Veracyte, Inc. (VCYT) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
September 9, 2025
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsOkay. I think we can get started. Kallum Titchmarsh here from the life sciences team at Morgan Stanley. Really pleased today to be joined by the team from Veracyte. We have Marc Stapley, CEO; and Rebecca Chambers, CFO. Before we get started, the good stuff, the disclosures. So please see the Morgan Stanley research disclosure website at www.morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsSo thank you, everyone, for joining. Marc, maybe just to set the stage for us, can you walk us through how 2025 has played out so far versus your initial expectations? Beyond the numbers, what are you most proud of? And what challenges would you maybe call out?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes, I'm happy to, and thanks very much for having us here today. It's our pleasure to be here. Maybe I can just cover some of the formalities as well and just remind everybody that to the extent we'd be making forward-looking statements, they're expected to be covered under the safe harbor that can be found on our website at www.veracyte.com. With that said, I appreciate the question around 2025. It's been an interesting year for Veracyte so far with a lot of accomplishments under our belt. We actually feel very good about where we are, especially relative to where we were coming into the year. A couple of things, if I think about starting on the top line, the growth across the businesses has been -- the core business has been really encouraging and impressive with Decipher growing 32% year-to-date and Afirma growing 9% year-to-date in volume terms. Decipher very much exceeding our expectations and Afirma meeting our expectations as we came into the year. And so that's an encouraging set of trends. If you think about it in terms of what we've accomplished on the product side, we launched our metastatic product for Decipher. We just launched our internal V2 transcriptome product that helps us in the lab and from a cost and scaling standpoint. We are making great progress on our long-term growth drivers in MRD, where we just completed the enrollment of NIGHTINGALE. The final patient there, 2,400 patients. And we're making progress on our international strategy. On that note, we completed our activities with our French entity, and that's now to a point where we go forward now with a third-party contract manufacturer, which is a great outcome and one that we really strived hard to achieve without interrupting our international business. And then from a profitability standpoint, I couldn't be more pleased with how we performed relative to our expectations coming into the year with some very strong performance on the adjusted EBITDA line. So kind of when I net all that out, I think it's fair to say that 2025 has got off to an extremely good start.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesAnd just one quick thing to add. I think as we look into '26 and beyond with the metastatic launch, the STAMPEDE publication that came to bear last week or so is actually quite impactful for that metastatic indication as well. And so that, obviously, as we go through any given year, we're trying to satisfy the catalyst for that year as well as ensure there's future catalysts, and then we put the STAMPEDE piece into that future catalyst category.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsGreat. A lot to dig into there. Maybe let's start with Decipher. You're market leader here, I think 65% share. Market itself is around 40% penetrated. What are some of the strategies you're implementing to further increase penetration from here?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. Thanks for that question. First and foremost, I think it's fair to say that Decipher is the only test on the market that addresses the entire incidence population for prostate cancer now with the addition of metastatic. And so we've been making great progress in low risk, intermediate risk, high risk, and now we expect to do the same in metastatic. And so that is, I'd say, the #1 kind of push for us. The second is Decipher has NCCN #1 guidelines, and those guidelines have been, I think, a really strong catalyst to help us grow in the localized setting. And at some point, especially with reference to the STAMPEDE data and other studies that Rebecca mentioned, we should be able to get guidelines as well for metastatic. And I think that would be a helpful catalyst, not necessarily needed to start penetration because we proved that in localized setting. The guidelines are helpful, but they're not necessary to get going. And then continuing to drive our core strategy of more data drives more insights, which drives more evidence and drives more penetration. We are consistently coming out with and seeing others launch new data and new studies and new publications that include Decipher and just continue to grow on the body of evidence that we already have.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd coverage, obviously, pretty strong now, 200 million covered lives. Afirma, obviously, closer to 275 million, I believe. So it's like now, I guess, a smaller tail of lives you need covered. Just talk us through whether you can bridge that gap further from here.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes, it is. I mean there's a distinction there in terms of for prostate cancer, it's more like 2/3 Medicare population. And obviously, we have the Medicare rate, whereas for thyroid cancer, it's more like 1/3. So those 2 have a very different Medicare dynamic. And then to your point around covered lives, that's a commercial payer concept. We have a little way to go on the Decipher side, but we've gotten a lot of the big payers along the way, including last year when we had an announcement around one significant one that we added. So a little bit more room to grow there, which, of course, will help bridge that gap between where we are from a Medicare standpoint and our ASP as we get to higher coverage. But I'd say there's a lot of blocking and tackling, and it takes multiple years to get to where Afirma is. And it took multiple years for Afirma to get there. So we'll get there with Decipher. It just takes time.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd one of the things that isn't really captured in the covered lives number is the coverage gap. So I'm wondering if there are any that you feel stand out today that are worth targeting?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesNot really. I mean, again, it's that difference between 200 and 270 and making sure that we contract with commercial payers and that we do it the right way. Medicaid continues to be for both our core tests a gap, but that's a small single digit to a maximum of 10% of the volume there.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesYes. And I would just add, I mean, we're in the -- as Marc mentioned earlier, we're in the portion where we're -- each payer is maybe a couple of hundred thousand, maybe 1 million lives. And so I think it is an equal amount of work to get those as it is those that are 20 million, 30 million covered lives. And so the progress over the last 3 or 4 years has been amazing. The team has done a really fabulous job. I expect that their success will continue. It's just the impact of their success on that Pareto of payers is going to be less meaningful in any given year. But over a 5-year time frame, we should absolutely be able to achieve ASP gains on the Decipher side.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsFantastic. And you noted an uptick in interest from physicians for NCCN high-risk patients. Just help us to understand how meaningful that interest is. I think you suggested the pool represents about 25% of the incidence population.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesIt does. And we've been -- in the localized setting, we've been gaining penetration into that high-risk market, albeit intermediate risk is obviously where the greatest penetration typically is and would be, you would expect that. On the high-risk side, I think it's early days yet because we haven't had the product fully launched for long. but it's starting to initiate conversations with patients because we have the metastatic test now who are dealing with high-risk patients. And before, they might have thought, okay, I have a clear pathway and a way to treat these patients. And now that Decipher metastatic, including some of the studies that have come out in support of it, cover both high-risk and metastatic patients, I actually might be using Decipher going forward to give me a better prognostic outcome for that patient or even potentially a predictive outcome. And so I think it's -- what's encouraging is it's starting to initiate those conversations. Too early to say whether that actually translates to orders in the high-risk setting, but it certainly gives us positive encouragement.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd you touched on it here, but the metastatic side, how has early feedback been from the broader launch? Again, it's been 2 months, so I appreciate it.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesI'd say very positive. I mean we've yet to find customers of ours who say they're not interested in some way in the metastatic. I mean there's nobody that we're aware of that has said, no, I wouldn't use it. I think the level of interest is there. I think you're going to find physicians from those who say, absolutely, I'm now going to include that on every metastatic patient to the ones who say, I need to see more evidence. A couple of studies are good. STAMPEDE is good, but I want to see more to those who say, I'm going to wait until it's in guidelines and everything in between those categories.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd you're continuing to invest in digital pathology studies for Decipher. Maybe just dive into that and give us some color on what excites you?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes, invest in and enable investment in digital pathology studies. So as we did when we launched Decipher, we want to enable research. We want researchers to be able to look at the data, both with and without necessarily the molecular diagnostics. They're able to look at the digital pathology. They're able to look at outcomes. We scanned 90,000 slides so far across 50,000 patients, and we're scanning on an ongoing basis. And so it just gives our researchers the opportunity to do whatever studies they want to do, gives us the opportunity to fund or support whatever studies we want to support. We continue to believe that it has potential complementary -- it could be potentially complementary to molecular diagnostics, but doesn't replace molecular diagnostics. You don't get the level of resolution that you get with molecular with a pathology -- digital pathology-based test with or without AI. You just don't get to that level of detail, and we've consistently seen that and some of the early studies have indicated that as well. And so as the research creates evidence that evidence could or could not turn into a commercial opportunity, we'll see how that plays out in the future.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd on the Helix partnership, maybe just walk us through the rationale there and what change you're hoping to drive with that.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. Now that we've launched the metastatic test, there are guidelines that suggest that those patients should be getting a hereditary cancer test, and Helix is one of the market leaders in terms of capability, in our opinion, around a whole exome-based approach to hereditary cancer. And so we've entered into a partnership with them. And Helix takes, as I mentioned, a whole exome approach, which is so consistent with our approach of more data driving more insights. And so it's a very natural partnership for us. I should disclose I have a relationship with Helix. I'm on the Board. And I'm great to see these 2 companies coming together and being able to create this opportunity so that we can serve our physician customers with a hereditary solution should they need it without necessarily creating a product ourselves that, frankly, we decided we don't need to do. We'll let Helix do that.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsHow impactful could STAMPEDE be?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesVery impactful. I mean it's certainly impactful for the patient. If you think about what STAMPEDE tells the physician, which is for -- and just to reiterate, for many of the patients who are metastatic, not every patient is going to benefit from docetaxel, and in fact, of those patients that aren't going to benefit, they're going through the toxicity of the chemotherapy that they don't necessarily need to go through. In the past, the physicians have had a blunt instrument, if you like, tumor volume to help guide that decision. And STAMPEDE demonstrated that tumor volume isn't necessarily the right indicator. It's not the biomarker. And Decipher is a very strong biomarker for which patients will and will not benefit. And so the opportunity to deescalate confidently is what STAMPEDE demonstrates, and I think that will really help us drive Decipher in the metastatic population. Metastatic population is about 10%, so call it 30,000 patients per year.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsExciting. And I want to shift now to the thyroid side. Similar question to what I had with Decipher. But I think penetration, thyroid now around 65%. How are you looking to bridge to that 80% that I think you've spoken about?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. I mean, to continue to get Afirma to the market share and the market penetration that we ultimately think it can get to, I think it's a lot of continuing to do what we're already doing. That's the good news, right? We are -- we have a great test. It's extremely well validated. There's great evidence for it. And with our recent launch of the GRID research tool, we're enabling more evidence, which again fits in with the whole Veracyte philosophy and strategy around data drives insights, drives evidence, drives adoption. And again, just a reminder that we run a whole transcriptome in the case of Afirma, just like we do with Decipher, and that's what's enabling this research to be done. And you've seen some publications around that recently. So I think that helps to gain share as we think about Afirma as a high-performing test that has a lot of evidence behind it and growing evidence behind it. The other thing is we -- as I mentioned before, we launched our V2 transcriptome assay, which is the backbone next-gen sequencing test, the new version of that, that we have in our lab. That got launched a couple of weeks ago. The initial patient reports have gone out and everything, thanks to the incredible efforts of our team, has gone very, very well. And so it's exciting to see that. That platform will form the backbone of the new tests that we launched like Prosigna as well. So it's a scalable, durable platform for the future of Veracyte.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd will you need to expand the sales force meaningfully to get some of those targets, do you think?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes, it's a great question. The answer is no. We have -- in both Afirma and Decipher, we have, call it, 50-plus sales reps who are doing an amazing job, and we grow that sales force between low single digit and 5 or 6 people, a handful every year, and that is proving to be not only sufficient but optimal. The territory management is a key component of designing and optimizing the sales team, and they do a really good job of that. And they've built great relationships, and they're continuing to do so. So I couldn't be happier with both our sales teams on the urology and the endocrinology side, and we don't see the need for significant outsized growth in those teams going forward.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesAnd the reason for that does come back to the data piece, right? Because we are generating so much data and driving publications that demonstrate the clinical utility. We effectively have a strong podium presence. And so the leverage, while it is higher cost, obviously, to do a whole transcriptome versus a qPCR panel or something similar, the leverage that it affords us on the R&D and the sales and marketing side is actually quite attractive. So we really love this model of having more data to drive more insights and more utility, and that translates into the rest of the P&L.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsFantastic. And I want to hit on the LCD from last year. I think you talked about up to 30,000 patients annually with that specific module classification. So...
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesB-V.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsYes. So how has that been thus far?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. I mean it's going well. I wouldn't say it's huge numbers, and we didn't expect it to be huge numbers, I mean, in that indication of Bethesda V, but we're starting to see some traction there. And I think it just helps to again reinforce the breadth and depth of our test. We added TERT promoter gene a couple of years ago as well for a very similar reason. I mean the more the utility can expand across the care continuum and across indications like we have with Decipher as well, the more we're able to service our customers and be an ally to them in giving them more insights. And so we're starting to see some physicians who are interested in Afirma for B-V, but the bulk of the growth is continuing to come from the indeterminate B-III and B-IV.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesAnd just one thing to add, about 1/3 of those 30,000 are actually Medicare patients. And so that's what the LCD covers. For commercial coverage, some do, some don't. And so we would have to grind all the way up to that 30,000. And so when you think about kind of the prioritization of our managed care team, they're obviously going to go after Decipher before they focus on B-V, right? So -- and also contracting more on the Afirma side. So that's just one thing. That's one of the reasons why it's not -- it's large of a driver in, say, metastatic. Metastatic conversely has the same patient population, but 2/3 is Medicare. And so it's going to be a much more meaningful driver.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsGot it. And just framing up volume growth, I think you're expecting high single digits this year, 6% to 7% revenue growth. Is this the right framework to be thinking about Afirma over the mid- to long term?
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesYes. So when it comes down to it, you're having incidence growth of around 3%. We have share gains, and we have penetration, right? And so those are the 3 vectors by which we will continue to grow Afirma. We haven't officially guided what we would expect Afirma revenue growth to be outside of 2025, but there's no reason to think that a mid- to high single-digit type delivery of volume growth isn't achievable. At some point in time, that does start to peter out. We thought it was going to be 2022, '27, '28, '29, we're just going to have to -- I think we have good line of sight on a rolling 12-month basis. But given where we are at in the penetration curve and the life cycle, obviously, share and incidence growth is going to be increasingly important for us to be able to continue to deliver mid- to high single digits.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsUnderstood. And you touched on GRID. I think new version coming later in the year. So just talk us through some of the features we should expect with the new version and how it improves upon what we have today.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. I mean we listen to our customers as they complete this research and look at the data, the extraneous data that is provided by that. And our goal is always to take some of those features and move them into the clinical report over time if they have value and utility. And so that's something that we look at on both the Decipher and Afirma side. No clarity yet on what those indications are, but it's based on what the customers and physicians are telling us that they're interested in.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsUnderstood. Shifting on to Percepta. Talk us through the market opportunity for nasal swab and how you go about addressing that unmet need.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. So a reminder for everybody, the nasal swab is a -- it's what it says. It's a nasal swab, quite simply, that is used to classify patients as low, intermediate and high risk for lung cancer. So think of it as a truly noninvasive test for patients who've got a lung nodule. These patients are either current or former smokers who meet that criteria. And then this test is able to be used, as I said, to help classify their risk of lung cancer. The population is significant. The largest population today is the incidental population, patients who are found to have a lung nodule when they're undergoing some other procedure. They're not there for screening. That is about 1.6 million patients a year in the U.S. alone. The screening population is much larger. There's about 15 million patients who should be getting lung cancer screening in the U.S. every year according to USPSTF guidelines, but only a very small percentage of those patients are actually getting screened today, and that results in around another 300,000 lung nodules discovered. So call it combined, roughly 2 million today that could grow as screening penetration grows, which it should, and it needs to. And so when we launch this test, we'll be able to address that roughly 2 million or whatever number it is at that time. I'd say when we launch this test, we've just completed the 2,400 NIGHTINGALE study, as I mentioned, with the last patient through the door and a huge congratulations to all of our investigators and our team for that massive lung study. And it will take us a while, a year or 2 to follow up those patients and see how the clinical utility of the test is demonstrated in that population. And then, of course, we're going to need to get a peer-reviewed publication, and we're going to need to get Medicare reimbursement. We're not looking to launch the test without reimbursement. And so that's what this NIGHTINGALE study is all about, and it's what it will drive. And so we've got a little bit of work to do ahead of us and excited to launch that test when it's ready.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsSo when should we be expecting something in the market?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesI think if you look at the time frame I've said that 1 to 2 years plus publication plus Medicare reimbursement, it's not in the next 3 years. It's in -- this is a meaningful driver in our 10-year plan, but not in our 3-year plan. So something we're thinking in the time frame of 2029 or thereabouts.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsOkay. And keeping on the theme of innovation, but Prosigna, you're targeting that launch LDT in mid-'26. How are you thinking about the U.S. market opportunity here given it's a pretty well-established breast cancer market?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. So to take a step back and describe that a little bit, we already have the Prosigna test. It's based on a well-respected scientifically robust PAM50 signature. We've owned that test since 2019. It's in -- sold in Europe today as an IVD, and that's -- we're getting some traction there. But the whole object of this LDT launch is for the U.S. market, which, as you mentioned, is a very significant market. It's around 225,000 patients per year who are identified with breast cancer that could benefit from the Prosigna test. It's a very well-covered market today. It's a competitive market. The key to the launch of that will be just like it is with any test that we launch or anybody else's launch, it's all about evidence and what that evidence tells you and how that evidence is viewed by the key opinion leaders in the academics and the physicians who utilize the test and whether it gives them incremental utility and helps them, as I said before, in the prostate case with deciding the right pathway for their patient. And so we believe, which is why we're investing in this now, we believe that Prosigna, when we launch it mid next year, in conjunction with new data that will come out that it will provide physicians with incremental insights that will be valuable. And therefore, we'll be able to start to sell our test in the U.S. market as an LDT.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsFantastic. MRD, targeting the launch in MIBC in the first half of '26. So what are the next steps for securing reimbursement? I think you had some feedback from the tech assessment submitted in March. So just give us the update there.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. So again, we're taking a little bit of a step back on MRD and reminding everybody that we acquired a whole genome-based MRD platform. And when I say whole genome based, I mean every step of the way. So not just that initial tissue and blood sample, but every surveillance sample thereafter would be a whole genome. We believe in that. Again, it fits in with our philosophy of more data drives more insights, more evidence and so on. You'll keep hearing us talk about that. And so this is a great way to -- for us to enter the MRD market. Now it will address multiple indications of cancer, but we're starting in muscle invasive bladder cancer for 2 very simple reasons. One is we have a channel to the urologist where a lot of the decisions are made, not all of them, but a lot of them made around patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer. And secondly, clear path to reimbursement. To your point around the tech assessment, we submitted that earlier this year. We're going through the normal back and forth, as you would expect. And ultimately, our goal is to get a reimbursement decision with a rate that is to be determined that hopefully reflects the true value of this approach and this test. And then we're ready to launch that test. Our expectation is that test launches in the first half of next year.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsHow do you go about competing in a market with these up and comers that also have established themselves quite well? I think you have 2 angles here. You have these competitors, but also you have a really underpenetrated population. So maybe just talk us through that.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesI think you've hit the nail on the head. I mean you do have an underrepresented population. There's plenty of room for multiple players to grow. The rising tide lifts all boats. So it's great to see others investing in really driving -- as well as us in driving the utility of MRD. I mean it's becoming very clear that it has utility in multiple indications. It makes sense for us to be a part of that, but we need to deal with a differentiated test, and that's where the whole genome comes in. And we believe in that. And it comes with its downside, its downside is it costs a lot more initially. But if you think about it, in 10 years' time, it's hard to imagine as that cost curve evolves, which I think we all expect it will, that everybody isn't thinking about whole genome in MRD because of the richness of the data that you're going to be able to get there. And so we feel good about that. And then, of course, in muscle invasive bladder cancer as an indication, we feel fairly bullish because of our presence in the channel and how well regarded and our strong brand. Beyond that, we're going to launch new indications every year from 2027. And in some of those cases, we're going to have to build the channel, and then we'll be competing on a different playing field.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsYou hit on the data side, and it's an interesting angle that we're seeing more so in the industry now. How are you going about leveraging that data? Or how do you plan on going about leveraging that?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesIt's an excellent question. I mean we leverage the data, first and foremost, to drive evidence around our core tests. So the way we've talked about it before, like, for example, GRID. And that is the first and you don't put a line on the spreadsheet for revenue associated with that because that isn't driving revenue. We're not monetizing data. We also aren't leaning in today heavily on the biopharma side. But as we enter into whole genome-based MRD, it's pretty clear that the level of interest from biopharma, especially around the whole genome is going to be meaningful. And so over time, that could potentially be a focus area for us. Not yet. We're still very focused on launching our clinical test, which is really our core business. And then we'll see how that plays out over time.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsAnd outside of MIBC, you again, loosely touched on it, but which other indications interest you?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesWe haven't guided to which indications we're going to launch in yet and when. And of course, there's a lot of factors that influence that. Of course, we're -- as a company, if you think about who Veracyte is today, where we have tests in prostate, thyroid, we're going to be launching in lung, breast, bladder. So 5 key indications today, and many or some of those would be key targets potentially for MRD. And then we could go beyond that, too. I mean this test has -- we believe it has utility across multiple indications, and we'll launch in the right ones at the right time.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsGreat. And a lot of the focus of the discussion so far has been U.S. So I wanted to touch on international. Maybe just give us the state of the union outside of the U.S. and what you're seeing.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. So to talk a little bit about our strategy there, we've got these great tests that we've developed for the U.S. market. I just mentioned the 5 kind of key indications there. We've got tremendous evidence behind our tests as well, especially the ones that are on the market already, and we're generating evidence for those that are not. And so -- and there are patients, in fact, in many cases, more patients in -- let's just start with Europe, who could benefit from these tests. Take prostate cancer, right? We're dealing with 300,000 patients annually in the U.S. and growing. There's about 0.5 million patients outside the U.S. and Europe who could benefit from the test. It's almost a travesty that those patients are being treated without the benefit of a molecular diagnostic. Now there's a reason for that. Getting into those markets is difficult. Reimbursement is a challenge. You have to go country by country. We believe that we've got the right approach. We're launching our tests as IVDs. We're going to have our Decipher PCR-based test and our Prosigna NGS-based test ready by the end of next year. Now that we've gone through the process, we went through with France, we will get IVDR approval for those tests at some point. And then we will get reimbursement for those tests country by country. And then the sales force that we -- actually, we already have will be able to add that menu to their -- to what they're selling to those labs, and we'll be able to launch those tests outside the U.S. as well. And while it's a different margin profile to the U.S. from a bottom line perspective, we think we can make it viable.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsIs the sales team, the structure outside the U.S., is it similar to what you have in the U.S.?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesNo, it's very different. And you're selling to other labs. So it's very different. Now on the good news side of that is it's the same team that would sell multiple indications.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsYes. Rebecca, for you, just on the profitability front, you raised the 25% EBITDA margin guide to, I think, 23.5% then last quarter. That's closing in on that 25% long-term target. So from this point onwards, how do you think about weighing up wanting to keep that profitability scaling and also wanting to keep that top line moving up as well?
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesYes. Our focus is absolutely on ensuring we maintain a very attractive profitability profile, but while augmenting revenue growth, right? So we have a set of opportunities in front of us to invest that can serve in the end, more patients. And given patients are our purpose, that is effectively what's driving our investment. So as we look here for the next 5 years, we have a great opportunity set in front of us. We are going to invest accordingly. And at some point in time, we'll deliver that 25%. Above and beyond that, I don't actually think that's the best thing for the company because we are at a stage where we have so many great opportunities to invest. So I think as you think about the next 3 to 5 years, I would think about us funneling those incremental profits back into the organization to drive organic revenue growth.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsGreat. And I have to ask a shorter-term question.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesOf course.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsWe obviously, heard from you only 1.5 months back. Anything changed from the messaging from the second quarter to where we are today?
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesNothing that has changed at this point in time. No, of course.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsGood to know. And then on capital allocation, I think $320 million of cash, no debt, positive free cash flow. How are you thinking about capital allocation from this standpoint? What are your priorities midterm, longer term as well?
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesYes. So for the last 3 or 4 years, we've really focused on setting the foundation for the company, right? We have focused on our systems, our G&A organizations in an effort to be able to fully scale and bring in more assets. And so as we look for the last -- for the next 3 to 5 years, I think we've become more offensive. Now that doesn't mean anything materially potentially would change. We could become more offensive while also saying no to a lot of things. I would say our bar isn't necessarily changing. But I think when it comes down to it, we now have that foundation in place. And there are a number of assets out there we are not willing to take on because they're science experiments, but there are also a number of assets out there that are starting to become more interesting. And so we are absolutely keeping a very high bar, but at the same time, actively thinking about what would make sense.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsOkay. A couple of minutes left. Last one, and I'd like an answer from both of you.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesOh, no.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsWhat's something you wish investors asked you more often or paid more attention to? And what should we be asking you that perhaps we haven't?
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesYes. That's -- I think that's an excellent question. I think investors understand our core business and the growth opportunity that we have there. But I think as you think about the long-term growth drivers, I think there -- we should be getting a lot of credit for what we're planning to do there before we hit some of the milestones. And what I mean by that is we've delivered and executed on this business quarter after quarter consistently. We've launched new products. We've driven to a path to profitability very, very well ahead of actually our own expectations. And our intentions we got -- what is it now in these 2 years, some behind us, some ahead of us, roughly 6 product launches, including the internal facing stuff as well as the completion of NIGHTINGALE. And so yes, I think we've continued to deliver. And of course, the work that we went through with France, which was very complex and somewhat time-consuming as well. We are now in a really strong position. So I think it would be helpful for investors to focus a little bit on the positives around the pipeline and talk a little bit more about that and not assume that these -- while these are competitive markets, remember, Decipher was launched into a competitive market. Decipher was third test. It wasn't the first test. And through that data forward approach and our commitment to evidence and good strong science and our strong commercial team, we've become the market leader, and we've got a track record of doing that.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsWe have 1 minute. We've got...
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesI have 1 minute. I don't know if I have anything to add, which is a first. So we'll leave it there.
Kallum Titchmarsh
AnalystsOkay. Great. Marc, Rebecca, thank you so much.
Rebecca Chambers
ExecutivesThank you.
Marc Stapley
ExecutivesThank you. Appreciate it.
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