Good afternoon, and welcome to the Eton Pharmaceuticals Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that this call is being recorded at the company's request. At this time, I would like to turn it over to David Krempa, Chief Business Officer at Eton Pharmaceuticals. Please proceed.

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Eaton's third quarter 2023 conference call. This afternoon, we issued a press release that outlines the topics we plan to discuss on today's call. The release is available on our website, etonpharma.com. Joining me on our call today, we have Sean Brynjelsen, our CEO; and James Gruber, our CFO. In addition to taking live questions on today's call, we will be answering questions that are e-mailed to us. Investors can send your questions to investorrelations@etonpharma.com. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that remarks made during today's call may contain forward-looking statements and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in these forward-looking statements. Please see the forward-looking statements disclaimer in our earnings release and the risk factors in the company's filings with the SEC. Now I will turn the call over to our CEO, Sean Brynjelsen.

Thank you, David. Thank you, everyone, for joining. And I'd like to first start off with a discussion of our third quarter. This was a very strong quarter for the company, and in fact, our 11th straight quarter of sequential product revenue growth. More importantly, though, we achieved a critical milestone for the company by delivering positive cash flow from operations. This was posted this positive cash flow from operations is solely on product sales and royalty revenue. There were no one-time benefits from licensing revenue in the quarter. And as many of you know, we had previously communicated to investors that our goal was to reach cash flow breakeven by the end of this year. So I am pleased that our strong revenue growth and disciplined cost structure allowed us to reach this critical mark a whole quarter ahead of schedule. We are growing rapidly and expect that to continue for the foreseeable future, but we are also committed to profitable growth. I think our recent results are proving that to investors, while our revenue this quarter increased an impressive 118% year-over-year, our selling, general and administrative expenses increased by only 4% year-over-year. This underscores the very attractive operating leverage in our business, and we expect to be able to continue to deliver rapid revenue growth, both from existing products and new product launches, while seeing only minimal increases in expenses. Having our business reach a cash flow positive state also means that our significant cash balance, which finished the quarter at more than $22 million is largely excess cash that can be invested in additional rare disease products to expand our portfolio and increase our revenue and earnings growth even further. Now turning to specific product detail. Sales of ALKINDI SPRINKLE continue to be strong, delivering significant growth…

Thank you, Sean. Our third quarter revenue was $7.0 million compared to $3.2 million in the third quarter of 2022, or a 118% increase driven by increased sales volume for ALKINDI SPRINKLE and Carglumic Acid. Revenue is comprised entirely of product sales and royalties in both periods. Product sales and royalty revenue grew $0.5 million or 8% compared to the second quarter of 2023. We expect continued product sales growth moving forward, and ALKINDI SPRINKLE revenue will likely trigger a onetime sales-related milestone payment of $1.0 million under the terms of the ALKINDI SPRINKLE licensing agreement from 2020. While this payment in the fourth quarter will negatively impact gross margin, it serves as an important milestone for the product as we continue to provide meaningful treatment to new patients. R&D expenses for the quarter were $0.6 million, compared to $0.7 million in the prior year period. The decrease was primarily due to decreased expenses associated with hospital products sold to Dr. Reddy's in 2022. We expect a slight increase in R&D spend in future quarters due to development activities related to ET-400 and ET-600. General and administrative expenses for the quarter were $4.3 million compared to $4.2 million in the prior year period. The slight increase in G&A expense was mainly due to increased employee-related expenses related to sales force expansion, partially offset by decreased sales and marketing expenses associated with third-party sales commissions. We expect G&A expense to remain consistent throughout the rest of the year and still anticipate our full year G&A expense to be approximately $20 million. Total company net loss for the third quarter of 2023 was $0.6 million or $0.02 per basic and diluted share, compared to a net loss of $3.0 million or $0.12 per basic and diluted share in the prior year period. Eaton finished the third quarter with $22.1 million of cash on hand and generated $0.9 million of operating cash during the quarter, solely from product sales and royalty revenue, which as Sean mentioned was ahead of schedule. We remain confident that our cash position is sufficient to allow us to execute our plan and continue pursuing bolt-on transcends and new product developments. This concludes our remarks on third quarter results. And with that, I'll turn it back over to the operator for Q&A.

Thank you. At this time, we will conduct the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Raghuram Selvaraju, my apologies if I mispronounced that, from H.C. Wainwright & Company. Your line is open.

Hi. Thanks very much for taking my question. So I was just wondering, if you could elaborate a little bit on what you expect to your broader commercial strategy to be in the cortisone product space and within endocrinology as a whole. And if you can give us a sense of what additional product opportunities or types of markets you might be looking at alongside, for example, CAH?

Hey, Ram. Our commercial strategy in pediatric endocrinology and around CAH. We feel like we cover our targets very well today as we launch additional products, including ET 400 and ET 600, which is in the same call point, we would potentially look to expand our sales force if warranted at that point. We are looking to expand with additional pediatric endocrinology products, but we would also move into other specialties in other ultra-rare conditions. So as long as it's a product that can justify some incremental spend, Typically, these Ultra wear products have very small prescriber base so we can commercialize with a very small targeted sales force. So we are open to other therapeutic areas as well as our current Pendo and metabolic genetic specialties.

Thanks. And can you give us an update on the situation with Dr. Reddy's and cysteine hydrochloride and if there is no -- there has been no substantive update so far recently when we might expect the next development in the case?

Yeah, Ram, we are not expecting to see any additional milestones from that 15 product. It does not appear that there's going to be any kind of imminent launch that would trigger that outstanding milestone paint to us. So we've been focused on our commercialized products. We don't expect anything from the sustainer -- any by orphan revenue related to that transaction could come, but we are focused mostly on our products that we are citing ourselves.

Ron, this is Sean. How are you? Yes so the -- on the system from what we've been able to gather from the public domain is that Dr. Reddy's had some sort of a settlement we don't know the exact details of it, but it appears that there's a 2029 launch possibility, but that's outside the window of what we would expect in terms of getting any kind of milestone payment for them. So we've really taken it off of our radar so I wouldn't say it's a nonevent on a go-forward basis.

Okay. Thank you. That's helpful. And then lastly, I was wondering if you could just recap for us the long-term time line for Zane.

Yes, the auto-injector. So we're looking at that product as the development work is largely completed. There had to be a site transfer for reasons I won't go into. They're in the middle of that site transfer they expect to make the registration batches early next year. And then what that would mean is a filing about 12 months later, so that filing would be in 2-025 followed by a launch. We're hoping in 2026. The product still is really high demand where we know that it's something that's needed. And as far as we can tell, there's no other -- there's nothing else really imminent on the horizon. ,So that's where that project is at. We may consider doing another version of it as a prefilled syringe because the formula is stable. And so might be quicker to initially launch with the prefilled syringe as well. So, we're in discussion with costs checked on that possibility. We'll see what happens.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thank you for your question. Our next question comes from Rami [Indiscernible]. Your line is open.

Hello Rami.

Rami, your line is open.

If you're asking, I can't hear you, you might be on mute. Okay. So he's not coming through.

Okay, great. I'm not showing any further questions at this time. So, let's turn it back to David Krempa.

Thank you, operator. So, with two e-mailed questions that we can answer. First one, do you expect positive cash flow to be repeated in Q4 and beyond?

So, James, why don't you take that?

Sure. Yes, since Q3 was a big turning point for us, positive operating cash flow, we do expect that to continue in normal first quarter seasonality. We mentioned in the remarks that we do -- with the significant growth of ALKINDI SPRINKLE. We will have milestone payment in Q1 and with normal kind of seasonality issues in the beginning of the year, but we do expect positive operating cash flow outside of that going forward, certainly for full year 2024.

Second question, what's your expectation for 2024 revenue and earnings?

We still expect revenue to be up -- product revenue to be up significantly over 2023. We won't be giving any detailed guidance on 2024 at this time. But when we report Q4 earnings, we'll have -- we'll provide more guidance on full year 2024.

That's the end of the e-mailed questions. Thank you, everyone, for joining us for our third quarter earnings.

Thanks, everyone, for the participation in today's conference. It does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Have a good evening.