DGAP-News: Formycon AG: Formycon Publishes Figures for the First Quarter of 2019

Press Release // June 5, 2019
 

Formycon Publishes Figures for the First Quarter of 2019
 

- Sales and other earnings total EUR 9.5 million
 

- EBITDA is EUR 0.5 million
 

- Group revenues for 2019 are forecast to be EUR 35.0 million
 

Munich - The biosimilars company Formycon (ISIN: DE000A1EWVY8/ WKN: A1EWVY) presented the sales and earnings figures for the first quarter of 2019 today, showing a positive business development.
 

As the company announced today, the group sales, including other earnings, as of March 31 of this year amount to EUR 9.5 million (previous year, including special effect, in the amount of EUR 8.5 million: EUR 13.7 million). Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to EUR 0.5 million (previous year, including special effect: EUR 6.9 million). The operating result (EBIT) as well as the quarterly result totaled around EUR 0.2 million (previous year, including special effect: EUR 6.7 million).
 

The liquidity ratios of the Formycon Group in the first quarter of 2019 are as follows: Stocks of liquid assets, which comprise cash, checks, bank deposits and securities, totaled EUR 9.2 million at the end of March. Including short-term receivables from deliveries and services worth approximately EUR 7.0 million, Formycon held liquid assets of EUR 16.2 million on the day of reporting. Within the capital increase announcement on March 22, 2019, to the present day EUR 577,397.00 nominal and EUR 4,422,603.00 as an additional payment under the law of obligations, i.e. a total of EUR 5,000,000.00, have been paid into the company's capital increase account. In the first quarter of 2019, the previous inflow from the corporate action was offset by an additional contribution of EUR 5.1 million to the joint venture FYB 202 GmbH & Co. KG, the joint venture founded with Aristo Pharma. To date, Formycon has invested a total of around EUR 21.0 million in the development of FYB202.
 

The reported sales revenues result from reimbursements for development work in the licensed-out projects or projects developed in partnership. For the 2019 fiscal year, revenues in the amount of approximately EUR 35.0 million are expected at the group level.
 

In the first three months of the year, Formycon AG as the company's actual operational unit achieved a turnover of EUR 6.4 million (first quarter of 2018, including special effect: EUR 11.9 million). The three-month result of the joint stock company amounted to EUR 0.1 million compared to EUR 6.6 million in the same period last year (taking the special effect into consideration).
 

The number of employees increased as anticipated to 97 compared to 85 in the same period last year.
 

Chief financial officer Dr. Nicolas Combé is delighted: "In addition to the positive development of our biosimilars projects, in particular, the recently communicated successful conclusion of the pilot phase of the project FYB202, we are also very satisfied with our financial benchmarks. We are operating from a very solid financing position thanks to the current license agreements for our biosimilars projects FYB201 and FYB203 as well as the FYB202 joint venture. Our main focus is currently clearly on developing our three main projects as well as expanding our biosimilars pipeline."
 

About Formycon:
Formycon is a leading, independent developer of high-quality follow-on products for biopharmaceutical medicines known as biosimilars. The company focuses on treatments in ophthalmology, immunology and on other key chronic diseases, covering the entire value chain from technical development to the clinical phase III as well as the preparation of dossiers for marketing approval. With its biosimilars, Formycon is making a major contribution towards providing as many patients as possible with access to vital and affordable medicines. Formycon currently has four biosimilars in development.
About Biosimilars:
Since their introduction in the 1980s, biopharmaceuticals have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases such as cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and eye diseases. In the coming years, many of these biotech drugs will lose their patent protection - and by 2020, medications with revenues of approximately USD 100 billion will be off patent. Biosimilars are follow-on versions of biopharmaceuticals, for which exclusivity has expired. They are approved via stringent regulatory pathways in highly regulated markets (such as EU, US, Japan, Canada, Australia) based on proven similarity of the biosimilar with the originator biopharmaceutical reference product. While the global market for biosimilars is currently more than USD 5.0 billion, industry experts expect this figure to grow up to USD 30 billion by the year 2025.
 

Contact:
Sabrina Müller
Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Formycon AG
Fraunhoferstr. 15
82152 Martinsried/Planegg/Germany
phone +49 (0) 89 - 86 46 67 149
fax + 49 (0) 89 - 86 46 67 110
Sabrina.Mueller@formycon.com // www.formycon.com
Disclaimer:
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