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Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. 12th Annual Cantor Fitzgerald Global Healthcare Conference

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Olivia BrayerSenior Biotech Analyst

All right. Hi, good morning, everyone. Welcome to day 3 and our final day of our healthcare conference here at Cantor. My name's Olivia Brayer. I'm one of the Senior Biotech Analysts at Cantor, and very excited about this morning's discussion. We have Kevin Moran, who is SVP and CFO of Vanda Pharmaceuticals. Kevin, thank you for being here with us.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

Yep. Thanks, Olivia. Appreciate you guys having me.

Olivia BrayerSenior Biotech Analyst

Busy year for Vanda and for your team. I think maybe just for the investors in the room that are a bit newer to the story, can you just maybe start with a quick overview of where Vanda is today, some of the progress that you guys have made over the last 6 months, and maybe just set the stage for what's to come as we think about 2027.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

Thanks, Olivia, and thanks again to the Cantor team for having us here this week. Again, very much appreciated and very excited to be here. Maybe just to kind of set the stage for folks. As we exited 2025, we had 3 commercial products on the market. We had Fanapt, HETLIOZ, and PONVORY, which had all been on the market for some time and were kind of well-established products. The kind of exciting developments over the last 9 months now and in the coming months are that we had 2 new drug approvals towards the end of 2025, beginning of 2026. The first of which was NEREUS for motion sickness. And then in February, we had BYSANTI, which is a novel atypical antipsychotic approved for bipolar and schizophrenia.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

NEREUS has since launched over the summer, and BYSANTI, we are expecting to launch sometime between now and the end of the year. Obviously, those are very significant developments, and it will kind of set the stage for future periods. But we also have a number of important catalysts coming up in the next six to nine months, both on the clinical regulatory side as well as the commercial side. Maybe starting with the commercial side, again, the BYSANTI launch later this year. Then what we see from new patient starts, both from new to BYSANTI, but also from patient switches from Fanapt, is going to be an important catalyst and an important kind of revenue trajectory item for the company.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

On the regulatory side, we have an upcoming PDUFA date for a potential sixth commercial product, which is imsidolimab, and that is in the indication of generalized pustular psoriasis. Finally, on the clinical side, we have got four phase III programs that are expected to produce results in the coming months and quarters here. Prior to the end of the year, we have got HETLIOZ in phase III for DSPD. We have NEREUS in phase III for nausea and vomiting and GLP-1, which might be kind of the most exciting of the opportunities, just given the potential size. We have VQW-765 in social performance anxiety. Finally, in the first half of next year, we have got BYSANTI in MDD.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

Kind of a number of exciting catalysts right in front of us, and I think for us, the focus as we turn into 2027 is obviously revenue growth for those five products that we mentioned, with probably a heightened focus on BYSANTI, just given the opportunity size, and the switch of our existing Fanapt revenue, hopefully to BYSANTI. Then these readouts on both the regulatory and clinical side and what they might kind of set the stage for from a commercial opportunity perspective in 2027 and 2028.

Olivia BrayerSenior Biotech Analyst

Yeah. Kevin, obviously a lot of investment has been made over 2025 and this year to get to this place. As you think about driving revenue growth versus reinvesting and kind of adding on and layering on more programs, maybe just talk about the strategy there, right? A lot of moving parts in your pipeline, a lot of moving parts in your commercial portfolio. So when you think about putting together all the pieces, what is the overall strategy for the company from here? Maybe just kind of walk us through the biggest growth drivers, right? Again, there is a lot of moving parts. So how should investors really be thinking about the story with all these different assets and product launches and a lot of different indications as well?

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

Yeah. Yep, certainly. I think for us, we've always kind of had this as a principle, but it's definitely certainly been something that you've seen kind of play out more extensively over the last few years, which is diversification, right? Although there's a lot to be said for singular focus on a product or indication, that also comes with obviously inherent risks of if something doesn't work out, that's kind of where all the eggs were, and that could be its own problem. We are a firm believer in having diversification of our products across various portfolios and various indications and therapeutic areas. That's been very important for us.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

I think as we kind of turn to what are going to be the most important drivers for us is, on the BYSANTI switch strategy, that's going to be clearly, I would say, kind of the continuation of the most significant portion of our kind of foundational revenue. But also with a very significant potential upside. We've talked about this, that there's definitely going to be some pricing favorability on BYSANTI relative to Fanapt, at a minimum with the gross to net dynamics on Medicaid. The Fanapt gross to net is in the neighborhood of about 50%, whereas on BYSANTI, we're expecting that to be more in the mid-30s, and that's just completely attributable to the Medicaid reset. Whereas Fanapt has been on the market for a number of years and has a URA that exceeds the WAC list price of the drug.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

BYSANTI will have a restart, and that means it'll be 23.1% discount there. So there'll be significant pricing benefits on BYSANTI. Also, we're still evaluating our final price, but it's likely that although our WAC price may be consistent between the two products, Fanapt and BYSANTI, the weighted average WAC may be favorable on BYSANTI, which that could be kind of additive to the gross to net benefit. I think that's going to be the kind of core revenue growth and the most important single contributor to the revenue story in the years to come. But then there's all these other indications that are possible, I would say, significant upside, right? The GPP indication, we think that imsidolimab will have a significant advantage over products in the market, and that could be a very nice contributor, with more limited, I would say, commercial effort.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

Typical kind of orphan support kind of approach. NEREUS and GLP-1, if we see positive data in the phase III. When we first had the phase II data, NEREUS was not yet approved. Now, if we're able to replicate the phase II data in phase III, NEREUS is approved. We think we can move quickly towards an sNDA. I would say that would be the very significant potential revenue opportunity a few years out from now once we're able to hopefully get that on the label, again, if we have good data and then have good outcome with FDA.

Olivia BrayerSenior Biotech Analyst

Right. So maybe let's unpack BYSANTI first. You do have Fanapt that's already on the market as you think about where your psych franchise is today. How do you think about the opportunity set that you have between the two of them? Is it about leveraging the experience with Fanapt so that you can have a more successful BYSANTI? You mentioned switch. How do those two coexist together as you do roll out BYSANTI commercially?

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

Yeah. So, for some context here, in the atypical space, the branded market is less than 10% of the overall market, and Fanapt is less than 2% of that branded market. So just for context, it's a relatively very small piece of the larger kind of ecosystem. What that means, though, in a market that is actually growing, so the broader market is growing, if we're able to grow Fanapt from what its current branded penetration rate of less than 2% to 3% or 4%, obviously, that's a very significant revenue growth without necessarily being a very significant market penetration rate. So that just kind of shows you that there's still a tremendous opportunity for growth there with the existing trajectory that we're doing. Right? I would say kind of element one of the BYSANTI story is if we're able to continue growing patients as we have been with Fanapt to about 30% year over year, we think that's sustainable for hopefully some years to come, just again, given how relatively small the penetration rate currently is.

Kevin MoranSVP and CFO

The second part of that strategy is there's about 10,000 patients or so on Fanapt currently. Fanapt has its LOE towards the end of 2027, and so we've got about a year where we'll be increasing our focus on BYSANTI and, as you would expect, as a product approaches its LOE, potentially decreasing our focus on Fanapt. Although the products are bioequivalent, so they're the same.

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