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ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. (CLPT)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Tue, Mar 17, 2026

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Operator

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the call, please press 0 on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Comments made on this call may include statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of securities laws. These forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, statements related to anticipated industry trends, the company's plans, prospects, and strategies, both preliminary and projected; the total addressable markets or the market opportunity for the company's products and services; the company's expectations regarding the integration, performance, and anticipated benefits of the recent acquisition of Eris Holdings Inc., including operational efficiencies, and the impact on the company's financial condition and results of operations; the company's expectation for future development, regulatory approval timing, commercialization, and the market for cell and gene therapies, and the anticipated adoption of the company's products and services for use in the delivery of gene and cell therapies; and management's expectations, beliefs, estimates, or projections regarding future revenue and results of operations. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they were made. Actual results or trends could differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to revise forward-looking statements or for new information or future events. For more information about the company's risks and uncertainties, please refer to the company's filings with the SEC, including the company's recent filings on Form 8-K, Form 10-K, and Form 10-Q. All the company's filings may be obtained from the SEC or the company's website at www.clearpointneuro.com. I will now turn the call over to Joseph Burnett, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Joseph Burnett

Management

Thank you. As always, thank you to all of the investors, analysts, and biopharma partners listening to today's call. We remain both committed to and focused on developing a complete neuro ecosystem capable of delivering various minimally invasive treatments, including cell and gene therapies to the brain. We believe that this approach will finally unlock hope for the patients and their families who are battling these frightening neurologic disorders and who today have very few options to choose from. This is one of the largest unmet needs in all of medicine, and we at ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. believe we can play a crucial role in this exciting future. Our company ended 2025 on a high note with the strongest financial quarter of the year, a newly acquired and commercialized neurocritical care product line, and genuine excitement for what is to come in 2026. Over the past five years, we have invested more than $100,000,000 and built a strong foundation to support our team and our goals moving forward. This foundation is made up of four growing product categories, a vetted pipeline of new development programs, an expanded manufacturing footprint, a thoroughly audited quality system, a collection of global regulatory approvals, an expansive IP portfolio, an installed base of more than 150 global centers, and the cash position and investor base to execute on our strategy. Most importantly, through our unique biologics and drug delivery ecosystem, we have attracted more than 60 active biopharma partners. We are participating in more than 25 active clinical trials. We are exploring therapies for more than 15 different indications, and currently more than 10 of our biopharma partner programs have now been accepted to some form of FDA expedited review. Our foundation is set, and our company has never been in a stronger position than…

Joseph Burnett

Management

Thank you, Danilo. As you can tell from our fourth quarter results, we ended 2025 on a strong note, with terrific momentum going into 2026. Now I will just spend a few minutes digging a bit deeper into our four-pillar growth strategy. As a reminder, our four pillars consist of the following segments: number one, pre-commercial biologics and drug delivery products and services; number two, neurosurgery navigation and robotics; number three, laser therapy and access; and number four, neurocritical management. These are the four markets that we participate actively in today, and pretty much 100% of our current revenue is coming from these four markets. In 2026, we expect all four of these segments to each grow in the double digits. In the future, expect to add our fifth pillar of growth, which would be commercial cell and gene therapy delivery as our biopharma partners continue to progress through the various global regulatory processes. To be clear, our existing revenue forecast for 2026 of between $52,000,000 and $56,000,000 does not include any meaningful expected revenue from commercial drug delivery, so any change to the FDA treatment of rare diseases or approvals of these drugs outside of the United States would be upside to this forecast. First, let us start with pillar number one, pre-commercial biologics and drug delivery. The team has made substantial progress building out the ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. Advanced Laboratories facility in Torrey Pines, California, affectionately known as the CAL. In 2025, we performed our very first preclinical study for a sponsor and continue to execute additional studies already here in 2026. While construction will not be complete until our scheduled grand opening in the second half of the year, we do have the capability now to do smaller studies, and we expect to add full GLP capability…

Operator

Operator

The first question comes from the line of Frank Takkinen with Lake Street Capital Markets. Please proceed.

Frank Takkinen

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking the questions and appreciate the comprehensive update. I was hoping to start with a follow-up related to the 2026 guidance. I think you called out some of the most recent FDA communications around rare diseases, then integration efforts and priorities as a reason for tightening that guidance a little bit. Maybe talk a little bit more about each of those elements, what you may have previously incorporated into guidance and now what current assumptions incorporate into guidance. And then as it relates to that, big picture, how should we think about organic growth versus growth? Obviously, I can see growth with Eris in there, so maybe the right way is just how should we think about organic growth?

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes. Thanks for the question, Frank. So starting with the first question, which has to do with what is kind of included in the guidance and where we could kind of go from there. There are two things that I cited in my prepared remarks. One was sort of the FDA current condition around rare diseases. And the second one is really digging deeper into the Eris acquisition and figuring out if the prior priorities are the same as the current ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. ones. So on the rare disease side of things, I think as many of our investors are aware, the current positioning that the FDA has communicated to at least two of our partners this year has been that sort of a more rigorous clinical trial strategy, which historically has been incredibly difficult to do for rare diseases to execute these traditional Phase III studies. So based on that information and how it would impact our two companies, or two biopharma partners, we have effectively taken out any and all revenue associated with the commercial launch of those particular products, and also just the understanding that it might take a while to really get to the bottom, you know, if and when the FDA were to change course there. So in the event that some good news is created, in the case of uniQure or the case of REGENXBIO, it is possible we would revisit that guidance. But for now, we think the most appropriate thing to do is base our guidance on the information that we have in hand, which is the latest information that those two biopharma partners have presented publicly. So that is really where we are on the rare disease side of things. I think it is important to note, however, that the…

Frank Takkinen

Analyst

Underlying core growth. Organic growth.

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes, I would say we expect it to be pretty balanced between the two. I think I did make that comment that we expect all four of our segments—and if you want to add capital equipment as a fifth segment, I think all five of those—we plan to grow double digits in the year. Now, quarter to quarter, there might be a little bit of noise here and there, but I think the development pipeline, the fact that our commercial organization today is significantly larger than it was a year ago, I think that new clinical evidence coming out in each one of those four categories, and we are getting familiar with the ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. and Eris team starting to work together. We think both organic and inorganic growth coming from Eris could be relatively balanced, but all in that double-digit range.

Frank Takkinen

Analyst

Got it. That is helpful. And then I was hoping to ask a little bit more about the core billion-dollar market and path to $200,000,000. If you envision yourself on the other side of the integration of Eris and you are back to a point where the business is all integrated, how should we think about the durable growth rate? And what I am trying to get at is that pathway from today around that $50,000,000 to $60,000,000 revenue range to $200,000,000. How long could that take and what kind of growth rates should we expect to see over time?

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes. I mean, I think if we generally can grow in that 15% to 20%, maybe even north of 20% range for the foreseeable future, that assumes that we are taking 1.5% to 2% share pretty much each year across all four of those. And again, there could be differences that take place in each one of those markets. You know, for example, when we get our GLP capability for the CAL facility, and we earn our very first large GLP study on behalf of one of our biopharma partners, a single study could be in that $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 range. So we could see a large bump in any given year based on our capability being ready and then a biopharma company hiring us to do that work for them. So we could have a leap one year to the next in the biologics and drug delivery side. You know, similarly, on the EarFlo technology, there is a lot of clinical evidence being supported. There is a randomized clinical trial actually supported by Eris called the ARCH trial where we expect the data readout at some point later this year. So that is a very, very large market where EarFlo is a relatively new technology, where if we had clinical evidence that showed not only patient improvement but also some economic benefits for a hospital where a patient leaves the hospital sooner or has less complications during the procedure itself, those are things that could really swing market share pretty quickly because this is not a high intensive training product. This is one where we can ship a pump into that hospital the next day and we can be training residents 24 hours a day to get them familiar with the technology. So, where we cannot get to the point where we can outline exactly which one of those will be the primary driver any given year—other than this year, them all growing double digits—we do feel comfortable on that 15%, certainly 15%, maybe even 20% from an organic standpoint, until we get to that $200,000,000 number.

Frank Takkinen

Analyst

Helpful. And then last one, Joe, we get a lot of questions on just the attachment to uniQure and obviously the volatility around FDA's communication there. The question I wanted to ask was really focusing on the diversified offering. You have got BlueRock and Neurona's assets coming as the next most likely near-term, big market opportunities that should really exemplify the value of a diversified offering. Maybe just talk a little bit more about those assets, when they could be on the market, and then coming back to just the value of having so many partners in expedited review and kind of deemphasizing the attachment on just one singular asset and what the model looks like over time.

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes. So, Frank, I do not want to comment on the timing of our partner programs. They give their updates when they prefer to. So I am just going to stick to what they have said. If you go to the websites of BlueRock, Neurona, some of these other companies as well, I think they shy away from giving actual timing updates and rather simply provide the status of the current program and what phase of clinical trial they are in. As I mentioned a second ago, we have a new investor deck that is just going live today, which I think puts some of that diversity and some of that staging into language that I think our biotech investors will better understand to show the scale of how many programs that we are in and then how many are in preclinical versus Phase I/II versus Phase III and even in the case of PTC when that is commercialized. So I would encourage you to take a look through that, and I think it will provide some feedback there as to where we are. The other thing I would bring up, however, is that even these Phase III trials can provide meaningful revenue to ClearPoint Neuro, Inc. So a typical Phase III study that we are seeing or we are participating in could be anywhere from 60 to 120 patients that are studied, sometimes randomized two-to-one in the test arm versus the control arm. A 120 patients times five, 10, 15 studies that could be going on at the same time could again be a very meaningful volume, maybe even a thousand patients a year, that would just be still in this clinical trial phase. So again, we do not count that in that Phase Two opportunity of commercial drug delivery, but it is supporting the growth, in addition to the CAL, of that pre-commercial biologics line. And I think as I mentioned in the remarks, Q4 was the largest volume we ever saw of drug delivery. So patients are raising their hand and enrolling in these trials, and we expect many more to start here in 2026.

Frank Takkinen

Analyst

Very helpful. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from the line of Anderson Schock with B. Riley Securities. Please proceed.

Anderson Schock

Analyst · B. Riley Securities. Please proceed.

So first, you called out more than 10 partners in expedited review pathways now, so implying at least one new partner in these pathways since the last call. Could you provide any more color on the indication and population size for this new partner or partners?

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes. In some cases, it has been a new indication. In some cases, it is redundant in an existing indication. So the two largest ones that are under expedited review today would be Parkinson's disease and drug-resistant epilepsy, the MTLE. So those are the two that are, I think, the largest existing populations. The ones in addition to that are anything from glioma to Friedreich's ataxia to Huntington's disease with uniQure, as mentioned before, to a couple other rare genetic disorders as well. So I think there are eight total indications and maybe 13 partners that are under FDA expedited review. So, again, we have a little bit of overlap—I think it is four or five in Parkinson's alone, for example. So it is nice because it gives us much higher confidence when you look at a disease state like Parkinson's with over a million patients in the United States that are really waiting for a superior treatment. We have five, maybe six partners that are already under expedited review. And maybe that treatment is not that far away, but just as importantly, we have got four, five, maybe six of these shots on goal that are under expedited review. Again, maybe every one of them does not make it all the way through the regulatory gauntlet, but if one, two, three of them get approved, we could be very successful there.

Anderson Schock

Analyst · B. Riley Securities. Please proceed.

Okay. Got it. Thank you. And then you mentioned the first tumor clinical data for PRISM publishing this year, potentially expanding beyond functional neurosurgery and into neuro-oncology. How should we think of the timeline for this expansion in the TAM in neuro-oncology versus PRISM's current addressable market?

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes. I would say it is really just a strength of our commercial team and how we are growing and evolving as well. If you think about the laser therapy market, it has historically been split between epilepsy and tumor, with functional neurosurgeons maybe doing the epilepsy procedures and neuro-oncologists doing the tumor procedures. Now, we are participating in tumor procedures today, but because of our navigation history, because of our biopharma partnerships, we have always been a little bit heavily weighted towards functional neurosurgery and movement disorders. So having a publication that is looking directly at our laser performance in a group of very sick tumor patients, I think, puts us in a situation where we can look customers in the eye and say yes, we are taking this very, very seriously, and we are going to be participating in multiple clinical trials moving forward, even if it is a customer base that we have not had quite the same experience as we have with functional.

Anderson Schock

Analyst · B. Riley Securities. Please proceed.

Okay, got it. Thank you for taking our questions.

Joseph Burnett

Management

Yes. Thanks, Anderson.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the call back over to Joseph Burnett for closing remarks.

Joseph Burnett

Management

Well, thanks again for joining our call today. Our team feels like we have built an incredible foundation which will now serve as the launch pads for our two parallel strategies. We are on the path to helping treat tens of thousands of patients a year who suffer from many of the most frightening neurological diseases imaginable. Supporting this vision and supporting us on the road ahead.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.