Susan Barnes
Analyst · William Blair. Your line is now open
Thank you, Mike, and good afternoon everyone. I will begin my remarks today with a financial overview of our second quarter that ended June 30, 2015. I will then provide details on our operating results for the quarter and year-to-date with a comparison to the second quarter of 2014, and a year-to-date comparison to the first half of 2014 respectively. I will conclude my remarks with a brief discussion of our balance sheet and our July 24th 8-K filing related to our property leases. Starting with our second quarter and year-to-date financial highlights, during the second quarter we recognized revenue of $24.9 million and incurred a net loss of $11.9 million. This brings our year-to-date total revenue to $42.6 million and our net loss to $32.1 million. We ended the quarter with $72.7 million in cash and investments, $6.4 million lower than the $79.1 million reported at the end of the quarter and $28.6 million lower than the $101.3 million reported at the end of 2014. Turning to revenue, total revenue for the quarter was $24.9 million, a 118% increase over the $11.4 million recognized in Q2 of 2014. Year-to-date, total revenue in 2015 is $42.6 million, up 85% over revenue of $23.1 million recognized in the first half of 2014. Breaking down the revenue, instrument revenue quarter-over-quarter was relatively flat with $4.3 recognized in Q2 2015 compared with $4.7 recognized in Q2 of 2014. Year-to-date, instrument revenue was $11.3 million, a $1.3 million or 13% increase over the $10 million recognized during same period last year. Consumable revenue continues to be very strong, increasing 48% to $4.5 million for the current quarter, up from $3 million reported during the second quarter of 2014. Year-to-date consumable revenue has increased 58% to $8.8 million in 2015 compared to $5.6 million in the first half of 2014. Service and other revenue increased 27% to $2.5 million in the quarter compared to $2 million in Q2 of 2014, and with that 30% year-to-date to $5.3 million from $4.1 million in 2014. And finally, as described in our Q1 earnings call, we recognized $10 million of revenue in Q2 as a result of achieving a Roche development milestone; we also recognized $3.6 million of amortized revenue associated with the $35 million upfront payment that we received from Roche in Q3 2013. Roche related revenue recognized this quarter was $11.9 million higher than in Q2 of 2014, and year-to-date was $13.8 million greater than that recognized in the first half of 2014. The year-over-year incremental increase thus includes the $10 million milestone received in the current quarter, and a $1.9 million quarterly increase of amortized revenue of the $35 million upfront payment from Roche in 2013 The revised amortization reflects the increased certainty of the estimated development time. We generated a gross profit of $14.5 million in Q2 of 2014, representing a gross margin of 58%. This was up $3.1 million of gross profit and 27% gross margin recognized in Q2 of 2014. Year-to-date gross profit was $20.4 million representing a gross margin of 48% compared with 2014 year-to-date gross profit of $5.8 million, a gross margin of 25%. Gross profit for 2015 have increased over 2014 levels, primarily as a result of the Roche milestone revenue in Q2 and the revision of the quarterly revenue associated with the Roche contract It should be noted that product revenue, product-related gross profit decreased by $1 million quarter-over-quarter, primarily as a result of $900,000 inventory reserve taken in the current quarter. The reserve was an outcome over a normal quarterly assessment of excess inventory on a 12-month look forward basis. Moving to operating expenses, total operating expenses in the second quarter of 2015 were $25.9 million, $4.5 million higher than the $21.4 million incurred in Q2 of 2014. Year-to-date, operating expenses increased 21% to $51.1 million from $42.3 million in 2014. Much of the increase in 2015 resulted from higher compensation expenses related to a 10 % increase in headcount year-over-year, and an increase in non-cash based stock compensation. Non-cash based stock compensation increased $900,000 quarter-over-quarter and $1.8 million year-to-date 2015 over 2014. Breaking down our operating expenses, R&D expenses in the quarter were $15.1 million, $2.7 million higher than the $12.4 million of expenses incurred in Q2 of 2014. Year-to-date R&D expenses were $29.5 million, a $5.3 million increase over the $24.2 million of expenses in 2014. The expense increase in 2015 was a result of higher compensation related expenses, including non-cash compensation, as well as an increase in consulting, product development and regulatory costs associated with building a product to serve the clinical diagnostic market. R&D expenses this quarter included $1.2 million of non-cash stock-based compensation expense, a $400,000 increase over Q2 of 2014. Sales, general and administrative expenses for the quarter were up $1.8 million from a year ago. In Q2 2015, we incurred $10.8 million in expenses compared to $9 million in Q2 of 2014. Year-to-date SG&A expenses increased $3.5 million to $21.6 million in 2015, up from $18.1 million in the first half of 2014. The increases of expenses in 2015 was related to higher compensation expense and contractual fees associated with receiving payment for acumen of the second quarter – second milestone of the Roche agreement. SG&A expense for this quarter included $1.8 million of non-cash stock-based compensation expense, up $500,000 from $1.3 million recognized in Q2 of 2014. Also, in the area of other income and expense in Q2, we recorded $600,000 from net other expense, primarily related to interest expense associated with debt that we took on in Q1 of 2013. Year-to-date, our net other expenses have totaled $1.4 million. Ben will provide further guidance on our ongoing expense rates later in the call. Now turning to our balance sheet, as I mentioned at the beginning of my comments cash and investments decreased to $72.7 million at the end of second quarter this is the $6.4 million decrease during the quarter. Our cash use primarily reflects our Q2 net loss of 11.9 million plus 4.3 million of non-cash related stock compensation expense and depreciation expense along with a reduction in both inventory and accounts receivables balances as compared to the end of Q1. Inventory balances decreased $1.5 million in the quarter to 12 million at the end of Q2. Accounts receivable decreased 1.3 million in the quarter to 4 million at the end of Q2. As a final note, on July 24, we filed an 8K describing our entry to three separate agreement related to the plan relocation of our operations within the City of Menlo Park. Our plan move includes the entry to 11 year lease for a new larger facility which will allow work force and manufacturing capabilities, the relocations for [indiscernible]. Agreement with our existing landlords increased provisions for rent abatement through September 2017, it also includes four separate $5 million payments attached [ph] by our overtime and exchange for our opting out of two five year lease extension options we held on our current property. We believe that that rent abatement of 20 million fees that we collect from our existing landlord should offset the cost we expect to incur in developing and moving into our new facilities. As a final note both agreements are contingent on the attainment of use permits for the new facility and both we and the new landlord and reserved the right to terminate the lease agreement should the permits not be obtained the September 30, 2015. This concludes my remarks on the financial results for the quarter. I would like to turn the call over to.