Jim Thorburn
Analyst · J.P Morgan. Your line is now open
Thanks, Emily. We had another strong quarter. Bookings were at $15.2 million, so a sequential growth of 18%, year-over-year growth of 105%, book-to-bill ratio of 1.3 to 1, we are executing in our game plan of expanding Syn Bio reach beyond Ginkgo, expanding our global business and aggressively scaling our NGS genomics products. Our Syn Bio order quarter excluding Ginkgo rose 7.3 tremendous growth year-over-year of 58 and sequential 17, and was notable as we are seeing very strong orders from EMEA and the U.S. market. Our Ginkgo orders for the quarter of 0.5 million. As we have highlighted on our last call, we expect to see Ginkgo decline as a percentage of total revenue as we continue to scale in Syn Bio non-Ginkgo to obviously and NGS. I will note that Ginkgo has placed orders earlier this quarter and our Ginkgo annual revenue projections are on-track for approximately 8 to 8.5 million which is consistent with our Ginkgo contract. I will cover NGS with genomics. our genomics products are doing extremely well, and as Emily highlighted, we have a very, very strong competitive advantage which is translating into orders with robust traction as order volume scales when our clients move from pilot to production. The funnel for our larger opportunities continues to build and we have now approximately 16 potential customers in pilot up from 11 in December, we have 28 in validation up from 24 and 18 have now adopted. Consequently we saw extremely stronger orders in Q1 from NGS $7.4 million which is 70% sequential growth and 2000% growth year-on-year. I will note that one of our key customers placed a great order on us, it was $3 million, which helped propel this growth and just really highlights the opportunities ahead of us in NGS as we scale this business. Were making great progress with the team supporting pilot, scaling and adoption process for key accounts and we have increased our investments in sales, feet in the street, technical support an operations to support our success in this area. It’s worth noting that we have brought interest beyond these key customers and received total orders in excess of 100 from 100 accounts in the quarter and we continue to do well scaling our NGS business globally. Europe booked $1 million just over a million dollars, as notably Asia booked million dollars of NGS in the quarter. We continue to see strong order growth this quarter and focus on providing terrific support for our growing customer base. [Indiscernible] AGBT, you will hear from some of our customers how our target enrichment products and are providing real solutions and benefits in multiple areas. I’m now going to briefly touch on regions. America very strong quarter in terms of bookings, great execution by the sales team and marketing. EMEA had a fabulous quarter booked nearly five million that is a record. APAC, it’s nice to see APAC did over a $1 million all of it is NGS and I would say our sales and marketing teams and product our teams are doing a terrific job in executing and expanding the pipeline and converting that to bookings. I would like to note that in terms of orders, they will not directly translate into revenue for the following quarter, but more by providing information orders we have provided trend line for each of the product groups and currently both Syn Bio and NGS are growing and we anticipate both NGS and Ginkgo orders to be a lumpy over the quarter as we continue to win larger orders such as $3 million as we mentioned earlier. In terms of revenue, we reported another quarter of robust revenue $11.5 million which is 37% sequential growth and 166% year-on-year growth. At first quarter Syn Bio revenue, which includes our genes, [indiscernible] and library products was $7.7 million, compared to $4.1 million the same period last year representing year-on-year growth of $3.6 million or 88% worth of sequential 3%. Our gene products are doing well with Q1 revenue $6.5 million compared to $3.1 million in the first quarter of 2018, year-over-year growth of 110% and sequential growth of 7%, it’s worth noting again Ginkgo did decline from Q4 to Q1 from 3.2 to 2.7 that illustrates that the gene business excluding Ginkgo set a record of $3.8 million compared to $1.6 million in Q1 2018 an increase of 138% from the year sequential growth compared to 1%. The feedback from our customer base is very positive due to our competitive turnaround and times and when we said we have improved those affordable pricing, expansion of our sales organization and advantage of our e-commerce platform. We are very encouraged by our Syn Bio growth and excited to highlight we have delivered consistent growth in both total revenue and customer account over last year. We have seen our Syn Bio customer account excluding Ginkgo increased from 249 in Q1 to 497 in Q1 2019. Revenue per Syn Bio customer excluding Ginkgo per quarter was 10,400 in Q1 2018 and 10,100 in Q1 2019. This indicates that we are reaching the long tail of the market. There is a quick note in Ginkgo, Ginkgo currently our largest customers for genes accounted for $2.7 million of revenue in Q1, which is 80% year-over-year growth, as I noted earlier Ginkgo did decline sequentially. It highlight that we are going to see Ginkgo at about 8.5 million this year. Our next generation sequencing product that launched in 2018 are doing extremely well generating $3.8 million in revenue for the quarter, which is above our internal forecast as more customers adopt. We are projecting revenue in customer account scale and this year we are anticipating our next generation sequencing product revenue to be between $19 million and $20 million. And so far as noted earlier, 18 customers have adopted Twist as either primary supplier for panels are the primary supplier for new panels. Just briefly touching regional commentary. U.S. had a strong quarter again roughly around $9 million. U.S. is about 75% of total global business. EMEA revenue is 2.4 which is 121% increase year-over-year, flat to the last quarter, but highlighted they have a very strong book-to-Bill ratio 2 to 1 almost and we are going to see strong growth in EMEA. Q1 revenue in APAC was 0.4 million compared 0.2 million in same period fiscal 2018, we are going to see strong growth in APAC as NGS order come back to revenue. Just one point, in terms of segment diversification. Healthcare segment rose to about $4 million this is about 31% of our total segment revenue. Total revenue what is driving that is the NGS and Syn Bio primarily NGS diagnostics. Now moving down the P&L our gross margin loss for the first quarter was negative 3%, our loss of $0.4 million as Emily highlighted to accelerated our operational ramp ahead of plan and confronted inefficiencies of accelerating the NGS scaling is included having to recalibrate some of our equipment and recruiting staff at the end of year. The impact of that has been incurred incremental one-time cost close to $0.7 million a quarter. So normalizing those one-time costs out, we would have positive margin of $0.3 million. Our operating expenses excluding the cost to revenues for the first quarter increased to $22.5 million from $19 million. Our R&D investments increase to $7.3 million from $6.1 although this was related to our investment in Biopharma which is - team is making significant progress. SG&A increased to 15.3 in the first quarter compared to 13 in the fourth. We added 12 to our sales organizations and we are not about the 85 in sales and marketing. In addition, we had one-time fees of about $0.7 million associated with moving from private to public company expenses and with higher stock-based comp. In summary, our operating loss for the quarter was $22.9 million, which included $1.4 million of one-time items and stock-based comp of $1.9 million. Just quickly touching on the balance sheet, accounts receivable increased to seven that is primarily driven by the higher revenue, our DSO are at 59 days, and we ended the cash with cash in the bank of $130.2 million. Now moving to guidance for fiscal 2019. As highlighted, we are seeing very robust demand for our products particularly NGS and we are hoping our guidance, our revenue range for the year would be $47 million to $49 million. Ginkgo will be $8 million to $8.5 million, non-Ginkgo will be $20 million to $20.5 million, and NGS is estimated to be approximately $19 million to $20 million. Our net loss guidance for the year is 92 to 94, number of items contributing to this. The guidance we gave last time was 80 to 82 so a number of items contributing to this, increased stock based comp of approximately $7 million as a non-cash item, one-time charges of $1.4 million in quarter one that is associated with the transitioning from private to public and the cost I mentioned there on the NGS ramp. We are increasing on our NGS operational side and we are adding resources there 600k a quarter and we are putting more wood behind the [indiscernible] arrow by helping our investment in the Biopharma so Biopharma R&D will increase from $5 million to $6.5 million for the year. Overall, business going well, looking strong. We are doing good job, executing in terms of the NGS pipeline. We are seeing tremendous growth opportunities there. We are on-track to be gross plus to this quarter. And the team has done a good job of executing [indiscernible] upbeat in the future. I will now turn the call over to Emily.