Babylon Holdings Limited Reiterates Q1 Guidance and 12 May Earnings Call

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Babylon Holdings Limited (NYSE:BBLN) experienced significant trading activity on April 22, 2022, with over 45 times the average daily volume. This surge coincided with the expiration of a 6-month lock-up affecting approximately 230 million shares following its NYSE debut on October 22, 2021. The company reported no additional corporate developments related to this activity and reaffirmed its earlier guidance from the Q4 2021 earnings release.

Babylon will hold its Q1 2022 earnings call on May 12, 2022.

PALO ALTO, Calif. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Babylon Holdings Limited (NYSE:BBLN) (“Babylon”) notes the movement in its share price on April 22, 2022, with over 45x the average daily trading volume seen since its NYSE listing on October 22, 2021, concurrent with the expiry of Babylon’s 6-month lock-up of approximately 230,000,000 shares following its listing.

Babylon knows of no corporate developments, other than the lock-up expiration, to account for the unusual market activity. Babylon reaffirms its guidance provided in its Q4 2021 earnings release on March 10, 2022.

As previously announced, Babylon plans to hold its Q1 2022 earnings call on May 12, 2022.

About Babylon

Babylon is one of the world’s fastest growing digital healthcare companies whose mission is to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for every person on Earth.

Babylon is re-engineering how people engage with their care at every step of the healthcare continuum. By flipping the model from reactive sick care to proactive healthcare through the devices people already own, it offers millions of people globally ongoing, always-on care. Babylon has already shown that in environments as diverse as the developed UK or developing Rwanda, urban New York or rural Missouri, for people of all ages, it is possible to achieve its mission by leveraging its highly scalable, digital-first platform combined with high quality, virtual clinical operations to provide integrated, personalized healthcare.

Founded in 2013, Babylon’s technology and clinical services is supporting a global patient network across 15 countries, and is capable of operating in 16 languages. And through a combination of its value-based care model, Babylon 360, and its work in primary care through NHS GP at Hand, Babylon managed over 440k lives globally from the start of 2022. In 2021 alone, Babylon helped a patient every 6 seconds, with approximately 5.2 million consultations and AI interactions. Importantly, this was achieved with a 93% user retention rate and 4 or 5 star ratings from more than 95% of our users.

Babylon is already working with governments, health providers, employers and insurers across the globe in order to provide them with a new infrastructure that any partner can use to deliver high-quality healthcare with lower costs and better outcomes. For more information, please visit www.babylonhealth.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events or our future financial or operating performance. When used in this press release, the words “estimates,” “projected,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “forecasts,” “plans,” “intends,” “believes,” “seeks,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “future,” “propose” and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, information concerning Babylon’s possible or assumed future results of operations, business strategies, debt levels, competitive position, industry environment and potential growth opportunities.

These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions, or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside of Babylon’s management’s control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors include, but are not limited to our future financial and operating results and that we may require additional financing; uncertainties related to our ability to continue as a going concern; the growth of our business and organization; our failure to compete successfully; our ability to renew contracts with existing customers, and risks of contract renewals at lower fee levels, or significant reductions in members, pricing or premiums under our contracts due to factors outside our control; our dependence on our relationships with physician-owned entities; our ability to maintain and expand a network of qualified providers; our ability to increase engagement of individual members or realize the member healthcare cost savings that we expect; a significant portion of our revenue comes from a limited number of customers; the uncertainty and potential inadequacy of our claims liability estimates for medical costs and expenses; risks associated with estimating the amount and timing of revenue recognized under our licensing agreements and value-based care agreements with health plans; risks associated with our physician partners’ failure to accurately, timely and sufficiently document their services; risks associated with inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of members in records and submissions to health plans; risks associated with reduction of reimbursement rates paid by third-party payers or federal or state healthcare programs; risks associated with regulatory proposals directed at containing or lowering the cost of healthcare, including the ACO REACH model; immaturity and volatility of the market for telemedicine and our unproven digital-first approach; our ability to develop and release new solutions and services; the impact of COVID-19 or any other pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States or worldwide on our business; and the other risks and uncertainties identified in Babylon’s Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on March 30, 2022, and in other documents filed or to be filed by Babylon with the SEC and available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Babylon cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive and cautions you not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as required by law, Babylon does not undertake any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release.

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Adam Davison

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Source: Babylon Holdings Limited

FAQ

What caused the significant share price movement for BBLN on April 22, 2022?

The surge in BBLN's share price was attributed to the expiration of a 6-month lock-up period affecting approximately 230 million shares.

When did Babylon Holdings Limited go public on the NYSE?

Babylon Holdings Limited went public on the NYSE on October 22, 2021.

What was the trading volume for BBLN on April 22, 2022?

On April 22, 2022, BBLN experienced over 45 times its average daily trading volume.

When is Babylon's Q1 2022 earnings call scheduled?

Babylon's Q1 2022 earnings call is scheduled for May 12, 2022.