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Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (COLL)

Q4 2024 Earnings Call· Thu, Feb 27, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Collegium Pharmaceuticals Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference call is being recorded. I'll now turn the call over to Danielle Jesse, the Director of Investor Relations at Collegium. Thank you and you may begin.

Danielle Jesse

Analyst

Welcome to Collegium Pharmaceuticals fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings conference call. I am joined today by Vikram Karnani, our President and Chief Executive Officer; Colleen Tupper, our Chief Financial Officer; and Scott Dreyer, our Chief Commercial Officer. Before we begin today's call, we want to remind participants that none of the information presented today is intended to be promotional, and that any forward-looking statements made today are made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including and without limitation, the risks that we may not be able to successfully commercialize our products that we may incur significant expense in doing so, and that we may not prevail in current or future litigation pertaining to our business. These risks and other risks of the company are detailed in the company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our future results may differ materially from our current expectations discussed today. Our earnings press release and this call will include discussion of certain non-GAAP information. You can find our earnings press release, including relevant non-GAAP reconciliations on our corporate website at collegiumpharma.com. I will now turn the call over to our President and CEO, Vikram Karnani.

Vikram Karnani

Analyst

Thank you, Danielle. Good afternoon, and thank you everyone for joining the call. Today we will discuss Collegium's financial performance for the fourth quarter and full year 2024 and provide a business update. Let me start by saying how thankful I am for the opportunity to join Collegium at this exciting time in the company's journey. Having spent the last several years leading high-growth organizations, I'm energized at the opportunity to spearhead this team through its next phase of growth. Collegium has a successful track record of creating value through strong commercial execution and strategic acquisitions, all while maintaining financial discipline. The organization's commitment to improving the lives of people living with serious medical conditions and its strong culture are what attracted me to this role. The company has built a leading pain portfolio that generates strong cash flows, which enables investment in future growth. And the Ironshore acquisition demonstrates that Collegium is well-positioned to make further investments that leverage our expertise and will drive a new phase of growth for the company. With Jornay poised to be Collegium's lead growth driver, the company is at an inflection in its growth trajectory. We have strong leadership and a deeply committed team of employees and I am looking forward to collaborating with this accomplished team, working together toward our goal of building a leading diversified biopharmaceutical company. At Collegium we strive to do good as we do well and our values are highlighted in our 2024 ESG report that was published yesterday. I'd like to recognize the entire team for our commitment to Collegium's mission and for helping make a positive impact on the people and the communities we serve. 2024 was a transformational year for Collegium. We generated significant growth in our pain portfolio through strong operational execution. The robust…

Scott Dreyer

Analyst

Thanks, Vikram, and good afternoon, everyone. I'm excited to share our fourth quarter commercial results with you highlighting the momentum we created heading into 2025. I'll begin with Journee, our lead growth driver. The ADHD market is large and has been growing at 6% on average from 2019 to 2024. Stimulant medications methylphenidates and amphetamines, make up almost 90% of the market. Within stimulants, 30% of use is methylphenidate products and the use of methylphenidate is skewed towards the pediatric population with 70% of prescriptions for pediatrics and adolescents and 30% for adults. Prescribing is highly concentrated with approximately 20,000 HCPs writing 1/3 of prescriptions. The majority of the prescribers are neuropsychiatrists or pediatricians. As HCPs choose a medication for their ADHD patients, they're looking for a medication that provides efficacy upon awakening in the morning and a long-lasting duration of effect that can provide symptom control throughout the day. Journee has a profile that has the potential to meet that need. Journee is highly differentiated, as the only stimulant ADHD medication with convenient evening dosing. Journee provides symptom control upon awakening in the morning and throughout the day, limiting the need for short-acting stimulant add-ons. It has flexible dose-dependent duration, enabling treatment to be tailored to the patient's needs. This is important for pediatric adolescent and adult patients because it eliminates the need to dose throughout the day at school or at work. In market research, HCPs ranked Jornay as the number one recognized brand both for achieving all-day symptom control with one dose and for controlling evening symptoms after school or work. Jornay is the highest-rated brand by targeted health care professionals in terms of product favorability. And when patients and caregivers request to try Jornay HCPs honor that request. In addition Jornay has strong market access coverage.…

Colleen Tupper

Analyst

Thanks, Scott. Good afternoon, everyone. In 2024, through our dedication to operational excellence, we generated strong financial results and delivered on our 2024 guidance. We grew revenue by 11% and adjusted EBITDA by 9%, generated robust operating cash flows and strategically deployed capital. Successful execution of our 2024 financial and strategic priorities, establish a strong foundation for 2025 financial guidance that reflects significant top and bottom line growth. As we head into the year, we plan to further strengthen our financial position and create value through disciplined capital deployment. Financial highlights for the fourth quarter and full year include, net product revenues were a record $181.9 million for the fourth quarter, up 22% year over year. 2024 net product revenues were a record $631.4 million up 11% year over year. Jornay net revenue was $29.3 million in the fourth quarter, which represents our first full quarter of ownership. Pro form full year net revenue was $100.7 million inclusive of $37.2 million recognized by Collegium. Belbuca net revenue was a record $55.2 million in the fourth quarter, up 12% year over year and a record $211.3 million in 2024, up 16% year over year. Xtampza ER net revenue was a record $51.5 million in the quarter, up 6% year over year. For 2024, Xtampza ER net revenue was a record $191.3 million up 8% year over year. Full year gross to net was 52.7% coming in better than our expectation of approximately 55%. Nucynta franchise net revenue was $41.8 million in the fourth quarter, down 11% year over year and $176.5 million in 2024, down 7% year over year. GAAP operating expenses were $60.2 million in the fourth quarter, up 83% year over year. For 2024, GAAP operating expenses were $207.4 million up 30% year over year. Non GAAP adjusted operating…

Vikram Karnani

Analyst

Thanks Colleen. As I mentioned earlier in my remarks, this is an exciting time for our team at Collegium and for the patient communities we serve. The achievement of our financial commitments and the execution of our strategic priorities in 2024 have ositioned us for a new phase of growth in 2025 and beyond. Looking ahead, we are focused on accelerating growth for Jornay, maximizing our PM portfolio and strategically deploying capital to create value. I feel very fortunate to lead a company that is mission-focused, financially strong and well positioned to deliver top and bottom line growth and create value for our shareholders. Before we open up the call for questions, I wanted to take a moment to thank the entire team at Collegium for their passion and dedication to helping make a difference in the lives of the patients we serve. With that I will now open the call up for questions. Operator?

Operator

Operator

Thank you. At this time, we will be conducting a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. First question comes from Les Sulewski from Truist Securities. You may proceed with your question, Les.

Les Sulewski

Analyst

Good afternoon. Thank you for taking my questions. Great to have you on the first call Vikram. Perhaps I'll start there. Could you perhaps lay out any sort of path that you envision for Collegium over the next three to five years? And then perhaps maybe update us on the BD opportunities. Would you say there's -- you're kind of in the early mid or late cycle of the next deal? And then for Colleen perhaps could you quantify any synergies that you have been -- that you've had realized from the integration of Ironshore? And then lastly for the team in regards to NOPAIN Act are there any dynamic shifts to the pain treatment category that you'd expect? Or is this de minimis to your portfolio?

Vikram Karnani

Analyst

Yes. Maybe I'll kick it off. Thank you for the question. Look let me first start out by saying that in the last call it a little over 3.5 months that I've been at Collegium a lot of what I came in with has been validated. This is a strong team with strong commercial execution with the pain portfolio performing exceptionally well as well as Jornay which is a key part of our portfolio going forward. These performances lay a very strong financial foundation for us to continue to grow from. As we have said previously our strategy for long-term growth is a function of both organic growth as well as inorganic right? Organic growth as we talked about earlier we have done it with our main portfolio before and now we're doing it the Jornay. In terms of business development and inorganic growth look our primary focus is on assets -- commercial assets that can add meaningful revenue in the near term. In terms of the therapeutic area that we're looking at look there are logical adjacencies to our newly acquired ADHD asset that are our top priority. If you look at ADHD neuropsychiatry or even broader CNS these are areas that we're quite interested in. Additionally some of the other areas we're looking at outside of just pure neuro or neuropsych we're interested in areas that are capital efficient for example rare or orphan diseases. And then finally look we're not against looking beyond into other newer therapeutic areas as well. Although, as you go out further into other areas the bar is certainly higher. We would be -- we absolutely would look to make sure that they are strategic as well as financial -- from both a strategic and a financial perspective that we're able to -- it has to make sense for us. But I'd say let me also maybe end with the fact that given our performance given where we ended last year at 1.9 times net debt over EBITDA given the anticipated performance this year where we expect to be less than one times net debt over EBITDA, we're in a pretty strong financial position. And so we're actively looking to expand our portfolio. But at the same time we have to make sure that we will execute both organically with the products we do have as well as look to do the next deal. Maybe I'll now turn it over to Colleen.

Colleen Tupper

Analyst

Thanks so much for the question on synergies recall the acquisition of Ironshore and Jornay as a product specifically was really about putting sticking a flag in a new therapeutic area for us. So we achieved the typical synergies you would expect in that situation on senior management overlap facilities G&A type synergies. They were not a meaningful consideration as part of the deal. Really for us it was the opportunity to invest strategically behind JORNAY and drive that growth.

Scott Dreyer

Analyst

And I'll take the NO PAIN Act. Les, this is Scott. So on your question on the NO PAIN Act. Yes, it had no impact on our portfolio positively or negatively. And that's because the primary focus of that act is providing additional reimbursement in the inpatient setting. That's where the focus is. And obviously our products are retail-based chronic pain therapy, so no impact on us at this time.

Les Sulewski

Analyst

Great. Thank you, guys and congrats on a progress.

Scott Dreyer

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question comes from David Amsellem from Piper Sandler. Please proceed with your questions, David.

David Amsellem

Analyst · your questions, David.

Yeah. Thanks. So with the sales force expansion, sorry, if I missed this but just remind me how -- what portion of ADHD prescribers or what portion of volumes does the expanded sales force encompass? And then, secondly, related to the sales organization we've seen ADHD focused sales forces even larger much larger than even the 180 that you're contemplating. So I guess the question is over the long-term, how are you thinking about the need for further expansion? And then, I had a question on long-term on how you're thinking about the generic entry of BELBUCA and NUCYNTA just given that these are opioids and obviously there's a lot of baggage associated with generic companies and their role in opioids with the proper litigation. So how are you planning for loss of exclusivity for both products, looking ahead to 2027? Thanks.

Vikram Karnani

Analyst · your questions, David.

Yeah. David thanks for the questions. Look, so maybe I'll kick it off and then, I'm going to invite Scott, to give some color on the sales force expansion both in terms of what type of coverage universe we have as well as the size of the sales force. And then, I'm going to call on Colleen, to give us some color on the LOE question related to the pain products. So look first of all, we're highly encouraged with our performance to-date with JORNAY PM with the size of the sales force we do have which was as a reminder, 125 sales representatives that came over as part of the Ironshore acquisition. And the performance that we just talked about in Q4 has basically been delivered by that team. And we're really thrilled with the performance and we're really happy with the progress to-date. As we look into the future we've also talked about the fact that we're going to expand the sales force by an additional 55 and that brings the total sales force to about 180. And maybe I'll ask Scott, to give some color on how that changes our coverage universe for HCPs and how that -- what that means for the business.

Scott Dreyer

Analyst · your questions, David.

Yeah. Great. So great questions, David. So first and foremost, these categories its interesting ADHD there's some analogs to PAIN meaning there are large tails right? If you look at ADHD prescribing in the United States there's over 300,000 physicians that write a prescription. That said, 20,000 drive third of overall prescribing. So it's a highly efficient way to go to the market. So when we expand to 180, we will end up covering 60% of the long-acting market which is what drives the overall market. That puts us at about 23,000 targets which is exactly where we need to drive forward. You talked about future sizing. Look every year we will look from a hygiene standpoint at coverage. But what I can tell you is there's no need if you look at competitive sets with other sales forces out there we don't anticipate significant growth but we'll always look to make sure we're deploying to cover the doctors in an efficient way and that's what we're focused on.

Colleen Tupper

Analyst · your questions, David.

And then David, I'll take the LOE question. And looking across our entire portfolio there is no party that has the necessary combination of ingredients, regulatory clearance, legal clearance and manufacturing capability to launch competitive generics against any product throughout our pain portfolio. Specifically with respect to the Nucynta franchise there was no party that has the combination of the three necessary ingredients for near-term competitive generic launch, regulatory approval, cleared litigation, contractual hurdles or access to commercial scale quantities of tapentadol the API and Nucynta formulations. The LOE dates in our Nucynta franchise are now due to some extensions we've been able to accomplish July 2027 for Nucynta ER and January 2027 for Nucynta IR. The above comments are equally true for BELBUCA and Xtampza ER. So as we proceed into the time frame where there could be generic entrants what you'll see us do particularly on BELBUCA in that January 2027 date is invest through that date. And then we will reassess if in fact a player comes in. At that point there would only be a single player.

Vikram Karnani

Analyst · your questions, David.

And this is exactly why we've also -- we reinforced that we believe we have a longer and more robust revenue stream that remains underappreciated with this business.

David Amsellem

Analyst · your questions, David.

Its helpful color. Thanks, everyone

Vikram Karnani

Analyst · your questions, David.

Thanks.

Colleen Tupper

Analyst · your questions, David.

Thanks, David.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] There are no further questions which therefore means that we have reached the end of the question-and-answer session. And I'd now like to turn the call back to Vikram Karnani for closing remarks. Thank you, sir.

Vikram Karnani

Analyst

Great. Thank you everyone for joining the call. Have a wonderful evening and good night.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude the call. You may now disconnect your lines.