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Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CPIX)

Q2 2020 Earnings Call· Tue, Aug 11, 2020

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Operator

Operator

Thanks to everyone participating on today’s call as Cumberland Pharmaceuticals provides Second Quarter 2020 Financial Report and Company Update. Please note that this call is being recorded and will be archived on Cumberland's website for one week from today’s date. I would now like to introduce Erin Gull, who handles Corporate Relations for Cumberland. Erin?

Erin Gull

Management

Good afternoon, and I hope everyone is safe and well. Earlier today, we issued a press release containing the company's financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. A copy of that release which also includes the corporate update and series of financial tables for the period can be found on our website at www.cumberlandpharma.com. Please note that today's discussion may include forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Because any such statements reflect the company’s current views and expectations concerning future events, they may involve risks and uncertainties. Additionally, there are many factors that could affect the company’s future results, including but not limited to natural disasters, public health epidemics, economic downturns and other events beyond our control. Those issues are described under the caption Risk Factors in our Form 10-K and any updates we file with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements made during today’s call are also qualified by those risk factors. And despite our best efforts, actual results could differ materially from our expectations. And the information shared on the call would be considered -- should be considered current as of today only. Please remember that the company does not assume responsibility to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information or due to future developments. During today’s call, we will be referring to several of our marketed brands. And full prescribing and safety information for those brands can be found through the links to each individual product websites located on our corporate site at cumberlandpharma.com. Also today we will provide some non-GAAP financial measures with respect to our performance. An explanation and reconciliation to GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release and its financial tables. Also with us on the call today are A. J. Kazimi, Cumberland’s Chief Executive Officer; Marty Cearnal, our Chief Commercial Officer; and Michael Bonner, our Chief Financial Officer. On the call today, we'll start with an overview of our progress during the second quarter and we'll follow with the discussion of our commercial activities. We'll then review our financial results and finish with the closing remarks before opening the call to any questions you may have. I'll now like to turn the call over to A. J. to begin our corporate update and discussion of the company’s performance.

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Thanks, Erin. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining us. I hope you and your families are doing well during these difficult times and we had hoped by now for significant relief from the impact of the novel Coronavirus, which unfortunately continues to affect our health care system, the economy, employment and all our daily lives. Our thoughts go out to all those who are suffering, especially those who have a resulting life-threatening conditions, as well as those who have lost their jobs or their businesses. But I'd also like to acknowledge and thank the team here for their continued dedication and valuable contributions and keeping our company growing during these unprecedented times. I'm pleased to report that our facilities have remained open and we continue to operate our business, and we have not had any employee furloughs. We're also working to maintain our ongoing compliance with the many laws and regulations that we fall under as a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Cumberland has faced the same headwinds affecting other companies that rely on hospital admissions and patient visits to drive their revenue. And the second quarter, months of April and May this year were particularly difficult as less patients -- patients sought care and our access to medical facilities was substantially limited. Several of our brands were negatively impacted by the lockdowns, the postponement of a physician office visits and the postponement of elective procedures. However, we're very fortunate to have a diversified product portfolio with other brands delivering the strong performance. And during the quarter, there was also an increased contribution from our international business as well. As a result, our total revenues for the second quarter were $9.6 million, up 15% over the first quarter of this year and also up 2% over the prior year…

Marty Cearnal

Management

Thanks, A.J. As A.J mentioned, the second quarter was a difficult one in terms of access to medical facilities. We also noted a steep decline in patient visits to doctor's offices and in the number of elective surgeries, especially in the first two months of the quarter. We believe these changes in healthcare were due to the stay-at-home orders across the country, as well as patient concerns about visiting facilities, where they could be exposed to infection. During the second quarter, we made the decision to keep our commercial organization intact. Many of our employees provide the primary source of financial support for their families. That turned out to be a good decision as our revenue was up both sequentially in a quarter, but also year-over-year. For those not familiar with the company, we have an experienced sales organization with significant tenure at Cumberland and vast industry experience. Our brands are promotion sensitive and we wanted to ensure that we had an established trained sales organization ready to support our products as the country reopened. During the quarter, our commercial organization continued to remain engaged in communication with healthcare professionals to support the patients who can benefit from our medicines. However, we shifted much of their activities from personal visits to telephonic and electronic communication. We also established new procedures to document and monitor their productivity. The results indicated a resourceful and steadfast effort to maintain awareness of the benefit and the use of our brands. And we appreciate those fine efforts. We supplemented these national field efforts with an enhanced internal sales initiative, reaching out to hospitals and physician offices from our headquarters. We also launched a national digital media activity and a series of virtual medical meetings. We believe that all of these efforts represented an innovative and…

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Thanks, Marty. Now I'd like to ask our Chief Financial Officer, Michael Bonner for the financial review. Michael?

Michael Bonner

Management

Thank you, A.J. For the three months ended June 30, 2020 net revenues from ongoing operations were $9.6 million. We also recorded an additional $750,000 in discontinued operations during the quarter as conservation for the return of rights to two products that we no longer feature. The second quarter revenues for continued operations, we're up 15% over the first quarter and up 2% over the $9.4 million in the prior year period. Net revenues by product for the second quarter were led by $3.5 million for Kristalose, $3.3 million for Vibativ and also included $1.2 million for Caldolor and $0.6 million for Acetadote. We had particularly strong international orders in the quarter. However, it's important to note that those orders do tend to be more episodic in nature and are better viewed over time to understand their impact on our business. Total operating expenses for the quarter were $11.2 million compared to $10.8 million for the prior year period. The main driver of this change was the increase in cost of goods sold associated with the growth in sales of Vibativ. Recall that significant Vibativ inventory, was included in the brands acquisition price. The cost of goods sold were stepped up over actual manufacturing costs and is also a non-cash item. These and other non-cash expenses such as amortization and stock compensation are added back in our calculation of adjusted earnings. We use adjusted earnings to manage our business, and we believe that it is an important metric for understanding our business. The resulting adjusted earnings for the second quarter were $1.2 million or $0.08 per share, a significant increase over the $0.8 million or $0.05 per share during the same period last year. Year-to-date, cash flow from operations was $3.7 million through the second quarter of 2020, which is…

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Thank you, Michael. Well, as you've heard today, our second quarter was very illustrative of our strategy and our organization. Despite being faced with numerous challenges, we rapidly adjusted to the changing landscape as our commercial team applied creative ways to support our brands and interact with our customers. We also saw the benefits of our diversified portfolio and diversified customer base, and we'll continue that diversification strategy as we look to expand our product line, both through acquisitions, as well as internal development. Our key catalyst for 2020 remained the same. Contributions from the Vibativ acquisition, growth of our next generation catalog product, and the pending launch of our new RediTrex product line. As you know, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting how many businesses are run here in 2020, and we are taking measures to lessen its impact on us as much as possible. We're focused on protecting our employees safety and wellbeing, while also staying open for business to supply our medicines for the patients who need them. And we will continue to utilize these successful practices, while managing our operations with financial discipline and working to maintain a favorable financial position. And I'm particularly pleased that the organization was able to remain intact during such trying times, thanks in part to the assistance and the payroll protection program. Additionally, we are fortunate to have a robust pipeline of promising candidates in Phase 2 clinical trials. Success in any of those programs can have a significant impact on our business and help take our company to a new level. And finally, I just like to once again, acknowledge and thank our outstanding team for their dedication and result during these trying times. Their efforts have enabled us to continue on our mission of improving patient care to the delivery of high quality pharmaceutical products. So with that review and update, now let's open the call to any questions you may have. Operator please proceed.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Andrew D'Silva with B. Riley FBR. Please ask your question.

Andrew D'Silva

Analyst

Hey. Great. Thank you very much. Good to hear everyone's sounds healthy. Just a few quick questions for me. Just out of curiosity, so I can dial in my model, what was other revenue for the quarter, and does that line include international sales or is it just CET related revenue right now?

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Michael, do you want to take that one, please.

Michael Bonner

Management

Yes. I'll give you a background. It is primarily CET. It also reflects a payment that we received from Nordic as well during this quarter.

Andrew D'Silva

Analyst

And was -- what was the amount?

Michael Bonner

Management

The amount was 500,000 for Nordic as other revenue.

Andrew D'Silva

Analyst

Oh, I meant for the other -- just the other revenue total line, was it around $700,000, around $800,000?

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Yes. So it was right at $900,000 for other revenue. $500,000 of it was Nordic payments for RediTrex, and the remainder was CET and grant related funding.

Andrew D'Silva

Analyst

Perfect. Thank you very much. And then, yes, it's a good transition as it relates to some of your more recently approved offerings. Can you help me better time the RediTrex launch, and then also, can you give us a sense of what percent of Caldor sales are the ready to use version versus the original formulation?

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Well, I'll start by commenting on the timing of the RediTrex launch. We're looking later this year to be in a position to make that brand available. It really is dependent upon the arrival of the launch supplies. And so we're thinking in terms of late Q3, early Q4 windows are expected to show up. Marty, can you talk about the breakdown of the Caldor ready to use versus the old presentation.

Marty Cearnal

Management

Sure. Andy the current breakout is approaching 60% for the next generation product; and 40% for the original vial presentation. As you might expect overall development has been affected by the postponement of elective surgeries, but the uptake of the next generation product as a percentage of total businesses is growing each month.

Andrew D'Silva

Analyst

Okay. Okay. That's good to hear. And just as it relates to your business, is it fair to assume the trough as it relates to the pandemic already passed nothing in the first half of the second quarter, or are you seeing a lingering low still take place? And then as it relates to the cadence with COVID-19, you mentioned utilizing like tele rep protocols, how is that from a decision maker engagement standpoint, working out for you, are you able to get in contact with decision makers efficiently or do you assume, like down the road, you'd still need to eventually gravitate to it to actually going back in the field?

A. J. Kazimi

Management

So I'll and then I'll ask Marty to help. Regarding the continued impact of COVID-19, as I mentioned, we had hoped by now that we had seen the end of the pandemic, but unfortunately that's not been the case and it is -- it continues to impact our business in the third quarter. And that's tied directly to lack of a patient visits to hospitals on the one hand for things like elective surgery, but also you know, issues with patients not wanting to go to visit doctors' offices concerned that they might get infected. So there is an ongoing impact from Q2, into Q3, but as you pointed out we may have hit a low point in April and May. Marty, can you talk a little bit about what we're doing out there in the field, in response to the second part of Andy's question?

Marty Cearnal

Management

Certainly. We have learned a bit during this period, and I mean, the two key important points. There's nothing that is more powerful than face-to-face contact with physicians and other key decision makers. So as the country reopens, we'll continue to expand our face-to-face contact, but we've also learned that these other methods that we've been using as a replacement do have a role when they can help us build frequency of contact and provide an additional way to reach out to physicians and to provide useful information across the whole spectrum of health care providers. So we'll expand our activities in that area in the future as well.

Andrew D'Silva

Analyst

All right, great. That's everything for me. I'll take the rest of my questions offline. Best of luck going forward this year.

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions]

A. J. Kazimi

Management

Okay. Well, thank you everyone for joining our call today. As I mentioned in the past, we understand that many of you prefer a private discussion with management. And if so, please just reach out to Erin Gull here, and she can help schedule such a call. We appreciate your time today and your interest in Cumberland. And we do look forward to providing another update at the end of the third quarter -- after the end of the third quarter. Thank you and goodbye.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our conference for today. If you would like to listen to a replay of today's conference, please dial 855-859-2056 using the access code 2247089. Alternatively, a replay of the webcast will be available on the company's website. I would like to take -- I would like to thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.