NASDAQ$AURA

Aura Biosciences Inc · Q2 2023 earnings

Q2 2023 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023, and provided clinical development and operational highlights.

Aura Biosciences reported its Q2 2023 financial results, highlighting ongoing global Phase 3 trial start-up activities and key leadership appointments. The company's cash and cash equivalents totaled $162.0 million, expected to fund operations into the second half of 2025. The first patient is expected to be dosed in the second half of 2023

  • Global start up activities for the Phase 3 trial are ongoing.
  • Aura released the commercial process material for the global Phase 3 trial.
  • Enrollment is complete in the Phase 2 trial evaluating SC administration of bel-sar for the first-line treatment of adult patients with early-stage choroidal melanoma (CM).
  • The Phase 1 trial of bel-sar for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) is currently ongoing, and Aura expects to report data in 2024.

Headline financials

EPS (adj)

-$0.48

Previous: -$0.46-4.3%
Capital Expenditures

$193K

Previous: $74K+160.8%
Free Cash Flow

-$14.8M

Previous: -$10.7M-38.6%
Net Income

-$18.3M

Previous: -$13.5M-35.9%
Operating Income

-$20.3M

Previous: -$13.8M-46.8%
Cash & Equivalents

$47.7M

Previous: $53.8M-11.4%
Total Assets

$193M

Previous: $135M+42.7%
Stock-Based Comp

$1.93M

Previous: $1.29M+50.0%

Revenue & EPS history

Aura Biosciences · Revenue · Quarterly

$600K

Q3 2025

Forward guidance

Aura believes its current cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities are sufficient to fund its operations into the second half of 2025.

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 16 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q2 2023

Historical avgQ2 2023

+1.3%

Avg return

Earnings day

+0.3%

Avg return

5 days after

-7.0%

Avg return

30 days after

44%

8 / 18 earnings

Positive

+26.0%

Q3 2021

Best reaction

-8.9%

Q2 2023

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q4 2026-3.1%-5.5%-24.3%
Q3 2025-0.7%-2.9%+17.4%
Q2 2025+4.2%-3.6%-11.0%
Q1 2025+1.9%-0.5%+6.8%
Q4 2024-6.7%-15.5%-23.2%
Q3 2024-7.3%-15.0%-24.2%
Q1 2024-1.1%+1.9%+1.6%
Q4 2023+2.9%+1.7%-5.4%
Q3 2023+4.5%+8.6%+18.9%
Q2 2023-8.9%-8.8%-16.4%
Q1 2023+0.5%+7.3%+22.4%
Q4 2022-1.0%-1.0%-15.6%
Q3 2022+10.1%+16.4%+4.4%
Q2 2022-0.5%-2.6%-19.0%
Q1 2022+4.9%+8.1%-4.5%
Q2 2021-1.5%+8.7%-21.4%
Q4 2021-1.5%+8.7%-21.4%
Q3 2021+26.0%-1.1%-10.6%
Q1 2021
Q4 2020
Q3 2020
Q2 2020
Q1 2020

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