SEC Form 10-Q filed by Compass Therapeutics Inc.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
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Auditor Firm Id: 596 |
Auditor Name: CohnReznick LLP |
Auditor Location: Melville, NY U.S.A. |
Table of Contents
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss (Unaudited) |
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Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Unaudited) |
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Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements |
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations |
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Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss (Unaudited)
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (Unaudited)
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
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Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation |
Compass Therapeutics, Inc. (“Compass” or the “Company”) is a clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary antibody-based therapeutics to treat multiple human diseases. Our scientific focus is on the relationship between angiogenesis and the immune system. Our pipeline includes novel product candidates that leverage our understanding of the tumor microenvironment, including both angiogenesis-targeted agents and immune-oncology focused agents. These product candidates are designed to optimize critical components required for an effective anti-tumor response to cancer. These include modulation of the microvasculature via angiogenesis-targeted agents; induction of a potent immune response via activators on effector cells in the tumor microenvironment; and alleviation of immunosuppressive mechanisms used by tumors to evade immune surveillance. We plan to advance our product candidates through clinical development as both standalone therapies and in combination with our proprietary drug candidates as long as their continued development is supported by clinical and nonclinical data. References to Compass or the Company herein include Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries.
The Company is subject to risks and uncertainties common to companies in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. There can be no assurance that the Company’s research and development will be successfully completed, that adequate protection for the Company’s technology will be obtained, that any products developed will obtain necessary government regulatory approval or that any approved products will be commercially viable. The Company operates in an environment of rapid change in technology and substantial competition from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. In addition, the Company is dependent upon the services of its employees and consultants.
In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all normal and recurring adjustments (which consist primarily of accruals, estimates and assumptions that impact the financial statements) considered necessary to present fairly the Company’s consolidated financial position as of March 31, 2025 and its consolidated results of operations, comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025.
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Compass Therapeutics, Inc. and its subsidiaries, and have been prepared by the Company in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) for interim financial statements. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2024 has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. Accordingly, these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited financial statements in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 (the “Annual Report”).
Liquidity
Since our inception, we have devoted substantially all of our efforts to organizing and staffing our Company, business planning, raising capital, research and development activities, building our intellectual property portfolio and providing general and administrative support for these operations. We have funded our operations with proceeds from the sale of our equity securities and borrowing from debt arrangements. Through March 31, 2025, we have received $
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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
There have been no material changes to the significant accounting policies previously disclosed in the Company’s Annual Report.
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Fair Value Measurements |
The following tables represent the Company’s financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis and indicate the level of the fair value hierarchy utilized to determine such fair values (in thousands):
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Fair Value Measurements as of December 31, 2024 (000's): |
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Marketable Securities |
The objectives of the Company’s investment policy are to ensure the safety and preservation of invested funds, as well as to maintain liquidity sufficient to meet cash flow requirements. The Company invests its excess cash in securities issued by financial institutions, commercial companies, and government agencies that management believes to be of high credit quality in order to limit the amount of its credit exposure. The Company has not realized any net losses from its investments.
Unrealized gains and losses on investments that are available for sale are recognized in accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income, unless an unrealized loss is considered to be other than temporary, in which case the unrealized loss is charged to operations. The Company periodically reviews its investments for other than temporary declines in fair value below cost basis and whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable.
The Company believes the individual unrealized losses represent temporary declines primarily resulting from interest rate changes. Realized gains and losses are included in other income in the condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss and are determined using the specific identification method with transactions recorded on a trade date basis. The Company classifies marketable securities that are available for use in current operations as current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheet.
The following tables summarize marketable securities held (in thousands):
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Property and Equipment |
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Commitments and Contingencies |
Leases
The Company has evaluated its leases under ASC 842, Leases, and determined that it has one lease that is classified as an operating lease. The classification of this lease is consistent with the Company’s determination under the previous accounting standard.
When available, the Company will use the rate implicit in the lease to discount lease payments to present value; however, the Company’s current lease does not provide an implicit rate. Therefore, the Company used its incremental borrowing rate of
The Company has operating lease for its corporate office and laboratory facility (“Facility”) that was signed in December 2020. The Company moved into the Facility in January 2021. The Facility lease has an initial term of years and five months, beginning on January 1, 2021.
The terms of the Facility lease were modified effective September 27, 2024 through the execution of a new lease. The modified terms extended the non-cancelable lease term through May 2031. The modified terms also included the right to use an additional
Lease costs related to the Facility were $
The table below presents the undiscounted cash flows for the lease term. The undiscounted cash flows are reconciled to the operating lease liabilities recorded on the condensed consolidated balance sheet (in thousands):
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Defined Contribution Plan
The Company has a 401(k) defined contribution plan (the “401(k) Plan”) for substantially all its employees. Eligible employees may make pre-tax or post-tax (Roth) contributions to the 401(k) Plan up to statutory limits. The Company matches employee contributions to the plan up to
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Stock-Based Compensation |
Stock-based compensation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 was classified in the condensed consolidated statement of operations as follows (in thousands):
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As of March 31, 2025, the remaining unrecognized stock-based compensation cost from all plans to be recognized in future periods totaled $
2020 Plan
In June 2020, the Company’s board of directors adopted the 2020 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”) and reserved
The 2020 Plan authorizes the board of directors or a committee of the board to grant incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, restricted stock awards and restricted stock units ("RSUs") to eligible officers, employees, consultants and directors of the Company. Options generally vest over a period of years and have a contractual life of years from the date of grant.
Stock Options:
The following table summarizes the stock option activity for the 2020 Plan:
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For the three months ended March 31, 2025, the weighted average grant date fair value for options granted was $
For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the weighted average grant date fair value for options granted was $
The weighted average assumptions used in the Black-Scholes pricing model to determine the fair value of stock options granted during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:
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The following table summarizes the RSU activity for the 2020 Plan:
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The weighted average price per share is the weighted grant price based on the closing market price of each of the stock grants. The weighted average fair value is the weighted average share price times the number of shares.
As of March 31, 2025, the remaining unrecognized compensation cost related to RSUs to be recognized in future periods totaled $
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Related Parties and Related-Party Transactions |
There were no material related party transactions during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
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Other Income |
Other income consists exclusively of interest income of $
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License, Research and Collaboration Agreements |
Collaboration Agreements
ABL Bio Corporation ("ABL Bio") Agreement
In November 2018, the Company and ABL Bio, a South Korean biotechnology company, entered into an exclusive global (excluding South Korea) license agreement which granted the Company a license to tovecimig (ABL001), ABL Bio’s bispecific antibody targeting DLL4 and VEGF-A. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies would jointly develop tovecimig, with ABL Bio responsible for development of tovecimig throughout the end of Phase 1 clinical trials and the Company responsible for the development of tovecimig from Phase 2 and onward. ABL Bio received a $
In May 2021, the Company and ABL Bio terminated license agreements to several preclinical assets. As a result of the return of these assets to ABL Bio and termination of the license agreements, the Company is eligible to receive royalty payments if ABL Bio develops or licenses two bispecific antibodies that were previously licensed to the Company.
Adimab Agreement
The Company entered into a collaboration agreement with Adimab, LLC on October 16, 2014. The agreement includes provisions for payment of royalties at rates ranging in the single digits as a percentage of future net sales within a specified term from the first commercial sale for certain antibodies, including our product candidate, CTX-471. There were milestone payments made during the first quarter of 2025. As of March 31, 2025, future potential milestone payments in connection with this agreement amounted to $
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Segment Information |
Segment reporting is prepared on the same basis that our chief executive officer, who is our CODM, manages the business, makes operating decisions and assesses performance. The Company operates in one segment. The Company’s business is research and development of drug candidates. Costs, including supplies, outsourced development, and other research and development costs are tracked by major program. While internal personnel costs are tracked by program for overall program spending, it is not broken out for management review. Facility and equipment costs are not allocated to programs. Research and development expenses are summarized by program in the table below:
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion of the financial condition and results of operations of Compass Therapeutics, Inc. should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to those statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risk, uncertainties and assumptions. You should read the “Risk Factors” section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the “Risk Factors” section included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.
Overview
We are a clinical-stage, oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary antibody-based therapeutics. Our scientific focus is on the relationship between angiogenesis, the immune system, and tumor growth. Our pipeline of novel product candidates is designed to target multiple critical biological pathways required for an effective anti-tumor response. These include modulation of the microvasculature via angiogenesis-targeted agents, induction of a potent immune response via activators on effector cells in the tumor microenvironment, and alleviation of immunosuppressive mechanisms used by tumors to evade immune surveillance. We plan to advance our product candidates through clinical development as both standalone therapies and in combination with proprietary pipeline antibodies based on supportive clinical and nonclinical data.
Our pipeline comprises three clinical product candidates and one candidate in investigational new drug application (“IND”) enabling studies. Our lead product candidate, tovecimig (formerly known as CTX-009), is a bispecific antibody targeting Delta-like ligand 4 (“DLL4”), a ligand of Notch-1, and vascular endothelial growth factor A (“VEGF-A”). Simultaneous blockade of the VEGF-A and the Notch pathways is known to turn productive angiogenesis into non-productive angiogenesis, which leads to tumor shrinkage and apoptosis. CTX-471, is an agonistic antibody targeting a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 9 (TNFRSF9), also known as CD-137, a co-stimulatory receptor which is mostly expressed on activated, but not on resting, T-cells and NK cells. CTX-8371, is a bispecific antibody targeting the programmed cell death protein-1 (“PD-1”), an inhibitory immune checkpoint receptor and its ligand PD-L1, two validated immune-oncology targets. In addition, we are in the process of IND enabling studies with CTX-10726, a bispecific antibody targeting PD-1 and VEFG-A. For a more detailed description, see our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
Recent Developments
Tovecimig Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase 2/3 Study in the Second Line Setting for Patients with BTC
On April 1, 2025, we announced that tovecimig in combination with paclitaxel achieved a 17.1% overall response rate (“ORR”), including one complete response, compared to a 5.3% ORR for paclitaxel alone, in patients with biliary tract cancer (“BTC”) treated in the second-line setting. The difference in ORR between the two treatment arms, the primary endpoint of the study, was statistically significant (p=0.031), and all responses were assessed by blinded independent central radiology (BICR) review. The study also showed differences between treatment arms for other efficacy measures, including progressive disease (“PD”) rates of 16.2% in patients on tovecimig in combination with paclitaxel versus 42.1% in patients on paclitaxel alone. We also announced that the safety profile of tovecimig in this study to date was consistent with prior studies of tovecimig. An independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) reviewed safety data at four separate (pre-specified) DMC meetings and, after each meeting, recommended continuation of the study without modification.
The pre-specified number of events required to trigger the analyses of the secondary endpoints, including progression free survival (“PFS”), overall survival (“OS”) and duration of response (“DoR”), have not yet been met and we expect to report these endpoints in the fourth quarter of 2025.
First Patient Dosed in IST of Tovecimig in the First-Line Setting for Patients with BTC
On April 21, 2025, we announced that the first patient had been dosed in an Investigator Sponsored Trial (“IST”) to evaluate tovecimig for the first time in the front-line setting for patients with BTC. The IST is being conducted at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Tovecimig is being added to a standard first-line regimen of gemcitabine, cisplatin, and durvalumab in an estimated 50 patients with unresectable or metastatic BTC. The study will have a standard safety run-in phase in 12 patients followed by an expansion phase in which 38 additional patients will be treated. The primary objectives in the study are to assess 6-month progression-free survival, to assess the tolerability and safety of this combination, and to determine the maximum tolerated dose of tovecimig in this combination. Secondary objectives include ORR, DoR, PFS and OS. For more information on the IST, please see study identifier: NCT06548412 on www.clinicaltrials.gov.
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
We have funded our operations primarily with proceeds from the sale of our equity securities. Through March 31, 2025, we have received $430 million in gross proceeds from the sale of equity securities.
We have incurred significant operating losses since inception and have not generated any revenue from the sale of products and we do not expect to generate any revenue from the sale of products in the near future, if at all. Our ability to generate product revenue sufficient to achieve profitability will depend heavily on the successful development and eventual commercialization of our treatments and any future product candidates. Our net losses were $16.6 million and $10.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We had an accumulated deficit of $381.3 million on March 31, 2025. We expect to continue to incur significant expenses for at least the next several years as we advance through clinical development, develop additional product candidates and seek regulatory approval of any product candidates that complete clinical development. In addition, if we obtain marketing approval for any product candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution. We may also incur expenses in connection with the in-licensing or acquisition of additional product candidates.
As a result, we will need substantial additional funding to support our continuing operations and pursue our growth strategy. Until such time as we can generate significant revenue from product sales, if ever, we expect to finance our operations through equity and debt financings, or other capital sources, which may include collaborations with other companies or other strategic transactions. As of March 31, 2025, we had $113 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. We expect that such cash resources will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements into the first quarter of 2027. We may be unable to raise additional funds or enter into such other agreements or arrangements when needed on favorable terms, or at all. If we fail to raise capital or enter into such agreements as and when needed, we may have to significantly delay, reduce or eliminate the development and commercialization of one or more of our product candidates or delay our pursuit of potential in-licenses or acquisitions.
Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with product development, we are unable to predict the timing or amount of increased expenses or when, or if, we will be able to achieve or maintain profitability. Even if we are able to generate product sales, we may not become profitable. If we fail to become profitable or are unable to sustain profitability on a continuing basis, then we may be unable to continue our operations at planned levels and be forced to reduce or terminate our operations. Our financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
Components of Results of Operations
Research and Development
Research and development expenses consist primarily of costs incurred in connection with the development of our product candidates, tovecimig, CTX-471, CTX-8371 and CTX-10726. We expense research and development costs as incurred. These expenses include:
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manufacturing expenses including Contract Manufacturing Organizations (“CMO”), consultants that are primarily engaged to develop and manufacture drug substance and product for our clinical trials, as well as the cost of acquiring and manufacturing clinical trial materials, including manufacturing registration and validation batches; |
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employee-related expenses including salaries, related benefits and equity-based compensation expense for employees engaged in research and development functions; |
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Advance payments that we make for goods or services to be received in the future for use in research and development activities are recorded as prepaid expenses. Such amounts are recognized as an expense as the goods are delivered or the related services are performed, or until it is no longer expected that the goods will be delivered or the services rendered.
Product candidates in later stages of clinical development generally have higher development costs than those in earlier stages of clinical development, primarily due to the increased size and duration of later-stage clinical trials. We expect that our research and development expenses will increase substantially in connection with our planned clinical development activities in the future. At this time, we cannot accurately estimate or know the nature, timing and costs of the efforts that will be necessary to complete the clinical development of any future product candidates.
The successful development and commercialization of product candidates is highly uncertain. This is due to the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with product development and commercialization.
General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and related costs for personnel in executive, finance, business development and administrative functions. General and administrative expenses also include legal fees relating to patent and corporate matters, professional fees for accounting, auditing, tax, insurance, administrative travel expenses and other operating costs.
We anticipate that our general and administrative expenses will increase in the future as we increase our headcount to support our business operations.
Other Income
Other income consists of interest income on marketable securities.
Results of Operations
Comparison of the Three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):
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Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses increased by $3.5 million, or 37%, for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase primarily came from $2.0 million more in manufacturing expenses related to tovecimig and $1.3 million related to our new program CTX-10726.
We track outsourced development, personnel costs and other research and development costs of specific programs. Research and development expenses are summarized by program in the table below (in thousands):
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General and Administrative Expenses
General and administrative expenses increased by $1.7 million or 51% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024. The increase was primarily from $1.0 more of stock compensation expense and higher bonus expense.
Other income
Other income decreased by $0.7 million or 33% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024. Other income consisted exclusively of interest income.
Income Tax Expense
During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, we recognized no income tax expense.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Since our inception, we have devoted substantially all of our efforts to organizing and staffing our Company, business planning, raising capital, research and development activities, building our intellectual property portfolio and providing general and administrative support for these operations. We have funded our operations primarily with proceeds from the sale of our equity securities. Through March 31, 2025, we have received $430 million in gross proceeds from the sale of equity securities. As of March 31, 2025, we had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $113 million.
Cash Flows
The following table shows a summary of our cash flows for the periods indicated (in thousands):
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Operating Activities
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we used $13.2 million of cash in operating activities, resulting from our net loss of $16.6 million partially offset by the change in operating assets and liabilities of $0.5 million and non-cash charges of $2.9 million (primarily from share-based compensation expense of $2.5 million).
During the three months ended March 31, 2024, we used $13.9 million of cash in operating activities, resulting from our net loss of $10.8 million plus the change in operating assets and liabilities of $5.2 million, partially offset by non-cash charges of $2.1 million (primarily from share-based compensation expense of $2.0 million).
Investing Activities
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, $11.6 million of cash was provided by investing activities related to the net sale of marketable securities. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, $4.1 million of cash was used in investing activities related to the net sale of marketable securities.
Financing Activities
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, $0.8 million of cash was used in financing activities due to taxes paid by the company for settlement of RSU shares. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, $17.4 million of cash was provided by financing activities. This primarily included $17.6 million of net cash from sale of common stock under an ATM Agreement, after issuance costs.
Future Funding Requirements
We expect our expenses to increase substantially in connection with our ongoing activities. The timing and amount of our operating expenditures will depend largely on:
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the outcome, timing and cost of seeking and obtaining regulatory approvals from the FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities, including the potential for such authorities to require that we perform more nonclinical studies or clinical trials than those that we currently expect or change their requirements on studies that had previously been agreed to; |
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the cost to establish, maintain, expand, enforce and defend the scope of our intellectual property portfolio, including the amount and timing of any payments we may be required to make, or that we may receive, in connection with licensing, preparing, filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing any patents or other intellectual property rights; |
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We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements into the first quarter of 2027. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could exhaust our available capital resources sooner than we expect. Our current plans, which may change based on clinical or pre-clinical results, include studies for tovecimig, CTX-471, and CTX-8371 and IND enabling studies for CTX-10726. We expect that we will require additional funding to complete the clinical development of these programs including the payment of developmental milestones, commercializing our product candidates, if we receive regulatory approval, and pursuing in-licenses or acquisitions of other product candidates. If we receive regulatory approval for tovecimig, CTX-471, CTX-8371, CTX-10726 or other product candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product manufacturing, sales, marketing and distribution, depending on where we choose to commercialize these product candidates ourselves.
Until such time, if ever, as we can generate substantial product revenue, we expect to finance our cash needs through a combination of equity and debt financings, collaborations, strategic alliances, and marketing, distribution or licensing arrangements with third parties. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, ownership interest may be materially diluted, and the terms of such securities could include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a common stockholder. Debt financing and preferred equity financing, if available, may involve agreements that include restrictive covenants that limit our ability to take specified actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends. If we raise funds through collaborations, strategic alliances or marketing, distribution or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, future revenue streams, research programs or product candidates or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us. If we are unable to raise additional funds through equity or debt financings or other arrangements when needed, we may be required to delay, reduce or eliminate our product development or future commercialization efforts, or grant rights to develop and market product candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
Not applicable since we are a smaller reporting company.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Management’s Evaluation of Our Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer), evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, as of March 31, 2025. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2025, our Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act, that occurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2025 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
As of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we are not involved in any material legal proceedings. However, from time to time, we could be subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of our business activities. Regardless of the outcome, legal proceedings can have an adverse impact on us because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.
In addition to the other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the risk factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, which could materially affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations. There has been no material change in the risk factors described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 28, 2024, with the exception of the addition of the following risk factor:
The Company may be adversely impacted by recently announced tariff programs
In February, March and April 2025, the U.S. imposed a series of tariffs, some of which have been temporarily paused. Historically, tariffs have led to increased trade and political tensions, between not only the U.S. and China, but also between the U.S. and other countries in the international community. In response to tariffs, other countries have implemented retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. Political tensions as a result of trade policies could reduce trade volume, investment, technological exchange and other economic activities between major international economies, resulting in a material adverse effect on global economic conditions and the stability of global financial markets. Any changes in political, trade, regulatory, and economic conditions, including U.S. trade policies, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. Until we know what policy changes are made, whether those policy changes are challenged and subsequently upheld by the court system and how those changes impact our business and the business of our competitors over the long term, we will not know if, overall, we will benefit from them or be negatively affected by them.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
None.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
During the three-month period ended March 31, 2025, of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) adopted, terminated or modified a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or any “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading agreement” (as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K).
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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