ESSA Pharma (EPIX) ($72MM market cap) is the newest addition to the damaged biotech basket. EPIX is a medical stage pharmaceutical firm that was beforehand targeted on creating therapies for the remedy of prostate most cancers. On Thursday (10/31/24), the corporate introduced they have been terminating all of their medical research and an initiating a assessment of strategic alternate options.
Within the press launch the corporate gave us 9/30 money numbers:
Liquidity and Excellent Share Capital
| · | As of September 30, 2024, the Firm had out there money reserves and short-term investments of $126.8 million and web working capital of $124.3 million (unaudited figures). The Firm has no long-term debt services. |
| · | As of September 30, 2024, the Firm had 44,388,551 widespread shares issued and excellent, and there have been 2,920,000 widespread shares issuable upon the train of prefunded warrants at an train worth of $0.0001. |
This one is pretty clear, though we do not have a severance cost estimate (the corporate has 50 staff), EPIX hasn’t been burning a lot money, solely roughly $7MM 1 / 4 previous to the termination of their R&D program. My again of the envelope math is fairly straight ahead, I am assuming about $20MM of the bills to wind down the corporate from right here or get it to a spot the place a reverse merger may be accomplished, be happy to make your personal assumptions.
My liquidation worth is about 40% larger than the place shares traded Friday following the information.
Disclosure: I personal shares of EPIX
