General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses amounted to $3,562,000 for the three months ended February 28, 2021 compared to $2,570,000 for the first quarter of 2020. The increase in general and administrative expenses was mainly associated with an overall increase in business activities and increased activity in Europe.
Finance Income
Finance income, consisting of interest income, amounted to $25,000 during the first quarter of 2021 compared to $166,000 in the first quarter of last year. Lower finance income was due in large part to a decreased liquidity position and a decrease in interest rates.
Finance Costs
Finance costs for the three months ended February 28, 2021 were $1,357,000 compared to $1,318,000 for the comparable period of 2020. Finance costs in the first quarter of 2021 and 2020 included interest of $802,000 on the senior convertible notes issued in June 2018.
Finance costs also included accretion expense of $581,000, compared to $502,000 for the comparable period in 2020.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA was $(1,821,000) for the first quarter of 2021 compared to $(994,000) for the same period of 2020. See “Non-IFRS Financial Measures” below.
Net loss
Taking into account the revenue and expense variations described above, we recorded a net loss of $5,922,000 or $0.07 per share in the first three months of fiscal 2021 compared to a net loss of $4,544,000 or $0.06 per share for the same period last year.
Financial Position
We ended the first quarter of fiscal 2021 with $56,716,000 in cash, bonds and money market funds.
During the first quarter of fiscal 2021, the Company completed a public offering for the sale and issuance of 16,727,900 units of the Company for a gross cash consideration of $46,002,000 including the full exercise of the over-allotment option. Share issue costs amounted to $3,385,000 resulting in net proceeds of $42,617,000.
Each unit is comprised of one common share of the Company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant of the Company (each whole warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $3.18 until January 19, 2024.
Our current cash, bond and money market funds will be sufficient to fund the Company’s operations for the foreseeable future.
For the three-month period ended February 28, 2021, operating activities used $5,228,000 compared to $4,825,000 in the comparable period of fiscal 2020, primarily due
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Theratechnologies Inc.
2015 Peel Street, 11th Floor
Montreal, Québec H3A 1T8