Roivant Sciences Ltd. Common Shares 2027 Q1 Earnings Call
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- Roivant reported a quiet first quarter of 2026 with significant progress in its pipeline and business setup.
- Brepocitinib is expected to launch by the end of September 2026 with priority review granted by the FDA.
- Enrollment has begun in the phase three study for brepocitinib in cutaneous sarcoidosis, following positive phase two data.
- Roivant received an initial payment from Moderna as part of a settlement and has ongoing litigation against Pfizer and BioNTech with international proceedings filed.
- The lichen planopilaris (LPP) study for brepocitinib is enrolling well and is a key registrational program.
- Roivant spent approximately $200 million on R&D and just under $100 million on non-GAAP G&A expenses in the quarter, with cash just under $4 billion before the Moderna settlement payment.
- The company repurchased about $200 million in shares during the quarter, with average repurchase prices in the high $20s per share.
- Roivant has a rich catalyst calendar ahead with multiple clinical readouts and potential commercial launches through 2028.
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Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Roivant's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in the listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that today's call is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Stephanie Lee. Thank you. Please go ahead.
Good morning, and thanks for joining today's call to review Roivant's financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2026. I'm Stephanie Lee with Roivant. Presenting today, we have Matt Gline, CEO of Roivant. For those dialing in via conference call, you can find the slides being presented today, as well as the press release announcing these updates on our IR website at www.investor.roivant.com. We'll also be providing the current slide numbers as we present to help you follow along. I'd like to remind you that we'll be making certain forward-looking statements during today's presentation. We strongly encourage you to review the information that we have filed with the SEC for more information regarding these forward-looking statements and related risks and uncertainties. With that, I'll turn it over to Matt.
Thank you, Steph, and good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining. This is a little bit of a calm before the storm moment for us, a pretty quiet quarter, maybe not the most interesting of our earnings calls in recent memory. Nonetheless, a lot of great progress in the business. Certainly, we're expecting a jam-packed second half, as I'll get to in a moment. I'll be relatively brief in my remarks, then we'll go to Q&A. I just want to start on slide four. This is a slide we took from our own prior deck. This is from the investor day that we did in December of last year, this was a list of our priorities for the year. We're sitting here a little bit more than halfway through the year.
Just wanted to highlight that it's gone well for us, that we feel really good about the setup. On slide five, looking across the list here, we've got brepocitinib expected to launch by the end of September. Obviously, we got priority review and our PDUFA date, as we said, is this quarter. We had great data from 1402 in the D2T RA study that we presented on our last quarterly call. Probably the most notable update for today, the top center of this slide, is that we've now enrolled patients in the phase III study in cutaneous sarcoidosis for brepocitinib, which follows on the positive results that we had in our phase II data, which I think we announced on our first quarterly call of this year, earlier in the calendar year.
We've now received the initial payment from Moderna in the settlement, and the sort of second part of that, the Section 1498 part of that case is progressing as we filed international proceedings against Pfizer and BioNTech in that case. Finally, earlier this year, we added LPP as a fourth brepocitinib indication. As I'll remind people later today, that study is continuing to enroll really well. As I mentioned at the top of the call here on slide six, I'll just say this is a quiet quarter and this is a quiet day. I don't know exactly how the following statement could be true, but I think it is. The next 6 to 12 months are in many ways busier than the prior 6 to 12 months for us, and so we just have an enormous amount coming up.
Starting, as I mentioned, with the upcoming potential brepocitinib launch in DM, which should happen imminently, assuming everything goes as we hope and expect it will with FDA. We've got top-line data in Brepo from the NIU study, an indication that could easily be as large as dermatomyositis. That data is coming in the second half of this year. We also have top-line data coming shortly in the second half from mosliciguat, the phase II study in PH-ILD. I know that's being closely watched and we're looking forward to getting that data and presenting it.
We will provide further updates on the D2T RA program at Immunovant in the second half of this year, including hopefully a download on a conversation we hope to have with FDA about that program, as well as the results from the second part of the study and a little bit more about our plans going forward. Finally, probably the smallest of these, we're expecting top-line data from the POC study in CLE also in the second half of this year. I'm looking forward to finding out what we've got there when that comes in as well. Just a jam-packed second half and even more coming in 2027 with the Graves' data and beyond. Just a lot in the here. I'll just hit a couple of highlights in terms of the pipeline updates in a little more detail here before, again, before we go on to Q&A.
Starting on slide eight with a reminder, because it's been a few months since we've talked about it. The initiation of this cutaneous sarcoidosis phase III study is a pretty exciting event. It's a little bit ahead of schedule in terms of what we've been able to do here. This is a disease that we're just privileged to be able to work in here. It's a high morbidity, very difficult disease with a high urgency to treat. You can see on slide eight some of the photos we've shared before, but these are patients who are really sick and have very few treatment options. On slide nine, as a reminder of the data that we generated in our phase II study, we had set for ourselves a goal of a sort of five-point benefit on the CSAMI scale for clinical meaningfulness.
In the study on the top left of this chart, we showed a greater than 20-point benefit compared to roughly nothing on placebo. Just a huge benefit to those patients in the phase II study, and really excited to carry that forward into the pivotal program. As a reminder on slide 10, we think this is a pretty decent-sized indication, again, with high unmet need, probably about 40,000 patients in the U.S., and reasonable overlap with some other organ systems, including optical sarcoidosis or eye sarcoidosis, where that overlaps with NIU.
That is one of the types of NIU that we're studying, as well as pulmonary sarcoidosis, which is a big potential indication as well, and where we hope to be able to treat some of those patients via either their ocular sarcoidosis or CS. The phase III study that we've now begun, the design is laid out on slide 11. I know there were some questions after the phase II about what exactly this study would look like. It is designed to take all of the learnings from the phase II study that was successful. It is a 16-week study with the primary endpoint of CSAMI greater than or equal to 50% response rate.
It's a 140-patient study across about 70 sites, 3 to 2 randomized with patients either on 45 milligrams of repasitinib or placebo, and with a mandatory steroid taper going from week two to week eight down to zero, which is roughly consistent with what we did in the phase II, and generally consistent with what we think is appropriate for patients in this indication. That study, as I said, has already begun enrolling patients, and we expect top-line data in 2028, which just adds to the list of potential registrational indications for repasitinib coming up. I'll reiterate on slide 12, the other ongoing registrational program is the repasitinib study in lichen planopilaris, LPP, that we announced earlier this year. That study is enrolling, I'll say, extremely well. There's a lot of enthusiasm from physicians and patients for that.
Speaks to the high unmet need on the indication, speaks to the quality of the work being done by Ben and the Priovant team. I'm looking forward to sharing more about that as soon as we've got it. That's also moving along nicely. Look, finally, I'm sure there will be questions about this in Q&A and lots of opportunity to talk about it, hopefully with a potential approval and beyond. Obviously, one of the major events in the near term here is the potential launch of repasitinib in dermatomyositis. Obviously, I think we're in a phenomenal position here in terms of what we've got and in terms of what we hope to be able to do.
Starting with the quality of our clinical data, which as you know from the multiple times we've talked about it from the publications, including in The New England Journal and so on. Just phenomenal data, stats significant across all 10 endpoints, big clinical benefit, a lot of enthusiasm from the doc community. This is a really tough disease. A large addressable population, most of them on sort of polypharmacy, trying a lot of different things, and frankly, most of them still dissatisfied with the available treatments. We feel like we have an opportunity to do something big and different for this patient population. Our team has been out spending a lot of time with the physician and the patient communities on overall education.
I think the enthusiasm for a new therapy is coming out loud and clear, including with all the academic presentations that have been done and so on. Commercial launches, there's not much to say today other than that it's on track. We're ready to launch on time, having received priority review. The sort of commercial and patient support teams are built out, trained, ready to deploy. We feel really great about the hires we've made there, really great about the organizations we've built there. We think we're doing this in a way that is both capitalizing on all of the learnings from successful launches at other companies in recent years and doing it in a Roivant Priovant way.
There's nobody in the world that'd be more excited to oversee this than the team we've got at Priovant with Ben and Daniel and others, I think we're going to be fully ready. Everything's on schedule. We'll have much more to say about that with the potential approval and after, but looking forward to it. I'll say one more thing about the commercial franchise overall of repasitinib on slide 14. We get a lot of enthusiastic questions from investors around pace of launch, and we've been pretty consistent that our answer to that question is sort of slow and steady is what we're looking to build there. I think there's a bunch of reasons for that. Obviously, some of them are DM is a new indication, and no one's launched a novel therapy basically ever, or at least a targeted therapy basically ever.
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