Lantheus Holdings, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results

July 28, 2021 |

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Lantheus Holdings, Inc., an established leader and fully integrated provider of innovative imaging diagnostics, targeted therapeutics and artificial intelligence solutions to find, fight and follow serious medical conditions, reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2021.

July 28, 2021 11:00 UTC

Worldwide revenue of $101.1 million for the second quarter 2021, representing an increase of 53.1% from the prior year period
GAAP net loss of $26.7 million for the second quarter 2021, compared to GAAP net loss of $7.0 million in the prior year period
GAAP fully diluted net loss of $0.39 for the second quarter 2021, compared to GAAP fully diluted net loss of $0.16 in the prior year period; adjusted fully diluted EPS of $0.11 for the second quarter 2021, compared to adjusted fully diluted EPS of $0.10 in the prior year period
Net cash provided by operating activities was $25.9 million for the second quarter 2021. Free cash flow was $23.2 million in the second quarter 2021
The Company provides third quarter 2021 revenue and adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance; increases full year guidance

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNTH) (Lantheus), an established leader and fully integrated provider of innovative imaging diagnostics, targeted therapeutics and artificial intelligence solutions to find, fight and follow serious medical conditions, today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2021.

The Company’s worldwide revenue for the second quarter of 2021 totaled $101.1 million, compared with $66.0 million for the second quarter of 2020, representing an increase of 53.1% from the prior year period.

The Company’s second quarter 2021 GAAP net loss was $26.7 million, or $0.39 per fully diluted share, as compared to GAAP net loss of $7.0 million, or $0.16 per fully diluted share for the second quarter of 2020.

The Company’s second quarter 2021 adjusted fully diluted earnings per share were $0.11, as compared to $0.10 for the second quarter of 2020, representing an increase of 8.1% from the prior year period.

Lastly, net cash provided by operating activities was $25.9 million for the second quarter 2021. Free Cash Flow was $23.2 million in the second quarter of 2021, representing an increase of approximately $27.6 million from the prior year period.

“Our second quarter was highlighted by the FDA approval of PYLARIFY, the first and only commercially available PSMA PET imaging agent for prostate cancer, and the strong performance of DEFINITY which exceeded pre COVID-19 levels,” said Mary Anne Heino, President and Chief Executive Officer. “With the investments Lantheus has made and continues to make in the business, we’ve laid the foundation to take full advantage of our diversified portfolio of products. We remain committed to delivering on our financial commitments while positively impacting the lives of the patients we serve and delivering shareholder value.”

Outlook

The Company updates its guidance for full year 2021 and offers the following guidance for the third quarter.

	Q3 Guidance Issued July 28, 2021	Previous Guidance Issued May 4, 2021
Q3 FY 2021 Revenue	$95 million - $100 million	N/A
Q3 FY 2021 Adjusted Diluted EPS	$0.05 - $0.07	N/A
	FY Guidance Updated July 28, 2021	FY Guidance Issued May 4, 2021
FY 2021 Revenue	$395 million - $402 million	$390 million - $400 million
FY 2021 Adjusted Diluted EPS	$0.38 - $0.42	$0.36 - $0.41

On a forward-looking basis, the Company does not provide GAAP income per common share guidance or a reconciliation of adjusted fully diluted EPS to GAAP income per common share because the Company is unable to predict with reasonable certainty business development and acquisition related expenses, purchase accounting fair value adjustments (including liability accruals relating to the contingent value rights issued as part of the Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. acquisition), and any one-time, non-recurring charges. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could be material to results computed in accordance with GAAP. As a result, it is the Company’s view that a quantitative reconciliation of adjusted fully diluted EPS on a forward-looking basis is not available without unreasonable effort.

Internet Posting of Information

The Company routinely posts information that may be important to investors in the “Investors” section of its website at www.lantheus.com. The Company encourages investors and potential investors to consult its website regularly for important information about the Company.

Conference Call and Webcast

As previously announced, the Company will host a conference call and webcast on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. ET. To access the live conference call via telephone, please dial 1-866-498-8390 (U.S. callers) or 1-678-509-7599 (international callers) and provide passcode 6149638. A live webcast will be available in the Investors section of the Company’s website at www.lantheus.com.

A replay of the audio webcast will be available in the Investors section of our website at www.lantheus.com approximately two hours after completion of the call and will be archived for 30 days.

The conference call will include a discussion of non-GAAP financial measures. Reference is made to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures, the reconciliation of the differences between the two financial measures, and the other information included in this press release, our Form 8-K filed with the SEC today, or otherwise available in the Investor Relations section of our website located at www.lantheus.com.

The conference call may include forward-looking statements. See the cautionary information about forward-looking statements in the safe-harbor section of this press release.

About Lantheus Holdings, Inc.

Lantheus Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and EXINI Diagnostics AB and an established leader and fully integrated provider committed to innovative imaging diagnostics, targeted therapeutics and artificial intelligence solutions to Find Fight and Follow^® serious medical conditions. Lantheus provides a broad portfolio of products, including the echocardiography agent DEFINITY^® Vial for (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) Injectable Suspension; PYLARIFY^®, a PSMA PET imaging agent for the detection of suspected recurrent or metastatic prostate cancer; TechneLite^® (Technetium Tc99m Generator), a technetium-based generator that provides the essential medical isotope used in nuclear medicine procedures; AZEDRA^® for the treatment of certain rare neuroendocrine tumors; and RELISTOR^® for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation, which is partnered with Bausch Health Companies, Inc. The Company is headquartered in North Billerica, Massachusetts with offices in New York, New Jersey, Canada and Sweden. For more information, visit www.lantheus.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures, such as adjusted net income and its line components; adjusted net income per share - fully diluted; and free cash flow. The Company’s management believes that the presentation of these measures provides useful information to investors. These measures may assist investors in evaluating the Company’s operations, period over period. However, these measures may exclude items that may be highly variable, difficult to predict and of a size that could have a substantial impact on the Company’s reported results of operations for a particular period. Management uses these and other non-GAAP measures internally for evaluation of the performance of the business, including the allocation of resources and the evaluation of results relative to employee performance compensation targets. Investors should consider these non-GAAP measures only as a supplement to, not as a substitute for or as superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, that are subject to risks and uncertainties and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements may be identified by their use of terms such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “confident,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “will” and other similar terms. Such forward-looking statements are based upon current plans, estimates and expectations that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those described in the forward-looking statements. The inclusion of forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation that such plans, estimates and expectations will be achieved. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained herein, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law. Risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to materially differ from those described in the forward-looking statements include: (i) the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on our business, financial conditions and prospects, and on the timing and enrollment of our clinical trials; (ii) continued market expansion and penetration for our commercial products, particularly DEFINITY, in the face of segment competition and potential generic competition, including as a result of patent and regulatory exclusivity expirations; (iii) our ability to successfully launch PYLARIFY as a commercial product, including (A) our ability to obtain U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for additional PET manufacturing facilities (“PMFs”) that could manufacture PYLARIFY, (B) the ability of those PMFs to supply PYLARIFY to customers, and (C) our ability to sell PYLARIFY to customers; (iv) the global Molybdenum-99 supply; (v) our products manufactured at Jubilant HollisterStier and our recently-approved modified formulation of DEFINITY (“DEFINITY RT”) to be commercially manufactured at Samsung Biologics; (vi) the continued integration of the Progenics products and product candidate portfolio into our business following the Progenics Acquisition; (vii) our ability to use in-house manufacturing capacity; (viii) the efforts and timing for commercialization of products or new clinical applications for our products that we or our strategic partners may develop, including flurpiridaz F 18; (ix) our ability to develop highly contextualized assessments of disease burden using artificial intelligence (“AI”); and (x) the risk and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including those described in the Risk Factors section in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q).

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Lantheus Holdings, Inc. Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per share data – unaudited)

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Revenues	$	101,064	$	66,010	$	193,573	$	156,714
Cost of goods sold	54,976		40,162		106,455		92,864
Gross profit	46,088		25,848		87,118		63,850
Operating expenses
Sales and marketing	17,631		6,305		31,804		16,435
General and administrative	43,177		20,670		59,315		37,369
Research and development	12,061		4,418		22,421		8,466
Total operating expenses	72,869		31,393		113,540		62,270
Gain on sale of assets	—		—		15,263		—
Operating (loss) income	(26,781)		(5,545)		(11,159)		1,580
Interest expense	1,937		1,914		4,655		3,860
Gain on extinguishment of debt	—		—		(889)		—
Other income	(182)		(756)		(731)		(1,106)
Loss before income taxes	(28,536)		(6,703)		(14,194)		(1,174)
Income tax (benefit) expense	(1,879)		309		3,455		2,501
Net loss	$	(26,657)	$	(7,012)	$	(17,649)	$	(3,675)
Net loss per common share:
Basic	$	(0.39)	$	(0.16)	$	(0.26)	$	(0.09)
Diluted	$	(0.39)	$	(0.16)	$	(0.26)	$	(0.09)
Weighted-average common shares outstanding:
Basic	67,505		43,135		67,300		41,284
Diluted	67,505		43,135		67,300		41,284


Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Consolidated Revenues Analysis
(in thousands – unaudited)

	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2021		2020 ⁽¹⁾		% Change		2021		2020 ⁽¹⁾		% Change
DEFINITY	$	59,842	$	37,125	61.2	%	$	115,813	$	89,630	29.2	%
TechneLite	23,772		18,668		27.3	%	46,572		41,447		12.4	%
Other precision diagnostics	6,742		7,140		(5.6)	%	13,726		20,197		(32.0)	%
Total precision diagnostics	90,356		62,933		43.6	%	176,111		151,274		16.4	%
Radiopharmaceutical oncology	2,812		2,183		28.8	%	4,312		4,151		3.9	%
Strategic partnerships and other	7,896		894		783.2	%	13,150		1,289		920.2	%
Total revenues	$	101,064	$	66,010	53.1	%	$	193,573	$	156,714	23.5	%

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The Company reclassified rebates and allowances of $3.5 million and $8.2 million within each product category, which included $3.2 million and $7.5 million for DEFINITY, $0.3 million and $0.6 million for TechneLite and zero and $0.1 million for other precision diagnostics, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.


Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures
(in thousands, except per share data – unaudited)

	Three Months Ended June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2021			2020			2021			2020
Net loss	$	(26,657)		$	(7,012)		$	(17,649)		$	(3,675)
Stock and incentive plan compensation	4,588			3,385			7,905			6,460
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	6,074			927			10,759			1,319
Acquired debt fair value adjustment	—			—			(307)			—
Contingent consideration fair value adjustments	25,600			—			25,900			—
Non-recurring refinancing related fees	—			460			—			460
Non-recurring severance related fees	92			—			528			—
Extinguishment of debt	—			—			(889)			—
Gain on sale of assets	—			—			(15,263)			—
Integration costs	11			1,201			30			3,573
Acquisition-related costs	767			7,517			664			8,929
Impairment of long-lived assets	—			—			—			7,275
Other	43			—			53			(75)
Income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments^(a)	(2,731)			(1,940)			(648)			(5,446)
Adjusted net income	$	7,787		$	4,538		$	11,083		$	18,820
Adjusted net income, as a percentage of revenues	7.7		%	6.9		%	5.7		%	12.0		%


	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net loss per share - diluted	$	(0.39)	$	(0.16)	$	(0.26)	$	(0.09)
Stock and incentive plan compensation	0.07		0.08		0.12		0.14
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	0.08		0.02		0.16		0.03
Acquired debt fair value adjustment	—		—		(0.01)		—
Contingent consideration fair value adjustments	0.37		—		0.38		—
Non-recurring refinancing related fees	—		0.01		—		0.01
Non-recurring severance related fees	—		—		0.01		—
Extinguishment of debt	—		—		(0.01)		—
Gain on sale of assets	—		—		(0.23)		—
Integration costs	—		0.03		—		0.09
Acquisition-related costs	0.02		0.18		0.01		0.22
Impairment of long-lived assets	—		—		—		0.18
Other	—		—		—		—
Income tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments^(a)	(0.04)		(0.06)		(0.01)		(0.13)
Adjusted net income per share - diluted	$	0.11	$	0.10	$	0.16	$	0.45
Weighted-average common shares outstanding - diluted	68,705		43,303		68,281		41,702

(a) The income tax effect of the adjustments between GAAP net loss and non-GAAP adjusted net income takes into account the tax treatment and related tax rate that apply to each adjustment in the applicable tax jurisdiction.


Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Reconciliation of Free Cash Flow
(in thousands – unaudited)

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities	$	25,869	$	(2,156)	$	35,687	$	7,252
Capital expenditures	(2,656)		(2,255)		(5,176)		(4,953)
Free cash flow	$	23,213	$	(4,411)	$	30,511	$	2,299


Lantheus Holdings, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands – unaudited)

	June 30, 2021		December 31, 2020
Assets
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	91,500	$	79,612
Accounts receivable, net	54,892		54,002
Inventory	31,719		35,744
Other current assets	8,102		9,625
Assets held for sale	—		5,242
Total current assets	186,213		184,225
Property, plant and equipment, net	118,493		120,171
Intangibles, net	365,259		376,012
Goodwill	61,189		58,632
Deferred tax assets, net	64,777		70,147
Other long-term assets	61,871		60,634
Total assets	$	857,802	$	869,821
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities
Current portion of long-term debt and other borrowings	$	10,372	$	20,701
Accounts payable	21,471		16,284
Accrued expenses and other liabilities	41,983		41,726
Liabilities held for sale	—		1,793
Total current liabilities	73,826		80,504
Asset retirement obligations	14,797		14,020
Long-term debt, net and other borrowings	169,249		197,699
Other long-term liabilities	91,790		63,393
Total liabilities	349,662		355,616
Total stockholders’ equity	508,140		514,205
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	857,802	$	869,821