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Cogent Biosciences Inc · Q4 2022 earnings

Q4 2022 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Cogent Biosciences reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022 and provided a business update.

Cogent Biosciences reported a net loss of $39.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2022 and ended the year with $259.3 million in cash, sufficient to fund operations into 2025. The company highlighted progress with bezuclastinib in systemic mastocytosis and GIST and the initiation of the Phase 3 PEAK trial.

  • Initiation of APEX Part 2 is planned for mid-2023.
  • Updated clinical data from Phase 3 PEAK lead-in in GIST patients is expected in the first half of 2023.
  • Initial clinical data from Phase 2 SUMMIT trial in NonAdvSM is on-track for the second half of 2023.
  • Ended 2022 with $259.3 million in cash, sufficient to fund operations into 2025.

Headline financials

EPS (adj)

-$0.56

Previous: -$0.62+9.7%
Capital Expenditures

$1.97M

Previous: $433K+354.3%
Free Cash Flow

-$31.4M

Previous: -$21.2M-47.9%
Net Income

-$39.6M

Previous: -$24.9M-59.0%
Operating Income

-$43.7M

Previous: -$25.6M-70.6%
Cash & Equivalents

$259M

Previous: $220M+18.0%
Total Assets

$301M

Previous: $232M+29.6%
Stock-Based Comp

$5.04M

Previous: $3.85M+30.8%

Revenue & EPS history

Cogent Biosciences · Revenue · Quarterly

$0

Q3 2025

Forward guidance

Cogent Biosciences anticipates several milestones including presenting updated clinical data from the Phase 3 PEAK lead-in study, providing a mid-year update on APEX Part 2 initiation, presenting initial clinical data from SUMMIT, and presenting updated preclinical data from research programs.

Tailwinds

  • Present updated clinical data from refractory GIST patients in the lead-in cohort of the Phase 3 PEAK trial of bezuclastinib plus sunitinib during the first half of 2023.
  • Provide a mid-year update on the planned initiation of APEX Part 2 based on clinical data from approximately 25-30 patients in APEX Part 1.
  • Present initial clinical data from SUMMIT, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, global, multicenter, Phase 2 clinical trial of bezuclastinib in patients with NonAdvSM in the second half of 2023. Clinical data is expected to include safety/tolerability, pharmacokinetics and measures of clinical activity.
  • Present updated preclinical data from Cogent’s selective FGFR2 and ErbB2 research programs at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting taking place April 14-19, 2023 in Orlando, Florida.

Historical earnings impact

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

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 20 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q4 2022

Historical avgQ4 2022

+0.9%

Avg return

Earnings day

+0.3%

Avg return

5 days after

+4.5%

Avg return

30 days after

65%

20 / 31 earnings

Positive

+17.8%

Q3 2018

Best reaction

-24.0%

Q1 2022

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026+0.8%-5.3%-10.6%
Q3 2025-4.4%-9.1%+140.2%
Q2 2025-5.8%-9.0%+7.4%
Q1 2025+2.7%+4.4%+48.4%
Q4 2024-6.3%+0.9%-11.4%
Q3 2024+0.0%-14.4%-19.8%
Q1 2024+0.4%-0.1%+11.1%
Q4 2023+0.7%-2.8%-12.4%
Q3 2023+3.9%+3.8%-2.7%
Q2 2023+7.3%+8.8%+9.4%
Q1 2023-1.5%-2.6%-2.9%
Q4 2022+0.7%-5.1%-13.7%
Q3 2022-5.7%-8.5%-2.6%
Q2 2022+9.6%+12.1%+32.7%
Q1 2022-24.0%-26.8%-10.6%
Q4 2021+4.5%+28.4%+64.6%
Q3 2021+13.7%+12.1%-9.9%
Q2 2021+5.4%+13.4%+3.3%
Q1 2021+1.7%+4.9%+4.0%
Q4 2020+5.9%+5.5%+9.0%
Q3 2020+13.2%+9.8%+14.9%
Q2 2020-11.4%-11.0%-8.3%
Q1 2020+0.5%+17.9%+37.1%
Q4 2019-3.1%-15.5%-18.6%
Q3 2019-10.2%-32.6%-52.1%
Q2 2019+4.4%+9.3%+9.0%
Q1 2019+0.2%-1.1%-26.2%
Q4 2018+8.1%+5.4%-12.3%
Q3 2018+17.8%+18.5%-25.0%
Q2 2018-5.9%-12.8%-27.3%
Q1 2018+4.0%+12.4%+13.6%
Q4 2017
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Q2 2017
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Q3 2016
Q3 2015

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