United Therapeutics Q2 2024 Earnings Report

United Therapeutics EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $5.85
• Consensus EPS: $6.33
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.48
• One Year Ago EPS: $5.24

United Therapeutics Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $714.90 million
• Expected Revenue: $691.87 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$23.03 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +19.80%

United Therapeutics Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2024
• Date: 7/31/2024
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024
• Conference Call Time: 9:00AM ET

United Therapeutics (NASDAQ:UTHR) (NASDAQ: UTHR) is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development and commercialization of unique products to address life-threatening illnesses. The company’s primary focus has been on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), where it has launched several therapies designed to improve functional capacity and quality of life for patients. Its marketed products include continuous infusion treprostinil (Remodulin), inhaled treprostinil (Tyvaso), oral treprostinil (Orenitram) and tadalafil (Adcirca), each tailored to different modes of administration and patient needs. In addition to its PAH portfolio, United Therapeutics markets dinutuximab (Unituxin) for high-risk neuroblastoma and continues to expand its therapeutic reach through ongoing clinical programs.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, United Therapeutics has combined its core expertise in vascular biology with innovative manufacturing technologies. Beyond pharmaceuticals, the company’s Lung Biotechnology PBC subsidiary explores regenerative medicine approaches, including decellularized and recellularized organ scaffolds and xenotransplantation methods aimed at addressing organ shortages. Its research pipeline encompasses next-generation agents for PAH, oncology, and transplant applications, reflecting a broad commitment to extending and improving life for patients with complex diseases.

United Therapeutics operates globally, with commercial and clinical efforts spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. Its international infrastructure supports regulatory submissions and patient access programs in key markets such as the European Union and Japan. Under the leadership of founder and Chief Executive Officer Martine Rothblatt, the company emphasizes a multidisciplinary culture that integrates basic science, engineering and patient advocacy. This approach drives its mission to pioneer transformational therapies and sustainable organ manufacturing technologies for conditions with high unmet medical need.

United Therapeutics Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Record Q2 revenue of $715 million, up 20% year-over-year, driven by strong sales across Tyvaso, Orenitram, Remodulin and Unituxan.
• Tyvaso revenue rose 25% to $398 million, led by rapid uptake of the DPI device, price increases and favorable Medicare Part D redesign impacts, with durable growth expected.
• Late-stage pipeline candidates Ralinepag for PAH and the TETON pulmonary fibrosis trial carry high stakes—each has ~10% chance of trial failure despite 90% power and could more than double current revenue if successful.
• XenoKidney proof of concept demonstrated durable function in humans with immunosuppression levels comparable to allografts, paving the way for future organ manufacturing despite remaining scale-up work.
• Capital allocation prioritizes completion of the ongoing $700 million ASR through September, internal R&D and DPF facilities, followed by M&A and potential further share repurchases.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the United Therapeutics Corporation Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Webcast. My name is Cole, and I'll be your conference operator today. All participants on the call portion of this webcast will be in a listen-only mode until the question and answer portion of this earnings call. If you would like to ask a question during that time, simply press the star, then number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question, please simply press the star, then the number two on your telephone keypad. And please note that this call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the webcast over to Dewey Steadman, Head of Investor Relations at United Therapeutics. Please go ahead.

[Dewey Steadman, Head of Investor Relations at United Therapeutics]

Yes, thank you, Cole. Good morning. It's my pleasure to welcome you to the United Therapeutics Corporation Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Webcast. Remarks we make today will include forward-looking statements representing our expectations or beliefs regarding future events. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Our latest SEC filings, including Forms 10-K and 10-Q, contain additional information on these risks and uncertainties, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Remarks today may discuss the progress and results of clinical trials or other developments respect to our products, and these remarks are intended solely to educate investors and are not intended to serve as the basis for medical decision-making or to suggest that any products are safe and effective for any unapproved or investigational uses. Full prescribing information for our products are available on our website.

[Dewey Steadman, Head of Investor Relations at United Therapeutics]

Accompanying me on today's call are Dr. Martine Rothblatt, our Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Benkowitz, our President and Chief Operating Officer, James Edgemond, our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Dr. Leigh Peterson, our Executive Vice President of Product Development and Xenotransplantation, and Pat Poisson, our Executive Vice President of Technical Operations. Note that Michael Benkowitz and I will participate in a fireside chat and one-on-one meetings at the Morgan Stanley 22nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference in New York on September 4th, and James Edgemond and I will participate in a fireside chat and one-on-one meetings at the 2024 Wells Fargo Healthcare Conference in Boston the next day, September 5th.

[Dewey Steadman, Head of Investor Relations at United Therapeutics]

Our scientific, commercial, and medical affairs teams will be present at the Pulmonary Hypertension Association 2024 International PH Conference and Scientific Sessions, August 15th to 18th in Indianapolis, the European Respiratory Society Congress in Vienna, September 7th to 11th, and the American College of Chest Physicians, CHEST 2024 annual meeting in Boston, October 6th to the 9th. Now, I will turn the webcast over to Dr. Rothblatt for an overview of our second quarter 2024 financial results and the business activities of United Therapeutics. Dr. Rothblatt?

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thank you very much, Dewey. We at UT are very pleased and proud to present the results of another record quarter. As described in the press release, PowerPoint, and the financials, we are doing very well across the board. Double-digit revenue growth is the norm. In a moment, our President, Mike Benkowitz, will provide some deep insight into these numbers. Let me start with a strategic overview. We see our business as three waves of success. First, approved products that are market leaders for the mid-2020s. Second, next generation products and new indications that can be market leaders in the late 2020s. Third, an organ manufacturing business that can transform the treatment of end-stage organ disease. Examples of the first wave are Remodulin, Tyvaso, Orenitram, and Unituxin.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Examples of the second wave are Ralinepag as a once-daily pill for pulmonary hypertension, and our TETON trial, aiming to show improvement in pulmonary fibrosis. Examples of our third wave of success are our xenotransplantation products that offer tremendous potential for the thousands of patients on dialysis. Now, I'm sometimes asked, "With all of this success, Martine, what keeps you up at night?" Well, let me start with what does not keep me up. What does not keep me up is our foundational business, because I do not see any threats to the vitality of our Remodulin, Tyvaso, or Orenitram products. For Remodulin and Tyvaso, my confidence is born of the uniqueness and clinical efficacy of our drug device combination technology. For Remodulin, there is no other parenteral drug delivery device that is as small, accurate, and easy to use as our Remunity pump.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Its patented acoustic volume sensing technology is more than 10 times more accurate than legacy pumps and has fewer moving parts. For Tyvaso, there is no other dry powder inhaler so well matched to deep lung delivery of our drug as the MannKind DPI. The proof is really in the pudding. In record times, thousands of patients have begun using our patented device in both old and new pulmonary indications, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension and interstitial lung disease.... Competition in our current foundational business doesn't really keep me up either, because they are mostly used in combination with our drugs, or if not, use drug delivery devices that are not as elegant as our Remunity and our DPI devices. Now, let me jump ahead to the organ business.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

That also doesn't keep me up, because in the last year, we have obtained multiple times scientific proof that our Xeno kidneys function well in human bodies with no more immunosuppression than an allograft. Folks, that cannot happen by accident. Of course, there's much more work to do to get these Xeno kidneys FDA approved, and even more work to do to get them into quantity production. But I see no showstoppers, and we have achieved proof of concept. It is only in our second wave of success, Tyvaso for pulmonary fibrosis and Ralinepag for PAH, that I find myself kept up at night. The reason is that the results of a clinical trial cannot be known until it is unblinded, and even a study that is 90% powered for success, by definition, still has a 10% chance of missing.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Of course, we are doing everything we can to ensure the credibility and approvability of our IPF and Ralinepag clinical trials. But because these two products have the potential to more than double our current $3 billion revenue run rate, the stakes are extremely high. In conclusion, UT is a rock-solid bet on its current foundational business. UT is a very, very good bet and a highly rewarding one at that, in its next stage generation products that are now in late-stage clinical trials. And UT is a once-in-a-lifetime biotechnology opportunity in manufactured organs. With that strategic overview, I'd like to now turn the call over to our President, Michael Benkowitz. Mike?

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

Thanks, Martine. And good morning, everyone. As Martine noted, today, we reported yet another quarter of record revenue at $715 million, and 20% growth from the second quarter of 2023. We saw meaningful worldwide revenue growth for all of our key products, Tyvaso, Orenitram, Remodulin, and Unituxin. First, I want to touch on Tyvaso, which when viewing the nebulizer and dry powder inhaler delivery systems together, remains the number one prescribed prostacyclin treatment in the U.S. Total Tyvaso revenue for the second quarter was $398 million, up 25% over last year, with growth led by continued uptake of Tyvaso DPI, an increase in pricing and increased commercial utilization following the implementation of the Part D redesign provisions under the Inflation Reduction Act or IRA.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

For the franchise, we saw record referrals and starts during the quarter, leading us to have confidence in the durability of our growth profile, as Martine mentioned. The percentage of Tyvaso DPI patients using our patient access programs continues to tick down following the implementation of the first provisions of the IRA earlier this year, albeit not at the same rate we saw between the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. We could continue to see a modest decline in patient access program utilization through the remainder of the year, as new patients on therapy are less likely to need patient assistance, having met their copay obligations on another product before starting Tyvaso DPI. The benefit from this could be offset by modest rebates from our initial contracting efforts to ensure period access in the future for Tyvaso DPI.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

As an aside, we understand that CMS will soon publish the negotiated prices for the first 10 drugs selected under the IRA's drug price negotiation provision. I want to remind investors that our drugs are not on this list. In addition, based on our current understanding of the IRA statute and guidance issued by CMS thus far, we expect our treprostinil products will not be subject to price negotiation under the IRA because there is at least one marketed generic version of treprostinil. Moving to Orenitram, we reported yet another quarter of record revenue at $107 million, representing 13% growth from the second quarter of 2023. Like the first quarter, this was driven by a combination of increased commercial utilization, pricing, and a modest increase in average dose from prior quarter levels. Recall that Orenitram and Remodulin are priced on a per basis.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

Like with Tyvaso DPI, we saw a modest decrease in patient access program use for Orenitram in the second quarter, driven by the same dynamics. Likewise, we expect a modest decline in patient access program use through the remainder of the year. Our medical teams continue to have scientific discussions based on recent scientific publications with healthcare providers on the EXPEDITE induction protocol, where PAH patients initiate on Remodulin and then transition to Orenitram as an option for appropriate patients who may not want or need to go on long-term parenteral therapy. Moving to Remodulin. Worldwide revenue of $147 million was up 16% from last year, with very strong performance across all of our underlying demand metrics. This comes 5 years after the first launch of generic Remodulin, reflecting our continued commitment to our patients and Remodulin.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

Remodulin, both intravenous and subcutaneous, remains the most prescribed parenteral prostacyclin in the US. Our Remunity pump remains the only option for new subcutaneous patient starts. Last quarter, we heard through the channel that specialty pharmacies, pharmacy distributors are going to start proactively converting all sub-Q treprostinil use to Remodulin and our Remunity pump, given the discontinuation of support for the CADD-MS3 system by its manufacturer. We've seen this trend continue through the second quarter. Finally, Unituxin. Worldwide revenue of $52 million was up 77% from the prior year quarter, and US Unituxin revenue of $47 million was up 18%. US growth was driven by price and volume. To wrap up, with our fifth quarter in a row of record revenue, our commercial products clearly have the innovation, interest, momentum, and muscle to continue to grow and serve our patients.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

With that, I'll turn the call back over to Martine to run the Q&A.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Michael, that was just such a perfect overview of everything. Thanks so much, and thanks for all of your leadership in all of those areas. Operator, you may now bring forward the first call.

[Operator]

Thank you, and we will now begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star then one in your touchtone phone. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. And to withdraw your question, please press star then two. And at this time, we will pause momentarily for the first question. Today will come from Roanna Ruiz with Leerink Partners. Please go ahead.

[Roanna Ruiz, Analyst at Leerink]

Hey, morning, everyone. So I was curious, could you elaborate a bit on the different drivers you saw in the quarter for Tyvaso DPI versus nebulized Tyvaso? And were there any changes or reasons for greater confidence coming through? Like, I think you mentioned, increased number of referrals and possibly ramping the new field force that we should keep in mind going into three Q this year.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thank you for that question, Roanna. That's that type of commercialization question would be best handled by Michael.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

Sure. Thanks for the question. So, I think the underlying demand metrics just kinda, you know, we continue to just, I think, plug along or chug along, like we have the past few quarters with the referrals and with the starts, and it continues to come from both, Group 1 PAH as well as Group 3 PH-ILD. You know, the second part of your question about the sales force, I think we, you know, are starting to see some of the impact of that sales force expansion, in the second quarter. As you recall, we started that ramp up, in the last fall, really fully deployed that team, January 1.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

And of course, it takes a little bit of time for the reps to get out in the field and get in front of the physicians and, you know, have the opportunity to educate them on the benefits of our products. But what, you know, what's been really nice to see so far in the first six months is the increase in the number of ILD prescribers actually writing Tyvaso. So when we first launched in the PH-ILD a couple of years ago, you know, our efforts were really focused on educating around the need to screen for pulmonary hypertension.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

And then once, you know, once they started to do that, suspect that the patients had pulmonary hypertension associated with ILD, you know, then they could make the decision whether to refer that patient into the PH clinic or try and treat them themselves. I would say the vast majority of doctors at that time started referring to the PH clinic. So, but we knew, you know, really in order for us to, I think, realize the full opportunity that we have in PH-ILD, these physicians were gonna have to start treating just because of the number of patients that are out there and the bandwidth constraints on the physicians in the PH clinic.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

So it's been really nice to see that, you know, over the last 6 months, we really started to increase both the breadth of ILD prescribers as well as the depth. And recall, the depth metric we always look at is physicians with 30-plus patients. And so, we're seeing really positive momentum and growth on both of those key metrics.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thank you so much, Mike, and thank you, Roanna, for your question. Operator, could you bring forward the next question?

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Jessica Fye with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

[Jessica Fye, Analyst at JPMorgan]

Great. Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Curious if you could talk a little bit about what you're seeing in the PAH marketplace as it relates to the initial WINREVAIR launch. Do your observations line up with Merck's commentary yesterday? Have you noticed any changes in referrals or, starts in PAH?

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thanks, Jess. Nice to hear your voice this morning. Again, I think it's a market dynamics question that Michael is the best person to answer.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

Yeah, sure. Thanks, thanks for the question, Jess. Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm not gonna really comment too much on, on, Merck's product. I mean, they're, they're plenty capable of, of speaking for themselves. But with respect to our business, and specifically in the PAH, I think the, the business remains very, very solid, very strong. Really strong referral growth, really, really strong, start growth, patient shipments, all of the underlying demand metrics, continue to be, in line with what we expect, what we think we need to be. And, you know, that's obviously being reflected in the, in the revenue line, on our financial statement. So, you know, so at this point, you know, through, you know, in the first quarter, no surprises there.

[Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics]

I think, you know, as Martine said in her opening remarks, if you look at the Merck's clinical trial, most of those patients were using sotatercept in combination with prostacyclins, and that certainly at least seems to be how that's playing out so far.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Perfect. Thanks so much, Mike. Thank you, Jeff. Operator, could you bring forward the next question, please?

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Ash Verma with UBS. Please go ahead.

[Ash Verma, Analyst at UBS]

Great. Thanks, thanks for that. So my question, just wanted to understand. So, look, I mean, I think the stock has reacted pretty favorably to the ASR, and I know from a cash outflow, you mentioned last quarter that you have now a more specific understanding of, what's, what's required for xeno. So given where we are right now, like, what's your appetite for another significant share buyback or, another ASR?

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thank you for your question, Ash. That being basically a kind of a capital allocation question, I think the best person on the call to answer that would be our Chief Financial Officer, James Edgemond. James?

[James Edgemond, CFO and Treasurer at United Therapeutics]

Great. Thanks, Martine. Ash, good to hear your voice. Thank you for the question. Two kind of responses to your question. One is, our current ASR is still in process, right? The existing or the second tranche, as we've described in our disclosure, the $700 million still is in process through the end of September of this year. So we're gonna first focus on executing the existing ASR and share repurchase program. A second kind of consideration is, we are still committed to allocating capital wisely and in the best interest of stakeholders by first deploying it, as we've said historically, Ash, internally for our R&D initiatives, including manufacturing facilities. And included in those manufacturing facilities, certainly is our consideration of future commercial DPI capital requirements.

[James Edgemond, CFO and Treasurer at United Therapeutics]

Second is we're gonna still focus on corporate development to find those opportunities where we think can bring value to shareholders and values to patients. And third, kind of what we've said at the beginning, I said at the beginning, our current share repurchase program. So our capital allocation program will continue to be the same. We'll continue to evaluate and get more knowledgeable about the construction of the DPF facilities. But right now, we're just gonna continue to focus on the ASR that's in place, and then continue to use that capital allocation waterfall to evaluate any future opportunities, whether it's share repurchase or otherwise. But thank you for the question. Martine, back to you.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

James, that was a 360-degree comprehensive answer to Ash, so, so greatly appreciated. Operator, next question, please.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Joseph Thome with TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

[Joseph Thome, Analyst at TD Cowen]

Hi there. Good morning, and thank you for taking my question. Maybe just one on the filing strategy for IPF, assuming success. I guess, do both of the ongoing IPF studies need to be successful in order to pursue a filing? Or do you think there is a p-value level or level of, you know, benefit that you could see in one where, you know, you maybe would only need one of these studies to work? And any feedback from the FDA on that point will be helpful if you have it. Thank you.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thank you, Joe, for that question. Fortunately, we have on our call the person who's in charge of that entire program, Dr. Leigh Peterson. So, Dr. Peterson, could you kindly respond to Joe?

[Leigh Peterson, EVP of Product Development and Xenotransplantation at United Therapeutics]

Yeah, sure. We haven't recently discussed this with FDA. I mean, this was really early, early discussions with the IND. They really just gave us the boilerplate, you know, language that they always do, which is typically we require two studies for, you know, two positive studies for registration. But of course, I mean, if we, if we, you know, see, we'll, we'll likely see the TETON-2 results coming out before TETON-1, at least the top-line results, because as you know, we completed the TETON-2 enrollment period early. And so we'll see those, and we will certainly continue discussions with FDA. I mean, assuming a really, you know, significant, highly positive, clinically significant results, then we will certainly have a discussion with them about that.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Thank you so much, Dr. Peterson. And, just to, you know, because she's too modest to really toot her own horn, but I just want to remind everybody that, Dr. Peterson and Dr. Smith, her right hand, clinical trial leader, they're the same team that executed so successfully our interstitial lung disease trial, that resulted in really much of what we are celebrating today, the explosive growth in Group 3 PAH and the entry into that space of the DPI. So, this team, I know for sure, 'cause I see them often, they too, they swept this trial day and night, and we are, this is our...

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

If somebody said, like, "What is your number one priority?" It is the you know success of the TETON trial and the indication to achieve an indication in pulmonary fibrosis, a market that is probably you know three times the size of the pulmonary hypertension market... And again, our trial design is in combination with already approved background therapies, so there's no real kind of having to, like, you know take a patient off a drug to start them on an inhaled treprostinil. And similarly, there's no need to put a patient on another drug to start them, because we have both types of patients in the trial. So we would hope for all of that to be in the label. Anyway, sorry to ramble on there a bit, Dr. Peterson, great answer to Joe. Operator, due to the time, we have time for just one more question.

[Operator]

That question will come from Andreas Argyrides with Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

[Andreas Argyrides, Analyst at Oppenheimer]

Good morning, and thanks for taking our questions. And continuing on the topic of TETON. What kind of bridging study might the FDA require to approve Tyvaso DPI in addition to the nebulized if TETON is successful? And then, how are you thinking about presenting the data? I mean, is there a chance for maybe, like, an interim readout of sorts or anything like that?

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Okay. Yeah, thanks for those two questions. Again, I think Dr. Peterson would be the best person on the call to answer. Once again, just for your recollection, she and her team did the bridging study from the Tyvaso nebulizer into the DPI for PAH. So she's, you know, very, very familiar with how to do that. She also was the lead author in the publication on those results in the New England Journal of Medicine, so very much on top of, you know, getting the word out in the most credible and respected way. So with that little toot-toot of your horn, Dr. Peterson, can you answer the questions?

[Leigh Peterson, EVP of Product Development and Xenotransplantation at United Therapeutics]

Thank you. Yeah, sure. So for the bridging study, again, we will. Well, let me answer the second question first for interim results. We will not do an interim analysis or an interim look. We have for TETON 2, as I just said, we have completed enrollment, so we're in the final follow-up period, and we will have the actual, you know, final results, in, within, you know, a year, just shortly after the year follow-up is up. So we completed in July, so that would be July plus some time to clean those data just for the top-line results. So, that will be the next time we. That will be the first time we see the actual results from these, one of these studies.

[Leigh Peterson, EVP of Product Development and Xenotransplantation at United Therapeutics]

And, as far as bridging into DPI, now, as you know, So what we did for in our BREEZE study we looked at PAH patients. We transitioned from nebulized Tyvaso to Tyvaso DPI, and that was actually sufficient to get approval for both PAH patients and PHILD patients, and for the Tyvaso DPI. Now, for the IPF studies, we still have some ongoing discussions with FDA. We will be discussing as soon as, I mean, really, when we get further into the follow-up period or when we get top-line results, we're going to have a discussion because it's a different group. It's the pulmonary division for IPF versus the cardiorenal division for PAH and PHILD. So different group, different people, sometimes, you know, just slightly different requirements.

[Leigh Peterson, EVP of Product Development and Xenotransplantation at United Therapeutics]

We need to just confirm what we need to do for the bridging. It might be a matter of a small sub-study in our TETON OLE program. So we need to sort that out, but again, it shouldn't delay. We'll get the results of the TETON studies. We will pursue the approval based on the TETON 1, TETON 2, and then while that is occurring, we'll do what we need to do for bridging.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Excellent. Excellent answer. Thank you so much, Dr. Peterson. Thank you, everybody, for being on the call today. I'd like to just wrap up with drawing everybody's attention to the terrific PowerPoint that Dewey Steadman and his team released. I think it's not only aesthetically beautiful, which it is, it's just rich in content, graphs, charts, numbers, you know, kind of strategic overview kind of thing. So please study that PowerPoint at depth if you really wanna understand the beauty of the United Therapeutics story. And then finally, I'd like to just, you know, do a shout-out to everybody that is part of our United Therapeutics family, what we call Unitherians.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

We're now bumping up on 1,500 people, and it's in line with the metric that Michael, James, and I have long adopted at UT to grow our head count in accordance with a revenue-per-head metric of approximately $2 million per head. And that's on par with the absolute best, not only of biotech, but of really, you know, American corporations in general. So now that we're knocking on the door of a $3 billion revenue run rate, that's $2 million per head for our knocking on the door of 1,500 people, and it's just another tremendous testament to the success of United Therapeutics and to the fact that the leaders of this company, Michael, James, myself, Pat Poisson, Dr. Peterson, others.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

For all of us, our number one goal is to make sure that everybody working at our company is having the absolute best career development experience of their dreams. And so long as that is happening, then all of our goals pretty much happen automatically. And I think, another metric I can share with you that I got from our HR department is our percentage of employees who voluntarily terminate. We call it voluntary termination rate, is about 5%. That is far lower than, I think, any of our peers, but certainly far lower than the averages in the biotech sector and definitely outside biotech. So the numbers say we're doing things right, the people say we're doing things right, and I hope all of you agree that we're doing the things you wanna see us do.

[Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO at United Therapeutics]

Have a great day. Operator, you can close the call.

[Operator]

Thank you for participating in today's United Therapeutics Corporation Earnings webcast. A rebroadcast of this webcast will be available for replay for one week by visiting the Events and Presentations section of the United Therapeutics Investor Relations website at ir.unither.com. Thank you again for your participation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Dewey Steadman, Head of Investor Relations
• James Edgemond, CFO and Treasurer
• Leigh Peterson, EVP of Product Development and Xenotransplantation
• Martine Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO

Analysts

• Andreas Argyrides, Analyst at Oppenheimer
• Ash Verma, Analyst at UBS
• Jessica Fye, Analyst at JPMorgan
• Joseph Thome, Analyst at TD Cowen
• Michael Benkowitz, President and COO at United Therapeutics
• Roanna Ruiz, Analyst at Leerink