Basilea Pharmaceutica — Cresemba milestone payment triggered

Basilea Pharmaceutica (SIX: BSLN)

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Basilea Pharmaceutica — Cresemba milestone payment triggered

Basilea has announced that it has received a sales-related milestone payment of CHF20m from its US licensing partner Astellas Pharma. This was triggered by sales figures achieved in the US in 2022 for Basilea’s flagship antifungal therapy, Cresemba. It has now received a total of CHF50m in sales-related milestone payments from Astellas Pharma. As part of the agreement, Basilea is set to receive additional potential sales-based milestone payments of up to CHF240m, as well as double-digit royalties on US net sales. We maintain our valuation at CHF921.7m (CHF77.8 per share); however, we will update our figures once Basilea’s year-end results are announced in February.

Soo Romanoff

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Soo Romanoff

Managing Director - Head of Content, Healthcare

Healthcare

Basilea Pharmaceutica

Cresemba milestone payment triggered

Milestone update

Pharma and biotech

9 January 2023

Price

CHF48.1

Market cap

CHF569m

$1.07/CHF

Estimated net debt (CHFm) at 31 December 2022

73.1

Shares in issue

(excluding 1.15m treasury shares)

11.85m

Free float

90%

Code

BSLN

Primary exchange

SIX

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

Business description

Basilea Pharmaceutica is focused on treating infectious diseases. Its marketed products are Cresemba (an antifungal) and Zevtera (an anti-MRSA broad-spectrum antibiotic). The company plans to file for US approval for Zevtera.

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Basilea has announced that it has received a sales-related milestone payment of CHF20m from its US licensing partner Astellas Pharma. This was triggered by sales figures achieved in the US in 2022 for Basilea’s flagship antifungal therapy, Cresemba. It has now received a total of CHF50m in sales-related milestone payments from Astellas Pharma. As part of the agreement, Basilea is set to receive additional potential sales-based milestone payments of up to CHF240m, as well as double-digit royalties on US net sales. We maintain our valuation at CHF921.7m (CHF77.8 per share); however, we will update our figures once Basilea’s year-end results are announced in February.

Year

end

Revenue
(CHFm)

PBT*

(CHFm)

EPS*
(CHFc)

DPS
(CHFc)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/20

127.6

(29.6)

(288.5)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/21

148.1

(6.6)

(56.9)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/22e

120.7

(14.6)

(123.2)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/23e

131.3

9.0

66.0

0.0

0.73

N/A

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

The latest announcement marks what has been a busy period of positive newsflow from Basilea. Having honoured its debt repayment obligations with the full repayment (CHF113.8m) of outstanding convertible bonds in December 2022, Basilea’s licensing partner, Asahi Kasei, received marketing approval for Cresemba in Japan, a key market for Basilea. We continue to expect revenue growth to be driven by global Cresemba sales (US$363m between October 2021 and September 2022) and see the expansion of the drug into new territories as critical to extract further commercial value.

Additionally, we expect Basilea to file a new drug application to the FDA in early 2023 for the approval of the company’s lead antibiotic, Zevtera, in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia as the leading indication. The submission will be supported by the positive results from the ERADICATE and TARGET Phase III studies, representing the next key milestone for Basilea.

In our view, 2023 is poised to be a period of increased deal activity in the form M&A, licensing and partnerships in light of the macroeconomic environment and general make-up of the capabilities in the pharma market, as outlined in our analysis of the upcoming year. We believe Basilea’s portfolio of both commercial and clinical-stage assets may provide further differentiation within the market.

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