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CODEXIS, INC.

For the period ended Jun 30, 2025. Filed Aug 13, 2025.

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A company's report for each of its first three quarters. The financial statements are not audited. It shows how the business has moved since the last annual report, and what management says changed.

Jun 30, 2025 · Filed Aug 13, 2025

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Previous report: 10-Q

Period ended 2025-03-31; filed 2025-05-14.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Current report: 10-Q

Period ended 2025-06-30; filed 2025-08-13.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.

Compared 69 previous paragraphs and 69 current paragraphs.

43 unchanged; 17 reworded; 8 added; 9 removed; 0 previous and 1 current paragraphs rearranged.

Tables are not compared: 9 previous and 9 current tables excluded. Dates, whitespace, punctuation and numbering changes are ignored; changes to financial figures remain significant.

A changed paragraph is not evidence that risk increased or decreased. An unchanged paragraph does not establish that risk stayed the same.

Added paragraphs (8)

Current report

Total revenues increased by $7.3 million to $15.3 million in the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Total revenues decreased by $2.2 million to $22.9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.

Current report

Product revenue increased by $1.1 million to $7.4 million in the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, and decreased by $2.4 million to $13.4 million in the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, primarily due to variability in manufacturing schedules and timing in clinical trial progression of our customers, which impacted order volumes for our enzyme products.

Current report

Cost of product revenue decreased by $1.4 million and $3.5 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2024. Product gross margins were 72% and 64% in the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, compared to 45% and 47% in the corresponding periods in 2024. The changes in cost of product revenue and product gross margins are primarily due to a shift in sales toward more profitable products, and declines in less profitable legacy products.

Current report

Research and development expenses increased by $2.4 million in the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 prim arily due to a $1.4 million increase in employee-related costs, $1.1 million in higher allocable costs, and $0.2 million in higher lab supplies, partially offset by a $0.5 million decrease from lower use of outside services. The increase in research and development expenses of $4.1 million in the six months ended June 30, 2025, compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to a $2.3 million increase in employee-related costs, $2.1 million increase in allocable costs, and $0.3 million in higher lab supplies. These were partially offset by a$0.5 million decrease from lower use of outside services.

Current report

Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by $3.4 million during the three months ended June 30, 2025, compared to the same period in 2024 primarily due to $2.2 million in lower stock-based compensation expenses, $0.9 million in lower legal costs, $0.3 million in lower consulting and outside services, and $0.3 million in lower allocable costs. These were partially offset by a $0.3 million increase inemployee-related costs. The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses of $3.9 million during the six months ended June 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to $2.8 million in lower stock-based compensation expenses, $1.7 million in lower legal costs and $0.6 million in lower allocable costs. These were partially offset by a$0.8 million increase in employee-related costsand a $0.5 million increase in facilities associated costs.

Current report

Asset impairment and other charges for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 was due to a $0.2 million write-down on assets held for sale.

Current report

On July 4, 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) was enacted, extending several key provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Among its updates are provisions that allow for the immediate expensing of qualifying research and development expenses and certain capital expenditures. The Company continues to evaluate the impact of the OBBBA, however it is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
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Previous report

We announced the appointment of Christos Richards to our Board of Directors on January 16, 2025, followed by the appointment of Cynthia Collins on March 28, 2025.

Previous report

Total revenues decreased by $9.5 million to $7.5 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, or 56%.

Previous report

Product revenue decreased by $3.5 million to $6.1 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, primarily due to lower sales of enzymes used in the manufacture of branded pharmaceutical products.

Previous report

Cost of product revenue decreased by $2.1 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 primarily due to a lower volume of product sales as compared to the same period in 2024. Product gross margin increased to 55% in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to 49% in the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to variability in the product mix.

Previous report

Research and development expenses were $12.9 million in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of $1.7 million, or 15%, from $11.2 million in the first quarter of 2024. This increase was primarily due to $0.8 million in higher allocable costs, $0.5 million increase in costs associated with higher headcount and $0.3 million in higher lab supplies expense.

Previous report

Selling, general and administrative expenses were $12.4 million in the first quarter of 2025, a decrease of $0.5 million, or 4%, compared to $12.9 million in the first quarter of 2024. This decrease was primarily due to $0.7 million in lower legal fees, $0.6 million in lower stock-based compensation expense, and $0.3 million in lower allocable costs. These were partially offset by a $1.1 million increase in costs associated with higher headcount.

Previous report

In May 2021, we entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement (“EDA”) with Piper Sandler & Co (“PSC”), under which PSC, as our exclusive agent, at our discretion and at such times that we may determine from time to time, may sell over a three-year period from the execution of the EDA up to a maximum of$50.0 million of shares of our common stock. In 2023, 3,079,421 shares of our common stock were issued and sold pursuant to the EDA, all during the first half of 2023, and we received net proceeds of $7.9 million. On April 24, 2024, we terminated the EDA.
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Previous wording

We are a leading provider of enzymatic solutions for efficient and scalable therapeutics manufacturing, and we leverage our proprietary CodeEvolver directed evolution technology platform to discover, develop, enhance, and commercialize novel, high-performance enzymes and other classes of proteins. Enzymes are naturally occurring biological molecules critical to almost all biochemical reactions that sustain life. They can be precisely engineered and optimized for specific functions, and to have particular characteristics, such as an ability to survive environments in which natural enzymes cannot, or to perform (bio)chemical transformations different than those for which they naturally evolved. We focus on leveraging our technology and capacity to enhance the properties and performance of enzymes to drive pivotal improvements in manufacturing of complex therapeutics across two key focus areas: our foundational, revenue-generating pharma biocatalysis business and our Enzyme-Catalyzed Oligonucleotide (ECO) Synthesis™ (“ECO Synthesis™”) manufacturing platform, which is comprised of enzymatic tools, and processes, designed to enable large-scale manufacture of RNA interference (“RNAi”) therapeutics. In July 2023, we announced that we discontinued investment in certain development programs, primarily in our novel biotherapeutics business segment. As part of this strategic prioritization, during 2024 we completed the divestiture and monetization of certain biotherapeutics assets as well as certain non-core life science assets, including in genomics and next generation sequencing applications.

Current wording

We are a leading provider of enzymatic solutions for efficient and scalable therapeutics manufacturing, and we leverage our proprietary CodeEvolver directed evolution technology platform to discover, develop, enhance, and commercialize novel, high-performance enzymes and other classes of proteins. Enzymes are naturally occurring biological molecules critical to almost all biochemical reactions that sustain life. They can be precisely engineered and optimized for specific functions, and to have particular characteristics, such as an ability to survive environments in which natural enzymes cannot, or to perform (bio)chemical transformations different than those for which they naturally evolved. We focus on leveraging our technology and capacity to enhance the properties and performance of enzymes to drive pivotal improvements in manufacturing of complex therapeutics across two key focus areas: our foundational, revenue-generating pharma biocatalysis business and our Enzyme-Catalyzed Oligonucleotide (ECO) Synthesis™ (“ECO Synthesis™”) manufacturing platform, which is comprised of enzymatic tools, and processes, designed to enable large-scale manufacture of RNA interference (“RNAi”) therapeutics.

Previous wording

We also use the CodeEvolver platform technology to develop enzymes for the synthesis of RNAi therapeutics through our ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform, where our enzymes are poised to deliver many of the same benefits we offer in pharma biocatalysis across purity, yield, and improved manufacturing efficiency. In November 2024, we presented data at the TIDES EU conference demonstrating the successful end-to-end enzymatic synthesis of an entire commercially approved small interfering ribonucleic acid (“siRNA”) therapeutic asset with the ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform. In addition to using full enzymatic sequential synthesis, adding one nucleotide at a time to synthesize the two strands from beginning to end, we demonstrated synthesis of the same siRNA asset using three other routes utilizing enzymatic ligation with our double-stranded RNA (“dsRNA”) ligase, which can stitch together fragments of chemically and/or enzymatically synthesized RNA to form the full siRNA drug structure. For the three other routes, our data highlighted that full-length oligos of equal quality and yields were obtained whether the fragments were made with enzymes or by traditional phosphoramidite chemistry. At the end of 2024, we completed the build out of our ECO Synthesis Innovation Lab, a facility that uses our ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform to synthesize gram-scale quantities of a customer’s desired siRNA construct suitable for pre-clinical testing. In 2025, we expect to manufacture good laboratory practice (“GLP”)-grade siRNA for customers in our Innovation Lab under development services contracts model, and we anticipate entering a partnership with a large-scale contract development and manufacturing organization (“CDMO”)to use our ECO Synthesis platform of enzymatic tools and processes to synthesize good manufacturing practices (“GMP”)-grade siRNA drug substance for our customers. We expect to expand our enzymatic tools and process offerings as we further enhance the ECO Synthesis platform to address the overall market needs for scalable and sustainable RNAi manufacturing.

Current wording

We also use the CodeEvolver platform technology to develop enzymes for the synthesis of RNAi therapeutics through our ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform, where our enzymes are poised to deliver many of the same benefits we offer in pharma biocatalysis across purity, yield, and improved manufacturing efficiency. In November 2024, we presented data at the TIDES EU conference demonstrating the successful end-to-end enzymatic synthesis of an entire commercially approved small interfering ribonucleic acid (“siRNA”) therapeutic asset with the ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform. In addition to using full enzymatic sequential synthesis, adding one nucleotide at a time to synthesize the two strands from beginning to end, we demonstrated synthesis of the same siRNA asset using three other routes utilizing enzymatic ligation with our double-stranded RNA (“dsRNA”) ligase, which can stitch together fragments of chemically and/or enzymatically synthesized RNA to form the full siRNA drug structure. For the three other routes, our data highlighted that full-length oligos of equal quality and yields were obtained whether the fragments were made with enzymes or by traditional phosphoramidite chemistry. At the end of 2024, we completed the build out of our ECO Synthesis Innovation Lab, a facility that uses our ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform to synthesize gram-scale quantities of a customer’s desired siRNA construct suitable for pre-clinical testing. In May 2025, we presented data at the TIDES U.S. conference demonstrating our proprietary ECO Synthesis platform’s ability to support siRNA manufacturing by reducing purification costs, improving process performance, and demonstrating the potential to control stereochemistry. In addition, three presentations from contract development and manufacturing organizations (“CDMO”) validated the transferability of our ligation processes to their in-house facilities. In 2025, we expect to manufacture good laboratory practice (“GLP”)-grade siRNA for customers in our Innovation Lab under development services contracts model, and we anticipate entering a partnership with a large-scale CDMOto use our ECO Synthesis platform of enzymatic tools and processes to synthesize good manufacturing practices (“GMP”)-grade siRNA drug substance for our customers. We expect to expand our enzymatic tools and process offerings as we further enhance the ECO Synthesis platform to address the overall market needs for scalable and sustainable RNAi manufacturing.

Previous wording

Research and development revenue decreased by $6.0 million to $1.5 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, primarily due to $6.0 million lower revenue from our licensing agreement with Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. entered into in February 2024 and $0.6 million lower revenue from legacy collaboration agreements being recognized in 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024. These were partially offset by$0.6 million higher revenue from existing collaboration agreements.

Current wording

Research and development revenue increased by $6.2 million to $7.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024 primarily due to$3.6 million higher revenue from legacy agreements and $2.5 million in revenue from a licensing agreement executed in the second quarter of 2025. Research and development revenue increased by $0.2 million to $9.4 million in the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, primarily due to higher revenue being recognized in the second quarter of 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, partially offset by $6.0 million in lower revenue from our licensing agreement with Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. in the first quarter of 2024 that did not reoccur in the current year.

Previous wording

The following table shows the amounts of our cost of product revenue, research and development expense, and selling, general and administrative expense from our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented (in thousands, except percentages):

Current wording

The following table shows the amounts of our cost of product revenue, research and development expense, selling, general and administrative expense, and asset impairment and other charges from our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented (in thousands, except percentages):

Previous wording

Interest income decreased by $0.2 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, primarily due to lower average cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments balances.

Current wording

Interest income decreased by $0.4 million and $0.5 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2024, primarily due to lower average cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments balances.

Previous wording

Interest and other expense, net, increased by $0.4 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the same period in 2024, primarily due to interest related to long-term debt.

Current wording

Interest and other expense, net increased by $1 thousand and $0.4 million in the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2024, primarily due to interest related to long-term debt.

Previous wording

The provision for income taxes for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, was primarily due tothe accrual of interest and penalties on historic uncertain tax positions.

Current wording

The provision for income taxes for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, was primarily due to the accrual of interest and penalties on historic uncertain tax positions.

Previous wording

Net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $20.7 million, or a net loss per basic and diluted share of $0.25. This compared to a net loss of $11.5 million, or a net loss per basic and diluted share of $0.16 for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase in net loss is primarily related to lower product revenues and research and development revenues, partially offset by lower cost of product revenue.

Current wording

Net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $13.3 million, or a net loss per basic and diluted share of $0.16. This compared to a net loss of $22.8 million, or a net loss per basic and diluted share of $0.32, for the three months ended June 30, 2024. The decrease in net loss was primarily related to higher revenues and lower costs and operating expenses.

Previous wording

Liquidity is the measurement of our ability to meet working capital needs and to fund capital expenditures. We have historically funded our operations primarily through cash generated from operations, stock option exercises and public and private offerings of our common stock. In addition, pursuant to the Loan Agreement with Innovatus, an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, we borrowed $30.0 million from Innovatus, as Lender, on February 13, 2024 and may become eligible to borrow up to an additional $10.0 million upon the achievement of certain financial milestones. The Loan Agreement provides for an aggregate principal amount of up to $40.0 million and with a maturity date of February 13, 2029 (the “Innovatus Loan”). We actively manage our cash usage and investment of liquid cash to ensure the maintenance of sufficient funds to meet our working capital needs. Our cash and cash equivalents are held in U.S. banks.

Current wording

Liquidity is the measurement of our ability to meet working capital needs and to fund capital expenditures. We have historically funded our operations primarily through cash generated from operations, stock option exercises and public and private offerings of our common stock. In addition, pursuant to our five-year term loan and security agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) with Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP (“Innovatus”), an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC, we borrowed $30.0 million from Innovatus, as Lender, on February 13, 2024 (the “Closing Date”) and borrowed an additional $10.0 million on June 27, 2025 upon the achievement of certain financial milestones. The Loan Agreement, which provided for an aggregate principal amount of up to $40.0 million, has a maturity date of February 13, 2029 (the “Innovatus Loan”). We actively manage our cash usage and investment of liquid cash to ensure the maintenance of sufficient funds to meet our working capital needs. Our cash and cash equivalents are held in U.S. banks.

Previous wording

Our primary uses of capital for the foreseeable future, including the next 12 months, are for compensation and related expenses, research and development expenses including manufacturing costs, laboratory and related supplies, legal and other regulatory expenses, and general overhead costs.

Current wording

Our primary uses of capital for the foreseeable future, including the next 12 months, are for compensation and related expenses, research and development expenses including manufacturing costs, laboratory and related supplies, legal and other outside services, and general overhead costs.

Previous wording

On February 13, 2024, we entered into the Loan Agreement with Innovatus consisting of up to two tranches, of which the first tranche of$30.0 million was disbursed upon execution of the Loan Agreement. We will be eligible to draw on the second tranche of$10.0 million upon achievement of certain milestones including certain pre-specified revenue thresholds and subject to payment of a facility fee equal to 1.00% of the amount of such term loan. The Term Loan carries an interest-only period of 36 months (with the possibility to extend up to 48 months upon achievement of certain pre-specified financial milestones) and will bear interest at a floating rate of the sum of (a) the greater of (i) prime rate and (ii)7.50%, plus (b)3.25%.

Current wording

On February 13, 2024, we entered into the Loan Agreement with Innovatus consisting of up to two tranches, of which the first tranche of$30.0 million was disbursed upon execution of the Loan Agreement and the second tranche of$10.0 million was funded in June 2025 upon achievement of certain milestones including certain pre-specified revenue thresholds. Both tranches were subject to payment of a facility fee equal to 1.00% of the amount of such term loan. The Term Loan carries an interest-only period of 36 months (with the possibility to extend up to 48 months upon achievement of certain pre-specified financial milestones) and will bear interest at a floating rate of the sum of (a) the greater of (i) prime rate and (ii)7.50%, plus (b)3.25%. As of June 30, 2025, we were in compliance with all covenants of the Loan Agreement.

Previous wording

On May 2, 2024, we entered into the Cantor Sales Agreement with Cantor, under which Cantor, at our discretion and at such times that we may determine from time to time, may sell up to a maximum of $75.0 million of shares of our common stock. Under the terms of the Cantor Sales Agreement, Cantor may sell the shares at market prices by any method that is deemed to be an “at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act. On May 2, 2024, we filed a registration statement on Form S-3 registering the offer and sale of these shares under the Securities Act which became effective on May 14, 2024. We will pay a commission of up to 3.0%of gross sales proceeds of any common stock sold under the Cantor Sales Agreement. In 2024, 10,440,000 shares of our common stock were issued and sold pursuant to the Cantor Sales Agreement, all during the third quarter of 2024, and we received net proceeds of $29.7 million after Cantor’s commissions and direct offering expenses.

Current wording

On May 2, 2024, we entered into the Cantor Sales Agreement with Cantor, under which Cantor, at our discretion and at such times that we may determine from time to time, may sell up to a maximum of $75.0 million of shares of our common stock. Under the terms of the Cantor Sales Agreement, Cantor may sell the shares at market prices by any method that is deemed to be an “at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act. On May 2, 2024, we filed a registration statement on Form S-3 registering the offer and sale of these shares under the Securities Act which became effective on May 14, 2024. We will pay a commission of up to 3.0%of gross sales proceeds of any common stock sold under the Cantor Sales Agreement. In 2024, 10,440,000 shares of our common stock were issued and sold pursuant to the Cantor Sales Agreement, all during the third quarter of 2024, and we received net proceeds of $29.7 million after Cantor’s commissions and direct offering expenses. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, 7,244,966 shares of our common stock were issued and sold pursuant to the Cantor Sales Agreement and we received gross proceeds of $17.3 million, or $16.4 million in net proceeds after Cantor’s commissions and direct offering expenses of $0.8 million.

Previous wording

The following is a summary of cash flows for three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):

Current wording

The following is a summary of cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 (in thousands):

Previous wording

The $6.0 million increase in net cash used in operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024 was primarily due to the net effect of decreases in cash received from revenue, increases in cash paid for operating expenses and changes in operating assets and liabilities.

Current wording

The $11.8 million increase in net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to the net effect of decreases in cash received from revenue, increases in cash paid for operating expenses and changes in operating assets and liabilities.

Previous wording

The $40.3 million increase in net cash provided by investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to proceeds from maturity of short-term investments in the first quarter of 2025 offset by cash utilized for purchase of short-term investments.

Current wording

The $67.1 million increase in net cash provided by investing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to proceeds from maturity of short-term investments in the first half of 2025 offset by cash utilized for purchase of short-term investments.

Previous wording

The $28.2 million decrease in net cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024 was primarily due to proceeds from the Innovatus Loan in February 2024 that did not reoccur in 2025.

Current wording

The $1.2 million decrease in net cash provided by financing activities for the six months ended June 30, 2025 as compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to the $29.5 million in proceeds from the first tranche of the Innovatus Loan in February 2024, partially offset by the proceeds from the funding of the second tranche of the Innovatus Loan in June 2025 and proceeds from issuance of common stock under the Cantor Sales Agreement during the second quarter of 2025.

Previous wording

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies or estimates during the three months ended March 31, 2025 from those discussed in our Annual Report.

Current wording

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make judgments, estimates and assumptions in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies or estimates during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 from those discussed in our Annual Report.
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Current report — wording carried from elsewhere

Net loss for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $34.0 million, or a net loss per basic and diluted share of $0.40. This compared to a net loss of $34.3 million, or a net loss per basic and diluted share of $0.49, for the six months ended June 30, 2024. The decrease in net loss was primarily related to lower costs and operating expenses in 2025.