existing and new hospital customers |
too low. We are working hard at reigniting | and have succeeded in booking the first revenue based |
previous hospital leads with new | on this use case. We have simultaneously continued our |
application areas while also working to | efforts in gaining territory in the general health and |
get traction among health clinics, but the | longevity area, both in Denmark and the rest of Europe, |
effect on revenue is yet to be seen. | and have targeted both larger central labs and clinics. |
Close collaboration with Sobi
As previously reported, the US FDA published a post- authorization requirement regarding the Emergency Use Authorization for Sobi's Anakinra drug (Kineret®) in 2022, stating that suPAR should be made commercially available in the US. We are working closely with Sobi on the matter, and in Q1, 2024, a collective Q-Submission filing was made to the US FDA, laying the ground for a clarifying meeting in April 2024. The latest developments in the collaboration are reported in Company Announcement No. 03-2024, published April 15, 2024.
Status of suPARnostic® POC+
Upon commercial launch and the initial placement of the POC+ among customers, we received feedback that necessitated a troubleshooting process on the product. We are working closely with the manufacturer, Genspeed Biotech GmbH, on further product development. The POC+ is, therefore, not actively marketed, but we look forward to offering the product to customers once the development is finalied.
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Financial highlights
Key figures and ratios
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DKK ('000) unless otherwise stated | Q1, 2024 | Q1, 2023 | change | 2023 | DKK unless otherwise stated | Q1, 2024 | Q1, 2023 | change | 2023 | ||
Net revenue | 1,199 | 1,049 | 14% | 5,582 | Rate of return (%) | -54.20 | -47.21 | 15% | -182.00 | ||
Other income | 337 | 42 | 698% | 1,405 | Market share price, end of period | 6.50 | 47.0 | -86% | 6.02 | ||
INCOME | Gross profit/loss | 1,206 | 886 | 36% | 5.805 | Equity ratio (%) | 66% | 93% | -29% | 69% | |
Operating profit/loss | -3,710 | -3,279 | 13% | -12,565 | Employees, end of period (#) | 10 | 10 | 0% | 10 | ||
STATEMENT | |||||||||||
Financial income and expenses, net | -156 | 1 | n/a | -525 | |||||||
Profit/loss for the period before tax | -3,866 | -3,278 | 18% | -13,090 | |||||||
Profit/loss for the period | -3,596 | -2,942 | 22% | -12,096 | |||||||
BALANCE | Assets | 20,177 | 14,114 | 43% | 24,555 | ||||||
Equity | 13,411 | 13,146 | 2% | 17,007 | |||||||
SHEET | |||||||||||
Liabilities | 6,766 | 968 | 599% | 7,548 | |||||||
Cash flows from operating activities | -3,798 | -3,435 | 11% | -12,179 | |||||||
CASHFLOW | Cash flows from investment activities | 0 | 19 | - | 12 | ||||||
Cash flows from financing activities | 0 | 0 | - | 18,315 | |||||||
STATEMENT | Investment in tangible fixed assets | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | ||||||
Total cash flows | -3,798 | -3,417 | 11% | 6,149 | |||||||
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