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Financial report summary
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Andeavor • Amgen • Incyte • Curis • Novartis • Sanofi • MacroGenics • GSK • Five Prime Therapeutics • XencorRisks
- Our failure to complete the Merger in a timely manner or at all could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and stock price.
- Our ability to complete the Offer and the Merger is subject to certain closing conditions that could adversely affect us or cause the Merger to be abandoned.
- The Merger Agreement contains provisions that could discourage a potential competing acquirer of the Company or could result in a competing acquisition proposal being at a lower price than it might otherwise be.
- While the Offer and the Merger are pending, we are subject to contractual restrictions and other risks and uncertainties that could disrupt our business, divert management’s attention and adversely affect our ongoing business, results of operations, and financial condition.
- Our executive officers and directors may have interests in the Offer and the Merger that are different from, or in addition to, those of our stockholders generally.
- Legal or regulatory proceedings may arise in connection with the Merger, which could be costly, prevent the consummation of the Merger, divert management’s attention, and otherwise harm our business.
- As a result of the pending Merger, our current and prospective employees could experience uncertainty about their future with us or the surviving company. As a result, key employees may depart because of issues relating to such uncertainty or a desire not to remain with Vertex following the completion of the Merger.
- Our approach to the discovery and development of innovative therapeutic treatments based on our technology is unproven and may not result in marketable products.
- The market may not be receptive to our therapeutic products based on a novel therapeutic modality, and we may not generate any future revenue from the sale or licensing of therapeutic products.
- Our therapeutic candidates are in early stages of development and may fail in development or suffer delays that materially and adversely affect their commercial viability.
- Product development involves a lengthy and expensive process with an uncertain outcome, and results of earlier preclinical and clinical trials may not be predictive of future clinical trial results.
- If we encounter delays or difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials and/or retention of patients in clinical trials, our clinical development activities could be delayed or otherwise adversely affected.
- Our product candidates may cause undesirable side effects or have other properties that could halt their clinical development, prevent their regulatory approval, require expansion of the trial size, limit their commercial potential, or result in significant negative consequences.
- We face competition from entities that have developed or may develop therapeutic candidates for our target disease indications, including companies developing novel treatments and technology platforms based on modalities and technology similar to ours.
- We believe our development programs and platform have a particular mechanism of action, but this mechanism of action has not been proven conclusively.
- Development of product candidates in combination with other therapies could expose us to additional risks.
- We face risks related to pandemics, other health epidemics and outbreaks, which could significantly disrupt our operations and/or business, including our clinical trials.
- Any inability to present our data in scientific journals or at scientific conferences could adversely impact our business and stock price.
- Our business may be affected by adverse scientific publications or editorial or discussant opinions.
- To date, our revenue has been primarily derived from our collaboration agreements, and our success will be dependent, in part, on our collaborators’ efforts to develop our therapeutic candidates.
- If third parties on which we depend to conduct our clinical or preclinical studies, or any future clinical trials, do not perform
- as expected, fail to satisfy regulatory or legal requirements, or miss expected deadlines, our development program could be delayed, which may result in materially adverse effects on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.
- Because we rely on third-party manufacturing and supply partners, our supply of clinical trial materials may become limited or interrupted or may not be of satisfactory quantity or quality, and our dependence on these third parties may impair the advancement of our research and development programs.
- We may not successfully engage in strategic transactions, including any additional collaborations we seek, which could adversely affect our ability to develop and commercialize therapeutic candidates, impact our cash position, increase our
- expenses, and present significant distractions to our management.
- If any of our therapeutic candidates are approved for marketing and commercialization and we are unable to develop sales, marketing and distribution capabilities on our own or enter into agreements with third parties to perform these functions on acceptable terms, we may be unable to successfully commercialize any such future products.
- If we fail to comply with U.S. and foreign regulatory requirements, regulatory authorities could limit or withdraw any marketing or commercialization approvals we may receive and subject us to other penalties that could materially harm our business.
- Imposed price controls may adversely affect our future profitability.
- Our business may become subject to economic, political, regulatory and other risks associated with international operations.
- We will need to raise substantial additional funds to advance development of our therapeutic candidates, and we cannot guarantee we will have sufficient funds available in the future to develop and commercialize our current or future therapeutic candidates.
- We are an early stage biopharmaceutical company with a history of losses, we expect to continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future, we may never achieve or maintain profitability, and we have a limited operating history that may make it difficult for investors to evaluate the potential success of our business.
- Interim, preliminary, or topline data from our clinical trials that we announce or publish from time to time may change as more patient data become available and are subject to audit and verification procedures that could result in material changes in the final data.
- Any inability to attract and retain qualified key management and technical personnel would impair our ability to implement our business plan.
- As our therapeutic candidates advance into clinical trials, we may experience difficulties in managing our growth and expanding our operations.
- Our business entails a significant risk of product liability and our inability to obtain sufficient insurance coverage could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations, or prospects.
- Our employees may engage in misconduct or other improper activities, including noncompliance with regulatory standards and requirements, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.
- Our business involves the use of hazardous materials and we and our third-party manufacturers must comply with environmental laws and regulations, which may be expensive and restrict how we conduct business.
- Compliance with governmental regulations regarding the treatment of animals used in research could increase our operating costs, which would adversely affect the commercialization of our technology.
- Our current operations are concentrated in one location and any events affecting this location may have material adverse consequences.
- Our business may be affected by litigation and government investigations.
- The investment of our cash and cash equivalents in fixed income and other investments is subject to risks which may cause losses and affect the liquidity of these investments.
- Adverse events or perceptions affecting the financial services industry could adversely affect our operating results, financial condition and prospects.
- Our business may be materially affected by changes to fiscal and tax policies. Negative or unexpected tax consequences could adversely affect our results of operations.
- Our net operating loss carryforwards and certain other tax attributes may be subject to limitations.
- Provisions of debt instruments may restrict our ability to pursue our business strategies.
- Our computer systems, or those of any of our CROs, manufacturers, other contractors or consultants or potential future collaborators, may fail or suffer security or data privacy breaches or incidents or other unauthorized or improper access to, use of, or destruction of our proprietary or confidential data, employee data, or personal data, which could result in additional costs, loss of revenue, significant liabilities, harm to our brand and material disruption of our operations.
- Our information technology systems could face serious disruptions adversely affecting our business.
- If we are not able to obtain and enforce patent protection for our technology, including therapeutic candidates, therapeutic products, and platform technology, development of our therapeutic candidates and platform, and commercialization of our therapeutic products may be materially and adversely affected.
- We may license patent rights from third-party owners or licensors. If such owners or licensors do not properly or successfully obtain, maintain or enforce the patents underlying such licenses, or if they retain or license to others any competing rights, our competitive position and business prospects may be materially and adversely affected.
- Patent terms may be inadequate to protect our competitive position on our platform technology and therapeutic candidates and products for an adequate amount of time.
- We may be unable to protect our patent intellectual property rights throughout the world.
- We or our licensors, collaborators, or any future strategic partners may become subject to third-party claims or litigation alleging infringement of patents or other proprietary rights or seeking to invalidate patents or other proprietary rights, and we may need to resort to litigation to protect or enforce our patents or other proprietary rights, all of which could be costly, time consuming, delay or prevent the development of our therapeutic candidates and commercialization of our therapeutic products, or put our patents and other proprietary rights at risk.
- If we do not obtain patent term extension and data exclusivity for any therapeutic candidate or product we may develop, our business may be materially harmed.
- If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our trade secrets, our business and competitive position would be harmed.
- We may be in the future subject to claims we or our employees or consultants have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of our employees’ or consultants’ former employers or their clients. These claims may be costly to defend and if we do not successfully do so, we may be required to pay monetary damages, may be prohibited from using some of our research and development and may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel.
- If our trademarks and trade names are not adequately protected, then we may not be able to build name recognition in our markets of interest and our business may be materially and adversely affected.
- Third parties may independently develop similar or superior technology.
- If we fail to comply with our obligations under any license, collaboration, or other agreements, we may be required to pay damages and could lose intellectual property rights necessary for developing and protecting our technology, including our platform technology, therapeutic candidates, and therapeutic products, or we could lose certain rights to grant sublicenses, either of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and business prospects.
- Breaches of our internal computer systems, or those of our contractors, vendors, or consultants, may place our patents or proprietary rights at risk.
- We may be unable to obtain U.S. or foreign regulatory approval and, as a result, may be unable to commercialize our therapeutic candidates.
- If we fail to obtain orphan drug designation or obtain or maintain orphan drug exclusivity for certain of our products, our competitors may sell products to treat the same conditions and our revenue may be reduced.
- If we or our existing or future collaborators, manufacturers, or service providers fail to comply with healthcare laws and regulations, we or such other parties could be subject to enforcement actions, which could adversely affect our ability to develop, market, and sell our therapeutics and may harm our reputation.
- Enacted and future legislation may increase the difficulty and cost for us to obtain or maintain marketing approval of our therapeutic candidates.
- Any therapeutics we develop may become subject to unfavorable pricing regulations, third-party coverage and reimbursement practices, or healthcare reform initiatives, thereby harming our business.
- The healthcare industry is heavily regulated in the U.S. at the federal, state, and local levels and in other jurisdictions in which we may conduct trials or other activities, and our failure to comply with applicable requirements may subject us to penalties and negatively affect our financial condition.
- Data collection is governed by restrictive regulations governing the use, processing and cross-border transfer of personal information, and actual or perceived failures to comply with applicable data protection, privacy and security laws, regulations, standards and other requirements could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
- Our ability to obtain services, reimbursement, or funding from the federal government may be impacted by possible reductions in federal spending.
- Disruptions at the FDA, the SEC and other government agencies caused by funding shortages or global health concerns could hinder their ability to hire and retain key leadership and other personnel, or otherwise prevent new or modified products from being developed, approved or commercialized in a timely manner or at all, or otherwise prevent those agencies from performing normal business functions on which the operation of our business may rely, which could negatively impact our business.
- If any of our therapeutic candidates receives marketing approval and we or others later identify undesirable side effects caused by the therapeutic product, our ability to market and derive revenue from the therapeutic products could be compromised.
- Our therapeutic candidates for which we intend to seek approval as biologic products may face competition sooner than anticipated.
- Our stock price may be volatile, and an active, liquid, and orderly trading market may not be maintained for our common stock. As a result, stockholders may not be able to resell shares at or above their purchase price.
- Our officers and directors, and their respective affiliates, have significant influence over our business affairs and may make business decisions with which stockholders disagree and which may adversely affect the value of their investment.
- Future sales, or the perception of future sales, of a substantial amount of our common stock could depress the trading price of our common stock.
- We have broad discretion over the use of the proceeds to us from our financing activities and may apply the proceeds to uses that do not improve our operating results or the value of your securities.
- Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware or Washington law could discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management and may affect the trading price of our common stock.
- Claims for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of available cash.
- Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws designate the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, employees or agents.
- We do not expect to pay any dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future.
- The Nasdaq Global Market may delist our common stock from its exchange, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.
- We are a smaller reporting company, and any decision on our part to comply only with reduced reporting and disclosure requirements applicable to such companies could make our common stock less attractive to investors.
- If we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls, our ability to produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis could be impaired.
- Our disclosure controls and procedures may not prevent or detect all errors or acts of fraud.
- We will continue to incur costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulations affecting public companies.
- Changes in accounting rules and regulations, or interpretations thereof, could result in unfavorable accounting charges or require us to change our compensation policies.
- Environmental, social and governance matters may impact our business and reputation.
- If equity research analysts do not publish research or reports, or publish unfavorable research or reports, about us, our business or our market, our stock price and trading volume could decline.
Management Discussion
- The $2.4 million, or 25%, decrease in collaboration revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the same period in 2023 relates primarily to our Amgen Agreement. Revenue recognized under the Amgen Agreement decreased by $1.8 million, due to work progressing simultaneously during the 2023 period on our Second Research Program, which was completed in 2023, as well as on our First Research Program, which as of March 31, 2024, was also nearing completion. AbbVie revenue decreased by $0.2 million primarily due to lower contributed employee hours. All services related to our Adaptimmune collaboration were completed by June 2023.
- Our direct research and development expenses consist primarily of expenses incurred pursuant to agreements with third-party manufacturing organizations for our product candidates, contract research organizations, or CROs, clinical trial sites, collaborators, and consultants. Other direct costs included direct research and development costs incurred before a selected product candidate begins clinical trials.
- We use our employee and infrastructure resources across multiple research and development programs that we are advancing in parallel, and therefore do not allocate salaries, stock-based compensation, employee benefit expenses or other indirect costs related to our research and development to specific product candidates. These expenses are included in indirect research and development expense by type in the table below. Our research and development expenses are summarized as follows (in thousands):