SERA PROGNOSTICS REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS
Sera Prognostics Inc. (Nasdaq: SERA) reported its second quarter financial results for 2022, achieving a revenue of $78,000, up from $20,000 in Q2 2021. Operating expenses rose to $11.8 million, compared to $7.4 million in the previous year. The net loss for the quarter was $11.5 million, widening from $6.3 million a year ago. The company highlighted improved performance of the PreTRM test and contracts with new self-insured employer plans. As of June 30, 2022, cash and equivalents stood at approximately $121 million.
- Revenue increased to $78,000 from $20,000 in Q2 2021.
- Improved performance of the PreTRM test, with nearly 90% sensitivity for preterm delivery prediction.
- Secured contracts with new self-insured employer plans for PreTRM testing.
- Operating expenses rose to $11.8 million from $7.4 million YoY.
- Net loss widened to $11.5 million from $6.3 million YoY.
- Selling and administrative expenses increased significantly due to scaling operations.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sera Prognostics Inc., The Pregnancy Company® (Nasdaq: SERA), focused on improving maternal and neonatal health by providing innovative pregnancy biomarker information to doctors and patients, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Recent Highlights:
- Executed on Sera's strategy of pursuing healthcare systems where administrative and clinical leadership are aligned on incorporating PreTRM testing efficiently as an add-on to comprehensive services provided to pregnant women.
- Contracted with several new self-insured employer plans to incorporate PreTRM testing as an advanced pregnancy benefit.
- Demonstrated improved performance of the PreTRM test over an expanded time window for collecting blood, now from 18-20 weeks, allowing physicians to more easily schedule patients for preterm risk evaluation.
- Showed a sensitivity of nearly
90% for spontaneous preterm delivery risk prediction and a very high negative predictive value of99% in a patient whose PreTRM test is interpreted to be "Lower Risk". - Streamlined operations to meet our commercial plans, expand adoption of the PreTRM® Test and enable the Company to extend its operations into 2026 without the need for additional financing.
"We see a sizeable opportunity to increase awareness of our PreTRM® Test and build adoption within a variety of health systems," said Gregory C. Critchfield, MD, MS, Chairman and CEO of Sera Prognostics. "As example of many such systems, we are making demonstrable progress in contracting with self-insured employers who become adopters because they see the immediate value in managing escalating healthcare costs and offering important benefits to attract and retain talented employees. We anticipate additional clinical and health economic publications that further illustrate the clinical utility and benefit of PreTRM® technology, supporting the achievement of our vision to improve the well-being of mothers and newborns and decreasing healthcare costs."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Second quarter 2022 revenue of
Total operating expenses were
Research and development expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were
Net loss for the second quarter of 2022 was
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had cash, cash equivalents, and available-for-sale securities of approximately
Conference Call Information
Sera Prognostics will host a corresponding conference call and live webcast today to discuss second quarter 2022 operational highlights, financial results and key topics at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may do so by dialing the following:
US domestic callers: (866) 218-2405
International callers: (412) 902-6607
Webcast Registration Link: https://app.webinar.net/JMrRmxrD9Qj
Live audio of the webcast will be available online from the Investors page of the Company's website at www.seraprognostics.com. The webcast will be archived on the Investors page and will be available for one year.
About Sera Prognostics, Inc.
Sera Prognostics is a leading health diagnostics company dedicated to improving the lives of women and babies through precision pregnancy care. Sera's mission is to deliver early, pivotal information in pregnancy to physicians, enabling them to improve the health of their patients, resulting in reductions in the costs of healthcare delivery. Sera has a robust pipeline of innovative diagnostic tests focused on the early prediction of preterm birth risk and other complications of pregnancy. Sera's precision medicine PreTRM® Test reports to a physician the individualized risk of spontaneous premature delivery in a pregnancy, enabling earlier proactive interventions in women with higher risk. Sera Prognostics is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
About Preterm Birth
Preterm birth is defined as any birth before 37 weeks' gestation and is the leading cause of illness and death in newborns. The 2021 March of Dimes Report Card shows that more than one in ten infants is born prematurely. Prematurity is associated with a significantly increased risk of major long-term medical complications, including learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, chronic respiratory illness, intellectual disability, seizures, and vision and hearing loss, and can generate significant costs throughout the lives of affected children. The annual health care costs to manage short- and long-term complications of prematurity in the United States were estimated to be approximately
About the PreTRM® Test
The PreTRM® test is the only broadly validated, commercially available blood-based biomarker test that provides an early, accurate and individualized risk prediction for spontaneous preterm birth in asymptomatic singleton pregnancies. The PreTRM® test measures and analyzes proteins in the blood that are highly predictive of preterm birth. The PreTRM® test permits physicians to identify, during the 19th or 20th week of pregnancy, which women are at increased risk for preterm birth, enabling more informed, personalized clinical decisions based on each woman's individual risk. The PreTRM® test is ordered by a medical professional.
Sera Prognostics, the Sera Prognostics logo, The Pregnancy Company, and PreTRM are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sera Prognostics, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to healthcare systems aligning on incorporating PreTRM testing as an add-on to comprehensive services provided to pregnant women; expanded adoption of the PreTRM® Test; the Company extending its operations into 2026 without the need for additional financing; demonstrable progress in contracting with self-insured employers; additional clinical and health economic publications that further illustrate the clinical utility and benefit of PreTRM® technology; the Company's strategy, future operations, prospects, plans, objectives of management; the Company's planned conference call and live webcast to discuss the quarter's operational highlights, financial results and key topics; availability of audio of the webcast online from the Investors page of the Company's website; and the company's strategic directives under the caption "About Sera Prognostics, Inc." These "forward-looking statements" are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: net losses, cash generation, and the potential need to raise more capital; revenues from the PreTRM test representing substantially all Company revenues to date; the need for broad scientific and market acceptance of the PreTRM test; a concentrated number of material customers; our ability to introduce new products; potential competition; our proprietary biobank; critical suppliers; the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our operations, as well as the business or operations of third parties with whom we conduct business; estimates of total addressable market opportunity and forecasts of market growth; potential third-party payer coverage and reimbursement; new reimbursement methodologies applicable to the PreTRM test, including new CPT codes and payment rates for those codes; changes in FDA regulation of laboratory-developed tests; the intellectual property rights protecting our tests and market position; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Annual Reports on Form 10-K, or Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC from time to time. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC. Condensed Statements of Operations (unaudited) (in thousands, except share and per share data) | |||||||
Three Months Ended | Six Months Ended | ||||||
2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||
Revenue | $ 78 | $ 20 | $ 116 | $ 33 | |||
Operating expenses: | |||||||
Cost of revenue | 56 | 8 | 76 | 13 | |||
Research and development | 3,261 | 2,824 | 6,583 | 5,221 | |||
Selling and marketing | 4,219 | 1,740 | 8,677 | 3,090 | |||
General and administrative | 4,288 | 2,829 | 8,826 | 5,116 | |||
Total operating expenses | 11,824 | 7,401 | 24,162 | 13,440 | |||
Loss from operations | (11,746) | (7,381) | (24,046) | (13,407) | |||
Interest expense | (18) | 2 | (22) | (305) | |||
Other income, net | 244 | 1,072 | 340 | 1,046 | |||
Net loss | $ (11,520) | $ (6,307) | $ (23,728) | $ (12,666) | |||
Net loss per share, basic and diluted | $ (0.37) | $ (3.17) | $ (0.77) | $ (6.70) | |||
Weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding, basic and diluted | 30,945,616 | 1,988,886 | 30,873,995 | 1,890,908 |
SERA PROGNOSTICS, INC. Condensed Balance Sheets (unaudited) (in thousands) | |||
June 30, | December 31, | ||
Assets | |||
Current assets: | |||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ 53,891 | $ 58,932 | |
Marketable securities | 53,021 | 46,183 | |
Accounts receivable | 73 | 27 | |
Other receivables | 55 | 3,116 | |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 1,009 | 1,993 | |
Total current assets | 108,049 | 110,251 | |
Property and equipment, net | 2,967 | 1,773 | |
Long-term marketable securities | 13,677 | 34,848 | |
Other assets | 363 | 157 | |
Total assets | $ 125,056 | $ 147,029 | |
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity | |||
Current liabilities: | |||
Accounts payable | $ 783 | $ 1,197 | |
Accrued and other current liabilities | 2,962 | 3,885 | |
Deferred rent, current portion | — | 139 | |
Finance lease obligation, current portion | 456 | 74 | |
Deferred revenue | 3,102 | 3,116 | |
Total current liabilities | 7,303 | 8,411 | |
Finance lease obligation, net of current portion | 848 | 54 | |
Total liabilities | 8,151 | 8,465 | |
Commitments and contingencies | |||
Stockholders' equity: | |||
Common stock, Class A and Class B | 3 | 3 | |
Additional paid-in capital | 307,916 | 305,212 | |
Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (818) | (183) | |
Accumulated deficit | (190,196) | (166,468) | |
Total stockholders' equity | 116,905 | 138,564 | |
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity | $ 125,056 | $ 147,029 |
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