PTC Therapeutics, Inc.
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| PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION | |
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| Item 1. Financial Statements (unaudited) | 4 |
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| Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 40 |
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| Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 60 |
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| Item 4. Controls and Procedures | 60 |
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| PART II—OTHER INFORMATION | |
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| Item 1. Legal Proceedings | 61 |
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| Item 1A. Risk Factors | 61 |
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| Item 5. Other Information | 71 |
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| Item 6. Exhibits | 72 |
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including statements regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “potential,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “continue,” “aim,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.
The forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include, among other things, statements about:
| ● | the outcome of pricing, coverage and reimbursement negotiations with third-party payors for our products or product candidates that we commercialize or may commercialize in the future; |
| ● | expectations with respect to Sephience for the treatment of phenylketonuria, including timing of commercialization and of any regulatory submissions and potential approvals, and the potential achievement of regulatory and sales milestones and contingent payments that we may be obligated to make; |
| ● | our ability to maintain our marketing authorization of Translarna for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or nmDMD, in Brazil, Russia and other regions in which Translarna has been approved; |
| ● | the effect of the European Commission’s adoption of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use’s negative opinion not to renew the conditional marketing authorization for Translarna in the European Economic Area on other regulatory bodies; |
| ● | our ability to use the results of Study 041, a randomized, 18-month, placebo-controlled clinical trial of Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD followed by an 18-month open-label extension, and from our international drug registry study to support a marketing approval for Translarna for the treatment of nmDMD in the United States; |
| ● | whether investigators agree with our interpretation of the results of clinical trials and the totality of clinical data from our trials of Translarna; |
| ● | expectations with respect to our license and collaboration agreement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, or Novartis, including our right to receive any development, regulatory and sales milestones, and profit sharing and royalty payments from Novartis; |
| ● | expectations with respect to vatiquinone for the treatment of Friedreich’s ataxia, including any regulatory submissions and potential approvals, commercialization, and the potential achievement of regulatory and sales milestones and contingent payments that we may be obligated to make; |
| ● | expectations with respect to Upstaza/Kebilidi, including commercialization, manufacturing capabilities, and the potential achievement of sales milestones and contingent payments that we may be obligated to make; |
| ● | our expectations with respect to the commercial status of Evrysdi and our program directed against spinal muscular atrophy in collaboration with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation and our estimates regarding future revenues from sales-based royalty payments or the achievement of milestones in that program; |
| ● | our expectations and the potential financial impact and benefits related to our Collaboration and License Agreement with a subsidiary of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., including the commercialization of Tegsedi and Waylivra, and our expectations with respect to royalty payments by us based on our potential achievement of certain net sales thresholds; |
| ● | the timing and scope of our commercialization of our products and product candidates; |
| ● | our estimates regarding the potential market opportunity for our products or product candidates, including the size of eligible patient populations and our ability to identify such patients; |
| ● | our ability to obtain additional and maintain existing reimbursed named patient and cohort early access programs for our products on adequate terms, or at all; |
| ● | our estimates regarding expenses, future revenues, third-party discounts and rebates, capital requirements and needs for additional financing, including our ability to maintain the level of our expenses consistent with our internal budgets and forecasts and to secure additional funds on favorable terms or at all; |
| ● | our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions or other strategic transactions, including the possibility that the expected impact of benefits from the acquisitions or strategic transactions will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period, significant transaction costs, the integration of operations and employees into our business, our ability to obtain marketing approval of our product candidates we acquired from the acquisitions or other strategic transactions and unknown liabilities; |
| ● | the rate and degree of market acceptance and clinical utility of any of our products or product candidates; |
| ● | the ability and willingness of patients and healthcare professionals to access our products and product candidates through alternative means if pricing and reimbursement negotiations in the applicable territory do not have a positive outcome; |
| ● | the timing of, and our ability to obtain additional marketing authorizations for our products and product candidates; |
| ● | the ability of our products and our product candidates to meet existing or future regulatory standards; |
| ● | the potential receipt of revenues from future sales of our products or product candidates; |
| ● | the expected impact of our loss of market exclusivity for Emflaza for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the United States under the Orphan Drug Act of 1983; |
| ● | our sales, marketing and distribution capabilities and strategy, including the ability of our third-party manufacturers to manufacture and deliver our products and product candidates in clinically and commercially sufficient quantities and the ability of distributors to process orders in a timely manner and satisfy their other obligations to us; |
| ● | our ability to establish and maintain arrangements for the manufacture of our products and product candidates that are sufficient to meet clinical trial and commercial launch requirements; |
| ● | our ability to complete any post-marketing requirements imposed by regulatory agencies with respect to our products; |
| ● | our ability to satisfy our obligations under the terms of our lease agreements; |
| ● | our ability to satisfy our obligations under the indenture governing our 1.50% convertible senior notes due September 15, 2026; |
| ● | our regulatory submissions, including with respect to timing and outcome of regulatory review; |
| ● | the timing and conduct of our ongoing, planned and potential future clinical trials and studies for our splicing and inflammation and ferroptosis programs as well as studies in our products for maintaining authorizations, label |
extensions and additional indications, including the timing of initiation, enrollment and completion of the trials and the period during which the results of the trials will become available;
| ● | our plans to advance our earlier stage programs and pursue research and development of other product candidates, including our splicing and inflammation and ferroptosis programs; |
| ● | whether we may pursue business development opportunities, including potential collaborations, alliances, and acquisition or licensing of assets and our ability to successfully develop or commercialize any assets to which we may gain rights pursuant to such business development opportunities; |
| ● | the potential advantages of our products and any product candidate; |
| ● | our intellectual property position; |
| ● | the impact of government laws and regulations; |
| ● | the impact of litigation that has been or may be brought against us or of litigation that we are pursuing against others; and |
| ● | our competitive position. |
We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, particularly in Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors as well as in Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, that we believe could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that we make. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments we may make.
You should read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the documents that we have filed as exhibits to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, references to “PTC,” “PTC Therapeutics,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” “our,” and similar references refer to PTC Therapeutics, Inc. and, where appropriate, its subsidiaries. The trademarks, trade names and service marks appearing in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are the property of their respective owners.
All website addresses given in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are for information only and are not intended to be an active link or to incorporate any website information into this document.
