DGAP-News: Formycon AG: Formycon with Significant Growth in Turnover and Earnings in the First Quarter of 2018

Press Release // June 5, 2018

Formycon with Significant Growth in Turnover and Earnings in the First Quarter of 2018

- Turnover and other earnings increase to Euro 13.69 million, the EBITDA amounts to Euro 6.88 million

- Result driven by credit for the investments in the FYB202 project from 2013 to 2016

- Positive effect on the annual result of 2018 expected

Munich - The biosimilars company Formycon (ISIN: DE000A1EWVY8/ WKN: A1EWVY) has significantly improved its revenue and earnings in the first quarter of 2018 compared to the same period of the previous year. As the company announced today, the group sales and other earnings increased in the first three months of the year to Euro 13.69 million (previous year: Euro 3.38 million). The earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to Euro 6.88 (-0.51) million, the operative result (EBIT) as well as the quarter result totaled Euro 6.68 (- 0.70) resp. 6.67 (-0.71) million.

The positive development is mainly driven by the credit for the investments in the FYB202 project from 2013 to 2016. Taking into account these investments in the amount of Euro 8.47 million for Formycon's financing obligations for the joint venture FYB 202 GmbH & Co. KG led to a one-time effect on turnover and earnings, however not on liquidity. The mentioned amount was credited to the capital account of the Formycon AG in the FYB 202 GmbH & Co. KG. Formycon holds a 24.9 percent share in the joint venture. According to its stake the company bears this amount of previous project investments and further development costs, but also shares accordingly in any potential future licensing and marketing revenues.

The liquidity ratios of the Formycon Group developed also as planned in the first quarter of 2018: Stocks of liquid assets, which comprise cash, checks, bank deposits and securities, totaled Euro 16.59 million at the end of March. Including short-term receivables from deliveries and services worth Euro 3.15 million, Formycon held liquid assets of Euro 19.74 million on the day of reporting.

In the first three months of the year, Formycon AG as the company's actual operational unit achieved a turnover of Euro 11.86 million (first quarter of 2017: Euro 2.16 million). The three-months result of the joint stock company amounted to Euro 6.58 million compared to Euro -0.77 million in the same period last year.

The number of employees increased as anticipated to 85 compared to 71 at the end of the first quarter of 2017.

Based on the positive development in the first quarter of 2018, the company anticipates a significant positive result and a turnover of approx. Euro 35 million for the year.

Dr. Nicolas Combé, Chief Financial Officer of Formycon, is satisfied with the first quarter of 2018: "In addition to the positive development of our biosimilar projects, in particular, the recently communicated intermediate results of the clinical phase III study of FYB201, we are also very satisfied with our financial benchmarks. Through the existing licensing agreements for our biosimilar projects FYB201 and FYB203 as well as the FYB202 joint venture, we are well positioned with respect to financing our three most advanced projects."

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 more than 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 3.0 billion, industry experts expect this figure to grow tenfold by the year 2025.

Contact Formycon:
Thorsten Schüller
Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Formycon AG
Fraunhoferstr. 15
82152 Planegg-Martinsried/Germany
phone +49 (0) 89 - 86 46 67 150
fax + 49 (0) 89 - 86 46 67 110
Thorsten.schueller@formycon.com // www.formycon.com

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