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结束 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 痤疮菌 白虻抗性特性是一种多作物特性,我们在Canola方面取得的惊人进展是为了未来我们的大豆平台开发这一特性的基础。另外,我们在Canola和HT2编辑方面拥有令人鼓舞的温室数据,我们将在2025年进入预期的田间试验。这些不仅仅是技术上的成就,它们代表着朝着真正具有版税潜力的商品商业化前进。
•Research and development (R&D) Expense: R&D expense was $1300万 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $1750万 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 $770万 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $880万 in the year-ago period. The decrease of $110万 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 $770万 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to expense of $90万 in the year-ago period. The increase in income of $860万 is driven by the fair value adjustment of the liability classified common warrants.
•Net loss: Net loss was $20150万 for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, compared to $3450万 in the year-ago period. The increase of $166.9 净损失600万美元主要是由非现金商誉减值驱动的 $181.4 非现金商誉减值2700万美元,若不计商誉减值,净损失减少了1450万美元,主要与上述项目有关。