Roivant Sciences Ltd. (ROIV) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary

September 4, 2024

NASDAQ US Health Care Biotechnology conference_presentation 31 min

Earnings Call Speaker Segments

Albert Wong

analyst
#1

Good morning, everybody. Thank you for attending. This is the fireside chat with Matt Gline at Roivant. Maybe I'll introduce myself very quickly, Albert Wong with Morgan Stanley on the investment banking side. And Matt, if you could give a quick intro before we get started.

Matthew Gline

executive
#2

Sure. Yes. It's good to see those of you that are here. I'm Matt Gline, I'm the CEO of Roivant. We are -- well, I think most of you probably know, we are a $9-ish billion market cap biotech company developing a portfolio of pretty exciting programs and looking for more because we have about $6 billion in cash. And we're facing just absolutely packed next 18 months, so I'm excited to dive into that.

Albert Wong

analyst
#3

Okay. And it sounds like many of the people here, but for the uninitiated, can you give a quick overview of the Vants that exists within Roivant and just kind of some of the ownership structure?

Matthew Gline

executive
#4

Sure, yes. So if you're not familiar with the company, so the way that we're built is we're a therapeutic agnostic, really drug developer. What we're really good at is finding unique programs in the world in different places, bringing them in and developing them in capital-efficient ways. We are structured in a sort of unusual way where we bring a program in, we hire a management team specific to that program, and put them in really an independent company called a Vant that we then control most of them we wholly own, some of them we partially own. And at this point, sort of most important of our late-stage Vants, so we have Immunovant, which is developing a franchise of anti FcRn antibodies. I suspect that most people in the audience who are focused on Immunovant are actually next door, listening to Amgen, talking about UPLIZNA. But that's one of our programs. We have Priovant developing brepocitinib, which is a dual inhibitor of TYK2 and JAK1 that we got from Pfizer that's targeted against orphan rheumatology and immunology. We have Dermavant developing VTAMA or commercializing at this point of VTAMA, a topical aryl hydrocarbon modulator for psoriasis and soon to be atopic dermatitis. And then we have Genevant, which is developing a portfolio of lipid nanoparticle technologies, but is best known for having an active litigation around IP with Moderna and Pfizer.

Albert Wong

analyst
#5

Okay. And owning the different components of this, you said some of them are wholly owned, some of them are partially owned. Is there a strategy behind that? And what would you say are the synergies among the Vants or the core competencies at Roivant in general that keeps it all together?

Matthew Gline

executive
#6

Yes. Look, so in general, we love the programs we're developing. We want to own as much of them as we can. Immunovant is a publicly-traded company. We used to do that more earlier in our life before we ourselves were public. So we own about 60% of it. The rest is publicly floated. Otherwise, for us, in terms of ownership and sort of how we think about that piece, it's really just a tool for partnering, right? Like what we are really good at actually is finding great programs, contacting development strategies for them and extracting them from partners. And historically, our best partners, in many cases, have been big pharma companies that are -- it is a great moment for it, sort of -- in the sort of ever-shifting seas trying to steer a big ship and oftentimes wind up with things in their late-stage pipeline that just aren't on strategy for them. And so what we're really good at is spotting those opportunities, bring them in. We've done some pretty exciting deals in the past. We, last year, had a round trip of an anti-TL1A antibody from Pfizer, where we acquired it and then we sold it to Roche for about $10 billion. That was almost a year ago, almost exactly a year ago. And anyway, the ownership piece of it for us is just a means to an end. It's one way for us to share in upside with our partners that allows us to be creative and flexible in how we bring these programs in.

Albert Wong

analyst
#7

Okay. So, I guess starting with Immunovant since you brought it up. If you look at the Immunovant website, 1402 is listed first.

Matthew Gline

executive
#8

True.

Albert Wong

analyst
#9

Can you talk about the 2 compounds, and it should be viewed as first generation, second generation or first product and the follow on.

Matthew Gline

executive
#10

So FcRn is just an amazing target landscape one of the things that we've been working on. Over the last few months, we talked a bit about on our earnings call is I think it's important for people to refocus themselves on just how big the biology that FcRn covers can be. I think we've gotten into this tendency myasthenia gravis is where Vyvgart has had early commercial success, sort of thinking about a small pie being sliced up in little pieces when in fact, this is a giant buffet of patient opportunity. And so I think what we've been thinking about with the franchise in 1402 and with bato is how to take advantage of this whole area of new biology, whether you want to call it only antibody disease or B cell biology or whatever. How to take advantage of it? How to use the remarkable qualities that FcRn has? The elegance with which FcRn has cleared this relatively difficult bar and then to take advantage of the attributes of our program? So, as you may know from the history, batoclimab was the first program we carried forward into Phase II studies. The thing that we have been focused on with our franchise is that we have 2 major advantages versus basically anybody else. One is our program suppressed IgG very deeply. They suppress IgG, by call it, 85% on repeat dosing, which we think has been shown over and over again, in multiple settings. And certainly, in our own TED study and the Graves data that we'll put out relatively shortly in individual patient level data from all of our competitors, myasthenia gravis programs in the Sjogren's data that put earlier this year. It's been clearly shown that the deeper you can suppress auto antibodies, the more that benefits these patients. That's not actually that surprising. Again, these diseases are driven by autoantibodies. So you think the more you can suppress them the better. And both batoclimab and 1402 suppress IgG as deeply as certainly any other anti FcRn antibody, we've seen really as well as anything currently out there. The other thing that we have going for us is that both 1402 and batoclimab at this point are set up to be concentrated in simple subcu auto-injectors, the same kind as whatever as Dupixent or as HUMIRA or whatever, all of the other sort of widely successful commercial auto-injector drugs, which actually, at the moment, we are the only anti FcRn franchise that has that in any of their programs. There's others that are working towards it that have sort of less optimal subcu formats, but we're the only one that had that property. So we're talking about the first one we developed because it was the easiest to concentrate in that way. And then we hit a scientific hiccup. We found that we also impacted albumin, which we knew that meant we impacted LDL. And so basically, as soon as we found that out, we started working on 1402, which is basically batoclimab minus albumin LDL. It is the same deep suppression of IgG, the same simple subcu format, but without an impact on albumin and LDL. So we think a 1402 as the lead program because in any indication where 1402 can be at the front of or at the head of the back, it's just going to make sense to go with the program that has the cleaner analyte profile. But batoclimab is also a great drug, and it's in Phase III studies at this point in myasthenia gravis. It's in late-stage studies in CIDP and TED, and it's going to read out. We're going to put out this data from our Graves Phase II program very soon. So batoclimab is also an important program, but it's sort of -- we think of it as a first-generation program where we would only advance it commercially in places where there was a real reason to do so because for everything else, 1402 can clearly be a winner.

Albert Wong

analyst
#11

Okay. And so when you think of the various competitors out there, so J&J, I think, just filed and they touted 6-month data. Does that impact your thinking at all on batoclimab or 1402?

Matthew Gline

executive
#12

Yes. So we've known that nipo was going to file for a while. And I think the nipo data was fine. And I think it is a big tent as it were. There's just a lot of room for multiple agents. So I don't think anything specifically about the nipo filing affects our strategy. Look, I think nipo played out roughly as we would have predicted, which is to say nipo also impacts albumin. J&J structured their clinical program to limit albumin reductions at the expense of going after a lower IgG suppression. They got to a little bit less than what Argenx delivers from an IgG perspective and delivered efficacy that was interesting in the overall context, but like not that different from what Argenx shows with efgart. The one thing that nipo really has going for it is you pointed it out, nipo studied a 6-month endpoint with longer sort of chronic dosing. It's like a useful paradigm from a payer perspective described on a patient perspective because that's what the patients want. And so I think that will be successful. Remember, Vyvgart's big success has come from Vyvgart. It's come on the IV side. So I'm not sure the fact that nipo as an IV is going to be a big liability for J&J. So I think that's all sort of clear. I think that still leaves open the swim lane that we see for ourselves, which is deeper IT depression in a simple subcu. And so I don't think it changes that much about our strategy. Look, the other thing that I think it's important to realize. So we're going to put out MG data in batoclimab early next year. That data, whether we like it or not is really important data because it will show -- we will suppress IgG in that study in our sort of 24 weeks by, call it, 85%. And the hope is that we can demonstrate a clear dose response, clear higher clinical benefit at 85% IgG depression than we or others have been able to show, call it, 60%, 65% IgG suppression. And if that's true, it will open a whole bunch of doors for us, right open the door for we could conceivably file bato and MG. It will give us a clear running room forward on what exactly to do with 1402 and MG. But I think all of the other places where I've mentioned that the deeper is better hypothesis has played out in data, they all require some imaginative leap to compare to our peers. Once the MG data is out, I don't think any imagination is going to be required. You're going to look at the data set and sort of see what the world sees in terms of what we can do, what efgart can do, et cetera. And so I think it will open a set of doors in terms of how people see them more is better hypothesis, assuming it plays out the way that we would like it to.

Albert Wong

analyst
#13

And if you were J&J or Argenx and people say, well, what is the drawback for batoclimab or 1402. Besides being earlier, is there anything that they would point out or try to...

Matthew Gline

executive
#14

Obviously, earlier is a big advantage, especially for Vyvgart that got there first versus batoclimab, I think they would clearly talk about the LDL liabilities, and I think that's a real talking point for them. And it's one of the reasons that we are being really thoughtful about how the data guides us on bato development. Argenx had an R&D Day over the summer. Look, Argenx is an amazing company. They've done a phenomenal job executing. Vyvgart is a great drug. I think Argenx has what to worry about with 1402 to be honest, I think deeper IgG suppression is going to matter. And I think what I think they will try and talk to is it not mattering as much as we think it's going to matter, right? They'll try and talk about threshold effects or they'll try and talk about other things. They'll talk about the fact that by the time we launch, they may or may not, but may have a subcu format that's more competitive. I think that's sort of the [indiscernible]. Now, the interesting thing, as you mentioned earlier, I guess, one of the great things about FcRn as a space and one of the challenging things about FcRn as a space is IgG suppression has been an amazing biomarker for clinical benefit. And what that means is if you have a Phase II study that shows either a dose response or just like what 60% of IgG suppression does, you basically have the information you need to go straight to a pivotal study. And so what that means is everybody's Phase II studies are effectively antibody Phase II studies, right? We're going to put on our Graves data. The reason we've waited so long to put this data out is precisely so that we can be right in Phase II, very shortly after we do right in Phase III, rather, with 1402, very shortly after we put the data out so that we can be in that pivotal registrational kind of program before our peers. Conversely, what that means is if you look at a disease like Sjogren's, you look at a disease like myositis, when that reads out or whatever, we can take the Phase II data of our peers, and we can use that to inform a pivotal program for 1402 that will line up in terms of trial completion with our peers. And what that means is, other than MG and CIDP, actually, we're not really that far behind in any of these other indications. And in some sense, we're right neck and neck where it's just going to come down to clinical execution. And so I think that's another reason why we think 1402 is just a phenomenal opportunity because we think we're going to be able to take it right into kind of pivotal registrational programs in every indication where there is Phase II data from any agent.

Albert Wong

analyst
#15

Okay. Can you just recap then what are the near-term milestones, let's say, until mid next year?

Matthew Gline

executive
#16

In this, by the way, it is like one of the reasons it's fun to be at this conference this fall is, look, I think we are just heading into an incredibly -- I think you're asking specifically on Immunovant. We're heading into an incredibly data-rich period for Roivant. So we've got -- coming up imminently, we have the Graves data of Immunovant. Other things coming soon at are Immunovant. We have the MG data at the beginning of next year. We have CIDP data and TED data, all in bato over the next 12 months -- less than 12 months. On top of that, we plan to unveil our full clinical program for 1402 or at least the first 4 to 5 indications where we're going into pivotal studies and where those regulatory discussions and preparations are well underway. And then that's just an Immunovant franchise. We also have data from our sarcoidosis program coming later this year in Phase II. We have data back half of next year in brepocitinib in dermatomyositis, which is a pivotal registrational program that will read out a little bit more than a year from now. And then we have a ton of progress coming on the litigations with Moderna and Pfizer. And on top of that, we've said very shortly, we're unveiling one new program that we've already got in-house that I think will also be an exciting program for people to follow, and we're excited to talk more about it. So it's just a really rich period coming here.

Albert Wong

analyst
#17

Okay. Yes. I want to come back to the new programs. Maybe just to round out sort the programs VTAMA, how is the commercialization? You guys are in your third year?

Matthew Gline

executive
#18

Yes, like 2 and change years. Yes, it's been fine, is the short answer to that question. Look, in psoriasis, I'd say it's been a successful launch in the sense that it's not a path to profitability. It's been a slower grind than I think our original hypothesis around psoriasis would have hoped for. But it's been a good product. Docs who use it really like it. There are some docs that use a lot. There's a lot of docs use a little. One exciting thing in the AD approval for the PDUFA date late this year, and so that should be coming, and AD is 3 to 4x as large as a market as psoriasis. So I think we're excited to see how that plays out. And I think it could be quite different in terms of doc dynamics and patient dynamics, et cetera. So I think there's an outcome where AD takes off like a rocket ship, and this is a big blockbuster product. And I think there's an outcome where it is merely a mid-9 figure profitable derm topical. I think either of those are pretty good. But obviously, what we had hoped for was to break that topical ceiling. And so that's why you probably catch a measure of some reservation in my voice.

Albert Wong

analyst
#19

Okay. And...

Matthew Gline

executive
#20

It is not subject to much investor intrigued right now.

Albert Wong

analyst
#21

Right, right. Is that growth a function of just getting more AD? More indications? Or is it you have to throw more sales force into it?

Matthew Gline

executive
#22

No. Look, I think in psoriasis, what's going to drive growth is, ultimately, this is a -- and I say this, like there have been a couple of new agents approved in psoriasis and a few new agents coming in AD that are topicals, that are just like better at some level than corticosteroids, right? They're safer. They're more potent. They can be used in younger children. They can be used all over the body, et cetera. And VTAMA in our view is -- look, it's our preferred among them. We think it's the best of those agents, but there's a few in that category. And I think what we are all finding all of the companies doing this is the docs who really sit down and focus on it, love the product, understand the profile, understand what's good about it. But corticosteroids have been generic since, I don't know, 1957 in some cases. And so these docs have just been writing steroids their whole lives and changing that behavior is hard. And so there's a certain amount of like we've done a little bit of DTC, we've put around some of the [indiscernible] trying to understand what it takes to drive demand. But I actually think a big piece of it is just anybody who's trying to change a bad habit knows it takes time. And I think one of the things we're finding with these docs is it takes more time than we had hoped. And my honest prediction is at the Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference in 2045 when VTAMA is generic, it will be used as much or more as many or most corticosteroids. And the question is how do we pull that forward and how do we get as much of that benefit as we can for having developed the drug.

Albert Wong

analyst
#23

Okay. Talking about the TYK2/JAK market. What's the name of the brepocitinib. How do you think about that in the context of just a very crowded market or there's a product with just TYK2 on the market already and a few in development?

Matthew Gline

executive
#24

Yes. Look, our view on that drug when we brought it in was there was this moment in JAK inhibitor development where JAK inhibitors were not non-inferior to TNFs on some cardiovascular risk. And just everything got thrown out a ton of baby with the bathwater. And our view is we took a look at brepocitinib, we go like, holy cow, this is a great drug. It is an incredibly powerful suppressor of cytokines that are prevalent in a wide variety of inflammatory diseases. It suppresses both JAK1 cytokines and TYK2 cytokines like interferons. And so it's good in diseases that hit -- that need the sort of combination of cytokine expression that we can deliver. And also, that we're not particularly well equipped to compete with either, call it, Bristol in the sort of allosteric TYK2 space nor -- and look, I think there were all kinds of predictions on what the Black Box label, we were going to do to Rinvoq and they were all wrong. Fundamentally, Rinvoq has sold incredibly well since then, but we are also not the kind of company that's going to compete particularly effectively with AbbVie. And so we said, okay, what is the place where we can take brepocitinib where we can have wide space? And it became clear that fundamentally no one was pursuing an orphan room -- orphan immunology strategy with JAK inhibitors. And so there are indications like the ones we're going after, like dermatomyositis, like noninfectious uveitis, like a couple of others that we're working on now, where they're not actually crowded and where we have what we think is among the most powerful anti-inflammatory agents ever developed. And so we think there's a ton of unmet patient need, and we think it's a huge sleeper opportunity with just an amazing, amazing drug. Brepocitinib has shown great. I think it's shown like some of the best crones they'd ever shown, some of the best UC data ever shown. It shows great in alopecia and hydradenitis suppurativa, psoriasis, and alopecia. It's just like amazing data over and over again, mostly in indications where we won't take it forward because we don't think we have the -- again, the muscle to be [indiscernible].

Albert Wong

analyst
#25

Right. Okay. sarcoid, Nivolumab.

Matthew Gline

executive
#26

Nivolumab, yes. Anti-GM-CSF antibody.

Albert Wong

analyst
#27

It is when?

Matthew Gline

executive
#28

Late this year.

Albert Wong

analyst
#29

Okay. Can you just talk a little bit about that?

Matthew Gline

executive
#30

So that's program. It's an anti-GM-CSF antibody. GM-CSF is a target that's involved in the formation of macrophages, which are directly in the line of pathophysiology for sarcoidosis. Those macrophages go on to cause granuloma formation, which are what causes the symptomology of sarcoid, the pathophysiology. And so if sarcoid is a bad disease, a couple of hundred thousand patients, not a lot of options, not that much promising in late-stage development. A tough disease, right? People have studied it before. It's got a lot of the inflammatory disease challenges. These patients are on corticosteroid background therapy that gets moved around a lot. You have all kinds of difficult things. The endpoints are hard. It's a tough space in which to develop. And GM-CSF, to be honest, is a target with a little bit of a [indiscernible] history of its own, right? So in some efficacy in RA, it's sort of a target that's been in search of an indication. We think we found the right cross here. We think the biology is good. We think the disease is an important disease. It's 120-ish patient study. It's fully enrolled. Obviously, it's reading out later this year. If the study is successful, we think we've got a huge opportunity. But we've described it publicly as effectively a flyer, right? There's like a real risk in that study because it's novel untested biology in a difficult study disease. But if it hits, I think it's worth a lot of value at that point.

Albert Wong

analyst
#31

And what's the edge that you have? I mean, is this going to be history repeating itself? Or you're -- you've designed the trial better? Or is the...

Matthew Gline

executive
#32

The Edge in sarcoid, I think...

Albert Wong

analyst
#33

The edge in your...

Matthew Gline

executive
#34

The edge that we have here is that no one has ever studied at GM-CSF in sarcoidosis before. And so if we are right and if we get some combination of lucky and do a good job running the study, we will have a unique proposition. And we think sarcoid is a really good indication in which to try GM-CSF biology.

Albert Wong

analyst
#35

Okay. Got it. Okay. Moving on to your $6 billion cash position. BD is clearly an important component of your growth. How do you think about areas you're looking for? Are you looking for the things that are larger trials that others can't afford?

Matthew Gline

executive
#36

So I've been saying this for months, and it's just still true, so I'll say it again. This is an incredibly exciting moment to have our business model and capital because -- and there's a lot of things we're excited about. We're excited about some biotech companies, not companies but programs out of biotech companies. We're excited about some programs and off their own geographies. Again, we're going to announce a deal that we did a little while ago with a big pharma company next week in a pretty interesting space that we can talk more about. I said next week soon. We're going to announce it soon. But we're working through all of these different opportunities. But the thing that we've been best at in our history is working with the big pharma companies on partnerships and big pharma is in an unbelievably transformational moment right now where there's this wall of patent cliffs coming for many different big pharma companies, right from KEYTRUDA, to everything at Bristol, to the bunch of things at Pfizer, et cetera. And at various times, but that plus some development reprioritization that may not be as big a deal, but clearly, IRA has like affected the way that Pharma's doing development. There's been a giant -- well, there was as of last year, a giant pile of M&A activity that reshaped a number of late-stage pipelines. All these programs that are just like in this transitional moment going to fall off eventually. And that is what we are good at. We are good at finding those programs ahead of time, spotting that they're going to become available. And then you think about what those programs are. You're a big pharma company, you're very earnings-focused, you're trying to figure out how to manage P&L. You don't have a cash problem, right? These guys can borrow for nothing. But you need to manage P&L risk. There's not a lot you can do cutting early-stage R&D. It just takes a lot of cuts to make a difference. You can't cut sort of post-approval spend. You can't cut marketing spend. Those were all the in-line programs that are delivering the earnings. So it really, ultimately, in the end, it always comes back to finding expensive late-stage R&D that can save those kind of dollars. When we think about it, who out there is looking for those programs can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a Phase III program and has a strong track record for developing late-stage drugs that like is a series of narrowing that result in just like a very small circle of companies or institutions. And so we get to be pretty unique at most of those tables. And the downside to this is always bet the over on how long it takes big pharma to realize what they need to do, always bet the over on how long it takes them to actually transact on something. But the upside is, I'm telling you when we do it, you will not believe the quality of the programs that will be available to us, that are available to us that in time we will extract. And it's really just a question of getting there and getting those programs across the line, but the moment is incredible on the quality of programs that are either on the table or that we think are like just at the edge of the table and with some pushing and prodding, we'll make it on to the table, is really exciting.

Albert Wong

analyst
#37

Do you have a particular structure that you try to abide by when you're partnering with pharma? Or is it flexible depending on how you can get the product out [indiscernible].

Matthew Gline

executive
#38

I'd like to say no pharma company has a Roivant shaped hole in their business, and they don't walk around thinking about us. And so the thing that we have realized over time is that the way to win these deals is just to be flexible on structure. In general, another nice thing about partnering with big pharma companies mentioned as before, they're not very cash-sensitive, right? They have unbelievable access to capital. And so they're generally not hunting for big upfront payments. What they're hunting for is, they, as institutions or at least they as R&D teams, et cetera, really believe in the program. It made it to Phase III because they were focused on it. And so what they want is participation in the success and that works great for us. That means we can spend comparatively a few dollars upfront, which is good because we're pretty stingy and then we can spend more dollars on actually running a clinical program. So basically, all of our deals, including, frankly, with biotech companies, et cetera, have in common, like we're just not much of the agreement of M&A bankers who call us from time to time. We're not great buyers of like public biotech companies at big premiums. But what we are really good at is creative partnering that can try and solve for certainly the needs of a big pharma company in a way that gives us just unbelievable access.

Albert Wong

analyst
#39

And do you have a limitation in therapeutic areas or say, we're not touching indication x, y, z?

Matthew Gline

executive
#40

If you think about our business model at some level, it's -- other companies have strategies to sort of visualize as a cookie cutter. And our strategy is to look at the dough that forms outside of everybody else's cookie cutters. And that means if we said we're only an Oncology company, we're only an Immunology company, well, the shape of the cookie dough left over is not a clean portfolio in one of those areas. So we sort of have to, by nature, be flexible. There are certain things that are easier or harder to do with that strategy. So for starters, like Oncology has always been a tough space for us because, first of all, it's very competitive. Everybody thinks of themselves as an Oncology company. And so the spaces between the cutters are pretty small to begin with. And second of all, so much of that field has gone in the way of combination therapy development. And to be blunt, if you're picking up one thing from this company and one thing from this company and one thing from this company, the likelihood that they are together, the thing that makes this snowman shape cookie cutter, the thing that fit together is not that high. And so in general, that's not been an area of focus for us. If we see things we like, we'll still do them, it's just a little harder. I'd say the same thing is true. There's certain modalities that require an nexus of expertise. And we've learned these lessons the hard way. But things like gene therapy and cell therapy, they're really hard to manufacture, where you can be right on the biology, right on the target, right on the program being better, and then you can just get like run over by a CDMO steamroller or something like that. Like that has been pretty challenging for us historically. And so I think, again, never say never. Our only dogma is that we don't have any dogma, but those are probably sort of things that are less likely, but everything else is on the table. And this program that we're going to announce sometime in the near future this month is, for example, potentially in a new to us therapeutic area.

Albert Wong

analyst
#41

Okay. Great. Going back to your cash position and BD as one component, but you did do a share repurchase in April, a pretty sizable one...

Matthew Gline

executive
#42

We did. We announced $1.5 billion we've done about -- well, we've done $650 million as of the last quarter.

Albert Wong

analyst
#43

Okay. And is that something you plan on continuing? Is it because you couldn't find BD and therefore, you're doing purchase?

Matthew Gline

executive
#44

Couldn't find is probably not the word that I'd use. Look, the way that I think about it is what I said in a bunch of forums is we can't do it with $4 billion. We probably can't do it with $6 billion. And so we're just looking to be efficient on -- and frankly, we're looking to bet on ourselves, right? I think like our share count being lower when we do the things that are really going to win, will win bigger for us and for the folks that own stocks. So I think it's just a matter of making the right sort of ruthless decision with capital we've got.

Albert Wong

analyst
#45

Okay. Okay. And last question, and then I'll turn it to the audience here. Do you have good support from your existing shareholders? Some of the share repurchase was from existing shareholders?

Matthew Gline

executive
#46

So we cleaned up Sumitomo with that specific reverses. Yes. Look, this was a bigger issue for us when we were competing with the secondary market for primary capital need. We don't have that anymore. We have a mix of shareholders as anyone does. Some of those shareholders are fixed life funds that are rolling off and will eventually need to sell their position. I'd say in general, my attitude has gone from wishing they would hold off to wishing they would sell sooner, which is a nice place to be. But that's a small minority of our cap table at this point. And I think what we're really hoping to do with the current moment where only I think we're cheap relative to any obvious matter of fair value is to bring in shareholders who love us for who we are now so that when we win as we will, we deliver for those people.

Albert Wong

analyst
#47

Okay. Makes sense. Not too bad with 5 minutes left. Do we have any questions from the audience? Okay. Matt, maybe you can just recap because milestones are very important here, and you have a lot. Maybe you can recap just what can we expect over the next couple of quarters?

Matthew Gline

executive
#48

We can also -- anyone who wants to run next door and like let me know what Amgen says. Yes. So for the next few quarters, so imminently, we have Immunovant Graves data and this new program that we're going to announce. Later this fall, we have the Markman hearing in the Pfizer case, which has now been scheduled for December. And we have the data from numilumab in sarcoidosis. And we also have the PDUFA date for VTAMA and atopic dermatitis, which will begin the process of getting data from that launch. At the beginning of next year, we have data coming in myasthenia gravis at Immunovant and CIDP at Immunovant and then in TED at Immunovant. We have the sort of summary judgment phase of our Moderna trial next spring, and then we have the actual sort of jury trial phase, the Moderna trial will be in September, and we have pivotal registrational data coming from brepocitinib in dermatomyositis next fall. So that's most of the next 18 months. And then on top of that, I expect we will continue to announce some exciting new programs, hopefully earlier in that window.

Albert Wong

analyst
#49

Okay. Great. Well, Matt, thank you for joining us and for that overview. Very helpful.

Matthew Gline

executive
#50

Awesome. Thanks for hosting. Thanks for having me.

Albert Wong

analyst
#51

Great. Thank you, everybody.

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