Immunocore Holdings plc American Depositary Shares 2026 Q2 Earnings Call
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- Immunocore reported $223 million in net revenue for the first half of 2026, a 16% increase compared to the first half of 2025.
- In Q2 2026, net sales were $116 million, with the US contributing $75 million, up 17% year over year, supported by community demand and $6 million inventory stocking by a US distributor.
- Kimmtrak demonstrated a landmark five-year overall survival (OS) benefit in metastatic uveal melanoma, doubling the likelihood of survival at five years with a 16% OS rate versus 8% for investigator's choice.
- The duration of therapy for Kimmtrak remains stable at 14 months with over 70% market penetration in major markets and 70% of US prescriptions coming from the community setting.
- Immunocore is advancing three ongoing phase three melanoma trials: TB AM (advanced cutaneous melanoma), ATOM (adjuvant uveal melanoma), and PRISM L301 (first-line cutaneous melanoma).
- Enrollment for TB AM is nearing 540 patients with topline data expected as early as the end of 2026.
- The company has completed enrollment of higher dose cohorts in its HIV phase 1/2 trial and plans to share data early in 2027.
- The first autoimmune candidate for type 1 diabetes is expected to dose its first patient in the coming weeks.
- R&D expenses increased to $74 million in Q2 2026 from $69 million in Q2 2025, primarily due to clinical program advancement.
- SG&A expenses were $44 million in Q2 2026, slightly up from $43 million in Q2 2025.
- Net loss improved to just under $1 million in Q2 2026 from $10 million in Q2 2025.
- As of June 30, 2026, Immunocore held $880 million in cash and marketable securities, up $16 million since the start of the year.
- The company expects to pay approximately $120 million in sales-related rebates in the second half of 2026, higher than prior years due to revenue growth in Europe and a pricing agreement with France.
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Greetings, and welcome to the Immunocore conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. You may be placed into the question queue at any time by pressing star one on your telephone keypad. We ask that you please limit yourselves to one question, then return to the queue. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star zero. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Ryan Baker, Vice President, Investor Relations.
Ryan, please go ahead. Morning and good afternoon.
Thank you for joining us on our Q2 and first half 2026 earnings call. During today's call, we will make some forward-looking statements which are qualified by our safe harbor provision under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Please note that actual results can vary materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements, including those discussed in our filings with the SEC. On today's call, I am joined by Dr. Bahija Jallal, CEO of Immunocore, who will share achievements from the first half of 2026. Ralph Torbay, Chief Commercial Officer, will review our Q2 first half KIMMTRAK results and recently published five-year overall survival data. Dr. Mohamed Dar, our Chief Medical Officer, will provide a pipeline update. Travis Coy, our CFO and Head of Corporate Development, will provide some key highlights from our financial results reported earlier this morning.
I will now turn the call over to Dr. Bahija Jallal.
Good morning and good afternoon, and thank you for joining us today. Before I start, I would like to welcome Ryan Baker, who joined us last week as our new Vice President of Investor Relations, so welcome, Ryan. Guided by our mission, we have continued to execute as planned across the business. We remain focused on our three strategic priorities: maximizing the value of KIMMTRAK, advancing our melanoma portfolio, and expanding into other tumor types, and realizing opportunities in infection and autoimmune diseases. Starting with KIMMTRAK, we generated $223 million in net revenue in the first half of the year, representing 16% growth compared to the first half of 2025. At ACR in April, we presented the five-year overall survival data that showed that KIMMTRAK doubles the likelihood of being alive at five years for patients with HLA-A2-positive metastatic uveal melanoma.
For a disease once measured in months, five years is extraordinary, and some of those patients are alive today because of this medicine. This is why we come to work every day. In melanoma, we are advancing three ongoing phase III trials, TEBE-AM, ATOM, and PRISM-MEL-301, an important differentiator for a company of our size. Beyond melanoma, we expect to present updated PRAME data in additional tumor types by the end of the year and to provide initial preproinsulin data in 2027. In autoimmune diseases, the first patient is to be dosed with our first autoimmune candidate in type 1 diabetes in the coming weeks. We also remain on track to submit the CTA for our second autoimmune candidate by the end of 2026.
Finally, in HIV, we have completed enrollment of additional patients at higher dose cohorts up to 1.2 mgs as part of the multiple ascending dose part of the phase I/II trial. We are analyzing the new data and plan to share results early next year. Overall, we are continuing to execute across our commercial portfolio and pipeline with multiple opportunities to create value for patients and shareholders. I now ask Ralph to share details about our commercial performance.
Ralph? Thank you, Bahija. Today, I will cover KIMMTRAK's continued commercial momentum, our landmark five-year OS data, and our ongoing growth opportunities across melanoma.
We delivered $223 million in net sales during the first half of 2026, representing a 16% year-over-year growth and reflecting the sustained strength of KIMMTRAK across our global markets. In the second quarter, we generated $116 million in net sales, with the U.S. contributing $75 million and serving as a primary growth driver. This strong performance was supported by continued demand growth in the community, as well as $6 million in inventory stocking by a U.S. distributor. This increase in inventory will create a headwind in Q3. The fundamentals of the business remain very strong across our 30-plus launch countries. We continue to see over 70% penetration across our major markets and a stable duration of therapy of 14 months.
In our fifth year on the market, we expect moderating growth driven by continued commercial excellence, geographic expansion, and deeper penetration in the U.S. community setting. The body of evidence supporting the long-term survival benefit for patients treated with KIMMTRAK continues to build. We presented French real-world evidence showing a median overall survival of 28 months and more recently presented the five-year survival data from our registrational trial, which I will discuss in slide eight.
KIMMTRAK's landmark five-year data sets the bar for overall survival in HLA-A*02:01-positive first-line metastatic uveal melanoma. It is also the longest OS follow-up ever reported in a randomized metastatic uveal melanoma trial and for any T-cell engager in a solid tumor. This data shows that treatment with KIMMTRAK doubles the likelihood of survival at five years, with a 16% OS rate compared with 8% for investigator's choice. Importantly, the survival curve separated early and remained separated over time. In the active arm, 44% of patients alive at five years received KIMMTRAK as their only treatment. In the control arm, 87% of patients alive at five years crossed over to KIMMTRAK. Remarkably, only a single patient that did not cross over to KIMMTRAK was alive at five years.
The five-year OS benefit of KIMMTRAK was observed across key subgroups, including those with poor prognostic features such as high tumor burden, elevated LDH, and extrahepatic disease. These results clearly demonstrate that starting with KIMMTRAK in first line gives patients the best chance at extending long-term survival. I'm excited about the opportunity to potentially extend this benefit to more patients through our lifecycle management program, which I will discuss on the next slide. Today, we're serving approximately 1,000 patients per year in metastatic uveal melanoma. Our focus now is on scaling this momentum with the potential to expand the number of patients sixfold through our 2 phase III lifecycle management trials. TEBE-AM could transform the lives of up to 4,000 patients with advanced cutaneous melanoma. The data is expected as early as the end of 2026.
Our ATOM trial in adjuvant uveal melanoma could help up to 1,200 patients live without their disease. I am confident in our ability to execute on this growth trajectory, and I'm excited about what's ahead for KIMMTRAK and the patients we serve. I'll now hand over to Mohammed to discuss these trials in more detail.
Mohammed? Thank you, Ralph. I'm pleased to be able to share the progress we've made across our pipeline.
I will now begin with our 3 registrational melanoma trials, starting with TEBE-AM on slide 12. Our lead registrational opportunity is in advanced cutaneous melanoma, where there is high unmet need. No therapy has proven to extend survival in second-line plus cutaneous melanoma following checkpoint inhibitors and targeted therapy, with one-year overall survival in this setting remaining unchanged at approximately 55%. TEBE-AM is the first phase III trial aiming to demonstrate an overall survival benefit, the gold standard in this setting. If TEBE-AM is positive, KIMMTRAK would be the first new therapy with an overall survival benefit in second-line plus CM. As a reminder, first-line patients typically receive either anti-PD-1, with or without additional checkpoints, or BRAF-targeted therapy. In second-line, patients can switch between these classes where appropriate.
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