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| As these market-wide supply challenges have continued, we've done an exceptional job meeting the demands of patients, having maintained supply to meet the growing demand for Adzenys and Cotempla |
| On top of our pre-tax earnings, we generated a solid positive adjusted EBITDA this quarter of $5.1 million, compared to $727,000 in last year's second quarter |
| We've continued to get more physicians and patients introduced to our ADHD brands and I'm really proud of the progress we're making on the pediatric side of the business, as well as we start to see some recovery there |
| Also another key accomplishment during the quarter was positive adjusted EBITDA of $5.1 million, up from $0.7 million last year |
| Further, this is now our sixth out of the last 7 quarters with positive adjusted EBITDA for our Rx segment |
| The primary focus for this swing in the profitability, where the previously noted growth in the ADHD portfolio, gross margin improvements, along with drops in sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses which produced $2.4 million in operating income, against last year's $6.9 million operating loss |
| In addition to our strong operational execution, the trends we've talked about the past few quarters within the ADHD market continue to persist, including the evolving supply disruptions for generic Adderall IR and ER in various methylphenidate products and several stimulant products being discontinued all together as of late |
| With the Consumer Health segment almost completely wound down which should be completed around the end of June, the go-forward Aytu business will be highlighted by our rapidly growing ADHD portfolio which just posted record quarterly revenues of $16.6 million, up 49%, compared to Q2 of last year |
| The second quarter gross margin was aided by strong ADHD sales growth enabling improved efficiencies at our Grand Prairie manufacturing facility, coupled with the having of lower margin sales from our now winding down Consumer Health segment |
| And again, I'll highlight the fact that even with this, the Pediatric business being sort of at its low point, call it, a $2 million quarter, the Rx segment posted a $5.5 million EBITDA quarter was positive net income by itself |
| With continued prescription growth anticipated, coupled with further margin improvement, driven by our ongoing operational improvements, we believe the future financial profile of Aytu looks strong |
| As I mentioned, our ADHD portfolio experienced a 49% year-over-year increase in net revenue, during the second quarter to an Aytu record of $16.6 million |
| ADHD portfolio prescriptions grew an impressive 14.5% over the second quarter of last year |
| The growth in net revenue in Scripps was driven by strong sales force execution, a significant increase in prescribers of our ADHD brands, improved gross to net due to program and coverage improvements, along with continuing to leverage our innovative Aytu RxConnect platform which we believe is best-in-class |
| I'm optimistic that it's in the very near term |
| So by getting out into some of the areas out West, California and so forth, while those aren't I would say, per capita or sort of per individual state, as big as maybe the Tri-state area when you add those together and aggregate all of the potential demand in these non-Floridated area, it's a nice opportunity |
| And very encouraging to see that the word is getting out there |
| As a CFO, I'm especially pleased to say the words operating profit |
| So we're happy with how the Peads products are starting to show some improvement but still more work to do |
| Which culminated in our first quarter of positive operating income in company history |
| Consolidated gross margin improved to 71% in the second quarter, compared to 66% in the quarter a year ago |
| So our brand is well positioned to continue to capture additional market share, as the extended-release amphetamine shortage remains ongoing and supply means remains rather very unpredictable |
| And while that would stand to benefit, not just small manufacturers but large ones, we're confident that the line of communications are wide open and definitely a high level of interest from the DEA and making sure that they don't put anybody out of stock |
| It is becoming increasingly apparent that the success we have achieved to capture increased market share is due to 2 key factors: one, our manufacturing teams focus on meeting increased demand, while simultaneously working to transition to our new CMO; and two, our commercial team's strong execution and ability to showcase the benefits of our brand, while also effectively leveraging Aytu RxConnect |
| It has taken a disciplined approach from the whole organization to get to this point and the management team and I are grateful to our Aytu colleagues for making such tremendous progress |
| We've made great progress during the quarter, expanding our customer base, having recently implemented multiple commercial initiatives and have also seen some unstacking of the distribution channel which has resulted in Poly-Vi-Flor shipped units being up significantly for the month of January, when looking at it versus December of '23 |
| This is a very good sign; we're excited to see it |
| So as you might imagine, I'm extremely pleased with the results of the second quarter, highlighted by the company's first ever quarter of positive operating income and growing adjusted EBITDA, as the wind down of the Consumer Health segment is completed, combined with the continued growth and operational improvements within our Rx segment, we believe the financial profile of Aytu will continue to become increasingly strong |
| And despite the soft Pediatric revenue for the quarter, we're very pleased to see a very healthy Rx segment adjusted EBITDA of $5.5 million for the quarter |
| These operational changes plus the expected recovery of our Pediatric sales should position us for a strong end to our fiscal 2024 and a good start to our fiscal 2025 |
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| Consumer Health contributed a negative adjusted EBITDA of just $280,000, during the second quarter |
| Articles and Broadcast test news reports aired as recently as this week are highlighting the issues which continue to negatively impact patients across the country |
| Net revenue for our fiscal 2024, second quarter was $22.9 million, down 13%, compared to fiscal 2023, second quarter of $26.3 million |
| Significant issues just with some of the manufacturers getting quota, so that inhibited their ability to gain any significant share and you cross -- you intersect that with the natural issue around PBMs |
| For the 2024, second quarter, net revenue from Consumer Health declined 49% to $4.2 million, compared to $8.3 million in the same quarter last year |
| Peads experienced a 66% decrease in net revenue to $2.2 million in our 2024, second quarter, compared to $6.3 million in 2023 |
| So to wrap things up before I turn it over to Mark, it's been our objective to transition Aytu away from a multipronged operation which included not only our Rx segment but also our Consumer Health segment and pipeline development programs, both of which generated negative cash flows |
| And what I'll say about VYVANSE is, it's been a significant issue for patients and prescribers, in pharmacies |
| We really are delivering for patients and clinicians at an important time, particularly as the ADHD category remains really challenged |
| And obviously, that's an ongoing challenge |
| The second part of the RX segment is the Prescription Pediatric portfolio which again this quarter reflected declines from the timing-related ordering of our prescription multivitamins, following a payer change |
| And so if you have a situation, where you've got VYVANSE in supply, you've got a particular distribution center that has it available from manufacturer A but manufacturer B is the one that has the contract with, say, two of the large PBMs well, that's going to create a natural issue for the product that's physically available |
| Overall, as we execute this process, we would expect the segment to generate slightly negative to neutral adjusted EBITDA contribution |
| While we generated both in operating profit and income before taxes, we recorded $828,000 of income tax expense, resulting in a $220,000 net loss or $0.04 loss per share for the quarter, compared to a $6.7 million loss or $2.15 net loss per share for the same quarter last year |
| So obviously, as you talked about it, there's -- the shortage is still ongoing and obviously, manufacturers are sort of exiting this space |
| As such, we expect to experience a greater use of our Aytu RxConnect price protection program which historically has lowered our gross to net margins |
| So this is all to say, VYVANSE's been quite a bit of noise |
| There's been quite a bit of hassle and sort of disruption as these multiple generics, again, it's low teen, 13,14 that are out there |
| This represents a decrease of 38%, a reflection of our continued focus on reducing costs and winding down the Consumer Health segment |
| It really was a timing issue |
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