Orexo — Blue Skies

Orexo — Blue Skies

The growing US Zubsolv franchise continues to drive Orexo’s quarterly performance. Total Q3 revenue growth of c 30% puts Orexo in an attractive position with potential business development partners. Orexo’s Q318 results were the first since Zubsolv’s exclusivity was strengthened for another 13 years in the US, so with Zubsolv sales growing by 1.2% q-o-q in Q3, against the backdrop of a 0.3% decline in the buprenorphine/naloxone market volumes, and continued material CoGS improvements, Orexo is moving from strength to strength.

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Orexo

Blue Skies

Q3 results

Pharma & biotech

29 October 2018

Price

SEK62.50

Market cap

SEK2,163m

$/SEK9.1; €/SEK10.39

Net cash (SEKm) at end-Q318

196.4

Shares in issue

34.6m

Free float

53.8%

Code

ORX

Primary exchange

NASDAQ QMX Stockholm

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(4.4)

45.4

22.6

Rel (local)

7.3

58.5

33.2

52-week high/low

SEK72.9

SEK29.1

Business description

Orexo is a Swedish speciality pharma company, with expertise in drug delivery/reformulation technologies (in particular sublingual formulations) and a US commercial infrastructure for its opioid dependence therapy, Zubsolv (out-licensed to a partner in Europe). It also has two other clinical assets and a Phase I product.

Next events

OX124 Phase I start

Q418

FY18 results

January 2018

Product in-licensing/M&A

Ongoing

Analyst

Andy Smith

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Orexo is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

The growing US Zubsolv franchise continues to drive Orexo’s quarterly performance. Total Q3 revenue growth of c 30% puts Orexo in an attractive position with potential business development partners. Orexo’s Q318 results were the first since Zubsolv’s exclusivity was strengthened for another 13 years in the US, so with Zubsolv sales growing by 1.2% q-o-q in Q3, against the backdrop of a 0.3% decline in the buprenorphine/naloxone market volumes, and continued material CoGS improvements, Orexo is moving from strength to strength.

Year end

Revenue (SEKm)

PBT*
(SEKm)

EPS*
(SEK)

DPS
(SEK)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/16

705.9

35.6

0.84

0.0

74.4

N/A

12/17

643.7

29.7

0.67

0.0

93.3

N/A

12/18e

860.7

163.4

5.38

0.0

11.6

N/A

12/19e

948.6

154.1

4.32

0.0

14.5

N/A

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.

Q318 results

Total net revenues in Q318 were SEK216.6m, a 30.3% y-o-y increase, slightly below our estimates due to lower royalties from Abstral and Edluar. The main event – Zubsolv US revenue – was SEK165.4m (up 36.6% y-o-y in SEK terms, 24.3% in local currency), SEK4.4m above our estimates. The manufacturing efficiency programme reduced CoGS to SEK42.4m; lower than our recently reduced Q3 estimates of SEK49.6m and including a SEK1.5m stability testing cost. Gross cash balance at end-Q3 was SEK516.6m (SEK494.8m at end-Q218). Selling expenses of SEK51.5m were one-third lower than our estimates (despite integrating the US contract salesforce), as were R&D expenses, which, at SEK37.5m, were c 18% below our estimates. Administrative expenses of SEK50.8m were 60% higher than our estimates due to the SEK31.2m legal expense for the IP litigations. We have made adjustments accordingly but keep to FY18 opex guidance of c SEK500m. Profitability was enhanced by a SEK31.8m tax adjustment, which we are assuming was not a one-off and in Q318, it more than offset the IP litigation costs.

New CFO, same company

Joseph DeFeo’s promotion to CFO from head of finance and operations at Orexo US should be positively received by investors. The next strategic steps for Orexo are in-licensing of products and M&A to complement Orexo’s US commercial operation (c 76% of total sales in Q318). These business development activities are crucial for Orexo’s future success, as the wrong product, or overpaying for complementary products, could damage returns. The new CFO is as close to the US operations as anyone can be and should be cognisant of juggling these issues.

Valuation: Virtually unchanged

We have revised our model for net cash and exchange rates. Our valuation increases only slightly to SEK3.4bn or SEK97.1 per share from SEK3.3bn or SEK94.5 per share previously.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

SEKm

2015

2016

2017

2018e

2019e

Year-end 31 December

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

INCOME STATEMENT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue

 

 

 

643.3

705.9

643.7

860.7

948.6

Cost of Sales

 

 

 

(136.1)

(149.6)

(164.4)

(178.2)

(196.0)

Gross Profit

 

 

 

507.3

556.3

479.3

682.5

752.6

Reported operating profit

 

 

(169.0)

51.7

57.4

170.6

197.7

Net Interest

 

 

 

(22.1)

(16.1)

(27.7)

(7.1)

(43.6)

Profit before tax (reported)

 

 

(191.1)

35.6

29.7

163.4

154.1

Reported tax

 

 

 

(6.9)

(6.5)

(6.5)

27.2

(4.6)

Profit after tax (reported)

 

 

(198.0)

29.0

23.2

190.6

149.5

Minority interests

 

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

4.6

0.0

Net income (reported)

 

 

(198.0)

29.0

23.2

186.0

149.5

Basic average number of shares outstanding

 

34.0

35.0

35.0

34.6

34.6

EPS - basic reported (SEK)

 

 

(5.74)

0.84

0.67

5.38

4.32

EPS - normalised fully diluted

 

 

(5.74)

0.84

0.67

5.33

4.25

BALANCE SHEET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixed assets

 

 

 

185.9

185.1

176.5

212.2

204.8

Intangible assets

 

 

159.1

138.2

121.0

105.6

95.4

Tangible assets

 

 

24.7

22.1

20.1

20.5

23.2

Investments & other

 

 

2.1

24.8

35.4

86.1

86.1

Current assets

 

 

830.4

833.7

827.4

1,100.3

1,257.2

Stocks

 

 

 

398.9

344.2

250.2

150.0

150.0

Debtors

 

 

 

233.4

178.5

249.3

415.0

366.7

Cash & cash equivalents

 

 

198.1

282.4

327.9

535.3

740.6

Other

 

 

 

0.0

28.6

0.0

0.0

0.0

Current liabilities

 

 

(251.6)

(309.5)

(349.9)

(457.1)

(457.1)

Creditors

 

 

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Short-term borrowings

 

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Other

 

 

 

(251.6)

(309.5)

(349.9)

(457.1)

(457.1)

Long-term liabilities

 

 

(498.3)

(399.0)

(324.9)

(326.8)

(326.8)

Long-term borrowings

 

 

(494.4)

(397.8)

(319.1)

(320.2)

(320.2)

Other long-term liabilities

 

 

(3.9)

(1.3)

(5.8)

(6.6)

(6.6)

Net assets

 

 

 

266.5

310.3

329.1

528.6

678.1

Shareholders' equity

 

 

266.5

310.3

329.1

528.6

678.1

CASH FLOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating cash flow before WC and Tax

 

(119.4)

67.5

108.1

145.9

161.8

Working capital

 

 

17.2

88.7

0.0

78.8

48.3

Exceptional & other

 

 

(20.6)

(20.8)

(37.2)

(15.4)

(43.6)

Tax

 

 

 

(6.9)

(7.5)

0.0

(16.3)

(4.6)

Net operating cash flow

 

 

(102.2)

156.2

146.6

224.7

210.1

Capex

 

 

 

(4.1)

0.5

(1.6)

(4.4)

(4.9)

Acquisitions/disposals

 

 

21.8

5.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Equity financing

 

 

3.8

2.2

0.1

0.0

0.0

Other

 

 

 

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.4

0.0

Net cash flow

 

 

 

(80.7)

163.9

145.1

189.9

205.3

Opening Net debt (cash)

 

 

209.3

296.3

115.4

(8.8)

(215.1)

Other

 

 

 

(6.4)

17.0

(20.9)

18.9

0.0

Closing Net debt (cash)

 

 

296.3

115.4

(8.8)

(215.1)

(420.4)

Source: Orexo, Edison Investment Research

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