Exelixis Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 02, 2012
Exelixis Inc. (EXEL, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2012-06-29.

Exelixis, Inc. has a market cap of $951 million; its shares were traded at around $5.92 with a P/E ratio of 10.5 and P/S ratio of 3.3.

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Merck was required to pay us an up-front cash payment of $12.0 million in connection with the agreement, which we received on January 19, 2012. Under the terms of the agreement, we completed the transfer of the license and associated knowledge within ninety days of the effective date of the agreement and accordingly recognized the remaining unrecognized up-front payment of $10.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2012. We will be eligible to receive potential development and regulatory milestone payments for multiple indications of up to $239.0 million. We will also be eligible to receive combined sales performance milestones of up to $375.0 million and royalties on net-sales of products emerging from the agreement. Milestones and royalties are payable on compounds emerging from our PI3K-delta program or from certain compounds that arise from Merck s internal discovery efforts targeting PI3K-delta during a certain period.

For each IND candidate selected, we were entitled to receive a $20.0 million selection milestone from Bristol-Myers Squibb. Once selected, Bristol-Myers Squibb became responsible for leading the further development and commercialization of the selected IND candidates. In addition, we had the right to opt in to co-promote the selected IND candidates, in which case we would equally share all development costs and profits in the United States. In January 2008 and November 2008, Bristol-Myers Squibb exercised its option under the collaboration to develop and commercialize XL139 (BMS-833923), a Hedgehog inhibitor, and XL413 (BMS-863233), a CDC7 inhibitor, respectively. Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, the selection of XL139 and XL413 by Bristol-Myers Squibb entitled us to milestone payments of $20.0 million each, which we received in February 2008 and December 2008, respectively. In addition, we exercised our option under the collaboration agreement to co-develop and co-commercialize each of XL139 and XL413 in the United States.

The decrease in revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, as compared to the prior year periods, is primarily due to the transfer in April 2011 of substantially all development activities pertaining to XL147 and XL765 to Sanofi under our 2009 license agreement for these compounds, the termination in December 2011 of our 2009 collaboration with Sanofi for the discovery of inhibitors of phosphoinositide-3 kinase, or PI3K, and the termination of our 2008 agreement with Bristol Myers-Squibb for XL281 in October 2011. In addition, there was a decrease in Genentech revenue relating to a one-time milestone payment of $2.0 million recognized in June 2011. For the six months ended June 30, 2012, the decrease in revenues was partially offset by $10.7 million in revenue recognized under our agreement with Merck for our PI3K-delta program signed in December 2011, as well as increased revenues related to our 2007 cancer collaboration agreement, TGR5 license agreement and ROR collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Our operating activities used cash of $50.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2012, compared to cash used of $86.8 million for the prior year period. Cash used by operating activities for the 2012 period related primarily to our net loss of $62.6 million, which was largely due to the development of cabozantinib, and to a $26.3 million reduction in deferred revenue, primarily due to the timing of revenue recognition of an up-front payment under our P13K-delta license agreement with Merck entered into in December 2011 and non-cash revenue recognized related to our 2007 and 2010 collaboration agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb. In addition, we paid $2.0 million of our restructuring liability. Uses of cash were partially offset by the receipt of $27.3 million in cash relating to the termination of our 2009 discovery collaboration with Sanofi in December 2011 and the up-front payment received from Merck under our P13K-delta license agreement. In addition, we had non-cash charges totaling $11.4 million relating to stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization and accretion of implied interest under our 2010 note purchase agreement with Deerfield.

We have incurred net losses since inception through 2010. While we were in a net income position of $75.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, primarily as a result of the acceleration of revenue recognized under our 2008 collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb that terminated in October 2011 and under our 2009 discovery collaboration agreement with Sanofi that terminated in December 2011, we anticipate net losses and negative operating cash flow for the foreseeable future. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, we incurred net losses of $36.5 million and $62.6 million, respectively. As of June 30, 2012, we had $294.8 million in cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities and long-term investments, which included restricted cash and investments of $4.1 million and approximately $83.7 million of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities that we are required to maintain on deposit with Silicon Valley Bank or one of its affiliates pursuant to covenants in our loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank. We anticipate that our current cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, long-term investments and funding that we expect to receive from existing collaborators will enable us to maintain our operations for a period of approximately 12 months following the end of the second quarter of 2012. However, our future capital requirements will be substantial, and we will need to raise additional capital in the future. Our capital requirements will depend on many factors, and we may need to use available capital resources and raise additional capital significantly earlier than we currently anticipate. These factors include:

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