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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), a leader in genetic testing and precision medicine, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2021. The company also reiterated financial guidance for 2022 and provided an update on business performance and strategic growth plans.
“With the focus and dedication of our 2,400 teammates, we improved quarterly and annual results despite continued headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic. I want to thank our entire team for a great year delivering on our mission of advancing the health and well-being of our patients while executing on our transformation and growth plan,” said Paul J. Diaz, president and Chief Executive Officer. “In the fourth quarter we gained traction on our new commercial strategy with new product launches, tech-enabled capabilities, and more customer-centric tools that we believe will provide a strong foundation for continued growth and innovation. However, we also saw an adverse impact from the Omicron variant toward the end of 2021 and into the new year, particularly in our hereditary cancer business.”
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Business Performance and Highlights:
Women’s HealthThe Myriad Women’s Health business serves women of all ancestries by assessing their risk of cancer and offers prenatal testing solutions for those who are pregnant or planning a family. Women’s Health delivered revenue of $64.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 14% year-over-year and an increase of 8% sequentially from the third quarter of 2021.
OncologyMyriad's Oncology business provides hereditary cancer testing, including MyRisk, for patients who have cancer. It also provides tumor profiling products such as the EndoPredict® breast cancer prognostic test, the Prolaris® prostate cancer test, and the MyChoice® CDx companion diagnostic test for predicting response to PARP inhibitors. The Oncology business delivered revenue of $67.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 12% year-over-year and a decrease of 12% sequentially from the third quarter of 2021.
Mental HealthMyriad’s Mental Health business consists of the GeneSight® psychotropic test that covers 61 medications commonly prescribed for depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other psychiatric conditions. GeneSight helps physicians understand how genetic alterations impact patient response to antidepressants and other drugs. In the pharmacogenomics category, GeneSight delivered revenue of $29.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 63% year-over-year and 22% sequentially from the third quarter of 2021.
Financial GuidanceBelow is a table summarizing Myriad's fiscal year 2022 financial guidance:
Myriad's fiscal year 2022 non-GAAP guidance begins with the comparable GAAP financial measure and excludes the impact of stock-based compensation expense ($36.5 million), non-cash amortization associated with acquisitions ($41.0 million) and special items such as costs related to transformation initiatives ($8.5 million). These projections are forward-looking statements and are subject to the risks summarized in the safe harbor statement at the end of this press release. The company will provide further details on its business outlook during the conference call today and discuss the fourth-quarter financial results and fiscal year 2022 financial guidance.
Conference Call and WebcastA conference call will be held today, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. EST to discuss Myriad’s financial results and business developments for the fourth quarter 2021. The dial-in number for domestic callers is 1-800-926-5188. International callers may dial 1-212-231-2901. All callers will be asked to reference reservation number 22015280. An archived replay of the call will be available for seven days by dialing 1-800-633-8284 and entering the reservation number above. The conference call and slide presentation will be available through a live webcast at www.myriad.com.
About Myriad GeneticsMyriad Genetics is a leading genetic testing and precision medicine company dedicated to advancing health and well-being for all, empowering individuals with vital genetic insights and enabling healthcare providers to better detect, treat and prevent disease. Myriad discovers and commercializes genetic tests that determine the risk of developing disease, assess the risk of disease progression, and guide treatment decisions across medical specialties where critical genetic insights can significantly improve patient care and lower healthcare costs. For more information, visit the company's website: www.myriad.com.
Myriad, the Myriad logo, BRACAnalysis, BRACAnalysis CDx, Colaris, ColarisAP, MyRisk, Myriad myRisk, MyRisk Hereditary Cancer, myChoice, Tumor BRACAnalysis CDx, MyChoice CDx, Prequel, Prequel with Amplify, Amplify, Foresight, Precise, Health.Illuminated., RiskScore, Prolaris, GeneSight, FirstGene and EndoPredict are registered trademarks or trademarks of Myriad Genetics, Inc. or its wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States and foreign countries.
Revenue by Product (Unaudited):
Business Units:WH = Women’s HealthONC = OncologyMH = Mental Health
Product Categories:Hereditary Cancer - MyRisk, BRACAnalysis, BRACAnalysis CDxTumor Profiling – myChoice CDx, Prolaris, EndoPredictPrenatal – Foresight, PrequelPharmacogenomics – GeneSightAutoimmune – VectraOther – myPathPharma and clinical – RBM, COVID-19 testing
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Safe Harbor StatementThis press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including Myriad's calendar year 2022 financial guidance and statements relating to new product launches, tech-enabled commercial capabilities, customer-centric tools, and operational improvements providing a strong foundation for continued growth and innovation, the company's plans to launch FirstGene, a combined prenatal and carrier screening test, in 2023, the company's plans to develop new genetic testing solutions for cancer applications in the liquid biopsy Bx and Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) spaces and expand its FDA approved companion diagnostic test, myChoice CDx, to other indications including breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers for expanded pharma clinical trials and commercial testing, the company's expectation that the number of orders for GeneSight home-based kits, as a percentage of all GeneSight orders, will continue to increase as telehealth becomes a more common alternative to in-person care, and the company's strategic imperatives under the caption "About Myriad Genetics." These “forward-looking statements” are management’s present expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to: uncertainties associated with COVID-19, including its possible effects on the company’s operations and the demand for its products and services; risks related to the company’s ability to efficiently and flexibly manage its business amid uncertainties associated with COVID-19; the risk that sales and profit margins of the company’s existing molecular diagnostic tests may decline or that the company may not be able to operate its business on a profitable basis; risks related to the company’s ability to generate sufficient revenue from its existing product portfolio or in launching and commercializing new tests; risks related to changes in governmental or private insurers’ coverage and reimbursement levels for the company’s tests or the company’s ability to obtain reimbursement for its new tests at comparable levels to its existing tests; risks related to increased competition and the development of new competing tests and services; the risk that the company may be unable to develop or achieve commercial success for additional molecular diagnostic tests in a timely manner, or at all; the risk that the company may not successfully develop new markets for its molecular diagnostic tests, including the company’s ability to successfully generate revenue outside the United States; the risk that licenses to the technology underlying the company’s molecular diagnostic tests and any future tests are terminated or cannot be maintained on satisfactory terms; risks related to delays or other problems with operating or constructing the company’s laboratory testing facilities; risks related to public concern over genetic testing in general or the company’s tests in particular; risks related to regulatory requirements or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries and changes in the structure of the healthcare system or healthcare payment systems; risks related to the company’s ability to obtain new corporate collaborations or licenses and acquire or develop new technologies or businesses on satisfactory terms, if at all; risks related to the company’s ability to successfully integrate and derive benefits from any technologies or businesses that it licenses, acquires or develops; risks related to the company’s projections about the potential market opportunity for the company’s current and future products; the risk that the company or its licensors may be unable to protect or that third parties will infringe the proprietary technologies underlying the company’s tests; the risk of patent-infringement claims or challenges to the validity of the company’s patents; risks related to changes in intellectual property laws covering the company’s molecular diagnostic tests, or patents or enforcement, in the United States and foreign countries; risks related to security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions, including from cyberattacks; risks of new, changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the United States and internationally; the risk that the company may be unable to comply with financial operating covenants under the company’s credit or lending agreements; risks related to current and future lawsuits, including product or professional liability claims; and other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” contained in Item 1A of the company’s Transition Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2021, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in the company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K.
Statement regarding use of non-GAAP financial measuresIn this press release, the company’s financial results and financial guidance are provided in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) and using certain non-GAAP financial measures. Management believes that presentation of operating results using non-GAAP financial measures provides useful supplemental information to investors and facilitates the analysis of the company’s core operating results and comparison of operating results across reporting periods. Management also uses non-GAAP financial measures to establish budgets and to manage the company’s business. A reconciliation of the GAAP financial results to non-GAAP financial results is included in the attached schedules and a description of the adjustments made to the GAAP financial measures is included at the end of the schedules.
The company encourages investors to carefully consider its results under GAAP, as well as its supplemental non-GAAP information and the reconciliation between these presentations, to more fully understand its business. Non-GAAP financial results are reported in addition to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measuresfor the Three Months and Year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020(unaudited data in millions, except per share amount)
Adjusted Free Cash Flow Reconciliationfor the Three Months and Year Ended December 31, 2021 and 2020(unaudited data in millions)
Following is a description of the adjustments made to GAAP financial measures: