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Organogenesis Holdings Inc. (ORGO)

Q4 2018 Earnings Call· Tue, Mar 19, 2019

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Earnings Conference Call for Organogenesis Holdings, Incorporated. At this time, all participants have been placed in a listen-only mode. Please note that this conference call is being recorded and the recording will be available on the Company’s website for replay shortly. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that our remarks today may contain forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations of management and involve inherent risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated, including the risks and uncertainties described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Item 1A Risk Factors, of the Company’s Form 10-K of the year ended December 31, 2018. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made, although it may voluntarily do so from time to time. The Company undertakes no commitment to update or revise these forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by applicable securities laws. This call will also include references to certain financial measures that are not calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP. We generally refer to these as non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of those non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP are available in the earnings press release on the Investor Relations portion of our website. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Gary Gillheeney, Organogenesis Holdings’ Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Thank you, Mark, and welcome, everyone to Organogenesis Holdings fourth quarter 2018 earnings conference call, which also marks our first quarterly earnings call as a newly public company. I’m joined today on the call by Tim Cunningham, our Chief Financial Officer. Let me start off with a brief agenda of what we will cover during our prepared remarks. I’ll start out with a brief introduction of our company and our business, then we’ll provide a high level overview of our financial performance during the fourth quarter and full year 2018. After my opening remarks, Tim will provide you with a more in-depth review of our quarterly and fiscal year financial results, as well as an overview of our financial guidance for 2019, which we reaffirmed today in our earnings press release. Then following Tim’s discussion of our financial results and outlook, I will share some thoughts on why we believe we are well positioned for strong performance in 2019 in solid long-term growth going forward. And then we will open up the floor for questions. This is our first quarterly conference call. We thought it would be helpful to spend a few minutes describing our company. Organogenesis is a leading regenerative medicine company focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of product for the Advanced Wound Care and Surgical & Sports Medicine markets. Our mission is to provide integrated healing solutions that substantially improve medical outcomes and the lives of patients while lowering the overall cost of care. The company was founded in 1985 as a spin-off technology developed at MIT. Our corporate headquarters are in Canton, Massachusetts. And after many years of research, the Company launched this first product in 1998, the product Apligraf, which essentially created the field of regenerative medicine. Our two primary markets are Advanced Wound…

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Gary. I’ll begin with a review of our fourth quarter financial results. Net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $63.6 million, compared to $53.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $10.5 million or 19.7% on the fourth quarter of 2017. Revenue from Advanced Wound Care products of the fourth quarter of 2018 was $54.6 million compared to revenue of $47.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $7.4 million or 15.8% year-on-year. Revenue from Advanced Wound Care products represented 85% of total net revenue in fiscal 2018, compared to 90% in the prior year period. Revenue from Surgical & Sports Medicine products for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $9 million compared to $6 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $3 million, up 50.6% year-over-year. Revenue from Surgical & Sports Medicine products represented 14% of total revenue, total net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to 11% in the prior year. Revenue from PuraPly products for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $28.5 million compared to $28.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $0.3 million or 1.1% year-over-year. Revenue from PuraPly products represented approximately 45% of the total net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to 53% of total net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2017. As previously disclosed, PuraPly reinstatement of tax to reimbursement status began on October 1, 2018 and continues through September 30, 2020. Gross profit for the fourth quarter of 2018 was $46.1 million compared to $36.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, an increase of $9.4 million, up 25.5% the largest contributed to the improvement of gross profit from the year earlier period is a more favorable product mix of…

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Thanks, Tim. Overall, we are pleased with the significant progress that our organization has achieved during 2018 and in recent months as well. We believe we have several unique strengths that have been instrumental to our success and position us well for future growth. We are a leader in the regenerative medicine space with a strong brand recognition for our portfolio. We are well positioned in a large attractive and growing global markets, specifically Advanced Wound Care and Surgical & Sports Medicine. We have a comprehensive suite of products to address the clinical and economic needs of our patients, but also the providers and the payers as well. We have a large and growing body of clinical data in a portfolio of products with FDA, PMA approvals or FDA clearances, and we’ve established extensive customer relationships and across the entire continuum of wound care including hospitals, wound care centers, government facilities, ambulatory surgery centers and physicians office to sell our broad portfolio products. We’ve established a scalable regulatory manufacturing and commercial infrastructure. Our executive management team has extensive experience in the regenerative medicine industry, boasting over a 100 years of collective experience in the space. This experience allows us to operate from a deep understanding of the underlying trends in regenerative medicine and the scientific, clinical and regulatory issues that drive the success of our industry. So, we look forward to speaking with you again, in the future and appreciate your interest in Organogenesis Holdings. And with that, Mark, I’ll turn it back to you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from the line of Ryan Zimmerman of BTIG. Your line is now open.

Ryan Zimmerman

Analyst · BTIG. Your line is now open

Thank you. And Gary, Tim, congrats on your first public earnings call.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Thank you, Ryan.

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Ryan.

Ryan Zimmerman

Analyst · BTIG. Your line is now open

So maybe, we could just begin with your guidance for a little bit. If you can just walk us through the puts and takes on the guidance and where you see opportunities to exceed guidance for 2019 potentially, or to put you – stay at the top end of the range versus the lower end of the range and I have a follow-up question. Thank you.

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

It’s a good question, Ryan. We just reaffirm this guidance today and we’re not going to raise the guidance today. So, I would say that any other comment that Gary has to add…

Gary Gillheeney

Management

I mean as Tim mentioned, we are comfortable with the guidance what’s driving our growth is our portfolio, obviously at PuraPly or Surgical & Sports Medicine, we’re investing in our infrastructure, our commercial infrastructure in both Advanced Wound Care and Surgical & Sports Medicine. We have additional products, five additional products coming out of the next two years that we’re excited about. So, we have several engines that will continue to drive growth in the near future. So, we’re pretty comfortable that those, those trends are going to be positive for us.

Ryan Zimmerman

Analyst · BTIG. Your line is now open

That’s helpful guys. And then my other question is you had some really positive data out of a product renew at AAOS recently. And help us maybe; you can recap for investors just at a high level, what you learned and how you think about bringing that product to market?

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Well, as you mentioned, the information was presented by Dr. Farr at the AAOS Conference. We’ve submitted that information for publication and until it’s been received in public, it’s not much we can really talk about it. but we are pretty comfortable that we’ll continue to invest in the regulatory requirements to get that product through the BLA process and we’ll continue to invest in moving the clinical data forward and when it’s published, we’ll certainly make everyone aware of it.

Ryan Zimmerman

Analyst · BTIG. Your line is now open

All right. Thank you guys. I’ll hop back in queue.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open

Hi everyone. Congratulations on the first quarter, two out of the gate.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Thank you.

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open

I was just wondering if you could just maybe further explain or expand on renew and just talk through what you believe is the pathway for the BLA process and just kind of how do we kind of get to the various milestones before commercializing that product?

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Well, as we mentioned, we do expect to file a BLA for the product. We’re still in the process of preparing the clinical study and preparing for meetings with the FDA. So, we have no specific timelines at this point on when that filing will be made. But when we do, we’ll certainly make you aware of it.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open

Okay, perfect. And then the other question that I had just relates to PuraPly, I was wondering if you could comment just on how you’ve kind of seen the trends since you were able to kind of reclaim pass-through status and kind of how ASP trends maybe heading if you’re able to kind of recapture on the pricing side since the reimbursement. It’s kind of an ASP plus and just the level of confidence in achieving the full-year guidance at this point.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Sure. So, with PuraPly, particularly PuraPly AM, which is the most significant product in the PuraPly line. As we expect to continue to grow, even when we were not in pass-through in PuraPly AM actually had record unit sales. So, it speaks to the efficacy of the product that speaks to the additional physician specialties that are now adopting the product. So, we’re extremely comfortable with the trend in the potential for that product. You’re being back on pass through there is an opportunity to increase the ASP and we’ve done that. That does a couple of things. Once it provides additional funding to get broader access to the product, which is really the strategic benefit of pass-through is to get the product in the hands of more clinicians and more specialties to broaden the use of the product. And it also will help improve ASP going forward. So, we do expect to see some benefit from that in 2019.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open

Okay. And then any updates just on the timing of PuraPly XT and MZ? I think those were both flared in for launch some time this year.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Yes. We expect them to be launched in 2019 later in the year.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open

Okay. Thanks very much guys.

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And we’ve got a follow-up question from Kristen Stewart of Barclays. Your line is now open.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is now open

Thanks for taking the follow-up. Tim, is there anything that you can kind of add just on the color of – with the new proceeds, just how we should think about the run rate of kind of the cash flows as you guys are building out the sales force, how should we just think about the company’s ability with getting to break-even?

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

That’s many questions Kristen, so let’s unravel it a little bit. So, based on what we announced today, so we’ve been – in the last several months, we’ve basically – we have 92 of equity and $100 million to its debt, because working capital studies provide the company sufficient resources to conduct this business in continuous operation. So, we feel confident that we have the resources today to execute on the guidance we’ve put forth this year.

Kristen Stewart

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is now open

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

Okay.

Operator

Operator

And we have a follow-up question from the line of Ryan Zimmerman of BTIG. Your line is now open.

Ryan Zimmerman

Analyst · Ryan Zimmerman of BTIG. Your line is now open

Thank you. Just one quick one for me. you ended the year with pretty nice gross margins of step-up from what we saw in the fourth quarter of 2017. Just maybe your thoughts around where you think you can take your gross margins over the next two quarters and just giving the introduction to some of the newer products, should that be accretive to your gross margin? Thank you.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Well, I would refer you back to the financial model that we presented to you that was filed with an 8-K the Securities Exchange Commission, or if I’m not mistaken on February 12th, but we can double-check that number and refer you to it. So, we talked about that our gross margins to what to expect from us low-to-mid 70s.

Ryan Zimmerman

Analyst · Ryan Zimmerman of BTIG. Your line is now open

Great. Thank you.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Sure.

Operator

Operator

That does conclude our conference call for today. Thank you for your participation.

Gary Gillheeney

Management

Thank you very much.

Tim Cunningham

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.