Paul K. Wotton
Analyst · Louise Chen with Guggenheim Securities
Thanks, Paul. Our first quarter financial and operating results were as follows: Total revenues were $5.2 million and $4.5 million for the 3 months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, an increase of 15%. Product sales were $1.8 million and $2.5 million for the 3 months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013. In the first quarters of 2014 and 2013, sales of our reusable needle-free injectable devices and disposable components were $1.2 million and $1.1 million, and were generated primarily from sales to Ferring and Teva. Products sales in the first quarter of 2014 also included $300,000 in sales of pre-commercial pen injector devices to Teva. Additionally, in the 3 months ended March 31, 2014, the company shipped $2.7 million of OTREXUP to wholesalers and recognized net product sales of $200,000 from sales of OTREXUP based on prescriptions dispensed. The OTREXUP revenue recognized is net of estimated wholesaler discounts, prompt pay discounts, and patient discount programs. We are 12 weeks into the launch of OTREXUP and the prescription data for our new product such as OTREXUP is not always consistent with respect to the length of each prescription written in the refill data. Data suggest that some rheumatologists are writing a prescription for 1 month with no refills, and then asking the patient about their experience before writing the next perception. The next prescription could either be for the same dose with a refill or the rheumatologists may choose to titrate off to the next dose with no refills. Either way, this would count as a new prescription and not as a refill. So based on what we've seen to date with new patient starts, it's still too early to project refills based on current prescribing trends. What I can tell you is that the average length of new prescriptions has progressed beyond 28 days, suggesting rheumatologists are writing multiple month prescriptions. We now have the first 8 weeks of data, and we are analyzing not only high prescribers, but prescribing trends as well. Another point to note is that not all OTREXUP sales will be captured by a prescription. OTREXUP has been dispensed by specialty pharmacies, NVA, which do not typically show up as a script. Currently, basing on our OTREXUP product revenue and prescription is likely underreporting our revenue until we start to book revenues based on sales to distributors. This will likely happen when the shipments to distributors is more aligned with the level of prescription sales value, which I estimate will be towards the end of 2014. Product sales in the first quarter of 2013 include a $600,000 of initial sales of Teva over VIBEX auto-injector for Teva's generic epinephrine auto-injector product, and included $500,000 of sales to our top -- for our topical oxybutynin gel 3% product to Actavis in connection with their marketing of Gelnique 3%. Development revenues were $1.4 million and $800,000 for the 3 months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013. The development revenue in the first quarter each year was primarily related to auto injector and pen injector development work for Teva. As you can see based on the increase in development revenue year-over-year, the Teva programs continue to progress. We are now in the commercial stools -- commercial tooling stage for all 3 development programs. We have successfully made pre-commercial devices for the epi program, and are now gearing up for the pre-commercial phase of the 2 undisclosed pen programs. On a different front, our partner, Pfizer, has informed us that the first of 2 Phase III studies on the undisclosed OCC product has completed enrollment and should finish in Q3. And the second Phase III study is expected to be done by late Q4 2014 or early Q1 2015. Licensing revenue was $900,000 and $100,000 for the 3 months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013. The licensing revenue in the first quarter of 2014 were primarily due to revenue recognized in connection with our license and promotion agreement with LEO pharma executed in November 2013. Revenue from royalties was $1 million and $1.2 million for the 3 months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013. We received royalties from Teva and Ferring related to our needle-free injected device sales and/or hGH sales, from Meda Pharma on sales of Elestrin and from Actavis on sales of Gelnique 3%. Total gross profit increased in the first quarter of 2014 to $4 million from $2.5 million in 2013, an increase of 61%. The increase in the quarter was primarily related to license revenue recognized under the license and promotion agreement with LEO pharma and development revenue from Teva. Total operating expenses were $12.8 million and $5.9 million for the first quarters of 2014 and 2013. The increases was primarily due to the increased investment in sales and marketing activities of $5.5 million in connection with the launch of OTREXUP, along with an increase in expenses related to the completed Phase II study of our VIBEX QS T for testosterone replacement therapy of approximately $1.3 million. Net loss was approximately $8.8 million and $3.4 million for the first quarters of 2014 and 2013, respectively, and net loss per share was $0.07 and $0.03 in the first quarters of '14 and '13. At March 31, 2014, Antares had approximately $63.1 million in cash and investments compared to approximately $69.1 million at December 31, 2013. And then finally, as I mentioned in our year-end earnings call, until we can establish prescription trends and correlate shipments from distribution centers to pharmacies, and how they much up with prescription data, we will be booking quarterly revenues based on prescription data that we receive on a monthly basis. And as you can see from today's press release, the $200,000 we recorded in sales based on prescriptions dispensed is much less than the $2.7 million of OTREXUP we shipped to wholesalers. As we said in the past, we hope that the June, July time frame will start to give us a meaningful prescription trend so that we will be able to give you some guidance on what the 2014 revenue potential for OTREXUP might be on our second quarter results call in August. And with that, I'll turn the call back to Paul.