• Royalty Receipts growth of 14% driving Portfolio Receipts of $717 million
• Net cash provided by operating activities of $665 million
• Full year 2024 guidance confirmed: Portfolio Receipts expected to be $2,600 to $2,700 million
• Commitment to grow dividend by mid-single digit percentage annually

NEW YORK, May 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2024 and confirmed full year 2024 guidance for Portfolio Receipts.

“We continued to execute on our strategy in the first quarter of 2024 and are on track to deliver our full year guidance,” said Pablo Legorreta, Royalty Pharma’s founder and Chief Executive Officer. “We achieved double-digit growth in Royalty Receipts driven by the strength of our diversified portfolio. With today’s transaction to acquire royalties on Sanofi’s frexalimab, a therapy with multi-blockbuster potential, we’ve increased our development-stage portfolio by five-fold to 15 medicines since our IPO. Looking ahead, 2024 is expected to be an event-rich year for our expanding development-stage pipeline with multiple potential regulatory and clinical events. Furthermore, we continue to be highly active in assessing attractive new royalty opportunities, reflecting the strong demand for capital to fund the ongoing wave of healthcare innovation. Based on the powerful fundamental tailwinds underpinning our business, we remain highly confident in our ability to deliver attractive, long-term compounding growth.”

Strong Royalty Receipts growth; Portfolio Receipts growth impacted by a high base of comparison

• Royalty Receipts grew 14% to $705 million, driven by strong portfolio performance, including royalties on Evrysdi, Trelegy and the cystic fibrosis franchise.
• Portfolio Receipts declined to $717 million from $1,131 million, reflecting a $475 million Biohaven-related milestone payment received in the first quarter of 2023.

Capital Deployment of approximately $670 million, including cash expected to be paid for frexalimab

• Announced transaction to acquire royalties on Sanofi’s frexalimab, a potential multi-blockbuster in Phase 3 development for multiple sclerosis, for approximately $525 million including estimated transaction costs.
• Financial capacity of >$3.5 billion (including cash and leverage capacity) to execute on value-creating transactions.

Development-stage portfolio growing to 15 therapies with potential significantly >$1 billion in peak royalties

• 11 of 15 therapies are in Phase 3 development or undergoing regulatory review.
• Key events expected over next year: FDA filings for aficamten (cardiovascular), pelabresib (myelofibrosis); pivotal study results for seltorexant (depression), Tremfya (Crohn’s disease); FDA action date for KarXT (schizophrenia).

Financial guidance for full year 2024 (excludes contribution from future transactions)

• Royalty Pharma expects 2024 Portfolio Receipts to be between $2,600 million and $2,700 million.
• 2024 Portfolio Receipts guidance includes expected growth in Royalty Receipts of 5% to 9%.

Financial & Liquidity Summary

*See “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section. Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are non-GAAP liquidity measures calculated in accordance with the credit agreement.

Portfolio Receipts Highlights

Amounts shown in the table may not add due to rounding.


Portfolio Receipts were $717 million in the first quarter of 2024, a decrease of 37% compared to $1,131 million in the same period of 2023. The decrease was attributable to a high base of comparison in the first quarter of 2023 in milestones and other contractual receipts, which reflected a $475 million Zavzpret milestone payment and a $29 million Airsupra payment.

Royalty Receipts increased 14% to $705 million, primarily driven by strong growth in Trelegy and the cystic fibrosis franchise, and incremental royalties acquired on Evrysdi in October 2023.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Royalty Pharma’s liquidity and capital resources are summarized below:

As of March 31, 2024, Royalty Pharma had cash and cash equivalents of $843 million and total debt with principal value of $6.3 billion.

• Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) was $656 million in the first quarter of 2024. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated in accordance with the credit agreement as Portfolio Receipts minus payments for operating and professional costs.
• Portfolio Cash Flow (non-GAAP) was $584 million in the first quarter of 2024. Portfolio Cash Flow is calculated in accordance with the credit agreement as Adjusted EBITDA minus interest paid or received, net. This measure reflects the cash generated by Royalty Pharma’s business that can be redeployed into value-enhancing royalty acquisitions, used to repay debt, returned to shareholders through dividends or share purchases, or utilized for other discretionary investments.

Royalty Pharma has provided a reconciliation of each non-GAAP measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, net cash provided by operating activities, in Table 4.

Royalty Pharma announced new transactions of up to $94 million in the first quarter of 2024, which include upfront payments and potential future milestones. Royalty Pharma is also providing an aggregate amount for Capital Deployment, which reflects cash payments during the period for new and previously announced transactions. Capital Deployment was $93 million in the first quarter of 2024, consisting primarily of the $49 million upfront payment for ecopipam and $36 million in research and development funding support for TEV-’749. Additionally, in April 2024, Royalty Pharma made a $50 million milestone payment to Arrowhead related to olpasiran. In May 2024, Royalty Pharma announced a transaction to acquire royalties and milestones on frexalimab owned by ImmuNext for approximately $525 million in cash including estimated transaction costs.

The table below details Capital Deployment by category:

Capital Deployment

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Recent Transactions

During 2024, Royalty Pharma announced new transactions of up to $619 million. Announced transactions amount reflects the entire amount of capital committed for new transactions during the year, including potential future milestones.

Recent transactions include:

• In January 2024, Royalty Pharma acquired a royalty interest in ecopipam for an upfront payment of $49 million and up to $44 million in milestone payments contingent on the achievement of certain regulatory milestones. Ecopipam is in Phase 3 development by Emalex Biosciences for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome.
• In May 2024, Royalty Pharma announced a transaction to acquire royalties and milestones on frexalimab owned by ImmuNext for approximately $525 million in cash including estimated transaction costs. ImmuNext is entitled to royalties on frexalimab, which is a first-in-class, second generation anti-CD40 ligand monoclonal antibody in development by Sanofi. Frexalimab is being evaluated in Phase 3 clinical studies for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and is in Phase 2 clinical studies for systemic lupus erythematosus and Type 1 Diabetes.

The information in this section should be read together with Royalty Pharma’s reports and documents filed with the SEC at www.sec.gov and the reader is also encouraged to review all other press releases and information available in the Investors section of Royalty Pharma’s website at www.royaltypharma.com.

Key Developments Relating to the Portfolio

The key developments related to Royalty Pharma’s royalty interests are discussed below based on disclosures from the marketers of the products.

2024 Financial Outlook

Royalty Pharma has provided guidance for full year 2024, excluding transactions and borrowings announced after the date of this release, as follows:

The above Portfolio Receipts guidance includes expected Royalty Receipts growth of 5% to 9% in 2024.

Royalty Pharma’s full year 2024 guidance reflects a negligible estimated foreign exchange impact to Portfolio Receipts, assuming current foreign exchange rates prevail for 2024.

Total interest paid is based on the semi-annual interest payment schedule of Royalty Pharma’s existing notes and is anticipated to be approximately $160 million in 2024. Interest paid is anticipated to be approximately $79 million in the third quarter of 2024 with de minimis amounts being recorded in the second and fourth quarters of 2024. The projection assumes no additional debt financing in 2024, including no drawdown on the revolving credit facility. In the first quarter of 2024, Royalty Pharma collected interest of $6 million on its cash and cash equivalents, which partially offset interest paid.

Royalty Pharma today provides this guidance based on its most up-to-date view of its prospects. This guidance assumes no major unforeseen adverse events and excludes the contributions from transactions announced subsequent to the date of this press release. Furthermore, Royalty Pharma may amend its guidance in the event it engages in new royalty transactions which have a material near-term financial impact on the company.

Financial Results Call

Royalty Pharma will host a conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss its first quarter 2024 results today at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time. Please visit the “Investors” page of the company’s website at https://www.royaltypharma.com/investors/events to obtain conference call information and to view the live webcast. A replay of the conference call and webcast will be archived on the company’s website for at least 30 days.

About Royalty Pharma plc

Founded in 1996, Royalty Pharma is the largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties and a leading funder of innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry, collaborating with innovators from academic institutions, research hospitals and non-profits through small and mid-cap biotechnology companies to leading global pharmaceutical companies. Royalty Pharma has assembled a portfolio of royalties which entitles it to payments based directly on the top-line sales of many of the industry’s leading therapies. Royalty Pharma funds innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry both directly and indirectly - directly when it partners with companies to co-fund late-stage clinical trials and new product launches in exchange for future royalties, and indirectly when it acquires existing royalties from the original innovators. Royalty Pharma’s current portfolio includes royalties on more than 35 commercial products, including Vertex’s Trikafta, GSK’s Trelegy, Roche’s Evrysdi, Johnson & Johnson’s Tremfya, Biogen’s Tysabri and Spinraza, AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson’s Imbruvica, Astellas and Pfizer’s Xtandi, Novartis’ Promacta, Pfizer’s Nurtec ODT and Gilead’s Trodelvy, and 15 development-stage product candidates.

Forward-Looking Statements

The information set forth herein does not purport to be complete or to contain all of the information you may desire. Statements contained herein are made as of the date of this document unless stated otherwise, and neither the delivery of this document at any time, nor any sale of securities, shall under any circumstances create an implication that the information contained herein is correct as of any time after such date or that information will be updated or revised to reflect information that subsequently becomes available or changes occurring after the date hereof.

This document contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” as that term is defined in the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements that express the company’s opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions or projections regarding future events or future results, in contrast with statements that reflect historical facts. Examples include discussion of Royalty Pharma’s strategies, financing plans, growth opportunities and market growth. In some cases, you can identify such forward-looking statements by terminology such as “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “plan,” “seek,” “project,” “expect,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “could” or “should,” the negative of these terms or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to the company. However, these forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of Royalty Pharma’s performance, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to many risks, uncertainties and other variable circumstances, and other factors. Such risks and uncertainties may cause the statements to be inaccurate and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Many of these risks are outside of the company’s control and could cause its actual results to differ materially from those it thought would occur. The forward-looking statements included in this document are made only as of the date hereof. The company does not undertake, and specifically declines, any obligation to update any such statements or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any such statements to reflect future events or developments, except as required by law.

Certain information contained in this document relates to or is based on studies, publications, surveys and other data obtained from third-party sources and the company’s own internal estimates and research. While the company believes these third-party sources to be reliable as of the date of this document, it has not independently verified, and makes no representation as to the adequacy, fairness, accuracy or completeness of, any information obtained from third-party sources. In addition, all of the market data included in this document involves a number of assumptions and limitations, and there can be no guarantee as to the accuracy or reliability of such assumptions. Finally, while the company believes its own internal research is reliable, such research has not been verified by any independent source.

For further information, please reference Royalty Pharma’s reports and documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

Portfolio Receipts

Portfolio Receipts is a key performance metric that represents our ability to generate cash from our portfolio investments, the primary source of capital that we can deploy to make new portfolio investments. Portfolio Receipts is defined as the sum of Royalty receipts and Milestones and other contractual receipts. Royalty receipts includes variable payments based on sales of products, net of contractual payments to the legacy non-controlling interests, that are attributed to Royalty Pharma (“Royalty Receipts”).

Milestones and other contractual receipts include sales-based or regulatory milestone payments and other fixed contractual receipts, net of contractual payments to legacy non-controlling interests, that are attributed to Royalty Pharma. Portfolio Receipts does not include proceeds from equity securities or proceeds from purchases and sales of marketable securities, neither of which are central to our fundamental business strategy.

Portfolio Receipts is calculated as the sum of the following line items from our GAAP statements of cash flows: Cash collections from financial royalty assets, Cash collections from intangible royalty assets, Other royalty cash collections, Proceeds from available for sale debt securities and Distributions from equity method investees less Distributions to legacy non-controlling interests – Portfolio Receipts, which represent contractual distributions of Royalty Receipts, milestones and other contractual receipts to RPSFT and the Legacy Investors Partnerships.

Use of Non-GAAP Measures

Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are non-GAAP liquidity measures that exclude the impact of certain items and therefore have not been calculated in accordance with GAAP. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are important non-GAAP measures used to analyze liquidity because they are key components of certain material covenants contained within Royalty Pharma’s credit agreement. Royalty Pharma cautions readers that amounts presented in accordance with the definitions of Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow may not be the same as similar measures used by other companies or analysts. These non-GAAP liquidity measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as a substitute for the analysis of Royalty Pharma’s results as reported under GAAP.

The definitions of Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow used by Royalty Pharma are the same as the definitions in the credit agreement. Noncompliance with the interest coverage ratio, leverage ratio and Portfolio Cash Flow ratio covenants under the credit agreement could result in lenders requiring the company to immediately repay all amounts borrowed. If Royalty Pharma cannot satisfy these covenants, it would be prohibited under the credit agreement from engaging in certain activities, such as incurring additional indebtedness, paying dividends, making certain payments, and acquiring and disposing of assets. Consequently, Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are critical to the assessment of Royalty Pharma’s liquidity.

Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are used by management as key liquidity measures in the evaluation of the company’s ability to generate cash from operations. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow when considering available cash, including for decision-making purposes related to funding of acquisitions, debt repayments, dividends and other discretionary investments. Further, these non-GAAP liquidity measures help management, the audit committee and investors evaluate the company’s ability to generate liquidity from operating activities.

The company has provided reconciliations of these non-GAAP liquidity measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, being net cash provided by operating activities in Table 4.

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