XOMA Royalty Corporation Stock Price, News & Analysis

XOMA Royalty (Nasdaq: XOMA) has announced quarterly cash dividend payments for its preferred stockholders. The company's Board of Directors has authorized dividends for two series of preferred stock:

- Holders of 8.625% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (Nasdaq: XOMAP) will receive $0.53906 per share

- Holders of 8.375% Series B Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock depositary shares (Nasdaq: XOMAO) will receive $0.52344 per depositary share, with each depositary share representing 1/1000 of a preferred share

Both dividend payments are scheduled for April 15, 2025, with a record date of April 3, 2025.

XOMA Royalty reported its Q4 and full year 2024 financial results, highlighting significant portfolio expansion and business achievements. The company doubled its royalty and milestone portfolio to over 120 assets through five transactions in 2024, including two whole company acquisitions.

Key financial metrics include:

• Q4 cash receipts: $4.0 million
• Full-year cash receipts: $46.3 million
• Q4 total income: $8.7 million
• Full-year total income: $28.5 million
• Year-end cash position: $106.4 million

Notable developments include FDA approvals for Day One's OJEMDA™ and Zevra's MIPLYFFA™. The company deployed $65 million to acquire new milestone and royalty assets and paid $5.5 million in dividends. However, XOMA recorded a net loss of $4.0 million in Q4 and $13.8 million for the full year 2024, primarily due to $30.9 million in non-cash credit losses on purchased receivables.

XOMA Royalty (NASDAQ: XOMA), a biotech royalty aggregator, has announced its Executive Team's upcoming participation in investor conferences scheduled for March 2025. The company will engage in one-on-one investor meetings during these events.

Presentations will be accessible through the investor relations section of XOMA's website (www.xoma.com). Each presentation will remain archived and available for replay on the site for a 90-day period following the respective events.

XOMA Royalty (NASDAQ: XOMA) has announced its participation in the upcoming Oppenheimer 35th Annual Healthcare Life Sciences Conference, scheduled for February 11-12, 2025. The virtual event will feature a fireside chat with CEO Owen Hughes and CIO Brad Sitko on February 11, 2025, at 3:20 PM ET.

The presentation will be accessible through a dedicated link and through XOMA's investor relations website section. Interested parties can access the replay of the presentation, which will remain archived on the company's website for 90 days following the event.

XOMA Royalty (Nasdaq: XOMA) has announced quarterly cash dividends for its preferred stockholders. The company will distribute $0.53906 per share to holders of 8.625% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (XOMAP) and $0.52344 per depositary share to holders of 8.375% Series B Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (XOMAO). Both dividends will be paid on January 15, 2025, to shareholders of record as of January 3, 2025.

XOMA Royalty has acquired Pulmokine for $20 million, gaining rights to seralutinib, a Phase 3 asset being developed for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The acquisition adds seralutinib as XOMA's seventh Phase 3 royalty asset, complementing its six commercial royalty assets. Seralutinib is being co-developed by Gossamer Bio and Chiesi Farmaceutici, with Phase 3 study results expected in Q4 2025. Through this acquisition, XOMA stands to receive up to $25 million in milestone payments and earn a low to mid-single digit royalty on commercial sales.

XOMA Royalty reported Q3 2024 financial results with total income of $7.2 million, including $6.5 million from commercial products. Cash receipts totaled $9.9 million in Q3 and $42.3 million for the first nine months of 2024. The company recorded a net loss of $17.2 million, primarily due to a $14.0 million non-cash impairment related to Agenus. Notable events include FDA approval of MIPLYFFA™ for Niemann-Pick disease Type C and acquisition of 50% economic interest in TWIST Bioscience's portfolio of 60-plus licensed early-stage assets. Cash position stood at $146.8 million as of September 30, 2024.

Twist Bioscience (NASDAQ: TWST) has entered into a royalty purchase agreement with XOMA Royalty (NASDAQ: XOMA). Under the agreement, XOMA Royalty will provide Twist with an upfront payment of $15 million in exchange for the right to receive half of the future potential milestone and royalty payments from Twist's existing antibody discovery and biopharma services collaborations.

Twist will retain all upfront, service, and other revenue from these collaborations, as well as full rights to future biopharma collaborations with milestone and royalty terms. The agreement does not apply to synbio, NGS, or data storage revenue. This deal aims to provide Twist with immediate capital to support continued innovation and profitable growth across the company.

XOMA Royalty announced that Zevra Therapeutics has received FDA approval for MIPLYFFA™ (arimoclomol), the first therapy approved for use in patients with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC). MIPLYFFA™ is approved for use in combination with miglustat to treat neurological manifestations of NPC in patients two years and older.

XOMA Royalty is entitled to receive a mid-single digit royalty on MIPLYFFA™ sales and up to $52.6 million in milestones. This approval marks MIPLYFFA™ as the sixth commercial asset in XOMA Royalty's portfolio. In June 2023, XOMA Royalty acquired these rights from LadRx for a $5 million upfront payment plus a share of future event-based milestones.