News

January 4, 2023

Dear Shareholders,

With nearly a month left before we report our full fiscal year 2022 results, I am pleased to note that we have met our previously announced guidance and expect to report ~$80 million in top line revenues. Our full year results represent approximately 15% in year-over-year growth in the commercial business. We are also pleased to outline our fiscal year 2023 key objectives and strategies.

In guiding our focus for the new year, we are placing a strong emphasis on maintaining the solid growth of our commercial business, while allocating financial resources thoughtfully to achieve positive EBITDA by the end of 2023.

Under these principles of value creation, we aim to further strengthen our vibrant commercial businesses, while continuing to assess our TH1902 clinical trial and SORT1+ Technology^TM platform.

We believe these strategic steps will position us for top line growth for the foreseeable future.

Fiscal Year 2022 in Summary

We have been especially pleased with our FY2022 results, having worked to position our product portfolio for commercial success. We built out a dedicated salesforce in-house, removing our reliance on external contract organizations. This move has resulted in accelerated sales growth.

We are working towards driving long-term, sustainable, double-digit sales growth with an eye on achieving positive cash flow from operations in the near-term. Our medicines are also becoming more and more embedded in the workflow of prescribers as an option of choice that can play a major impact in the lives of people living with HIV.

During 2022, we also worked diligently to further improve Trogarzo^®’s method of administration and now have FDA approval for Trogarzo^®’s 30-Second Intravenous (IV) Push administration, simplifying the method of administration for heavily treatment-experienced populations. We are also working closely with our partner, TaiMed Biologics, in completing the development of an intra-muscular method of administration for Trogarzo^®, and subsequent filing of a new supplemental Biologics License Application (“sBLA”) with the FDA. These projects will serve to ensure lifecycle management of Trogarzo^® for years to come.

In HIV-associated lipodystrophy, we are on track to complete the Human Factors Study for EGRIFTA SV^® in the first half of 2023, and we are diligently completing the work associated to the sBLA filing for the F8 formulation of Tesamorelin with the FDA. We are also confident in successfully addressing the shortage of bacteriostatic water for injection by placing the sourcing of this drug component under our own control via the services of a third-party manufacturer. The further development of Tesamorelin allows Theratechnologies to maintain its positioning as one of the few options for drug developers to immediately partner with a company in order to launch a Phase 2b/3 NASH clinical trial.

Operationally, we made the difficult decision to withdraw our business from Europe in order to focus sales in the United States, a territory with optimal conditions for growing our commercial assets. Withdrawing from Europe was a difficult but necessary decision as it represents a region with unfavorable pricing regimes across many territories.

Both the NASH and HIV markets in the United States have considerable opportunity, and we believe that we are well positioned to capture market share in the future.

2023 Revenue Guidance

Having confidently developed the right strategy for commercial success, we have set full fiscal year 2023 revenue guidance to be in the range of $90 million and $95 million, representing growth of between 13% and 19% as compared to 2022. More encouragingly, in our commitment to hold fast to fiscal responsibility and also based on the strength of our commercial portfolio, we expect to end 2023 on a strong path to positive cash flow from operations, setting the stage for even more leverage in years to come. The commercial infrastructure we have built in the United States will also serve as a platform to grow both our current products, as well as potential new accretive product acquisitions or in-licensing of commercial assets.

TH1902 Development Pathway

Now, let me address what has been top of mind for many. We were disappointed to voluntarily pause enrollment in the Phase 1 clinical trial of TH1902; however, we believe it was the right decision for patients, the Company and our shareholders.

We believe there is a path forward for the development of TH1902, and to ensure we are heading in the right direction, we have formed a Scientific Advisory Committee comprised of internal and external independent experts in the development of oncology candidates. The mandate of this Scientific Advisory Committee is to optimize the protocol amendment for the development of TH1902.

Since announcing our decision to pause enrollment in the basket trial, we have had discussions with the FDA, and the agency has indicated that it agreed with our voluntary pause.

Further to our discussions with the FDA, we received a letter indicating that our Phase 1 clinical trial was placed on a partial clinical hold subject to our responses to a list of questions. We intend to respond to their questions along with the filing of the amended protocol. Questions raised by the FDA were already being addressed by our team as part of our sub-analysis of the data accumulated so far, and we are confident that we will be able to address all of their questions. Finally, the FDA indicated that their review of the protocol amendment would be completed within thirty days of submission.

The further development of TH1902 will be stage-gated and depend on the analysis of the data generated, and decisions will be carefully taken in the context of our goal to become EBITDA positive in 2023 and beyond.

Path to Positive Cash Flow from Operations in 2023 and Beyond

While we refine our plans around TH1902, our priority will be to rein in costs associated with its development and deploy those resources towards the Company’s path to positive cash flow from operations in 2023. In doing so, we believe that we will be able to generate increasing cash flow throughout the year, which will give us further leverage to build upon our commercial portfolio.

For future consideration, we have tasked our business development team to explore opportunities for additional commercialized assets which can be incorporated into our existing product portfolio, leveraging the strength of our commercial infrastructure in the United States.

We will remain laser-focused on continuing to build out our strong commercial portfolio, significantly improving patient care in the HIV space along the way, while continuing to pursue development opportunities in a financially responsible manner.

On behalf of the Theratechnologies team, I wish everyone a very happy and successful new year and look forward to our upcoming earnings call.

Sincerely,

Paul Lévesque
President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Non-IFRS Information

This press release includes measures that are not determined in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) or U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) including the financial measure “EBITDA”, that is used by us as an indicator of financial performance. EBITDA is obtained by adding to net profit or loss, finance income and costs, depreciation and amortization, and income taxes. Management believes that EBITDA can be considered as an useful indicator of our operating performance from one period to another and our ability to generate liquidity through cash flows from operating activities that may be used to fund future working capital needs. This measure excludes the effects of items that primarily reflect the impact of long-term investment and financing decisions, rather than the results of day-to-day operations.

Non-IFRS and non-U.S. GAAP financial measures do not have standardized meanings prescribed under IFRS or U.S. GAAP and our computation may differ from similarly-named computations as reported by other entities and, accordingly, may not be comparable. These financial measures should not be considered as an alternative to, or more meaningful than, measures of financial performance as determined in accordance with IFRS or U.S. GAAP as an indicator of performance. Non-IFRS measures also provide investors with insight into our decision making as we use these non-IFRS measures to make financial, strategic and operating decisions.

Forward-Looking Information

This letter contains forward-looking information within the meaning of securities regulation. The reader is advised to read the forward-looking information under the section “Forward-Looking Information” Section of the press release issued this day at https://www.theratech.com/news-releases/news-release-details/open-letter-shareholders-ceo-paul-levesque.