Basilea Pharmaceutica — Update 16 September 2016

Basilea Pharmaceutica (SIX: BSLN)

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Basilea Pharmaceutica — Update 16 September 2016

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16 September 2016

Price

CHF70.95

Market cap

CHF838m

Net cash (CHFm) at July 2016

115.8

Shares in issue*
*Including 1m treasury shares

11.8m

Free float

90.4%

Code

BSLN

Primary exchange

SIX

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(2.7)

2.7

(27.1)

Rel (local)

(1.2)

(3.7)

(21.7)

52-week high/low

CHF108.8

CHF59.5

Business description

Basilea is a Swiss biopharmaceutical company focused on anti-infectives and oncology. Its lead products are Cresemba, an antifungal that is approved in the US and Europe, and Zevtera, an anti-MRSA broad-spectrum antibiotic, approved in several European countries for pneumonia.

Next events

Zevtera initiate PIII US studies

H117

FY16 results

20 February 2017

Analysts

Dr Susie Jana

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Daniel Wilkinson

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Basilea Pharmaceutica is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Basilea continues to make good partnering progress with key assets Cresemba for mould infections and Zevtera for bacterial infections. Both drugs will be developed and marketed across Latin America by Grupo Biotoscana (GBT), while Cresemba will be developed and marketed by Asahi Kasei Pharma in Japan. Basilea will receive a total upfront of CHF18m (to be treated as deferred revenue over a number of years), plus additional payments on reaching regulatory and commercialisation milestones (up to CHF60m from Asahi plus royalties, undisclosed amounts from GBT). We value Basilea at CHF1,091m.

Year
end

Revenue (CHFm)

PBT*
(CHFm)

EPS*
(CHF)

DPS
(CHF)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

12/14

42.6

(41.2)

(4.14)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/15

52.8

(61.3)

(6.07)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/16e

61.2

(54.1)

(4.96)

0.0

N/A

N/A

12/17e

88.6

(35.6)

(3.20)

0.0

N/A

N/A

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

Cresemba and Zevtera underpin current share price

Basilea continues to make good partnering progress with key assets Cresemba and Zevtera against a backdrop of an ongoing European roll-out for both and a US roll-out for Cresemba by licence partner, Astellas. Following on from the extension with Hikma in the MENA region to cover Cresemba, in addition to the original agreement on Zevtera, Basilea has now announced two separate licence agreements covering Latin America and Japan. GBT has the exclusive licence for Cresemba and Zevtera across 19 Latin American countries whilst Asahi Kasei Pharma has been granted the sole licence for Cresemba in Japan.

Expect pipeline progress through 2016/17

Following the award of the BARDA contract (up to $100m) for the US development of Zevtera, we anticipate its US Phase III clinical trials could start in H117. The company is in discussions with the FDA to finalise the Phase III study SPAs. Oncology assets BAL101553 and BAL3833 are making progress in targeting drug-resistant tumour types; there could be synergies between the anti-infectives and oncology pipelines as a large number of invasive fungal and bacterial infections develop in leukaemia cancer patients that are immunocompromised owing to treatment with aggressive chemotherapies.

Valuation: rNPV of CHF1,091m or CHF101/share

Our valuation of Basilea remains unchanged at CHF1,091m. Our valuation is based on an NPV analysis, which includes the main portfolio of products and net cash. Cresemba, based on $600m peak sales globally, which encompasses the LatAm and Japanese markets (our model does not include the CHF18m in upfronts), is worth c 65% of our rNPV and underpins c 90% of the current market cap. We also include Zevtera in Europe, in addition to risk-adjusted contributions for the US opportunity and the earlier-stage pipeline.

Cresemba and Zevtera underpin current share price

Basilea continues to make good partnering progress with key assets Cresemba for mould infections and Zevtera for bacterial infections against a backdrop of an ongoing European roll-out for both and the US roll-out of Cresemba by licence partner, Astellas. Following on from the extension with Hikma in the MENA region to cover Cresemba, in addition to the original agreement on Zevtera, Basilea has now announced collaborative partnership with Grupo Biotoscana (GBT) for LatAm (Cresemba and Zevtera) and Ashai Kasei Pharma for Japan (Cresemba).

GBT to commercialise Cresemba and Zevtera across LatAm

Basilea has announced a supply, distribution and licence agreement with Grupo Biotoscana (GBT) for the LatAm region for its key antimicrobial agents, Cresemba and Zevtera. Basilea will receive CHF11m upfront for the agreement (to be treated as deferred revenue over a number of years; not included in our model assumptions), plus additional undisclosed amounts on reaching regulatory and commercialisation milestones. GBT holds the sole licence to commercialise both drugs across 19 countries in the region; including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. GBT has established operations in 10 countries in LatAm and focuses on rapidly growing healthcare segments including speciality pharmaceuticals and oncology; we see Cresemba and Zevtera as neat fits into its existing partnership portfolio of drugs.

Ashai Kasei Pharma to commercialise Cresemba across in Japan

Basilea has entered into a partnering agreement with Ashai Kasei Pharma for Cresemba in Japan. Under the terms of the deal Ashai Kasei Pharma has the sole licence to develop and commercialise the product; Basilea will receive CHF7m upfront for the agreement (to be treated as deferred revenue over a number of years; not included in our model), plus up to an additional CHF60m contingent on reaching regulatory and commercialisation milestones. Basilea will receive double digit tiered royalties on product sales in Japan. Ashai Kasei Pharma will be initiating the Cresemba clinical trials for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis required for the Japanese marketing authorisation.

We forecast Cresemba global peak sales potential of $600m

We forecast global peak sales potential of $600m, with Cresemba contributing c 65% to our valuation. Our Cresemba valuation is based on a blended royalty which assumes around 30% for countries like Japan where bridging studies will be needed and a distribution agreement where the economic interest is likely to be around 40%. We will maintain our current assumptions until we have more visibility as to start of the bridging trials and the timing of a potential launch in these newly partnered markets.

Total Zevtera peak sales of $556m forecast

We continue to forecast $100m peak sales for Zevtera in Europe (for the currently approved indications) and $456m for RoW (including $317m for the US opportunity, which is risk adjusted). Phase III data from the US trials, if positive, could be used to expand Zevtera’s EU/RoW label to include Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and acute skin and skin structure infections indications. Our current peak sales estimates for EU/RoW do not include these indications, hence this could provide upside to our financial forecasts.

For more detail on Cresemba and Zevtera see our note dated March 2016, Riding the crest of the antimicrobial wave.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

CHF'000s

2014

2015

2016e

2017e

2018e

December

US GAAP

US GAAP

US GAAP

US GAAP

US GAAP

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

42,634

52,825

61,208

88,605

105,084

Cost of Sales

0

0

(661)

(2,426)

(5,210)

Gross Profit

42,634

52,825

60,547

86,179

99,875

Research and development

(54,377)

(60,075)

(54,701)

(60,410)

(63,309)

EBITDA

 

 

(39,239)

(58,885)

(46,803)

(28,711)

(19,823)

Operating Profit (before amort. and except.)

(41,539)

(61,285)

(49,142)

(31,162)

(22,420)

Intangible Amortisation

(291)

(200)

(206)

(117)

0

Exceptionals

0

0

0

0

0

Other

0

0

0

0

0

Operating Profit

(41,830)

(61,485)

(49,348)

(31,279)

(22,420)

Net Interest

311

(35)

(4,948)

(4,425)

(4,108)

Profit Before Tax (norm)

 

 

(41,228)

(61,320)

(54,090)

(35,587)

(26,528)

Profit Before Tax (reported)

 

 

(41,519)

(61,520)

(54,296)

(35,704)

(26,528)

Tax

(26)

(83)

(26)

(26)

(26)

Profit After Tax (norm)

(41,255)

(61,403)

(54,116)

(35,613)

(26,554)

Profit After Tax (reported)

(41,546)

(61,603)

(54,323)

(35,730)

(26,554)

Average Number of Shares Outstanding (m)

10.0

10.1

10.9

11.1

11.4

EPS - normalised (c)

 

 

(414.46)

(607.22)

(496.01)

(319.87)

(233.81)

EPS - normalised fully diluted (c)

 

(414.46)

(607.22)

(496.01)

(319.87)

(233.81)

EPS - (reported) (CHF)

 

 

(4.17)

(6.09)

(4.98)

(3.21)

(2.34)

Dividend per share (c)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Gross Margin (%)

100.0

100.0

98.9

97.3

95.0

EBITDA Margin (%)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Operating Margin (before GW and except.) (%)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed Assets

 

 

12,807

13,870

13,072

13,162

13,718

Intangible Assets

224

346

117

0

0

Tangible Assets

12,157

10,724

10,155

10,362

10,918

Investments

426

2,800

2,800

2,800

2,800

Current Assets

 

 

244,571

384,865

288,045

212,221

170,531

Stocks

4,904

9,579

7,650

10,710

7,137

Debtors

1,171

1,545

1,677

2,428

2,879

Cash

226,125

364,688

269,935

190,300

151,732

Other

12,371

9,053

8,783

8,783

8,783

Current Liabilities

 

 

(61,690)

(68,836)

(70,638)

(53,345)

(33,276)

Creditors

(61,690)

(68,836)

(70,638)

(53,345)

(33,276)

Short term borrowings

0

0

0

0

0

Long Term Liabilities

 

 

(137,756)

(315,043)

(260,997)

(228,997)

(217,197)

Long term borrowings

0

(194,706)

(194,706)

(194,706)

(194,706)

Other long term liabilities

(137,756)

(120,337)

(66,291)

(34,291)

(22,491)

Net Assets

 

 

57,931

14,856

(30,518)

(56,959)

(66,224)

CASH FLOW

Operating Cash Flow

 

 

(71,461)

(67,780)

(87,962)

(72,526)

(31,281)

Net Interest

0

0

(4,948)

(4,425)

(4,108)

Tax

0

0

(26)

(26)

(26)

Capex

(1,247)

(1,009)

(1,836)

(2,658)

(3,153)

Acquisitions/disposals

0

0

0

0

0

Financing

0

(0)

0

0

0

Other

24,937

12,645

20

0

0

Dividends

0

0

0

0

0

Net Cash Flow

(47,772)

(56,143)

(94,753)

(79,635)

(38,568)

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

(273,898)

(226,125)

(169,982)

(75,229)

4,406

HP finance leases initiated

0

0

0

0

0

Other

0

0

0

0

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

(226,125)

(169,982)

(75,229)

4,406

42,974

Source: Basilea accounts, Edison Investment Research. Note: During 2013 Basilea distributed CHF5.0/share, equivalent to CHF48m to shareholders, which we classify as a dividend. This followed a shareholder request (from HBM Healthcare Investments, which held 24.97%) that was approved at the 2013 AGM.

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