SAN DIEGO, November 7, 2024 – Cibus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBUS) (the "Company"), a leading agricultural biotechnology company that uses proprietary gene editing technologies to develop plant traits (or specific genetic characteristics) in seeds, today announced its financial results for the third quarter結束 September 30, 2024, and provided a year-to-date business update for 2024. Management will host a conference call and webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Et.
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"This has been a transformative first nine months for Cibus, and as we end this quarter, I'm pleased to report that all of our operational crop platforms now have field studies or greenhouse data with multiple traits and customer relationships, which we believe validates our technology and commercial approach," stated Rory Riggs, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Cibus. "We are actively working with our customers to advance germplasm with our traits toward commercialization. In light of these relationships and their stage of development, we
have recently provided more detailed timelines around anticipated launches which are expected to lead to royalty revenues and allow our stakeholders to better benchmark our commercial progress and prospects."
Mr. Riggs continued, "We are also continuing to take proactive steps to focus on advancing our highest priority objectives. Our recently announced strategic realignment focuses the allocation of our capital resources toward our commercial efforts through advancement of our weed management traits for Rice, 硬腐病 resistance trait for Canola and Soybean, and the continuing development of our Soybean platform, while enabling continued progress on our Pod Shatter Reduction trait and our third weed management trait HT2 utilizing a more streamlined use of resources."
"Our Rice platform exemplifies the progress we've made with our HT1 and HT3 herbicide traits gaining substantial momentum this year and which we anticipate will be utilized eventually as stacked traits in an integrated weed management platform. We have agreements with four major Rice seed company customers in North and Latin America and we've received germplasm from each of these customers. All of this progress is made possible by our Trait Machine process, a paradigm shift in breeding complex traits, as we can now complete edits in a customer's elite germplasm and return it within as few as 12 months. This breakthrough in speed and predictability allows us to work seamlessly with seed companies, augmenting their breeding operations with our capabilities in complex gene-editing."
"We've also made significant strides in our Advanced Traits this year, particularly with our work in productivity traits. We have received successful field trial results for a second mode of action for Sclerotinia resistance in Canola, and greenhouse testing is underway for the third mode of action. With our 痤瘡菌 白虻抗性特性是一種多作物特性,我們在Canola方面取得的驚人進展是爲了未來我們的大豆平台開發這一特性的基礎。另外,我們在Canola和HT2編輯方面擁有令人鼓舞的溫室數據,我們將在2025年進入預期的田間試驗。這些不僅僅是技術上的成就,它們代表着朝着真正具有版稅潛力的商品商業化前進。
•Research and development (R&D) Expense: R&D expense was $1300萬 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $1750萬 in the year-ago period. The decrease of $4.5 million is primarily due to lower non-cash stock compensation expense and the strategic realignment and reduction in force announced during the fourth quarter of 2023 which included decreases in personnel costs and supplies.
•Selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expense: SG&A expense was $770萬 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $880萬 in the year-ago period. The decrease of $110萬 is primarily due to lower non-cash stock compensation expense.
•Goodwill impairment: Goodwill impairment was $181.4 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. The non-cash expense is due to the impairment of goodwill acquired in the merger with Cibus Global, LLC completed on May 31, 2023. Considering the decline in the Company's stock price since its last annual assessment of Goodwill, the Company performed a quantitative analysis in the third quarter of 2024 and concluded that its goodwill was impaired.
•Royalty liability interest expense - related parties: Royalty liability interest expense - related parties was $8.9 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $8.1 million in the year-ago period. The increase is due to increase in the royalty liability balance.
•Non-operating income (expenses), net: Non-operating income (expenses), net was income of $770萬 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to expense of $90萬 in the year-ago period. The increase in income of $860萬 is driven by the fair value adjustment of the liability classified common warrants.
•Net loss: Net loss was $20150萬 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $3450萬 in the year-ago period. The increase of $166.9 淨損失600萬美元主要是由非現金商譽減值驅動的 $181.4 非現金商譽減值2700萬美元,若不計商譽減值,淨損失減少了1450萬美元,主要與上述項目有關。