Peter D. Meldrum
Analyst · Bank of America
Thank you, Scott. I'm pleased to announce that Myriad once again exceeded both our top and bottom line guidance in the fourth quarter. Fourth quarter revenues were approximately $189 million, and of particular note, myRisk revenues were $27.3 million, an 89% increase over the last quarter. The myRisk adoption rate by physicians has exceeded even our own optimistic expectations. Revenues for the fiscal year were a record $778 million, an increase of 27% over the prior year, and our adjusted net income was approximately $190 million, up 29% over the 2013 fiscal year. I'm proud of the Myriad team who, in face of broad competition, delivered the strongest year in the company's history. I'm also pleased to provide financial guidance for the 2015 fiscal year. We are projecting revenues of $800 million to $820 million and adjusted earnings per share of $1.90 to $2. Myriad is committed to diversifying our revenue stream into new high-growth diagnostic markets and expanding our reach internationally, while preserving our leadership position in the hereditary cancer market. I'm pleased to report that we are making progress in all of these areas and will continue to invest this year in research and development, new product offerings and global expansion. We believe these investments will deliver long-term shareholder value and lead to greater financial leverage in fiscal year 2016 and beyond. As I mentioned earlier, our myRisk revenues nearly doubled on a sequential basis. It is now evident that the future of a hereditary cancer testing is the more sensitive, multiplex genetic panels that evaluate many cancer genes. This fact was recently emphasized at the ASCO meetings, with several presentations tallying the benefits of gene panel testing, including one presentation by Dr. Domchek at the University of Pennsylvania, who stated, and I quote, "For multiplex genetic testing, the future is here." We believe this movement to the highly sensitive gene panels will greatly improve Myriad's already strong competitive position in the hereditary cancer market in several ways. Myriad's myRisk test leads all other cancer panels in turnaround time by a significant margin. Other gene panel tests currently have turnaround time frames measured in months, while Myriad is the only laboratory that can deliver test results within 2 weeks, which is a critical window needed to guide surgical decisions for cancer patients. It will be extremely difficult and costly at our competitors' volumes to achieve the necessary 2-week turnaround time. Additionally, Myriad has classified more than 25,000 mutations, and this database is rapidly expanding as we continue to classify mutations in the other genes in the myRisk panel. In fiscal year 2015, we are projected to test over 100,000 patients with myRisk. To make significant progress in variant classification for cancer panel testing, a competitor will have -- would have to test hundreds of thousands of patients and spend tens of millions of dollars on variant classification. Thus, our competition will have to rely on the noncurated, unvalidated public databases that are not only small but fraught with errors. This public database accuracy problem was highlighted recently by the American College of Medical Geneticists (sic) [Genetics], and I quote, "Few, if any, variant databases are curated to a clinical grade. It is well known that many databases contain misclassified variants, particularly benign variants misclassified as disease-causing." The result of such a misclassification would be absolutely devastating to patients. We continue to make excellent progress on the international front. Our international revenues increased 89% this quarter, and I would like to highlight several opportunities for our continued growth. During the quarter, we signed several significant BRACAnalysis testing contracts in Spain, Italy and Switzerland, and 2 meaningful contracts in Spain, 1 for Prolaris and one for EndoPredict. We also gained several a new customers for EndoPredict in Germany and South Korea, bringing the number of major cancer centers using EndoPredict to 25. As you may recall, EndoPredict is our next-generation RNA expression test used to determine which women with breast cancer would benefit from chemotherapy. EndoPredict provides physicians with information to develop personalized treatment plans for their breast cancer patients. EndoPredict can also detect the likelihood of late metastases, metastases occurring after 5 years, and thus can guide both treatment decisions for chemotherapy, as well as extended anti-hormonal therapy. EndoPredict has been shown to accurately predict cancer-specific disease progression and metastases, with no confusing intermediate results in 13 published clinical studies in more than 2,200 patients and has a registered CE mark. Myriad offers EndoPredict as an in-vitro diagnostic kit to major cancer centers and hospitals throughout the world, which allows local pathologists to perform the test on-site and beneficially share in the test economics. EndoPredict can be run on both the Siemens and Thermo Fisher instruments, and we see an opportunity to capture a significant share of the $375 million European breast cancer prognostic market. Overall, I'm very pleased with the progress we're making in the international markets, and we are on track to achieve our goal of $50 million in international revenues by fiscal 2016. I'm also excited about the progress we have made in diversifying our business through the launch of new products and new disease indications. First, looking at our urology segment. We continue to see meaningful growth with Prolaris sample volumes, increasing 71% this fiscal year, relative to last fiscal year. Mark will provide an update on Medicare reimbursement in his comments, but we have recently undertaken a major sales force expansion in urology, doubling the number of our sales reps, and we remain confident Prolaris will have a significant growth opportunity for the company in 2015 and beyond. Second, our dermatology business unit is making great strides with our myPath Melanoma test. We presented a health economic model on myPath at the Association of Value-Based Cancer Care in May, and a clinical study on myPath in ASCO in June. These studies demonstrated that myPath leads to a 38% change in patient medical management and an average cost savings of $1,500 per patient tested. We are currently preparing a dossier for the reimbursement coverage for myPath and anticipate submitting it to Medicare and private insurers in the second half of this fiscal year. Third, I'm very excited about Vectra DA and the difference it makes in the lives of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Sample volumes for Vectra DA were up 14% sequentially, and revenues grew by 21% compared to the last quarter. The number of ordering physicians increased to over 1,000, representing greater than 30% of all practicing rheumatologists in the United States. Based on the strong sample growth, we are raising our revenue guidance for Crescendo to $65 million for the 2015 fiscal year. At the recent 2014 European League Against Rheumatism, or EULAR, meetings in Paris, Crescendo presented 9 posters demonstrating that Vectra DA can accurately predict radiographic progression, can predict whether RA patients will benefit from disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs or biological therapies, and can be useful in the selection of patients for pharmaceutical clinical studies. In May, we published an important clinical study in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. This study followed 235 early rheumatoid arthritis patients for 1 year and found that patients with a low to moderate Vectra DA score had only a 3% risk of radiographic progression, whereas patients with a high Vectra DA score had a 21% risk of progression, 7x higher than the low-to-moderate group. We plan to invest aggressively in Crescendo's product pipeline of autoimmune and inflammatory disease test candidates. In the coming years, we see significant potential and unmet diagnostic opportunities in areas such as juvenile arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and lupus. As part of these efforts, we recently presented data at the 2014 EULAR annual meeting on Vectra DA's potential to benefit patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. This investment in our future does come at some near-term cost. Our dilution from Crescendo this quarter was approximately $0.08 per share, and we are forecasting approximately $0.20 per share of dilution from Crescendo in the 2015 fiscal year. However, we believe Crescendo will become a net contributor to profitability in our 2016 fiscal year. Finally, we are equally excited about our new myChoice HRD test. We recently signed our sixth commercial collaboration with a major pharmaceutical partner, and we are on schedule to launch myChoice HRD in the second half of this fiscal year. myChoice is a complex assay that measures the loss of heterozygosity, telomeric allelic imbalance and large-scale state transition. In a clinical study presented at ASCO in June, myChoice accurately predicted which triple-negative breast cancer patients would respond to platinum-based therapies such as cisplatin and carboplatin. Given the strong clinical support for myChoice HRD, we believe that, over time, it will become the gold standard, companion diagnostic for platinum drugs. Additionally, successful clinical trials with our 6 pharmaceutical partners could expand the addressable market for myChoice by predicting response to PARP inhibitors and other novel drug classes. In conclusion, we have made significant progress toward our strategic goals of diversifying our business internationally, launching new life-saving products across multiple disease indications. To accomplish these goals, we will continue to invest in new product and business lines and are confident that these investments will position the company for sustained, long-term growth. Before I turn the call over to Mark, I would like to touch on a personal note. I want to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of Jim Evans, and those that he has made to Myriad, and thank him for his insight, his advice and friendship. Jim and I have worked together for the past 19 years, and I know all of us at Myriad wish him and his wife, Diane [ph], all the very best. While Jim will be difficult to replace, we have engaged the search firm of Spencer Stuart to find his successor. I have already received -- reviewed resumes on over a dozen candidates, including a strong in-house candidate, and I am confident that we will find an outstanding new CFO, who will continue Jim's tradition of excellence. With that, I will turn the call over to Mark to provide a more detailed operational update.