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Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX)
- Closes acquisition of EKR Therapeutics, expanding hospital product portfolio and commercial infrastructure
- Strong growth in product sales, fueled by 64% increase in ZYFLO® and 8% increase in CUROSURF® sales year over year
- FDA approves ANDA for CRTX 067, a generic equivalent for the product currently sold under the Tussionex® brand name
- FDA review of CRTX 080 NDA underway; Advisory Committee meeting set for September 13th
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products for the hospital and related specialty markets, today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012.
Total net revenues were $21.5 million for the second quarter of 2012 versus $28.0 million reported for the second quarter of 2011, a decline of 23%, reflecting the divestiture of certain non-strategic assets. Net sales from the ZYFLO family of products and CUROSURF grew 64% and 8% to $10.8 million and $9.3 million respectively, for the second quarter of 2012 versus second quarter 2011.
Net loss for the second quarter of 2012 was $4.4 million, or a loss of $0.17 per diluted share, compared to net income of $197,000, or $0.01 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2011. On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the second quarter of 2012 was $2.8 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, remaining substantially unchanged from non-GAAP net income of $2.8 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP net income and net income per diluted share exclude stock-based compensation expense, amortization of product rights, transaction-related expenses, acquisition accounting adjustments related to inventory sold and the gain on the divestiture of certain product rights.
“We laid out our strategic plan in June 2011 to transform the Company and we continue to make significant progress towards our goals,” said Craig A. Collard, Chief Executive Officer. “We closed the acquisition of EKR Therapeutics and we expect to complete our integration on schedule by the end of Q3. We are integrating quickly and have identified up to $18 million in annualized expenses related to the EKR business which we believe we can eliminate as we align our sales force, reduce administrative resources and combine our operations.”
As part of the acquisition of EKR Therapeutics, Inc., on June 26, 2012 Cornerstone acquired full product rights to CARDENE® I.V. and RETAVASE®. Cornerstone began to actively market CARDENE I.V. at the end of the second quarter to the hospital channel alongside CUROSURF. CARDENE I.V. net product sales for the period from the acquisition date to June 30, 2012 were $736,000. CARDENE I.V. net product sales from January 1, 2012 through the acquisition date were approximately $26 million. These pre-acquisition sales are unaudited and not included in Cornerstone’s historical financial results.
In July 2012, Cornerstone announced that the FDA approved CRTX 067, the generic of the Tussionex® product.
“We are excited about expanding our generic portfolio of products and look forward to launching this product before the start of the upcoming respiratory season,” commented Collard.
On July 24, 2012 the FDA announced that the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee (CRDAC) had scheduled a review of the NDA for CRTX 080, Cornerstone’s investigational candidate for the treatment of symptomatic hypervolemic and euvolemic hyponatremia associated with heart failure and syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH), respectively. The advisory committee meeting is scheduled for September 13, 2012 in advance of the October 29, 2012 Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date.
A breakdown of net revenues by product for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2012 (in thousands, except percentages) follows:
Three Months Ended Six Months Ended June 30, Change June 30, Change ---------------- ------------ ---------------- ------------- 2012 2011 $ % 2012 2011 $ % ------- ------- ------- --- ------- ------- -------- --- Net product sales CUROSURF $ 9,269 $ 8,547 $ 722 8% $16,882 $16,055 $ 827 5% ZYFLO product family 10,788 6,585 4,203 64 23,236 13,997 9,239 66 CARDENE product family 736 - 736 NM 736 - 736 NM ALLERX® Dose Pack products (131) 9,173 (9,304) NM (1,125) 20,754 (21,879) NM Anti- infective products 172 3,556 (3,384) (95) 3,093 9,633 (6,540) (68) Other products 637 103 534 518 806 (2,500) 3,306 NM ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- Total net product sales 21,471 27,964 (6,493) (23) 43,628 57,939 (14,311) (25) License and royalty agreement revenues - 75 (75) NM 4 97 (93) (96) ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------- Net revenues $21,471 $28,039 $(6,568) (23) $43,632 $58,036 $(14,404) (25) ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ========
Gross margin (exclusive of license and royalty agreement revenues and amortization of product rights) for the second quarter of 2012 was 59%, as compared to gross margin of 67% in the second quarter of 2011. The lower gross margin was primarily due to a relatively higher percentage of total net product sales derived from products with lower gross margins, specifically CUROSURF.
Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased $2.7 million, or 23%, for the second quarter of 2012 compared to the second quarter of 2011. The decrease was primarily due to a reduction in certain employee-related costs driven by the divestiture of the anti-infective product rights and respiratory sales force in March 2012.
As of June 30, 2012, the Company had $38.6 million in cash and cash equivalents compared to $74.0 million at December 31, 2011. The decrease primarily represents the cash-on-hand used to help fund the EKR Therapeutics acquisition.
Conference Call Information
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. ET today to discuss financial results. To participate in the live conference call, please dial 888-461-2023 (U.S. callers) or 719-325-2436 (international callers), and provide passcode 6297534. A live webcast of the call will also be available through the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website. Please allow extra time prior to the webcast to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
The conference call and webcast will be archived for 30 days. The telephone replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after completion of the call by dialing 888-203-1112 (U.S. callers) or 719-457-0820 (international callers) and providing passcode 6297534.
About Cornerstone Therapeutics
Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRTX), headquartered in Cary, N.C., is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on commercializing products for the hospital, niche respiratory and related specialty markets. Key elements of the Company’s strategy are to focus its commercial and development efforts in the hospital and related specialty product sector within the U.S. pharmaceutical marketplace; continue to seek out opportunities to acquire companies and marketed and/or registration-stage products that fit within the Company’s focus areas; and generate revenues by marketing approved generic products through the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Aristos Pharmaceuticals, Inc. For more information, visit www.crtx.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release highlights the Company’s financial results on both a GAAP and a non-GAAP basis. The GAAP results include certain costs and charges that are excluded from non-GAAP results. By publishing the non-GAAP financial measures, management intends to provide investors with additional information to further analyze the Company’s performance and underlying trends. Management evaluates results and makes operating decisions using both GAAP and non-GAAP measures included in this press release. Non-GAAP results are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, and non-GAAP information should be considered a supplement to, and not a substitute for, financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Investors and potential investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures attached to this press release. For more information about these non-GAAP measures, please see Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on March 6, 2012 and Part I, Item 2 of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to be filed with the SEC on August 9, 2012.
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements in this press release regarding the progress and timing of our product development programs and related trials; our future opportunities; our strategy, future operations and opportunities, including our plans regarding the manner and timing for the manufacture and sale of our newly-acquired cardiovascular products, anticipated financial position, future revenues and projected costs; our management’s prospects, plans and objectives; and any other statements about management’s future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospects constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Any statements that are not statements of historical fact (including, without limitation, statements containing the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions) should also be considered to be forward-looking statements.
There are a number of important factors that could cause our actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including risks relating to our “critical accounting estimates"; our ability to develop and maintain the necessary sales, marketing, supply chain, distribution and manufacturing capabilities to commercialize our products; our ability to replace the revenues from our marketed unapproved products, which we ceased manufacturing and distributing at the end of 2010, our propoxyphene products, which we voluntarily withdrew from the U.S. market in November 2010 at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, and our anti-infective products, which we divested in March 2012; the adverse impact of returns of previously sold inventory; patient, physician and third-party payer acceptance of our products as safe and effective therapeutic products; our heavy dependence on the commercial success of a relatively small number of currently marketed products; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals to market and sell our products; our ability to obtain FDA approval to manufacture, market and sell our products and product candidates, including our lixivaptan compound, CRTX 080, and RETAVASE; our ability to enter into additional strategic licensing, product acquisition, collaboration or co-promotion transactions on favorable terms, if at all; our ability to manage and control unknown liabilities in connection with any acquisitions; our ability to successfully manage growth or integrate acquired businesses and operations; our ability to maintain compliance with NASDAQ listing requirements; adverse side effects experienced by patients taking our products; difficulties relating to clinical trials, including difficulties or delays in the completion of patient enrollment, data collection or data analysis; the results of preclinical studies and clinical trials with respect to our product candidates and whether such results will be indicative of results obtained in later clinical trials; our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates before our competitors develop and commercialize competing products; our ability to satisfy FDA and other regulatory requirements; our substantial indebtedness and debt covenants; and our ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for our products and product candidates and the other factors described in Item 1A (Risk Factors) of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 6, 2012 and in our subsequent filings with the SEC. If one or more of these factors materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or achievements may vary materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
In addition, the statements in this press release reflect our expectations and beliefs only as of the date of this release. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause our expectations and beliefs to change. However, while we may elect to update these forward-looking statements publicly at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, business development transactions, joint ventures or investments that we may make or enter into. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date after the date of this release.
TRADEMARKS
CUROSURF® is owned by Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A and is licensed to Cornerstone Therapeutics for sales and marketing purposes in the United States. CARDENE® I.V. and RETAVASE® are registered trademarks of EKR Therapeutics, Inc. ZYFLO CR® and ZYFLO® are registered trademarks of Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. Tussionex® is owned by UCB Manufacturing, Inc.
FINANCIAL TABLES FOLLOW
CORNERSTONE THERAPEUTICS INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME (UNAUDITED) (In thousands, except share and per share data) Three Months Ended Six Months Ended June 30, June 30, ------------------------ ------------------------ 2012 2011 2012 2011 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Net revenues $ 21,471 $ 28,039 $ 43,632 $ 58,036 Costs and expenses: Cost of product sales (exclusive of amortization of product rights) 8,901 9,189 17,587 19,223 Selling, general and administrative 8,890 11,604 19,812 24,874 Research and development 686 614 1,731 1,173 Gain on divestiture of product rights - - (1,492) - Transaction-related expenses 5,438 - 6,180 - Amortization of product rights 3,189 6,092 8,490 9,686 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Total costs and expenses 27,104 27,499 52,308 54,956 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- (Loss) income from operations (5,633) 540 (8,676) 3,080 Other expenses: Interest expense, net (113) (42) (115) (83) ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Total other expenses (113) (42) (115) (83) ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- (Loss) income before income taxes (5,746) 498 (8,791) 2,997 ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Benefit from (provision for) income taxes 1,393 (301) 2,613 (1,058) ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Net (loss) income $ (4,353) $ 197 $ (6,178) $ 1,939 =========== =========== =========== =========== Comprehensive (loss) income $ (4,353) $ 197 $ (6,178) $ 1,939 =========== =========== =========== =========== Net (loss) income per share, basic $ (0.17) $ 0.01 $ (0.24) $ 0.08 =========== =========== =========== =========== Net (loss) income per share, diluted $ (0.17) $ 0.01 $ (0.24) $ 0.07 =========== =========== =========== =========== Weighted-average common shares, basic 26,058,941 25,673,667 25,937,656 25,577,314 =========== =========== =========== =========== Weighted-average common shares, diluted 26,058,941 26,246,073 25,937,656 26,167,997 =========== =========== =========== =========== CORNERSTONE THERAPEUTICS INC. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In thousands, except share and per share data) June 30, 2012 December 31, (Unaudited) 2011 ------------ ------------ Assets Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 38,558 $ 73,968 Accounts receivable, net 19,566 11,894 Inventories, net 41,740 9,419 Prepaid expenses 3,567 3,753 Income tax receivable 1,691 1,900 Deferred income tax asset 36 2 Other current assets 14,389 6,112 ------------ ------------ Total current assets 119,547 107,048 ------------ ------------ Property and equipment, net 1,762 1,574 Product rights, net 253,050 106,960 Goodwill 37,473 15,218 Amounts due from related parties - 38 Deferred income tax asset, less current portion - 523 Other assets 179 953 ------------ ------------ Total assets $ 412,011 $ 232,314 ============ ============ Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity Current liabilities: Accounts payable $ 22,244 $ 10,012 Accrued expenses 44,099 37,125 Acquisition-related contingent payments 6,134 - Deferred revenue 381 1,428 Other current liabilities 451 90 ------------ ------------ Total current liabilities 73,309 48,655 ------------ ------------ Acquisition-related contingent payments, less current portion 40,454 8,800 Long-term debt 89,489 - Deferred tax liability 32,765 - Other long-term liabilities 5,031 56 ------------ ------------ Total liabilities 241,048 57,511 ------------ ------------ Stockholders’ equity Preferred stock - $0.001 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding - - Common stock - $0.001 par value, 90,000,000 shares authorized; 26,202,162 and 25,803,864 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively 26 26 Additional paid-in capital 165,541 163,203 Retained earnings 5,396 11,574 ------------ ------------ Total stockholders’ equity 170,963 174,803 ------------ ------------ Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $ 412,011 $ 232,314 ============ ============ CORNERSTONE THERAPEUTICS INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (In thousands) Six Months Ended June 30, -------------------------- 2012 2011 ------------ ------------ Cash flows from operating activities Net (loss) income $ (6,178) $ 1,939 Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities: Amortization and depreciation 8,788 7,429 Provision for prompt payment discounts 1,257 1,998 Provision for (recovery) of inventory allowances 261 (235) Acquisition accounting adjustment on inventory sold 159 - Gain on sale of product rights (1,492) - Impairment of product rights - 2,500 Stock-based compensation 1,343 884 Deferred revenue (1,047) (24,765) Provision for deferred income taxes (1,943) 468 Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable (1,205) 48,645 Inventories (1,080) 1,366 Prepaid expenses and other assets 6,995 9,009 Accounts payable 8,492 1,358 Accrued expenses (17,414) (7,925) Income taxes receivable 209 (1,212) ------------ ------------ Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities (2,855) 41,459 ------------ ------------ Cash flows from investing activities Acquisition of business, net of cash acquired (125,920) - Purchase of property and equipment (99) (333) Proceeds from sale of product rights 3,000 - ------------ ------------ Net cash used in investing activities (123,019) (333) ------------ ------------ Cash flows from financing activities Proceeds from term loans 90,000 - Proceeds of debt financing costs (511) - Proceeds from exercise of common stock options and warrants 818 311 Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation 256 452 Payments related to net settlement of restricted stock (79) - Principal payments on capital lease obligation (20) (41) ------------ ------------ Net cash provided by financing activities 90,464 722 ------------ ------------ Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents (35,410) 41,848 Cash and cash equivalents as of beginning of period 73,968 50,945 ------------ ------------ Cash and cash equivalents as of end of period $ 38,558 $ 92,793 ============ ============ Supplemental schedule of non-cash investing and financing activities Acquisition of business, contingent consideration at fair value $ 37
