• SIGA Reports Financial Results for Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2023

    Source: Nasdaq GlobeNewswire / 08 Aug 2023 15:05:02   America/Chicago

    - In July, SIGA Received U.S. Government Orders for Approximately $113 Million of Oral TPOXX and $25 Million of IV TPOXX® -

    - Corporate Update Conference Call Today at 4:30 PM ET -

    NEW YORK, Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA) (NASDAQ: SIGA), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company, today reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023.

    “SIGA’s second quarter financial results reflect the continuation of international sales activity that began in mid 2022,” said Phil Gomez, CEO of SIGA. “Importantly, revenues for the first half of 2023 represent only a small percentage of revenues expected for 2023. In the second half of 2023, the Company expects to generate approximately $113 million of revenues from deliveries of oral TPOXX to the U.S. strategic national stockpile and to generate between $30 million and $45 million of revenues from a broad cross-section of domestic and international deliveries, including deliveries of oral TPOXX to the Department of Defense, IV TPOXX to the U.S. strategic national stockpile and oral TPOXX to international customers. Such revenues in the second half of the year, when combined with the financial results of the first half of 2023, are expected to generate full year 2023 pre-tax operating income of between $90 million and $100 million. We are pleased that we are able to consistently meet demand for oral TPOXX, which is driving substantial and increasingly diversified global revenue opportunities at SIGA.”

    Summary Financial Results
    ($ in millions, except per share amounts)        

    Second Quarter 2023 in comparison to Second Quarter 2022

     
    Three Months
    Ended June 30, 2023
     
    Three Months Ended June 30, 2022
    Total Revenues
    Operating (Loss) Income (1)
    (Loss) Income before Income Taxes (1)
    Net (Loss) Income
    Diluted (Loss) Income per Share
    $5.9
    ($4.6)
    ($3.4)
    ($2.9)
    ($0.04) per share
     $16.7
    $3.1
    $3.2
    $2.0
    $0.03 per share



    Six Months Ended June 30, 2023 in comparison to Six Months Ended June 30, 2022

     
    Six Months
    Ended June 30, 2023
     
    Six Months
    Ended June 30, 2022
    Total Revenues
    Operating (Loss) Income (1)
    (Loss) Income before Income Taxes (1)
    Net (Loss) Income
    Diluted (Loss) Income per Share
    $14.2
    ($6.7)
    ($4.7)
    ($3.8)
    ($0.05) per share
     $27.2
    $1.6
    $2.1
    $1.7
    $0.02 per share

    (1) Operating Income / (Loss) excludes, and Income / (Loss) before Income Taxes includes, interest income, and adjustments to the fair value of the Company’s outstanding warrant. Both line items exclude the impact of income taxes.

    Recent Developments

    On July 27, 2023, the Company announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services placed orders for the delivery of approximately $113 million worth of oral TPOXX® treatment courses and approximately $25 million worth of IV TPOXX® treatment courses. These orders were made by the exercise of procurement options under SIGA’s 19C contract with the U.S. Government.

    Year-to-Date Capital Management Activity

    Year to date, the Company has spent approximately $43 million on capital management activities, including a special cash dividend of $0.45 per share and the repurchase of approximately 1.7 million shares of common stock.

    Conference Call and Webcast

    SIGA will host a conference call and webcast to provide a business update today, Tuesday, August 8, 2023, at 4:30 P.M. ET.

    Participants may access the call by dialing 1-888-304-1803 for domestic callers or 1-848-488-9277 for international callers. A live webcast of the call will also be available on the Company's website at www.siga.com under the 'Events & Presentations' tab in the Investor Relations section, or by clicking here. Please log in approximately 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.

    A replay of the call will be available for two weeks by dialing 1-844-512-2921 for domestic callers or 1-412-317-6671 for international callers and using Conference ID: 153003. The archived webcast will be available in the Events and Presentations section of the Company's website.

    ABOUT SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. and TPOXX®

    SIGA Technologies, Inc. is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the health security market. Health security comprises countermeasures for biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear attacks (biodefense market), vaccines and therapies for emerging infectious diseases, and health preparedness. Our lead product is TPOXX®, also known as tecovirimat and ST-246®, an orally administered and IV formulation antiviral drug for the treatment of human smallpox disease caused by variola virus. TPOXX is a novel small-molecule drug and the US maintains a supply of TPOXX under Project BioShield. The oral formulation of TPOXX was approved by the FDA for the treatment of smallpox in 2018, and the IV formulation was approved for the same indication in 2022. The full label is available by clicking here. Oral tecovirimat received approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom in 2022. The EMA and UK approvals include labeling for oral tecovirimat indicating its use for the treatment of smallpox, monkeypox, cowpox, and vaccinia complications following vaccination against smallpox. The full label is available by clicking here. In September 2018, SIGA signed a contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for additional procurement and development related to both oral and intravenous formulations of TPOXX. For more information about SIGA, please visit www.siga.com.

    About Smallpox

    Smallpox is a contagious, disfiguring and often deadly disease that has affected humans for thousands of years. Naturally-occurring smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1980, the result of an unprecedented global immunization campaign. Samples of smallpox virus have been kept for research purposes. This has led to concerns that smallpox could someday be used as a biological warfare agent. A vaccine can prevent smallpox, but the risk of the current vaccine's side effects is too high to justify routine vaccination for people at low risk of exposure to the smallpox virus.

    FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

    This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including statements relating to the progress of SIGA’s development programs and timelines for bringing products to market, delivering products to the Strategic Stockpile, the enforceability of our procurement contracts, such as the 19C BARDA Contract (the "BARDA Contract"), with BARDA, and responding to the global outbreak of monkeypox (“mpox”). The words or phrases “can be,” “expects,” “may affect,” “may depend,” “believes,” “estimate,” “project” and similar words and phrases are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and SIGA cautions you that any forward-looking information provided by or on behalf of SIGA is not a guarantee of future performance. SIGA’s actual results could differ materially from those anticipated by such forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, some of which are beyond SIGA’s control, including, but not limited to, (i) the risk that BARDA elects, in its sole discretion as permitted under the BARDA Contract, not to exercise all, or any, of the remaining unexercised options under those contracts, (ii) the risk that SIGA may not complete performance under the BARDA Contract on schedule or in accordance with contractual terms, (iii) the risk that the BARDA Contract, DoD Contract #2 or PEP Label Expansion R&D Contract are modified or canceled at the request or requirement of the U.S. Government, (iv) the risk that the nascent international biodefense market does not develop to a degree that allows SIGA to continue to successfully market TPOXX® internationally, (v) the risk that potential products, including potential alternative uses or formulations of TPOXX® that appear promising to SIGA or its collaborators, cannot be shown to be efficacious or safe in subsequent pre-clinical or clinical trials, (vi) the risk that SIGA or its collaborators will not obtain appropriate or necessary governmental approvals to market these or other potential products or uses, (vii) the risk that SIGA may not be able to secure or enforce sufficient legal rights in its products, including intellectual property protection, (viii) the risk that any challenge to SIGA’s patent and other property rights, if adversely determined, could affect SIGA’s business and, even if determined favorably, could be costly, (ix) the risk that regulatory requirements applicable to SIGA’s products may result in the need for further or additional testing or documentation that will delay or prevent SIGA from seeking or obtaining needed approvals to market these products, (x) the risk that the volatile and competitive nature of the biotechnology industry may hamper SIGA’s efforts to develop or market its products, (xi) the risk that changes in domestic or foreign economic and market conditions may affect SIGA’s ability to advance its research or may affect its products adversely, (xii) the effect of federal, state, and foreign regulation, including drug regulation and international trade regulation, on SIGA’s businesses, (xiii) the risk of disruptions to SIGA’s supply chain for the manufacture of TPOXX®, causing delays in SIGA’s research and development activities, causing delays or the re-allocation of funding in connection with SIGA’s government contracts, or diverting the attention of government staff overseeing SIGA’s government contracts, (xiv) risks associated with actions or uncertainties surrounding the debt ceiling, (xv) the risk that the U.S. or foreign governments' responses (including inaction) to national or global economic conditions or infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, are ineffective and may adversely affect SIGA’s business, and (xvi) risks associated with responding to the current mpox outbreak, as well as the risks and uncertainties included in Item 1A “Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and SIGA's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SIGA urges investors and security holders to read those documents free of charge at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. All such forward-looking statements are current only as of the date on which such statements were made. SIGA does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which any such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

    The information contained in this press release does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government and no official endorsement should be inferred.

    Contacts:

    Investor Contact
    Laine Yonker, Edison Group
    lyonker@edisongroup.com

    Public Relations
    Holly Stevens, Berry & Company
    hstevens@berrypr.com


    SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED)
    As of
     
     June 30, 2023  December 31, 2022 
    ASSETS       
    Current assets       
    Cash and cash equivalents$76,213,484  $98,790,622 
    Accounts receivable 6,026,887   45,406,960 
    Inventory 50,497,103   39,273,090 
    Prepaid expenses and other current assets 1,560,626   2,315,672 
    Total current assets 134,298,100   185,786,344 
            
    Property, plant and equipment, net 1,605,222   1,848,314 
    Deferred tax asset, net 7,591,743   6,250,385 
    Goodwill 898,334   898,334 
    Other assets 2,117,360   252,546 
    Total assets$146,510,759  $195,035,923 
    LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY       
    Current liabilities       
    Accounts payable$1,081,337  $3,355,268 
    Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 17,894,986   16,852,781 
    Income tax payable 11,822   1,309,672 
    Total current liabilities 18,988,145   21,517,721 
            
    Other liabilities 3,448,558   3,358,160 
    Total liabilities 22,436,703   24,875,881 
    Commitments and contingencies       
    Stockholders’ equity       
    Common stock ($.0001 par value, 600,000,000 shares authorized, 71,082,944 and 72,675,190, issued and outstanding at June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively) 7,109   7,268 
    Additional paid-in capital 234,873,128   233,957,767 
    Accumulated deficit (110,806,181)  (63,804,993)
    Total stockholders’ equity 124,074,056   170,160,042 
    Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$146,510,759  $195,035,923 



    SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS)/INCOME (UNAUDITED)
     
     Three Months Ended
    June 30,
      Six Months Ended
    June 30,
     
     2023  2022  2023  2022 
    Revenues               
    Product sales and supportive services$1,263,255  $8,615,765  $6,965,769  $15,936,637 
    Research and development 4,614,911   8,051,280   7,235,421   11,269,708 
    Total revenues 5,878,166   16,667,045   14,201,190   27,206,345 
                    
    Operating expenses               
    Cost of sales and supportive services 974,420   882,096   2,124,608   5,602,212 
    Selling, general and administrative 4,425,959   5,874,139   8,661,068   9,585,427 
    Research and development 5,116,154   6,840,099   10,162,189   10,386,876 
    Total operating expenses 10,516,533   13,596,334   20,947,865   25,574,515 
    Operating (loss)/income (4,638,367)  3,070,711   (6,746,675)  1,631,830 
    Gain from change in fair value of warrant liability    49,559      400,663 
    Other income, net 1,190,705   72,373   2,081,334   95,694 
    (Loss)/income before income taxes (3,447,662)  3,192,643   (4,665,341)  2,128,187 
    Benefit/(Provision) for income taxes 572,186   (1,155,581)  871,608   (452,175)
    Net and comprehensive (loss)/income$(2,875,476) $2,037,062  $(3,793,733) $1,676,012 
    Basic (loss)/income per share$(0.04) $0.03  $(0.05) $0.02 
    Diluted (loss)/income per share$(0.04) $0.03  $(0.05) $0.02 
    Weighted average shares outstanding: basic 71,090,642   72,678,333   71,640,784   72,873,366 
    Weighted average shares outstanding: diluted 71,090,642   73,332,888   71,640,784   73,699,226 


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