NASDAQ$TERN

Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc · Q4 2021 earnings

Q4 2021 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Terns reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021, and provided corporate highlights.

Terns Pharmaceuticals reported its Q4 and full year 2021 financial results, highlighting the expected top-line data readout from the TERN-201 clinical trial in NASH in March 2022, and the planned initiation of the Terns' first NASH trial of TERN-501 alone and in combination with TERN-101 in the first half of 2022.

  • Top-line data from TERN-201 (VAP-1 inhibitor) clinical trial in NASH is expected in March 2022.
  • Terns plans to initiate its first NASH trial of TERN-501 (THR-β agonist) alone and in combination with TERN-101 (FXR agonist) in the first half of 2022.
  • TERN-601 (GLP-1 receptor agonist) development candidate was nominated with the goal of initiating a first-in-human clinical trial in 2023.
  • Cash and equivalents of $166 million provides runway into 2024.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$1M

No prior period
EPS (adj)

-$0.56

Previous: -$3.65+84.7%
Capital Expenditures

$200K

No prior period
Free Cash Flow

-$10.9M

No prior period
Net Income

-$14.2M

Previous: -$9.93M-43.5%
Operating Income

-$13.9M

Previous: -$8.77M-58.3%
Gross Profit

$886K

No prior period
Cash & Equivalents

$166M

Previous: $74.9M+121.6%
Total Assets

$168M

No prior period
Stock-Based Comp

$2.55M

No prior period

Revenue & EPS history

Terns · Revenue · Quarterly

$1M

Q4 2021

Forward guidance

Terns anticipates continuing momentum with top-line data from the AVIATION trial of TERN-201 in NASH patients and plans to initiate the first Phase 2a trial of TERN-501 alone and in combination with TERN-101 in NASH patients.

Tailwinds

  • Top-line data from AVIATION Trial Part 1 (10 mg) and Part 2 (20 mg) expected in March 2022 and the second half of 2022, respectively.
  • TERN-501 demonstrated significant, dose-dependent effects on sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG).
  • TERN-501 was generally well-tolerated.
  • TERN-101 treatment led to study population shifts to cT1 categories associated with lower risk of clinical events in chronic liver disease patients
  • TERN-601 candidate nominated at year-end 2021 as an oral, small-molecule GLP-1 receptor agonist targeting metabolic diseases such as obesity and NASH with the potential for once-daily dosing

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 Q4 2021

Historical avgQ4 2021

-0.3%

Avg return

Earnings day

+0.9%

Avg return

5 days after

+16.4%

Avg return

30 days after

48%

10 / 21 earnings

Positive

+19.8%

Q4 2022

Best reaction

-23.0%

Q3 2022

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q4 2026-1.3%-0.0%
Q3 2025+7.6%+18.0%+146.3%
Q2 2025-6.8%+3.6%+18.7%
Q1 2025-0.7%-4.1%+22.3%
Q4 2024-2.7%-1.3%-23.6%
Q3 2024-9.1%-17.3%-11.7%
Q2 2024-4.6%-11.8%-1.7%
Q1 2024+7.7%+6.1%+32.9%
Q4 2023+1.7%-15.0%-27.4%
Q3 2023+14.2%+10.1%+92.3%
Q2 2023-9.5%+0.8%-21.5%
Q1 2023-15.2%-20.3%-7.0%
Q4 2022+19.8%+32.7%+42.3%
Q3 2022-23.0%-26.7%-12.2%
Q2 2022-5.5%+39.2%+75.1%
Q1 2022+4.0%-0.7%+26.5%
Q4 2021+4.1%+3.5%-5.4%
Q3 2021-1.2%-5.9%-30.9%
Q2 2021+4.3%+3.5%-0.9%
Q1 2021+3.6%+5.6%+13.5%
Q4 2020+5.8%-0.9%+1.2%
Q3 2020
Q2 2020
Q1 2020
Q4 2019

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