Quanterix Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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February 29, 2024

There are 7 speakers on the call.

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the QuanterX Corporation Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer Please be advised today's conference is being recorded. I would now like

Speaker 1

to hand the conference over

Operator

to your speaker today, Vandana Shirom, CFO. Please go ahead.

Speaker 1

Thank you, and good afternoon. With me on today's call is Mathur Talu, President and CEO of Quantellix. Before we begin, I would like to remind you of a few things. This call will be recorded and a replay will be available on the Investor Relations section of our website. Today's call will contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the U.

Speaker 1

S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These forward looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information available as of the date of this call. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward looking statements. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward looking statements.

Speaker 1

The risks and uncertainties that we face are described in our most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. To supplement the company's financial statements presented on a GAAP basis, the company has provided certain non GAAP financial measures. Management uses these non GAAP measures to evaluate operating performance in a manner that allows for meaningful period to period comparison and analysis of trends in its business. The company believes that such measures are important in comparing current results with other period results and are useful in assessing the company's operating performance. The non GAAP financial information presented here should be considered in conjunction with and not as a substitute for the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP.

Speaker 1

Investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation of these non GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures set forth in the appendix of the presentation posted to our website and in the earnings release issued today. I will now turn the call over to Masood.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Vandana. Starting with Q4 of 2023, we hit record consumables production delivering $17,500,000 in revenue contributing to $31,500,000 of total revenue. Non GAAP gross margins improved 5 15 basis points versus Q4 prior year and cash use was $6,400,000 leaving us with over $320,000,000 of liquidity on our balance sheet and in a strong position to deploy capital for growth investment. As a reminder, we began a corporate transformation process 6 quarters ago with a focus on 3 core principles quality, innovation, positioning Quanterix to unlock the value of the transitional markets. In 2023, we built newly formulated assays, improving margins and manufacturability.

Speaker 2

Testing capacity in our accelerator and manufacturing output improved by 50% and 300% respectively, each with new capacity to grow threefold from where they are today. New assays rolling off production lines are now getting into the hands of our first customers. These accomplishments over 6 quarters are the result of our team's focus, determination and strong operating discipline. The efforts have positioned us for better quality, higher throughput, faster innovation and are reflected in our financial performance for 2023, With revenue growing 16%, non GAAP gross margin improving over 1300 basis points, all while we reduced cash burn by $40,000,000 in 2023 as compared to 20 22. In 2024, our 3 strategic objectives are growth in menu, new innovation in tech and Alzheimer's disease diagnostics.

Speaker 2

Starting with the first objective, we intend to leverage our newly built product development engine by introducing approximately 20 new assays by the end of this year. This is not a small feat. 2nd, we're allocating resources to expand our technology platform. While fortified plex satisfies the vast majority of neuro programs today, our goal is to have Samoa not just in specialty neuro labs, but Samoa in all labs. We're working on multi channel lossless resolution, which means no loss measurements of the lowest quantity of protein that can be distinguished from the absence of that protein across multiple channels.

Speaker 2

Developing this would be a significant breakthrough. Expanding plex, maintaining sensitivity, improving footprint and reducing cost will enable research and clinical work in immunology and oncology laboratories. I expect we'll discuss more toward the end of the year. Finally on diagnostics, our stated goal is to build the global testing infrastructure for Alzheimer's disease. Identifying patients by invasive methods including PET and Lumbar puncture is not scalable and limits access to newly available Alzheimer's disease modifying therapies.

Speaker 2

There's now abundant evidence showing non invasive testing methods using blood based biomarkers are equal to or better than invasive methods and we believe they will be the best solution for broadening access of therapies to patients. It has also become clear that identifying patients early in a disease cascade results in better patient outcomes. And this is where we believe Simoa Technology will play a critical role. I want to make an important point here. Samoa digitally interrogates proteins in femtoliter wells providing exquisite signal to noise separation and amplitudes a couple orders of magnitude beyond noise floor where other technologies reside.

Speaker 2

The combination of ultra sensitivity and precision enables much lower limits of detection and quantitation than other technology. So as part of a diagnostic follow-up, if a SAMOA pTEL-two seventeen test is used throughout the diagnostic workup, A physician can track at patient's levels if symptoms progress or if they undergo treatment. Other tech may not have the sensitivity or precision to do this across the full range of pitau-two seventeen concentrations that are diagnostically relevant. Precision at the very low concentration levels that p Tau217 is present in blood allows some OA assays to provide high diagnostic accuracy given the need to resolve small changes around cutoffs corresponding to low and high likelihood of amyloid pathology. Our test uses a 2 cutoff design as recommended by the NIA, AA and other expert groups providing a high confidence result extending to both ruling in and ruling out amyloid pathology.

Speaker 2

This has the potential to reduce approximately 70% to 80% of PET scans and lumbar punctures during the Alzheimer's diagnostic process. Over the next 2 years, we will allocate $20,000,000 of capital to advance the access of our diagnostic tests. We will also focus our clinical studies for diagnostics in 2 main areas. 1, development and validation of a multi marker blood test and prospective studies with health systems to establish blood based biomarkers as part of a routine Alzheimer's diagnosis and treatment. For the multi marker test development and validation, we're wrapping up the first two phases of 2 important studies, Bio Herme's and CANTADE.

Speaker 2

Bio Herme's is a prospective study that enrolled individuals from 17 sites across the U. S. Including significant numbers of underrepresented populations and collected blood samples as well as pet images. Phase 1 of the study is now complete and with publications expected later this year. CANTADE is our ongoing collaboration with researchers at the Amsterdam Medical Center where blood is being collected as well as CSF with corresponding biomarker measurements to assess amyloid.

Speaker 2

We expect to announce results from Phase 1 of these studies later this year. Quanterix is also sponsoring and taking part in several new studies to establish blood biomarkers as part of routine Alzheimer's diagnosis and treatment. In addition to helping expand the adoption of laboratory developed tests based on Samoa technology such as PLASM-two seventeen and our planned future multi marker test offering. These studies are expected to provide clinical validation data support an FDA submission for an Alzheimer's blood biomarker diagnostic. In 2024, we will focus our efforts on building out our commercial capabilities to support diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and what we would expect to be a corresponding uptick in the adoption of new therapies.

Speaker 2

We've already onboarded a dedicated commercial team and they've hit the ground running. We're pleased to announce that we're now working with 5 leading health networks in the U. S, an important step as we build out the infrastructure that supports testing for this disease. Each will have access to the Lucent AD test at our CLIA certified lab or our instruments and assays to develop and validate their own laboratory developed tests. These networks will provide reach to over 140 hospitals caring for approximately 21,000,000 patients.

Speaker 2

I will now turn the call over to Vandana to cover our financial results.

Speaker 1

Thank you, Masood. I will now cover additional details of our Q4 and full year performance and will provide guidance for 2024. As Madhu mentioned, the 2023 year end capped our corporate transformation and we've made significant execution progress over the 6th quarter program. Our total revenue for the Q4 2023 was $31,500,000 an increase of 22% from the Q4 of 2022. Our consumables revenue increased to $17,500,000 or 56% compared to the Q4 of last year.

Speaker 1

This was a record quarter and we noted continued strong demand for our consumables offering coming from high interest in supporting neurology. Instrument revenue was 3,300,000 dollars a decline of 39% over the Q4 of 2022, similar to other tools companies and continuing the trends we saw in the second half of 2023. We added net 20 instruments to our installed base in the Q4 of 2023. 4th quarter revenue from our accelerator lab was $5,600,000 an increase of 71% over the Q4 of 2022. We continue to observe strong demand for our accelerated services and this has been especially valuable to us in the current environment where tools have been capital constrained.

Speaker 1

We're unique in our industry in that CapEx pressure has not limited customer access to our Simoa technology. When the budget environment changes to be more favorable to capital purchases, we expect some rebalancing of instrument and service mix. Moving on to gross margin for the quarter. Our GAAP gross profit and margin was $16,800,000 and 53.2 percent respectively for the Q4 of 2023 compared to $12,600,000 48 point 8%, respectively, in the Q4 of 2022. Non GAAP gross profit and margin was $14,700,000 and 46.5 percent respectively in the Q4 as compared to $10,700,000 41.3 percent respectively in the Q4 of last year.

Speaker 1

The year over year margin expansion reflects the impact of our transformation efforts and favorable mix from increased sales of higher margin consumables and accelerator services. Our Q4 2023 GAAP operating expenses were $33,700,000 compared to $34,500,000 in the 4th quarter of 2022. The Q4 of 2023 included one time impairment and restructuring charges of $1,600,000 primarily from a lease impairment as compared with similar charges of $9,000,000 in the corresponding prior period. Excluding the impact of impairments, GAAP operating expenses increased $6,600,000 and non GAAP operating expenses increased $6,400,000 due to higher R and D and personnel related costs. Our operating loss declined from $22,000,000 in the Q4 of 2022 to $17,000,000 in the Q4 of 2023 due to higher consumables and accelerator sales and improved gross margins.

Speaker 1

For the full year, these results bring us to $122,400,000 of revenue, delivering 16% growth. Now I will provide some additional context on full year revenue. 62% of our revenue came from North America, 26% from Europe and 12% from Asia Pacific with mid teens growth across all geographies. Over 80% of our revenue came from neurology where we continue to have a highly differentiated position. Moving on to liquidity, we ended the 4th quarter with $323,900,000 in total cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and restricted cash, a net usage of $6,400,000 during the quarter as compared to cash usage of $5,000,000 in the 4th quarter of 2022.

Speaker 1

For the full year, our cash usage was $17,400,000 a reduction in cash usage of $40,300,000 We continue to have a strong balance sheet with ample cash to fund growth. Let's turn to guidance for 2024. We expect full year revenue in 2020 4 to be in the range of $139,000,000 to $144,000,000 This guide is for our research only business and does not include revenues from Diagnostics testing, which to date have not been material. Diagnostics is a nascent area closely correlated to therapy adoption and at this time it is premature to provide guidance. However, with the commercial team that is now in regular contact with neurology centers and hospital systems, we are in a unique position to measure blood testing uptake and we will provide quarterly updates on our progress.

Speaker 1

For the full year, we expect GAAP gross margin to be in the 57% to 61% range and non GAAP gross margin to be approximately 51% to 55%. As with revenue, this guide excludes margins from Diagnostics testing. Lastly, on to capital allocation and cash usage. We expect our cash usage for the full year to be in the range of $25,000,000 to 30,000,000 dollars an increase in cash usage of approximately $10,000,000 at the midpoint. As Madhu mentioned, our priorities in 2024 will be growth in menu, innovation in tech and ramping up diagnostics.

Speaker 1

We will spend approximately $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 on the first two initiatives and approximately $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 on diagnostics with additional spend on diagnostics expected in 2025. This approximately $20,000,000 investment in our strategic initiatives will be offset by approximately $10,000,000 of reduced cash burn from revenue and margin growth. We will continue to drive our ROA business to reduce cash burn and still expect to achieve cash flow breakeven on this business at approximately $170,000,000 to $190,000,000 of revenue. This guide includes the incremental investment in menu and innovation. At the same time, we will invest capital to grow Diagnostics and consistent with our comments on revenue, it is premature to provide a cash flow breakeven point for Diagnostics.

Speaker 1

In summary, we are aligning our capital allocation priorities to our areas of opportunity and we will put our capital to work to drive growth in these exciting areas. I will now turn it back over to Masood before we take your questions.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Vandana. I want to say we're very proud of the talent density at Quanterix. It's the super team who has made difficult and painful changes in the company. This would not have been started or completed if we did not believe in the output of work. Our mission is to provide the tools to enable discovery and improve patient outcomes.

Speaker 2

This is not just a statement that goes on a webpage or wall. It is very real and tangible and our team is in active delivery mode. Now we can take some questions.

Operator

Thank And our first question is going to come from the line of Matt Sykes with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Speaker 3

Hi, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on Q4. Maybe just starting out, I want to go back to the announcement you guys made on Monday about the health systems. And just a couple of things. 1, is that included in the guide?

Speaker 3

I'm assuming that's the diagnostics portion that you're not including. And 2, how do you think about, 1, sort of the timing of that revenue coming through? And the other point is, in terms of the mix, I know you had said it could be instruments, assays, lab, accelerated lab. How are you thinking about the potential mix of that partnership over time? And I've got a follow-up.

Speaker 2

Hey, Matt. So, yes, I think the partnership announcements we had a couple of days ago was super exciting. And it did 2 things. 1, the versatility of our offering is 2 fold. 1st, we're able to offer the platform and the testing, the 217 test and enable hospitals to do their own testing.

Speaker 2

But at the same time, we're also enabling access to our accelerator lab where hospitals or physicians can send samples to the Lucent lab and we're able to offer services there. So it's a really unique offering and we're able to keep in touch with neurologists and really stay up to date on the latest of what's happening. You're right in that this is diagnostics revenue that's not imputed in the guide or not put into the guide. Right now, we're not including guidance for diagnostics. And then from a and then I mean mix perspective, are you referring to the mix on test send out versus enablement or some other?

Speaker 3

Yes, yes, that mix, but sort of how many do you expect to buy instruments to it themselves? How many do you think will send out to you? And where do you think the bulk of the revenues could come from for this partnership?

Speaker 2

Yes, that's a good question. I mean the 5 that we listed, there's different ranges. So some of them are going to start as tests send out as they're putting together a platform and getting their tests up and ready at their own laboratory. And then some want to offer testing right off the bat with our platform. So it's a little bit of mix and it's still early to get a good sense of how that's going to shake up for the year.

Speaker 3

Got it. And then maybe for VandaNet, just the maybe some color on the balance of sort of consumable versus instrument versus lab services within that 2024 guide? And how do you see that kind of shaking out? I know you made some comments on the capital equipment environment, which we're all very well aware of, but just any color on what you perceive to be that mix shift over the course of the year?

Speaker 1

Yes. So at this point, we're really looking at 2024, at least in the first half, being very similar to the mix that we saw in 2023. So still expecting to start the year with some amount of constraints on the instrument side. But again, seeing really, really good demand on the accelerator side. We have a lot of interest and a lot of, I'd say, quoting activity going on right now for Accelerators.

Speaker 1

So we continue to see Accelerators be really strong and consumables also come out pretty strong. Now consumables, the initial part of the year will be all about converting customers to the new assets. So we expect there will be some transition period there, but we will have to support customers on the older assays and then eventually bring them on to the new assays. There might be some amount of choppiness in that Q1 as we get through that. But from that point onwards, we expect consumables growth to be really steady.

Speaker 3

Got it. Thank you very much.

Operator

Thank you. And one moment as we move on to our next question. And our next question is going to come from the line of Puneet Souda with Leerink Partners. Your line is open. Please go

Speaker 4

ahead. Yes. Hi, Wanda and Masood. Thanks for taking the questions. So a couple of questions here.

Speaker 4

Maybe first on just FDA submission, what does that look like and the timing of approval, PTOW-two seventeen, what sort of traction you're seeing there? And should we assume that that will be as one of the standalone tests or it would be a multi marker test that comes out of FDA? I recognize it's 217 at the LVT already. So just want to understand sort of how you're contemplating FDA approval for the product? And then

Speaker 2

I have a follow-up. Yes. Hi, Puneet. Thanks for the question. So 2/17, as you said, it's already in LDT.

Speaker 2

We've committed to submitting the 2 17 biomarker to the FDA this year. We've begun some discussions. All of our clinical trials or the prospective trials that we're running are designed to get additional data and validation for IBD submission on 217. And that's something we're going to do this year. And from a multi marker standpoint, we've also said that in 2024, we'd release a multi marker LDT, as well as then in the future, do something on IVD for a multi marker.

Speaker 2

But from a sequencing standpoint, we have the 217 LDT today, FDA, IBD submission, multi marker LDT and then subsequent submission for that. And so the BioHermes, the Quintade and then a couple of the new collaborations we're working with now all provide clinical evidence development for not just, IVD, but reimbursement in the future.

Speaker 4

Okay. That's helpful. And then maybe a bigger question here is, based on the feedback that you're getting from the field already, can you talk a little bit about how do you see the adoption for the 217 LDT? I know you have commercial folks out there already and collaborations with some of the larger centers. I think the bigger question here is, with Lekimbi and danimumab expectations for the street have come down, they have settled.

Speaker 4

But should I'm just trying to get a view as to what you're hearing versus should we look to the drug adoption to see how things trend?

Speaker 2

Yes, I think drug adoption is it's hard to say exactly how this correlates, but I think drug adoption is probably a decent proxy for just testing patients. Now that being said, there's when we are speaking to neurologists in these hospitals, one of the main things that comes across is just the demand and need for additional tools. And there, it's incredibly clear that I mean, the data speaks for itself that the 217 test is superior to any other biomarkers out there. And you're doing a study and you want to look at a patient at the very early stages and monitor them over a period of time, you need a solution that's going to be able to look at levels that are fairly low and they require high sensitivity, all the way in the life cycle as blood levels of this 217 increase. And so that's clear and that's what we're hearing.

Speaker 2

There's also recall that good part of our business is clinical trial work, doing additional having additional efforts with pharma companies that are looking at combinatorial therapies, other Alzheimer's therapies and we expect that to have a research tailwind as well as more and more clinical trials. So from a patient measurement perspective, I think drugs are a decent proxy. We'll follow that and we'll have more information as the year goes. But we think that with these new therapies, it's just a start for Alzheimer's.

Speaker 4

And then just my last one on the RUO technology that you talked about, multichannel lossless resolution. Can you just remind us what plex you're targeting for that?

Speaker 2

Yes. I would say mid to low plex. I mean, one of the key, guiding principles at Quanterix is that we're very translational. So we're involved in identifying these markers and the translation of them, support of these markers for therapies and then eventually testing and diagnostics. And so when you look at what or how you do that, it's usually anywhere from where we are today, 1 to 4 or 5 plex to 2, 3 times more than that.

Speaker 2

And anything more than that really becomes a discovery application and we're more on the translation side. So that's where we're focusing when we look at future technology.

Speaker 4

Okay. Hopeful. I'll hop back into the queue. Thanks. Thanks, Vineet.

Operator

Thank you. And one moment for our next question, please. And our next question is going to come from the line of Kyle Mikeson with Canaccord Genuity. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Speaker 5

Hey, thanks for the questions. Congrats on the year. I want to ask a longer term question for you, Masood, and that is the path to reimbursement for the neurology test portfolio. I guess this is multipart question. So what's the current plan, the plan to this point, including the CBT that's expected in this year?

Speaker 5

2nd, there's other companies with protein based tests with Medicare coverage, but how does the recent MolDX proteomics OCD kind of impact Quanterix possibly? And third and finally, you're not trying to get you're not trying to get approval for LUCIN ADPTA-one hundred and eighty one, but are you still trying to get reimbursement for that test? Like how would all this work for that particularly because that's more of a near term thing? Thanks.

Speaker 2

Thanks, Kyle. Yes. So from a reimbursement standpoint, as you stated, we're going to we're seeking a CPT for our Alzheimer's blood biomarker, specifically the 217 protein. It's now really abundantly clear that 217 is a superior marker versus 181. So a lot of our focus has shifted on 217 when it comes to testing.

Speaker 2

That being said, 181 is still available on the LDT and there's a lot of interest in clinical trials work for 181 and so that's still there. But from a reimbursement standpoint, we've put some of our focus on 217. Now that's the first step. And then as we're doing all this work with this prospective study and our collaboration with the BUMC on Cantare. There is a multi marker algorithm.

Speaker 2

So several markers together that could provide a differential diagnosis and maybe potentially sensitivities that could be greater than any single biomarker. And then that's its own reimbursement schedule.

Speaker 5

Okay. That's helpful. Yes.

Speaker 2

From your question, we that was we were super pleased that these multi marker algorithms are picked up. MolDX is obviously well respected and that read through was very important. We think it's important for the field and validates the path we're on. Perfect.

Speaker 5

Thanks a bunch. Just actually another one on, I guess, diagnostics. Just confirm first, just confirm please if the Q17 test has enough data for the approval and for reimbursement? I know you got the CANTATA by HERMID. Is that going to be enough, do you think?

Speaker 5

And one for Brandon. Yes. We are

Speaker 2

very confident with the 2017 results. We've published a white paper with a lot of the some results that we have on BioHermes and the Amsterdam cohort together. And so when you combine those two cohorts, we looked at something over 850 patients and we had sense in spec above 90% across the board with accuracy that rounded up to around 91%. So we think the data for 217 is helping.

Speaker 5

Great. And final one for Vanda. I think that I think the guidance is something like maybe $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 or so for assume for diagnostic spending for investment in 2024. That means like I think it's about $5,000,000 $25,000,000 If you could just walk through how you're allocating diagnostic investments specifically that'd be interesting to hear for the next, I guess, 2 years. And then secondly, if you get just hypothetically, if you get any diagnostic revenue this year, would that come in at a negative gross margin?

Speaker 5

Thanks.

Speaker 1

Yes. So on diagnostics, we had signaled earlier that we would spend a total of approximately $20,000,000 between $24,000,000 25,000,000 dollars For 2024, most of that spend is on the commercial side. So we've already onboarded our team that happened very late last year. So we have a full year of cost for that team as well as everything that's needed to really get the message out and to get the right traction around the commercial team. There will be some amount of infrastructure cost to get billing ready and all those kinds of things, but it's primarily getting feet on the street and getting that going.

Speaker 1

And then similarly for 2025, we expect cost to be along those lines, really more to support what it takes to get the reach of the test out. We think we have enough capacity to accelerate us. We don't think that's much more needed from a footprint perspective. Having said that, one thing I do want to add is we're somewhat fortunate that we have a strong balance sheet. So we're going to pace the diagnostics opportunity as it develops.

Speaker 1

If it moves faster and it's worthwhile to spend more money on it, we'll move the lever. If it's moving far and we need to pull back, we can do that as well. So we will continue to pace this, but this is kind of our broad framework for now. And then to your question on margin on Diagnostics, we don't expect margin at this stage to be negative or overly dilutive to our portfolio, But we just don't know enough about it right now. So as we gather more information and as we start to see more test ups come back in, we'll have a better sense of what it looks like.

Speaker 5

Okay. That's awesome. Thanks guys. Okay. Thanks, Tal.

Operator

Thank you. And one moment as we move on to our next question. And our next question is going to come from the line of Sung Ji Nam with Scotiabank. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Speaker 6

Hi. Thanks for taking the questions. So just on the CONTACT and BioHerme studies, you touched on it a little bit, but could you kind of elaborate on what are the endpoints being measured or what questions are being asked for the Phase 1 of the trial? And then, what are the next steps for both trials?

Speaker 2

Hey, Sanjeet. So the clinical sample sets that we look at include patients with MCI and AD dementia, and that's through the Amsterdam dementia cohort. And then we recruited there was recruitment of individuals with MCI and mild AD in the BioHermes trial. So the ADC or the Amsterdam cohort, our memory clinics where they looked at CSF and then the BioHermes, they had PET for amyloid status. So each of those patients received CSF or PET and they were compared to our test from a diagnostic standpoint.

Speaker 2

And then using those, we established clinical thresholds and came up with the specs of our platform of our test. And so that's Phase 1. And then what we're doing is on the 2nd phase for CANTADE, we're enrolling patients for memory centers, prospective patients for memory centers to be able to look at this on a multi marker setting. So that going beyond just single marker, but testing 4 markers or to 5 markers at once.

Speaker 6

Got you. Thank you. And then just was curious, you mentioned in the press release that Eli Lilly launching their PTAS-two seventeen blood based diagnostics on the Quanterix platform. Are they using other platforms as well? Or are they pretty much just solely using the Simoa platform for now?

Speaker 2

Yes, we're only aware of the Simoa platform for their 2/17 diagnostic tests. I think it published some very interesting data at the last conference. It was a nice poster presentation that they had. So that's all we're aware of.

Speaker 6

Got it. And then just lastly on the new platform under development, the increase in the complexity, Is that based on the Simoa platform or the planar array platform or is it something totally different?

Speaker 2

Yes. It's based on the Simoa technology and the Simoa platform. So it's the single molecule resolution, but lossless sensitivity across multiple channels. So typically when people look at things and you start to multiplex, you lose resolution as you add plexus. And so our goal with high sensitivity and precision for these key biomarkers is to make it lossless.

Speaker 2

And so it's based on that platform involved the original technology, which was invented in the WALT lab.

Speaker 6

Got it. Thank you so much.

Speaker 5

Thanks, Sung Ji.

Operator

Thank you. I'm showing no further questions. This is going to conclude today's question and answer session. This is also going to conclude today's conference call.

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Key Takeaways

  • Quanterix delivered a record consumables quarter with $17.5 M in consumables revenue and $31.5 M in total revenue, up 22% YoY. It expanded non-GAAP gross margins by 515 basis points and ended Q4 with over $323 M in liquidity.
  • Over a six-quarter transformation, the company launched newly formulated assays, boosting manufacturing output by 300% and testing capacity by 50% to support higher throughput and innovation.
  • In 2024 the firm targets three strategic pillars: adding approximately 20 new assays to its Simoa menu, developing a multi-channel lossless resolution platform, and accelerating Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics.
  • Quanterix will invest $20 M over two years to commercialize its ultra-sensitive pTau217 blood test, aiming to replace up to 70–80% of PET scans and lumbar punctures, and has partnered with five health networks covering 140 hospitals.
  • For 2024 the company guides research revenue of $139 M–$144 M, GAAP gross margins of 57–61%, non-GAAP margins of 51–55%, and cash usage of $25 M–$30 M while targeting cash flow breakeven at $170 M–$190 M of revenue.
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