Lauren Silvernail
Analyst · SVB Leerink. Your line is open
Thank you, David, and good afternoon, everyone. At the beginning of 2021, we embarked on a two-pronged strategy to strengthen our balance sheet and resolve all legal matters related to the ITC case. First, we eliminated a total of $127 million of debt and milestone obligations. In January, we paid off $76 million in senior debt with Oxford Finance. In March, we extinguished $41 million of convertible debt when Daewoong agreed to an early conversion into Evolus common shares and the elimination of $10.5 million of current and potential future milestone payments. In addition, Daewoong is providing us with $25.5 million as a cash infusion, which will be called out as a GAAP to non-GAAP adjustment to operating expenses in the first quarter of 2021. All combined, the financial restructuring plan we successfully completed this quarter has resulted in a stronger balance sheet with a pro forma cash position at December 31, 2020, of $57 million. Second, we resolved all legal matters related to the ITC case with all parties, Medytox, Allergan, and Daewoong. What this means to us financially is we will pay $35 million over two years, which is fully offset by the Daewoong cash payment to us and the elimination of future milestones. With regard to royalties, there are two time periods. The first time period is the 21-month period from mid-December 2020 through mid-September 2022. During this time, Evolus will pay $1 amount per vial sold in the United States. During the same 21-month period, Evolus will also pay a low double-digit royalty on international sales. The impact of which is expected to be nominal through September 2022. The second time period is the 10-year period beginning mid-September 2022. During this time, Evolus will pay a mid single-digit royalty on our global net sales, which is expected to be offset by a nominal U.S. price increase. As such, the settlement economics are not expected to materially impact gross margin after September 2022, which is now only about 17 months away. The settlement agreements with all three parties result in an expected 2021 corporate gross margin percentage between 50% and 55%, excluding the first quarter, where we have $25.5 million, the cash infusion from Daewoong, which will be booked into operating expense. This temporary gross margin profile is expected to have partially no ability, no impact on our ability to drive continued growth of Jeuveau while maintaining our competitive pricing. Transitioning to the strong 2020 performance David discussed, our fourth quarter 2020 net revenue of $20.6 million was our highest quarterly Jeuveau net revenue to-date. Q4 net revenue increased 16% sequentially over Q3 2020. As a reminder, we had minimal sales in the last two weeks of Q4, as we were selling under a bond beginning mid-December 2020. Turning to the first quarter of 2021, we recorded minimal net revenue through mid-February as we continue to sell under a bond. As you model your first quarter revenue, you should assume revenue for only half of the first quarter. We expect Q2 2021 to be our strongest net revenue quarter since launch. As it relates to our international business, we expect nominal 2021 revenue from Canada and expect European sales to begin in 2022. Moving down the P&L, our fourth quarter 2020 gross margin percentage was 64.6%. Consistent with commentary provided on prior calls, our gross margin will depend on sales levels, promotional activity and other factors. Our fourth quarter 2020 non-GAAP loss from operations were $12.2 million. Of note, we improved our 2020 full year non-GAAP loss from operations to $54 million by 33% compared to 2019. Our pro forma cash at year end 2020 was $57 million, representing December 31, 2020 cash of $107.6 million plus $25.5 million of cash being provided by Daewoong, less $76.4 million for the Oxford Finance debt payoff earlier this year. Cash burn during the fourth quarter was only $3 million due to favorable changes in working capital, including high revenue collections and no cash payments for inventory during the quarter. We expect our cash burn will be higher in Q1 2020 since – excuse me, higher in Q1 2021 than Q4 2020. As a result of the recent settlement agreements, we have 43.7 million shares of common stock outstanding. With that, I'll turn the call back to David.