Medigene — Financial strength through trial readouts

Medigene — Financial strength through trial readouts

In H118, Medigene announced several key developments including the start of its MDG1011 Phase I/II TCR clinical trial, a gross capital raise of €32.3m (which expands cash reach past 2019) and the expansion of its bluebird partnership to cover a total of six targets (worth potentially US$1.5bn in milestones plus royalties). The MDG1011 Phase I/II clinical trial is enrolling patients and we forecast that the Phase I part of the TCR trial and the now fully enrolled Phase I/II DC vaccine trial will read out in 2019. We have updated our forecasts and now value Medigene at €453m (€18.47/share).

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Financial strength through trial readouts

Trading update

Pharma & biotech

7 August 2018

Price

€12.70

Market cap

€312m

Net cash (€m) at 30 June 2018 (including time deposits)

80.8

Shares in issue

24.6m

Free float

80.3%

Code

MDG1

Primary exchange

Xetra

Secondary exchange

Frankfurt

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(0.1)

(8.6)

25.6

Rel (local)

(0.9)

(7.0)

22.6

52-week high/low

€18. 8

€8.9

Business description

Medigene is a German biotech company with complementary technology platforms in cancer immunotherapy. Its dendritic cell vaccines and T-cell receptors (TCRs) are both in Phase I/II clinical studies.

Next events

MDG1011 initial clinical data

2019

DC vaccine initial clinical data

2019

Analyst

Dr Daniel Wilkinson

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Medigene is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

In H118, Medigene announced several key developments including the start of its MDG1011 Phase I/II TCR clinical trial, a gross capital raise of €32.3m (which expands cash reach past 2019) and the expansion of its bluebird partnership to cover a total of six targets (worth potentially US$1.5bn in milestones plus royalties). The MDG1011 Phase I/II clinical trial is enrolling patients and we forecast that the Phase I part of the TCR trial and the now fully enrolled Phase I/II DC vaccine trial will read out in 2019. We have updated our forecasts and now value Medigene at €453m (€18.47/share).

Year end

Revenue (€m)

PBT*
(€m)

EPS*
(€)

DPS
(€)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/16

9.7

(13.4)

(0.66)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/17

11.4

(12.4)

(0.60)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/18e

10.4

(17.8)

(0.76)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/19e

11.0

(17.2)

(0.70)

0.0

N/A

N/A

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional items and share-based payments.

TCR trial: Aiming to increase enrolment speed

Medigene has begun enrolment for its first clinical trial (Phase I/II) with its T-cell receptor (TCR) modified T-cell (MDG1011) product candidate in patients with r/r multiple myeloma (MM), acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Medigene has noted that it is in discussion with the German regulatory authority with the aim of speeding up enrolment by changing the inclusion criteria from one patient per disease in each dose cohort to require at least one MM patient and at least one patient of either AML or MDS.

bluebird expansion aids immunotherapy growth

Medigene’s expansion of the bluebird’s partnership (see our update note, bluebird bio back for more) to include an additional two TCRs takes the total to six ongoing programmes. The expansion includes a one-off payment of €8m to Medigene and up to €250m in potential milestone payments per candidate, which resulted in core immunotherapy revenues growing to €3.4m from €2.3m in H117.

H118 financials: €32.3m gross raise boosts capital

To reflect new guidance, we have adjusted our revenue forecasts to account correctly for the deferred revenue from the recent expansion of the bluebird collaboration. We have reduced our FY18 R&D forecasts (€21.6m vs €25.3 previously), as H118 clinical trial costs were lower than previously forecast due to slower patient enrolment, and forecast an FY18 EBITDA loss of €18.2m vs a loss of €21.2m previously. The net €30.1m capital raise has strengthened Medigene’s cash to €80.8m at end June 2018 (including time deposits).

Valuation: €453m (€18.47/share)

We value Medigene at €453m (€18.47/share) vs €416m (€18.65/share) previously. This is based on an rNPV of its TCR, DC and legacy assets in addition to deal metrics for the bluebird bio partnership and legacy asset, Veregen. We have rolled forward our model and include the recent €30.1m net capital raise.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

€'000s

2016

2017

2018e

2019e

Year end 31 December

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

9,749

11,375

10,409

11,018

of which: Veregen revenues (royalties/milestones/supply)

3,048

2,790

1,433

1,582

R&D partnering (SynCore/Falk Pharma/grants)

3,155

0

0

0

Non-cash income (Eligard)

2,493

3,699

3,699

3,699

Bluebird bio partnership

1,053

4,886

5,278

5,738

Cost of sales

(1,402)

(1,621)

(553)

(613)

Gross profit

8,347

9,754

9,856

10,405

Selling, general & administrative spending

(10,025)

(8,266)

(7,186)

(7,395)

R&D expenditure

(11,538)

(14,877)

(21,572)

(21,787)

Other operating spending

0

0

0

0

Operating profit

(8,974)

(13,389)

(18,901)

(18,777)

Goodwill & intangible amortisation

(525)

(524)

(523)

(522)

Exceptionals

4,242

0

0

0

Share-based payment

0

0

0

0

EBITDA

 

 

(12,371)

(12,122)

(18,153)

(18,030)

Operating Profit (before amort. and except.)

 

 

(12,691)

(12,865)

(18,378)

(18,255)

Net interest

(1,009)

(1,434)

(691)

(478)

Other (forex gains/losses; associate profit/loss)

263

1,884

1,278

1,546

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

(13,437)

(12,415)

(17,792)

(17,187)

Profit before tax (reported)

 

 

(9,720)

(12,939)

(18,315)

(17,709)

Tax

228

(634)

(101)

(101)

Profit/(loss) from discontinued operations

0

0

0

0

Profit after tax (norm)

(13,209)

(13,049)

(17,893)

(17,288)

Profit after tax (reported)

(9,492)

(13,573)

(18,416)

(17,810)

Average number of shares outstanding (m)

20.0

21.6

23.4

24.6

EPS - normalised (c)

 

 

(66.20)

(60.42)

(76.38)

(70.41)

EPS - Reported (€)

 

 

(0.48)

(0.63)

(0.79)

(0.73)

Dividend per share (c)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed assets

 

 

47,742

48,595

47,460

47,357

Intangible assets & goodwill

35,767

36,292

35,769

35,247

Tangible assets

3,323

4,329

4,717

5,136

Other non-current assets

8,652

7,974

6,974

6,974

Current assets

 

 

63,973

63,342

77,229

57,245

Stocks

7,866

7,724

7,724

7,724

Debtors

1,175

1,699

680

680

Cash

52,630

51,724*

66,631*

46,646*

Other

2,302

2,195

2,195

2,195

Current liabilities

 

 

(11,966)

(9,808)

(8,699)

(8,699)

Trade accounts payable

(973)

(725)

(798)

(798)

Short-term borrowings

0

0

0

0

Deferred income

(3,575)

(3,575)

(3,495)

(3,495)

Other

(7,418)

(5,508)

(4,406)

(4,406)

Long-term liabilities

 

 

(21,157)

(15,962)

(20,379)

(17,042)

Pension provisions

(408)

(405)

(405)

(405)

Long-term borrowings

0

0

0

0

Other liabilities (Deferred taxes; Trianta milestones)

(2,395)

(3,672)

(3,672)

(3,672)

Deferred revenues (Eligard non-cash income & bluebird bio)

(18,354)

(11,885)

(16,302)

(12,965)

Net assets

 

 

78,592

86,167

95,612

78,861

CASH FLOW

Operating cash flow

 

 

(3,611)

(20,729)

(17,475)

(19,562)

Net interest

(45)

(45)

109

322

Tax

(102)

(75)

(101)

(101)

Capex

(1,677)

(1,533)

(613)

(644)

Expenditure on intangibles

0

0

0

0

Acquisitions/disposals

10,537

480

1,242

0

Equity financing

(77)

19,329

30,078

0

Other

846

1,667

1,667

0

Net cash flow

5,871

(906)

14,907

(19,985)

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

(46,759)

(52,630)

(51,724)

(66,631)

HP finance leases initiated

0

0

0

0

Other (foreign exchanges differences)

0

0

0

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

(52,630)

(51,724)

(66,631)

(46,646)

Source: Company accounts, Edison Investment Research. Note: *Cash consists of cash in addition to both long- and short-term time deposits.

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