Mark Crossley
Analyst · Piper Sandler. Please go ahead. Your line is now open
Thank you, Jason and good morning, and good afternoon everyone. Thanks for joining us. Joining me today are Ryan Preblick, our Chief Financial Officer; and Dr. Christian Heidbreder, our Chief Scientific Officer. I'll quickly highlight our results, and some updates from our release earlier in the month, and then Ryan will detail the financials, and our full year 2024 outlook. Christian is with us to answer any questions on the pipeline. Since, we announced the business update just two weeks ago. I'm going to keep my formal remarks relatively brief, but I do want to provide a few updates. First, our results for the third quarter continued to show solid double-digit year-over-year growth, and were in line with the expectations that we preannounced earlier this month. SUBLOCADE third quarter net revenue of $191 million increased 14%, and primarily drove the 13% increase in total third quarter net revenue to $307 million. Our underlying profitability and gross cash position also remained strong. Adjusted operating profit through the quarter increased 62% to $97 million, and our cash position at the end of the third quarter was $344 million. In terms of the sequential net revenue trend for SUBLOCADE, despite 2% dispense growth quarter-over-quarter, we saw a modest decline in the third quarter from the second quarter. As previously discussed, SUBLOCADE's growth is being impacted by a combination of intensified initial trial and adoption of the competing product, variability in funding, timing in certain justice system accounts and further destocking. Ryan will share more detail on the financial performance drivers in a moment. Second, as we navigate through the near term, our commercial teams remain intensely focused on our critical mission to help patients with opioid use disorder. We're generating increases in overall organized health system and CGS activation, which we believe will continue to grow the market, for opioid use disorder over the long-term. This resulted in SUBLOCADE U.S. patients and dispense growth on both a year-over-year and sequential basis in the quarter. Further, as we have now been in a competitive market for a year, we want to continue to reinforce that SUBLOCADE remains the long acting injectable of choice, for opioid use disorder treatment over this time. First, SUBLOCADE's share of new patients was 72% at the end of the third quarter. In addition, in analyzing multiple co-prescribing cohorts outside of CGS since the competitor's launch, we currently see SUBLOCADE maintaining its leadership position, at share levels consistently in the mid-60s percent range across these cohorts. Third, we're actively pursuing targeted streamlining actions, including cost reductions against the group's expense base. Our actions will mainly be focused on reducing G&A costs, and reprioritizing our R&D pipeline. Ryan will have more details on this item, but these actions are expected to sharpen our strategic focus on fueling SUBLOCADE's growth, while advancing our two late stage OUD related pipeline assets and helping protect margins. Lastly, we continue to work hard to secure our future, and create greater certainty for Indivior stakeholders. As you will have seen, we reached a preliminary agreement for a settlement of $40 million to resolve the last remaining legacy antitrust cases. Material terms and conditions of the final settlement agreement must still be negotiated, but our expectation is to resolve these shortly. If the settlement is completed, all of the antitrust litigation, will be behind the group. Turning to our strategic priorities report card starting with SUBLOCADE, expanding on my previous commentary, U.S. patients and treatment grew 37% year-over-year, to 166,600 at the end of the third quarter. On a sequential basis, this represents a 4% increase with over 6,200 patients gained in the quarter. Recall, we're targeting greater than 270,000 patients to deliver our peak net revenue goal of greater than $1.5 billion. In terms of continuing to lay the foundation for SUBLOCADE's future growth. The number of active dispensing HCPs, increased to more than 7,700 in the third quarter, representing a 15% increase from approximately 6,700 at the end of fiscal year 2023. We've also continued to make good progress activating justice system accounts, reaching over 800 accounts at the end of the third quarter. We've made progress in our goal to establish a nationwide network of alternate sites of injection for SUBLOCADE. In the third quarter, we added one new partner, bringing the total number of alternate injection sites to approximately 1,220 locations. The number of SUBLOCADE injections at these sites increased 60% in the third quarter, compared to the previous quarter. We're also pleased to see that the DEA has extended Telehealth for buprenorphine. This underscores the ongoing bipartisan efforts in the U.S., to increase patient access to medically assisted treatment. Looking at diversification and starting with OPVEE as you saw in our October 10 business update, we booked net revenue for two orders as part of our 10-year contract with BARDA. Outside of those orders, we believe we are building both a strong funding as well as trial and experience environment for OPVEE. At the end of the third quarter, we had established approximately 180 experiential programs, and 32 states now have standing orders in place. In our rest of world business. We continue to see good growth and contribution from our new products SUBLOCADE and SUBOXONE film. Their solid progression is helping us offset the ongoing challenges to our legacy tablet products. Ex U.S. sales of SUBLOCADE grew 30% year-over-year to $13 million. Turning to our pipeline, a few highlights to mention starting with SUBLOCADE, we previously announced that we submitted important label updates to the FDA for SUBLOCADE, including rapid induction and alternate sites of injection on the body. We received Priority Review designation with a PDUFA date of February 7, 2025. If approved, we believe these label updates, will help us directly address feedback we received from HCPs, on how we can improve the patient experience for SUBLOCADE. Turning to the pipeline, the most material development during the quarter was that the AELIS Phase 2b study did not meet its endpoints in reducing voluntary cannabis usage, among cannabis use disorder patients. While disappointing, we made the decision not to move forward with the asset. Additionally, as part of the reprioritization of our pipeline, we've announced today we've made the decision to discontinue INDV-1000, a preclinical asset targeting alcohol use disorder. As a result, we're narrowing our pipeline to opioid use disorder with INDV-6001, a potential three monthly long-acting buprenorphine injectable and INDV-2000, a selective Orexin-1 receptor antagonist. The Phase 2 studies for both assets have been committed, with study site activated and development activities for both assets, proceeding on track. For INDV-6001 in the quarter, we initiated a multiple dose PK study that will inform any potential future Phase 3 study. The first subject, first visit was achieved in September. The completion of this study will last, with last subject last visit is currently scheduled for Q4 of 2025. The INDV-2000 Phase 2 proof-of-concept study is underway. The first subject was dosed in June, and through mid-October 55 patients have been dosed. Our excitement about this asset reflects our belief in the significant unmet need for non-opioid - at the non-opioid option for patients, as part of the OUD treatment continuum. The completion of this proof-of-concept study with last subject, last visit is currently scheduled for Q4, 2025. In line with normal practice, we'll assess the out term from both of these studies at completion of the Phase 2 before making any decision on future investment. Moving to capital allocation, we're more than halfway through the $100 million buyback we announced in late July. We also continue to progress in resolving legacy litigation matters, included in the announced settlement that I referenced earlier. With that short intro, I'll hand over to Ryan.