NASDAQ$TPST

Tempest Therapeutics Inc · Q3 2022 earnings

Q3 2022 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Reported financial results for the third quarter of 2022 and provided a corporate update.

Tempest Therapeutics reported a net loss of $8.9 million, or $0.66 per share, for the third quarter of 2022. The company ended the quarter with $42.8 million in cash and cash equivalents. Research and development expenses were $6.0 million, while general and administrative expenses were $2.8 million.

  • Tempest team remained focused and continued to execute productively throughout the third quarter.
  • Continued enrollment in a first-line, randomized global Phase 1b/2 study in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), under a collaboration with F. Hoffmann La Roche (Roche) for TPST-1120.
  • Continued enrollment in a Phase 1 study evaluating both monotherapy and combination therapy (with anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, pembrolizumab) dose and schedule optimization arms for TPST-1495.
  • Tempest ended the third quarter of 2022 with $42.8 million in cash and cash equivalents.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$0.00

Previous: $0.00
EPS (adj)

-$0.66

Previous: -$1.21+45.5%
Capital Expenditures

$108K

Previous: $24K+350.0%
Free Cash Flow

-$9.18M

Previous: -$11.8M+22.3%
Net Income

-$8.9M

Previous: -$8.1M-9.9%
Operating Income

-$8.77M

Previous: -$7.74M-13.4%
Cash & Equivalents

$42.8M

Previous: $59.8M-28.4%
Total Assets

$63.2M

Previous: $67.1M-5.9%

Revenue & EPS history

Tempest · Revenue · Quarterly

$0

Q3 2022

Forward guidance

Tempest plans to present data from its pipeline of novel preclinical and clinical oncology programs, including at the upcoming SITC annual meeting and in 2023.

Tailwinds

  • Late-breaking presentation of TPST-1120 potential patient biomarker data at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 37th Annual Meeting.
  • Early data from the first 40 patients in the first-line randomized global Phase 1b/2 study in patients with HCC under a collaboration with Roche expected in the first half of 2023.
  • Presentation of additional TPST-1495 preclinical data at the 37th SITC Annual Meeting.
  • Data from Phase 1 monotherapy and combination dose and schedule optimization arms expected by year end or early 2023, with planned presentation of the combined data in 2023.
  • Planned selection of development candidate in 2023 for TREX-1 Inhibitor.

Headwinds

  • The company's net loss for the third quarter of 2022 was $8.9 million.
  • The company's cash and cash equivalents decreased from $51.8 million on December 31, 2021, to $42.8 million on September 30, 2022.
  • The decrease in cash was primarily due to cash used in operations of $24.6 million.
  • Research and development expenses increased by $1.4 million compared to the same period in 2021.
  • General and administrative expenses decreased by $0.3 million compared to the same period in 2021.

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 Q3 2022

Historical avgQ3 2022

-2.1%

Avg return

Earnings day

-3.1%

Avg return

5 days after

-10.2%

Avg return

30 days after

34%

12 / 35 earnings

Positive

+15.8%

Q2 2022

Best reaction

-41.3%

Q4 2020

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q4 2026+1.2%+4.5%-36.2%
Q3 2025-3.2%-3.3%-68.6%
Q2 2025+10.0%+31.5%+33.7%
Q1 2025-2.6%-8.2%+0.7%
Q4 2024+5.9%-9.5%-28.9%
Q3 2024-11.5%-19.1%-24.1%
Q2 2024-16.8%-21.4%-11.4%
Q1 2024-5.5%-2.0%-10.4%
Q4 2023-3.1%-5.9%-18.1%
Q3 2023+6.1%+11.7%+3.6%
Q2 2023+7.2%+13.5%-29.1%
Q1 2023+3.4%+6.3%-42.0%
Q4 2022+10.2%+8.1%+80.3%
Q3 2022-12.1%-11.5%-14.0%
Q2 2022+15.8%+18.2%+5.1%
Q1 2022+5.9%+12.9%-2.2%
Q4 2021-3.6%-18.8%-12.4%
Q3 2021-2.5%-7.8%-35.5%
Q2 2021-0.1%-6.3%+6.3%
Q1 2021-0.8%-1.6%-10.2%
Q4 2020-41.3%-41.7%-46.3%
Q3 2020-1.3%-1.3%+28.2%
Q2 2020-2.6%-3.6%-17.7%
Q1 2020-4.7%+0.0%+32.0%
Q3 2019-2.7%+1.2%-21.1%
Q2 2019-0.5%-7.4%-23.2%
Q1 2019+2.6%+0.9%-21.2%
Q3 2018-5.2%-13.0%-10.0%
Q2 2018-14.4%-8.9%-15.6%
Q1 2018+0.7%+0.7%-4.7%
Q3 2017-4.6%-2.9%-0.7%
Q2 2017+3.1%-2.5%-12.3%
Q1 2017-0.4%-1.8%-8.1%
Q3 2016-6.8%-31.6%-35.4%
Q2 2016-0.5%+11.2%+12.7%
Q1 2016
Q3 2015
Q2 2015
Q1 2015

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