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Celsion Corp · Q1 2020 earnings

Q1 2020 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Celsion reported first quarter 2020 financial results and provided a business update.

Celsion Corporation reported a net loss of $5.1 million, or $0.20 per share, for the first quarter of 2020. The company continued to advance its clinical development programs with ThermoDox® and GEN-1 and maintained a strong balance sheet.

  • Phase III OPTIMA Study on track for interim data analysis in July.
  • GEN-1 immunotherapy showed encouraging results in the OVATION 2 Study.
  • GEN-1 received Orphan Drug Designation from the European Medicines Agency in April 2020.
  • Celsion received $1.8 million in non-dilutive funding from the sale of its New Jersey State Net Operating Losses.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$125K

Previous: $125K+0.0%
EPS (adj)

-$3.00

Previous: -$1.80-66.7%
Operating Loss

$1.8M

No prior period
Capital Expenditures

-$8.24K

Previous: -$145K+94.3%
Free Cash Flow

-$5.07M

Previous: -$2.51M-101.6%
Net Income

-$5.06M

Previous: -$2.37M-113.6%
Operating Income

-$4.77M

Previous: -$4.86M+1.9%
Cash & Equivalents

$5.75M

Previous: $3.58M+60.7%
Total Assets

$38.9M

Previous: $45.4M-14.2%

Revenue & EPS history

Celsion · Revenue · Quarterly

$125K

Q1 2020+0%vs Q1 2019
Beat estimate in 7 of 14 quarters(50%)
ActualEstimate

Forward guidance

Celsion expects to announce iDMC recommendations as soon as possible after the meeting. Celsion’s randomized Phase II OVATION 2 Study in advanced ovarian cancer patients is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2020 and is designed to demonstrate a 33% improvement in PFS (HR = 0.75) over current standard of care.

Tailwinds

  • Phase III OPTIMA Study is on track for interim data analysis in July 2020.
  • GEN-1 immunotherapy continues to show encouraging results.
  • GEN-1 received Orphan Drug Designation from the European Medicines Agency.
  • The Company strengthened its balance sheet at a time of capital markets uncertainty.
  • Initiated several cost containment measures to ensure that it has sufficient cash to fund operations and clinical development programs through the second quarter of 2021, which includes all major Phase III OPTIMA Study readouts.

Headwinds

  • Uncertainties of and difficulties in analyzing interim clinical data
  • Significant expense, time, and risk of failure of conducting clinical trials
  • Need for Celsion to evaluate its future development plans
  • Possible acquisitions or licenses of other technologies, assets or businesses
  • Possible actions by customers, suppliers, competitors, regulatory authorities

Historical earnings impact

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

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 19 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q1 2020

Historical avgQ1 2020

+0.2%

Avg return

Earnings day

-2.1%

Avg return

5 days after

+3.5%

Avg return

30 days after

32%

12 / 38 earnings

Positive

+28.7%

Q3 2019

Best reaction

-12.8%

Q3 2024

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q4 2026-1.1%-8.8%
Q2 2025-4.8%-10.3%-28.5%
Q1 2025+2.5%-40.0%+107.5%
Q4 2024+1.2%+6.3%+36.2%
Q3 2024-12.8%-17.0%-10.6%
Q2 2024-0.9%+4.6%+1.8%
Q1 2024+7.2%+1.4%-11.6%
Q4 2023+17.1%+25.0%+2.9%
Q3 2023-4.0%-3.0%-9.1%
Q2 2023-3.2%-5.6%-10.4%
Q1 2023-5.2%-6.7%+3.7%
Q4 2022-2.3%-6.2%+0.8%
Q3 2022-3.9%-4.6%-11.1%
Q2 2022-1.6%-11.6%-19.8%
Q1 2022+0.4%-7.5%-23.5%
Q4 2021-4.5%+17.4%-45.3%
Q3 2021+1.2%-10.7%-22.6%
Q2 2021-1.9%-8.4%+0.0%
Q1 2021+4.0%+12.1%+54.5%
Q4 2020-1.3%-22.9%-53.3%
Q3 2020-1.9%-3.7%+24.1%
Q2 2020+0.0%-1.8%-28.4%
Q1 2020-1.5%+26.5%+125.0%
Q4 2019+9.0%-3.4%+31.5%
Q3 2019+28.7%+34.3%+50.0%
Q2 2019+0.0%+7.1%+3.0%
Q1 2019+6.1%-4.2%-15.4%
Q4 2018-2.5%+19.9%+6.5%
Q3 2018-4.2%-12.6%-8.8%
Q2 2018-9.4%-8.7%+2.2%
Q1 2018-1.6%+1.2%+0.0%
Q4 2017-4.3%-11.5%-12.6%
Q3 2017-5.2%-5.7%+32.1%
Q2 2017-1.4%-9.5%-5.4%
Q1 2017+0.0%-8.3%-14.0%
Q4 2016+3.4%-3.4%+3.4%
Q3 2016+0.0%-10.9%-27.2%
Q2 2016+4.2%+10.0%+3.3%
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