-- Recorded Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year Revenue of $31 Million and $120 Million, Respectively --
-- Signed $44 Million in Net New Business Orders and Ended the Quarter with a Record High Backlog of $153 Million --
-- New Cell and Gene Therapy Analytical and Process Development Suites Now Operational and CGMP Manufacturing Suites Continue On Schedule; Myford South Facility Construction On Schedule --
-- Project Fiscal 2023 Revenue of $140 to $145 Million, Representing 17% - 21% Growth Over Fiscal 2022 --
TUSTIN, Calif., June 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avid Bioservices, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDMO), a dedicated biologics contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) working to improve patient lives by providing high quality development and manufacturing services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year, ended April 30, 2022.
Highlights from the Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 2022, and Other Events:
“We made considerable progress during fiscal 2022. During the year, we achieved revenue of $120 million, representing a doubling of revenues recorded in fiscal 2020. Notably, Q4 fiscal 2022 was the eighth consecutive quarter of operational profitability for the company. The company signed net new project orders for $155 million in fiscal 2022, leading to a backlog of $153 million; Avid’s largest backlog to-date. Supporting this growth, as well as that which we anticipate in the coming years, our facilities and service expansions continue to proceed according to plan,” stated Nick Green, president and chief executive officer of Avid Bioservices.
“Our momentum in fiscal 2022 was driven in part by the exceptional performance of our enhanced commercial team. Over the last six months, we expanded the sales teams for both our mammalian and our cell and gene therapy businesses. We also expanded our business operations team to best support our growing project pipeline. This new organization has had great success, highlighted by the fact that it signed the same number of new projects in the second half of fiscal 2022 as signed in all of fiscal 2021.
“During the period, our facilities and service expansions continued to advance on a timeline that will allow us to meet the demand of existing customers that are expanding their manufacturing work with us as well as our newest and prospective customers. With respect to our 53,000 square foot cell and gene therapy facility, we recently completed the first phase of a two-phase construction plan, opening our new analytical and process development laboratories eight months to the day after we announced our intention to expand into the cell and gene therapy business. Construction of the CGMP suites for our cell and gene therapy facility, the second phase of this expansion, remains on track and those manufacturing suites are expected to come online in mid-calendar 2023. The expansion of our Myford facility, which houses our mammalian operations, is also being constructed in a two-phase process. As reported last quarter, the company completed the first phase with the opening of a new downstream suite. The second phase of this project is focused on the Myford South facility and is on track to come online at the beginning of calendar year 2023, which at our current growth rate will be ideally timed to provide much needed capacity for fiscal 2024.
“Finally, we are delighted to announce a further expansion of our process development capacity for our mammalian cell business. Once complete at the end of this calendar year, these new suites will double our current process development capacity which came online in October of 2019. This new line will significantly increase capacity at the front-end of our mammalian cell business, which is critical to the efficient on-boarding of new clients. It is expected that this expansion will cost approximately $6 million, and upon completion, will have the potential to generate approximately $20 million in additional revenue capacity.
“Given the growth momentum achieved during fiscal 2022, our significant year-end backlog, and the increase in demand anticipated during fiscal 2023, we are pleased to announce revenue guidance for fiscal 2023 of between $140 and $145 million.”
Financial Highlights and Guidance
More detailed financial information and analysis may be found in Avid Bioservices’ Annual Report on Form 10-K, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today.
Recent Corporate Developments
Statement Regarding Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures such as non-GAAP adjusted net income, free cash flow, as well as adjusted EBITDA. The company uses these non-GAAP financial measures for financial and operational decision making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons. The company believes that they provide useful information about operating results, enhance the overall understanding of our operating performance and future prospects, and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in our financial and operational decision making. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude amounts that the company does not consider part of ongoing operating results when planning and forecasting and when assessing the performance of the organization and our senior management. The company computes non-GAAP financial measures using the same consistent method from quarter to quarter and year to year, and may consider whether other significant items that arise in the future should be excluded from our non-GAAP financial measures.
The company reports non-GAAP financial measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). These non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles, differ from GAAP measures with the same names, and may differ from non-GAAP financial measures with the same or similar names that are used by other companies. The company believes that non-GAAP financial measures should only be used to evaluate our results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP financial measures, and encourages investors to carefully consider our results under GAAP, as well as the supplemental non-GAAP information and the reconciliations between these presentations, to more fully understand our business.
Non-GAAP net income excludes stock-based compensation; business transition and related costs including corporate initiatives into new business activities such as our expansion into viral vectors for the cell and gene therapy sector of the market and other costs directly associated with such activities, and severance and related expenses; non-cash interest expense on convertible senior notes for the accretion of the issuance costs associated with our convertible senior notes; and other income or expense items. Adjusted EBITDA excludes non-cash operating charges for stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization as well as non-operating items such as interest income, interest expense, and income tax expense or benefit. For the reasons explained above, adjusted EBITDA also excludes certain business transition and related costs. The company also uses measures such as free cash flow, which represents cash flow from operations less cash used in the acquisition and disposition of capital.
Additionally, non-GAAP net income and adjusted EBITDA are key components of the financial metrics utilized by the company’s compensation committee to measure, in part, management’s performance and determine significant elements of management’s compensation. The company encourages investors to carefully consider its results under GAAP, as well as its supplemental non-GAAP information and the reconciliation between these presentations, to more fully understand its business. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures included at the end of this press release.
Conference Call
Avid will host a conference call and webcast this afternoon, June 29, 2022, at 4:30 PM EST (1:30 PM PST).
To listen to the conference call, please dial (877) 312-5443 or (253) 237-1126 and request the Avid Bioservices conference call. To listen to the live webcast, or access the archived webcast, please visit: https://ir.avidbio.com/investor-events.
About Avid Bioservices, Inc.
Avid Bioservices (NASDAQ:CDMO), an S&P SmallCap 600 company, is a dedicated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on development and CGMP manufacturing of biologics. The company provides a comprehensive range of process development, CGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing services for the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries. With 29 years of experience producing monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins, Avid's services include CGMP clinical and commercial drug substance manufacturing, bulk packaging, release and stability testing and regulatory submissions support. For early-stage programs the company provides a variety of process development activities, including upstream and downstream development and optimization, analytical methods development, testing and characterization. The scope of our services ranges from standalone process development projects to full development and manufacturing programs through commercialization. www.avidbio.com
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release, which are not purely historical, including statements regarding Avid Bioservices' intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, representations, projections, plans or predictions of the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the risk that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will adversely affect our or our customers’ business and operations, the risk the company may experience delays in engaging new clients, the risk that the company may not be successful in executing client projects, the risk that the company may experience technical difficulties in completing client projects due to unanticipated equipment and/or manufacturing facility issues which could result in projects being terminated or delay delivery of products to customers, revenue recognition and receipt of payment or result in the loss of the customer, the risk that one or more existing customers terminates its contract prior to completion or reduces or delays its demand for development or manufacturing services which could adversely affect guided fiscal 2023 revenues, the risk that the completion of the second phase the of the Myford expansion and/or the cell and gene therapy facility may be delayed, may cost more than anticipated or may not increase revenue generating capacity by the amounts contemplated, the risk that expanding into a new biologics manufacturing segment may distract senior management’s focus on the company’s existing operations and/or its current expansion of the Myford facility, the risk that the company may experience delays in hiring qualified individuals into the viral vector business, the risk that the company may experience delays in engaging initial customers for the viral vector business, and the risk that the viral vector business may not become profitable for several years, if ever. Our business could be affected by a number of other factors, including the risk factors listed from time to time in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including, but not limited to, our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2022, as well as any updates to these risk factors filed from time to time in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution investors not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release, and we disclaim any obligation, and do not undertake, to update or revise any forward-looking statements in this press release except as may be required by law.
AVID BIOSERVICES, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (In thousands, except per share information) | |||||||||||||||
Three Months Ended April 30, | Twelve Months Ended April 30, | ||||||||||||||
2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||
Revenues | $ | 31,226 | $ | 27,606 | $ | 119,597 | $ | 95,868 | |||||||
Cost of revenues | 24,242 | 19,463 | 82,949 | 66,561 | |||||||||||
Gross profit | 6,984 | 8,143 | 36,648 | 29,307 | |||||||||||
Operating expenses: | |||||||||||||||
Selling, general and administrative | 5,915 | 5,055 | 21,226 | 17,064 | |||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 5,915 | 5,055 | 21,226 | 17,064 | |||||||||||
Operating income | 1,069 | 3,088 | 15,422 | 12,243 | |||||||||||
Interest expense | (555 | ) | (1,160 | ) | (2,680 | ) | (1,164 | ) | |||||||
Other income (expense), net | 73 | 63 | (81 | ) | 133 | ||||||||||
Net income before income taxes | 587 | 1,991 | 12,661 | 11,212 | |||||||||||
Income tax benefit | 115,011 | — | 115,011 | — | |||||||||||
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Net income | $ | 115,598 | $ | 1,991 | $ | 127,672 | $ | 11,212 | |||||||
Comprehensive income | $ | 115,598 | $ | 1,991 | $ | 127,672 | $ | 11,212 | |||||||
Series E preferred stock accumulated dividends | — | (1,211 | ) | — | (4,455 | ) | |||||||||
Impact of Series E preferred stock redemption | — | (3,439 | ) | — | (3,439 | ) | |||||||||
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders | $ | 115,598 | $ | (2,659 | ) | $ | 127,672 | $ | 3,318 | ||||||
Net income (loss) per share attributable to common stockholders: | |||||||||||||||
Basic | $ | 1.87 | $ | (0.04 | ) | $ | 2.08 | $ | 0.06 | ||||||
Diluted | $ | 1.65 | $ | (0.04 | ) | $ | 1.84 | $ | 0.06 | ||||||
Weighted average common shares outstanding: | |||||||||||||||
Basic | 61,761 | 60,927 | 61,484 | 58,222 | |||||||||||
Diluted | 70,394 | 63,142 | 70,474 | 59,426 | |||||||||||
AVID BIOSERVICES, INC. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In thousands, except par value) | |||||||
April 30, 2022 | April 30, 2021 | ||||||
ASSETS | |||||||
Current assets: | |||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 126,166 | $ | 169,915 | |||
Accounts receivable, net | 20,547 | 18,842 | |||||
Contract assets | 5,369 | 6,112 | |||||
Inventory | 26,062 | 11,871 | |||||
Prepaid expenses | 1,879 | 1,064 | |||||
Total current assets | 180,023 | 207,804 | |||||
Property and equipment, net | 92,955 | 37,455 | |||||
Operating lease right-of-use assets | 36,806 | 18,691 | |||||
Deferred tax assets | 115,082 | — | |||||
Other assets | 4,627 | 1,210 | |||||
Restricted cash | 350 | 350 | |||||
Total assets | $ | 429,843 | $ | 265,510 | |||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | |||||||
Current liabilities: | |||||||
Accounts payable | $ | 9,504 | $ | 9,257 | |||
Accrued compensation and benefits | 8,418 | 8,794 | |||||
Contract liabilities | 53,798 | 50,769 | |||||
Current portion of operating lease liabilities | 2,969 | 1,355 | |||||
Other current liabilities | 1,072 | 761 | |||||
Total current liabilities | 75,761 | 70,936 | |||||
Convertible senior notes, net | 139,577 | 96,949 | |||||
Operating lease liabilities, less current portion | 37,886 | 19,889 | |||||
Finance lease liabilities, less current portion | 2,093 | — | |||||
Total liabilities | 255,317 | 187,774 | |||||
Commitments and contingencies | |||||||
Stockholders’ equity: | |||||||
Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 5,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding at respective dates | — | — | |||||
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 150,000 shares authorized; 61,807 and 61,069 shares issued and outstanding at respective dates | 62 | 61 | |||||
Additional paid-in capital | 605,841 | 637,534 | |||||
Accumulated deficit | (431,377 | ) | (559,859 | ) | |||
Total stockholders’ equity | 174,526 | 77,736 | |||||
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | 429,843 | $ | 265,510 | |||
AVID BIOSERVICES, INC. ITEMIZED RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GAAP AND NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (Unaudited) (In thousands) | |||||||||||||||
Three Months Ended April 30, | Twelve Months Ended April 30, | ||||||||||||||
2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||
GAAP net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders | $ | 115,598 | $ | (2,659 | ) | $ | 127,672 | $ | 3,318 | ||||||
Stock-based compensation | 2,028 | 1,100 | 7,380 | 3,854 | |||||||||||
Business transition and related costs | 1,376 | 123 | 3,147 | 343 | |||||||||||
Non-cash interest expense | 264 | 916 | 1,030 | 916 | |||||||||||
Income tax benefit | (115,011 | ) | — | (115,011 | ) | — | |||||||||
Preferred stock accumulated dividends | — | 1,211 | — | 4,455 | |||||||||||
Impact of preferred stock redemption | — | 3,439 | — | 3,439 | |||||||||||
Adjusted net income | $ | 4,255 | $ | 4,130 | $ | 24,218 | $ | 16,325 | |||||||
GAAP net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders | $ | 115,598 | $ | (2,659 | ) | $ | 127,672 | $ | 3,318 | ||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 1,420 | 913 | 4,480 | 3,453 | |||||||||||
Interest expense | 555 | 1,160 | 2,680 | 1,164 | |||||||||||
Other (income) expense, net | (73 | ) | (63 | ) | 81 | (133 | ) | ||||||||
Stock-based compensation | 2,028 | 1,100 | 7,380 | 3,854 | |||||||||||
Business transition and related costs | 1,376 | 123 | 3,148 | 343 | |||||||||||
Income tax benefit | (115,011 | ) | — | (115,011 | ) | — | |||||||||
Preferred stock accumulated dividends | — | 1,211 | — | 4,455 | |||||||||||
Impact of preferred stock redemption | — | 3,439 | — | 3,439 | |||||||||||
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Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 5,893 | $ | 5,224 | $ | 30,430 | $ | 19,893 | |||||||
GAAP net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 612 | $ | 17,860 | $ | 9,465 | $ | 31,182 | |||||||
Purchase of property and equipment | (24,566 | ) | (4,147 | ) | (56,411 | ) | (9,864 | ) | |||||||
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Free cash flow | $ | (23,954 | ) | $ | 13,713 | $ | (46,946 | ) | $ | 21,318 | |||||
Contacts: Stephanie Diaz (Investors) Vida Strategic Partners 415-675-7401 [email protected] Tim Brons (Media) Vida Strategic Partners 415-675-7402 [email protected]
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