Biopharma Posts ‘Impressive’ Q3/20 Sales Amid Pandemic

Source: Streetwise Reports   11/11/2020

Paratek Pharmaceuticals’ recent and future revenue are discussed in an H.C. Wainwright & Co. report.

In a Nov. 9 research note, analyst Ed Arce recapped Paratek Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s (PRTK:NASDAQ) Q3/20, highlighting its sales growth, and noted that H.C. Wainwright & Co. increased its target price on the biopharma.

Arce reviewed Paratek’s sales during the quarter and their implications. Continuing its momentum with NUZYRA sales, the Boston-based company generated $10.9 million in net sales, a 34% increase over those in Q2/20. Further, Paratek achieved this while antibiotic sales in the broader market declined 18%.

“We find this quarter’s growth impressive and encouraging given the ongoing full or partial lockdowns and continued restricted hospital access due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Arce commented.

H.C. Wainwright and Paratek management revisited their modeling and guidance, respectively, Arce relayed. The investment bank raised its full-year 2020 net sales estimate for Paratek to $38.3 million from $35.2 million based on its stronger than expected Q3/20 and continuing demand for NUZYRA.

Similarly, Paratek estimated that its total 2020 revenue should be at the higher end of guidance of $78–83 million. This projection includes the $38 million the company is to receive from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority’s initial purchase of NUZYRA. The possibility exists, however, that Paratek may not realize the $38 million until 2021.

Also positively affecting the balance sheet, the biotech again reduced its 2020 guidance for two expenses—research and development and sales, general and administrative—to about $120 million from the $135 million forecast at the end of Q2/20.

At Q3/20’s end, Sept. 30, 2020, Paratek had $149.5 million in cash, enough to cover runway until January 2024, the analyst stated.

Arce reported that H.C. Wainwright raised its target price on Paratek to $22 per share from $19 after updating its model to reflect current financial guidance and updated NUZYRA revenue projections. The stock is currently trading at about $6.03 per share.

The analyst also provided what he described as “an important update.” That is that Paratek should hear back from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) around the end of January 2021 on adding to NUZYRA’s label oral-only dosing for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia. The analyst expects the FDA will approve this, which should help further boost NYZRA sales. Arce noted the company could capitalize on the 2020-2021 flu season and expand, as planned, “into the community setting early in 2021.”

Arce summarized his firm’s stance on Paratek which it rates as a Buy. It is “on course to establishing itself as a leading, commercially successful, independent antibiotic biotech company with a pathway to cash flow break even,” he wrote.

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