Oncocyte Reports Full Year 2023 Financial Results

IRVINE, Calif., April 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oncocyte Corporation (NASDAQ:OCX), a precision diagnostics company, today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Recent Highlights

• Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. commercial partnership for transplant monitoring IP
• $15.8 million in gross proceeds received from private placement offering
• $4.4 million and $3.8 million Q4 2023 and est. Q1 2024 cash burn, respectively
• GraftAssure™ transplant product launch on track for 2Q 2024

"In 2023, we made significant progress on cost controls and in the development of our transplant monitoring IP," said Josh Riggs, CEO of Oncocyte. "We achieved reimbursement for VitaGraft™ Kidney, manufactured the first lots of GraftAssure RUO, and ran a competitive partnering process that resulted in the announced Bio-Rad agreement. We look forward to working with them on the commercialization of GraftAssure RUO and the development of VitaGraft Kidney IVD. We continue to benefit from strong support from our core investors and welcome new ones in our recently completed $15.8 million private placement offering. With this partnership and financing we believe that we are well-positioned to meet our critical commercial and regulatory milestones."

2023 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Financial Results

Net revenue for the three months and year ended December 31, 2023, was $314,000 and $1.5 million, respectively, an increase of 15% compared to the fourth quarter 2022 and 57% compared to the full year 2022, due to increased revenue from Pharma Services.

Cost of revenues for the three months ended December 31, 2023 was $431,000, including $409,000 from the cost of diagnostic tests and testing services we performed for our Pharma Services customers, with the remaining cost from noncash amortization expense.

Cost of revenues for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $1.1 million, including $1.0 million from the cost of diagnostic tests and testing services we performed for our Pharma Services customers, with the remaining cost from noncash amortization expense.

Research and development expense for the three months and year ended December 31, 2023, was $2.5 million and $9.3 million, respectively, an increase of 85% compared to the fourth quarter 2022 and 27% compared to the full year 2022. The increases were driven by continued focused investment in developing manufacturable versions of assays including DetermaIO™, VitaGraft and DetermaCNI™.

Sales and marketing expense for the three months and year ended December 31, 2023, was $582,000 and $2.8 million, respectively, an increase of 74% compared to the fourth quarter 2022 and 147% compared to the full year 2022. The increases were primarily driven by a continued ramp in sales, marketing and commercialization activities related to the recent coverage decision and launch of VitaGraft Kidney.

General and administrative expense for the three months and year ended December 31, 2023, was $1.8 million and $11.2 million, respectively, a decrease of 66% compared to the fourth quarter 2022 and 49% compared to the full year 2022. The decreases were primarily due to decreased stock-based compensation and personnel expenses.

Loss from operations for the three months ended December 31, 2023, was $16.2 million, an increase of 39% compared to fourth quarter 2022. The 2023 loss from operations included a noncash loss of $11.2 million from the change in fair value of contingent consideration, compared to a gain of $13.9 million in 2022.

Loss from operations for the year ended December 31, 2023, was $25.1 million, an increase of 40% compared to the full year 2022. The 2023 loss from operations included a noncash gain of $5.8 million from the change in fair value of contingent consideration, compared to a gain of $31.0 million in 2022.

For Oncocyte's complete financial results for the year ended December 31, 2023, see the Company's annual Form 10-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2024.

Webcast and Conference Call Information

Oncocyte will host a conference call to discuss fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results prior to market open on Friday, April 12, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time / 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call may be accessed live via telephone by dialing toll free (888) 550-5422 for both domestic and international callers. Once dialed in, ask to be joined to the Oncocyte Corporation call. The live webcast of the call may be accessed by visiting the "Events & Presentation" section of the Company's website at https://investors.oncocyte.com.

About Oncocyte

Oncocyte is a precision diagnostics company. The Company's tests are designed to help provide clarity and confidence to physicians and their patients. VitaGraft™ is a clinical blood-based solid organ transplantation monitoring test, GraftAssure™ is a research use only blood-based solid organ transplantation monitoring test, DetermaIO™ is a gene expression test that assesses the tumor microenvironment to predict response to immunotherapies, and the pipeline test DetermaCNI™ is a blood-based monitoring tool for monitoring therapeutic efficacy in cancer patients. For more information, visit https://oncocyte.com/

VitaGraft™, GraftAssure™, DetermaIO™, and DetermaCNI™ are trademarks of Oncocyte Corporation.

Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements that are not historical fact (including, but not limited to statements that contain words such as "will," "believes," "plans," "anticipates," "expects," "estimates," "may," and similar expressions) are forward-looking statements. These statements include those pertaining to, among other things, the expectation that the Company and Bio-Rad will successfully commercialize GraftAssure RUO and develop VitaGraft Kidney IVD, the belief that the Company is well positioned to meet its critical commercial and regulatory milestones, and other statements about the future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans, or prospects expressed by management. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, risks inherent in the development and/or commercialization of diagnostic tests or products, uncertainty in the results of clinical trials or regulatory approvals, the capacity of Oncocyte's third-party supplied blood sample analytic system to provide consistent and precise analytic results on a commercial scale, potential interruptions to supply chains, the need and ability to obtain future capital, maintenance of intellectual property rights in all applicable jurisdictions, obligations to third parties with respect to licensed or acquired technology and products, the need to obtain third party reimbursement for patients' use of any diagnostic tests. Oncocyte or its subsidiaries commercialize in applicable jurisdictions, and risks inherent in strategic transactions such as the potential failure to realize anticipated benefits, legal, regulatory or political changes in the applicable jurisdictions, accounting and quality controls, potential greater than estimated allocations of resources to develop and commercialize technologies, or potential failure to maintain any laboratory accreditation or certification. Actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements and accordingly such statements should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect the business of Oncocyte, particularly those mentioned in the "Risk Factors" and other cautionary statements found in Oncocyte's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, which are available from the SEC's website. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they were made. Oncocyte undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made, except as required by law.

CONTACT:

Jeff Ramson

PCG Advisory

(646) 863-6893

[email protected]

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