COMPASS Pathways Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

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May 8, 2025

There are 14 speakers on the call.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Compass Pathways First Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Call. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the speakers' prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Thank you. I'd now like to hand the call over to Steve Senior Vice President of Investor Relations.

Operator

You may now begin, sir.

Speaker 1

Welcome all of you and thank you for joining us today for our first quarter twenty twenty five results conference call. Again, my name is Steve Schultz, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at Compass Pathways. Today, I'm joined by Kabir Nath, our Chief Executive Officer and Terry Luxem, our Chief Financial Officer, who will have prepared remarks. In addition, Doctor. Guy Goodwin, our Chief Medical Officer and Doctor.

Speaker 1

Steve Levine, our Chief Patient Officer, will be available for the Q and A. The call is being recorded and will be available on the Compass Pathways Investor Relations website shortly after the conclusion of the call and will be available for a period of thirty days. Before we begin, let me remind everyone that during the call today, the team will be making forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 as amended. You should not place undue reliance on these forward looking statements. Actual events or results could differ materially from those expressed or implied by any forward looking statements as a result of various risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those risks and uncertainties described under the heading Risk Factors in our most recent quarterly report on Form 10 Q filed with the U.

Speaker 1

S. Securities and Exchange Commission and in subsequent filings made by Compass with the SEC. Additionally, these forward looking statements represent our views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. We specifically disclaim any obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements even if our estimates or assumptions change. I will now hand the call over to Kabir Nat.

Speaker 2

Thank you, Steve. Good day everyone and thank you for joining us. Recently we announced the completion of dosing of all participants in Part A of our five trial, the first of two pivotal Phase III trials, which marks an important milestone in our mission to address the pressing unmet need in treatment resistant depression or TRD. We look forward to sharing the six week top line results in late June. As we've guided before, these results will include three key efficacy measures for the six week primary endpoint.

Speaker 2

The difference between the treatment arm and the placebo arm in change from baseline on MADRS, the associated p value, and confidence interval. A positive treatment effect at six weeks based on a single dose of COMP360 would represent a meaningful improvement in durability compared with the very limited options available to TRD patients today. From a safety standpoint, the independent DSMB reviews unblinded safety data on a regular basis and has been doing so since the trial started. Since the trial remains blinded through twenty six weeks, we have requested the DSMB to provide a comment on suicidality. We believe that these data if positive should provide investors with further clinical validation of COMM-three sixty's treatment potential in TRD.

Speaker 2

The second phase three trial, COMM006, which has three active arms, could further define the COMM360 profile with data on a second initial treatment which we believe could potentially extend durability or deepen response. Enrollment is going well in six and I'll remind you that that is a global trial and we're on track for the twenty six week results in the second half of twenty twenty six. Also during this quarter, fifty two week safety and efficacy data from the COMM-four study was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. This was an observational fifty two week follow-up from the phase 2B one and three trials of COMT three sixty psilocybin treatment in two fifty two patients with TRD. This study showed that for the full patient population, a single twenty five milligram COM360 psilocybin dose offered long term benefits with an average time to depressive event of over twelve weeks.

Speaker 2

A post hoc analysis of the subset of 58 participants that continued in the long term follow-up study shown time to depressive event for those patients treated with twenty five milligrams was substantially longer at 189. While there may be some responder bias associated with this subgroup, this is impressive data in a difficult to treat and highly refractory patient population and we believe shows the potential of COM360 to be a clinically differentiated treatment that is both rapid acting and with meaningful durability. The Phase III program is designed to confirm the durability and safety profile which, if successful and approved, could be a groundbreaking option for individuals who suffer from TRD. In addition, as we plan for the commercialization of COMM-three sixty, we'd be working to ensure that we understand the commercial opportunity initially by focusing on how COMM-three sixty will be delivered in a broad spectrum of settings of care. One way we are achieving this is through developing relationships with various provider types through our strategic collaborations which we previously discussed.

Speaker 2

In line with this, we announced an additional strategic collaboration this quarter with HealthPort. HealthPort is a community health center that serves low income individuals and is focused on providing broad and equitable access to innovative mental health treatments which could potentially include COMM three sixty if approved by the FDA. HealthFault is our first collaboration that is focused on community based delivery to underserved patient populations. Beyond this, our efforts with our existing collaborations are generating considerable value. We have gained deep insights into the patient experience and care pathways for those living with TRD within high volume interventional psychiatry practices, hospital systems and integrated delivery networks.

Speaker 2

We've strengthened our understanding of the clinical, operational, economic and administrative considerations of implementing and scaling analogous interventional psychiatry treatments such as SPRAVATO. This enables us to understand and prepare for the launch and adoption of COMM three sixty if approved. And we're building a strong appreciation of how training and continuing education is being delivered and how best to integrate COMM three sixty in the post approval setting. These are just a few of the many examples of meaningful insights that we are using to inform our strategy for lawn and post launch scaling. Now let me turn the call to Teri.

Speaker 3

Thank you, Kabir. After our January financing, we are in a very strong financial position. At the March, we had cash and cash equivalents of $260,000,000 which we expect to fund our operations at least through the planned twenty six week data readout from our second Phase three trial COMP006 which is expected in the second half of twenty twenty six. This compares with $165,000,000 at the end of twenty twenty four. Debt under the Hercules loan facility was $30,500,000 at the end of the first quarter.

Speaker 3

Cash used in operations for the first quarter was $45,700,000 and we expect net cash used in operations for the full year 2025 to be within the range of $120,000,000 to $145,000,000 Again, as Kabir said earlier, we eagerly await the results of our first Phase three data as we know you're waiting for it as well. As a reminder, this is the first of three expected data readouts from this program over the next eighteen months. Based on our data to date including the recent fifty two week follow-up data from our Phase 2b trial, we believe COMM-three sixty could represent a clinically differentiated treatment option that is rapid acting with the potential for paradigm changing durability. We also continue to work toward a final design for our late stage clinical program in PTSD and look forward to updating investors when that design is finalized. Given the high unmet need and limited current treatment options, we see a significant commercial opportunity in PTSD.

Speaker 3

With that we're going to move to Q and A and as a reminder Doctor. Guy Goodwin and Doctor. Steve Levine are also with us today for the Q and A portion. With that let me turn it back over to the operator.

Operator

We are now opening the floor for question and answer session. Your first question comes from the line of Leonid Timoshev of RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.

Speaker 4

Hi, this is Kevin on for Leonid. Thank you for taking our questions. So you recently, as you mentioned, published longer term follow-up data from the Phase two. Can you just highlight the key takeaways in your view on durability, as well as what you may have learned about which dose is most appropriate? Thank you very much.

Speaker 5

Thanks, Kevin. This is Faber. Just checking that you can hear us clearly?

Speaker 4

Yes, I can.

Speaker 5

Great. I'll hand actually to Guy to take the lead on that then, please.

Speaker 6

Yeah. I mean hi, Kevin. This data is not as complete as we would like it to have been, so I'd like to start with that disclaimer, really. It's not a definitive study, a definitive follow-up study by any means for various reasons. But what it does show is a difference between the durability of the three doses.

Speaker 6

This is most clearly seen in the subgroup who completed the study, and they, as as we mentioned earlier, are a little unrepresentative, but nevertheless, they do demonstrate some patients who receive twenty five milligrams can last as long as six months following treatment, and that is much less likely in people who've received lower doses. So I think it reiterates our conclusion from the phase two study that twenty five milligrams is, for the time being, the the preferred dose that we think which should carry forward and will be the one that we obviously used in the Phase three program.

Speaker 7

Thank you.

Operator

Next question comes from the line of Paul Matlis of Stifel. Your line is now open.

Speaker 8

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I appreciate it. I mean, obviously, with the top line disclosure and your guys' conservatism around trying to not bias the six trial, it's going to be difficult to compare across studies, which is totally reasonable. But just as it relates to thinking about the actual efficacy delta on MADRS, one challenge in the psychedelic space is just a high degree of variability and placebo effect across trials.

Speaker 8

What is your base case? Again, the study is blinded, but what was your base case on what the placebo effect might be in this study? And how might that kind of inform the way we contextualize this effect size versus what others have observed? Thank you.

Speaker 6

Yeah. Thank you for that question. I mean, we our estimate, our guesstimate, I think you'd have to call it, was really based on what we saw in a previous study of NDD from, from Switzerland, which was with COMM three sixty, and looking at our own data. Our own data, was from an arm which received one milligram. So we we considered whether or not patients in that, in that population had a pro had a had a a psychedelic experience or not or anything approaching a psychedelic experience.

Speaker 6

And so we took account of the subgroup who seemed to us to have the lowest experience and looked at their responses in estimating what the the placebo was likely to be. I think in this field, we generally expect to see in well conducted trials a placebo response. The placebo arm does not receive nothing. They receive a great deal of attention, have frequent hospital visits. It's construed in a very positive way by patients, and so you would expect a placebo response.

Speaker 6

You would respect expect also regression to the mean. So the normal the normal expectation is for there to be a placebo response. And, obviously, the difference you see between placebo and the active arm can be attributed to the effect of the drug, which is the key thing that we're wanting to prove. And as as we've indicated, we would be very pleased to see, effects of over three on the MADRS scale. We think that is clinically significant.

Speaker 6

Anything above that is a bonus.

Speaker 8

Okay. Great. And if I could ask one one follow-up question just on the DSMB commentary on, you know, the presence or lack of a suicidality signal. Ultimately, I guess, where do you where where do you think you guys or the DSMB might draw the line between between an actual signal and noise? Right?

Speaker 8

Like I would imagine two events versus one event could be kind of codified as noise. But is there any I guess to the outside looking at it seems like there's an art to this. There's an element of subjectivity. How should we interpret that?

Speaker 6

Yeah. I mean I mean, that is a practice of medicine question, really, because what the we're asking the DSMB to do is to take a judgment that is based not just on the occurrence of an event the relative frequencies, but also the severity, the timing, the way in which the event evolves and may, in fact, resolve. And all of those factors, I think, weigh and would if I were doing the job and I have in the past for a company, that would weigh in how I reported the the likely probability that there was an imbalance in the two arms, which is what we're asking the DSMB to do. So it it's a nuanced judgment. It cannot be done on the basis of a scale.

Speaker 6

It can't be done on the basis of numbers. It has to be done on the basis of a complete assessment of the picture for each of the individual instances.

Speaker 8

Fair enough. Thank you very much.

Operator

Next question comes from the line of Charles Duncan of Cantor. Your line is now open.

Speaker 7

Hey, good morning, Kabir and team. Congrats on the progress. Thanks for taking the question. I wanted to ask another question about suicidality. And I'm kind of wondering if back when you were designing this study, was that something that the FDA was more concerned about?

Speaker 7

Or were you hearing concerns or thoughts about that from the broader, call it, investment community? And what is the background rate that you were considering when conducting the study given this TRD population? Thanks.

Speaker 6

Hi, Charles. Thank you. The issue of suicidality was not addressed directly or brought up by the agency in our discussions with them. Suicidality is a core feature of depression. All trials of either MDD or TRD have to include patients with some degree, either a history of suicidality or current passive suicidality.

Speaker 6

To exclude it as a factor entirely is simply to distort the population in a way that it ceases to be representative of the target population. So suicidality is a fact that everybody has to contend with in designing and executing these studies. It it arose as an issue, as you may remember, after we released the data from zero zero one and the fact that we had an imbalance in the number of behavioral actions related to suicidality, All of them somewhat delayed from the actual treatment. That they occurred in the twenty five milligram arm. That produced a good deal of commentary and seems never to have left us.

Speaker 6

So we live with this continues, and that is obviously something we remain seriously concerned about. We wish to monitor carefully in the phase three and to generate the numbers that will give us confidence about the actual potential for differences between the three arms. Our expectation is that there will not be important differences between the three arms.

Speaker 5

Just to build on both guys' points together, Charles, you know, even in the light of the two b data, the FDA was still not concerned about the likelihood of suicidal ideology on our phase three. They fully understand that this is a core feature of the disease.

Speaker 7

Makes sense. Looking forward to that data. Quick question for Steve on HealthPort in terms of that recent collaboration. Guess I'm wondering if you could characterize in any way the current delivery of esketamine or SPRAVATO that HealthPort is involved in, if you can quantify that in any way so we get a sense of how involved they are in the in the field? Thanks.

Speaker 9

Hi, Charles. Thanks for that question. So first, just as a reminder, you know, part of the efforts with creating this network of collaborations is for them to reflect the broad array spectrum of where mental health care is delivered in this country. Within the existing collaborations, we did not feel there was adequate representation of sites that served underserved populations. And HealthPort is a very high quality example of a certified community behavioral health clinic that specifically addresses the unmet needs in marginalized and underserved populations.

Speaker 9

There are some assumptions that I think are common that community based mental health clinics are not able to deliver newer or more innovative treatments. And it is the fact that Health Board has been able to deliver SPRAVATO to patients, esketamine, and are highly motivated to make sure that there is not a widening of existing healthcare disparities and a lack of access for their population if new treatment options are approved. And so they have some experience already with interventional treatments and are excited about and motivated to be operationally ready to deliver new treatments if approved. And important also to note that inherent within the CCBHC model, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, is the sharing nationally across that system of best practices and learnings. And HealthBoard has also historically been a leader there, particularly with disseminating their social determinants of health model.

Speaker 7

Got it. Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 9

Thank you, Charles.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Baral of TD Cowen. Your line is now open.

Speaker 10

Hi, guys. This is Athena on for Ritu Baral. Thanks for taking the question. Given the potential pharma tariffs, can you provide additional color on your manufacturing supply chain and whether there has been any FDA inspection of your manufacturing center? Thank you.

Speaker 5

Thanks, Athena. So, yes, currently, product is manufactured in The UK. We have always planned and are working on plans to add an additional manufacturing capability in The US for commercial supply. So those plans were already underway, and we are moving on those. These are sites that have extensive experience of manufacture, not just for us, but our very well established CDMOs for a wide range of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Speaker 5

So we've had multiple inspections over the years.

Speaker 10

Do you have a timeline on the additional US sites?

Speaker 5

Not at this point. But as I say, we are working on that. That was already in the plan and in our forecast for the next couple of years ahead of potential commercial supply.

Speaker 3

Yeah. And, Athena, it's probably worth mentioning that from a manufacturing perspective, compared to other biotechs or other pharmaceuticals, this is a pretty pretty straightforward process and a pretty small quantity of material. And so it it's not really at the top of our minds in terms of, you know, risks. We're we're mitigating any risks we have, but, you know, as Kabir mentioned, as we near commercialization, that is currently the plan.

Speaker 5

And, clearly, you know, this is a typical small molecule. So in terms since we haven't yet established a price, if in fact there was a tariff element on any cost of goods, we would clearly be able to consider that in setting a price in due course.

Speaker 10

Got it. Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Vikram Purohit of Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.

Speaker 11

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking our question. This is Parth on for Vikram. Just one question. Could you provide the current mix of color on patients enrolled into COMM-five?

Speaker 11

Like how similar or distinct is the patient profile was enrolled in the phase two b?

Speaker 6

Essentially, the criteria for recruitment are the same. We are not continuously monitoring the actual baseline characteristics. I mean, we're remaining blind to the to the data, but we know that we're recruiting patients using the same criteria, so there's really no reason why they would be any different.

Speaker 5

That's the only thing which we have stressed repeatedly in the phase two b. The actual percentage with prior psychedelic experience was six percent. In the phase three, it's capped at fifteen percent. And while we don't, to Guy's point, know the exact epi, we can assume it is around that percentage in the o five study.

Speaker 11

Okay. Thank you. And then just one more quickly. What are your current thoughts on BD specifically with regards to, like, a large pharma partnership? Is this something that you guys would be interested in?

Speaker 11

And if so, when could this make sense?

Speaker 5

Yeah. So we are clear that we believe we're doing something unique. And if approved, what we have is paradigm breaking transformational for the treatment of serious mental illness, and our commitment is to do that ourselves in The US if we can and potentially some other select geographies at the moment. So from our perspective, Compass is set up to commercialize com three sixty if approved and to build from there. You know?

Speaker 5

And I have no particular comment on big strategic intent at this point.

Speaker 7

Okay. Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Sumant Bhukarani with Canaccord Genuity. Your line is now open.

Speaker 12

Hi. Thanks for taking my question. Also a question on suicidality risk. What do you think is an optimal time to pass before suicidality might not be attributable to a single dose of COM360? And might you prepare for imbalances in non responders to COM360 because of the potential unblinding, given the nature of the product?

Speaker 6

Thank you, Suman. That's actually quite a tough question. I think my answer is really that we'll wait and see what the data shows us, to be honest. I don't think predictions are in order here. That's rather a poor answer to your question, but I think that's the way

Speaker 13

I feel about it. Thanks.

Speaker 12

Just a quick follow-up. Have you seen any changes within the FDA for anyone that might be considered a champion of psychedelic therapeutic approaches in your interactions so far?

Speaker 5

Thus far, we've seen no changes in our interactions with the FDA, which, you know, in the last couple of months have been largely routine around, event reporting and so on. Clearly, we're tracking like everyone else some of the changes higher up in the hierarchy, only within the FDA, but higher up than that. As we've said before, we see that potentially producing some favorable tailwinds for us, but at this stage, nothing has changed around our day to day interactions with the agency.

Speaker 12

Thank you.

Operator

Your next question comes from the line of Patrick Trucchio of H. C. Wainwright. Your line is now open.

Speaker 13

Thanks. Good morning. First, just regarding the COMM-three 60 TRD program and the fifty two week observational follow-up study. I'm wondering how we should interpret those data in the context of your pivotal program or in the potential commercialization of COM360 in TRD? And then also in the pivotal TRD program, is there tracking or use of antidepressants or other psychotropic medications post dosing in the trials?

Speaker 13

And how might that inform your durability or safety analysis? And then separately, I'm wondering regarding PTSD, have you initiated regulatory interactions around PTSD program design? And if so, what feedback have you received?

Speaker 5

Steve, do you want to comment first on the durability and how that feeds into how we think about commercialization?

Speaker 9

Yeah, I'll start there. Ghany, you want to jump in with the other part of the question that related to the starting of other treatments and the interpretability of the data as we get further into the study, but specifically on durability and to your question about what we learned from that long term extension that we called four and how we will look at durability within the phase three program. As was mentioned during the opening remarks, there were some limitations as far as the interpretability of the long term study just because it wasn't the full patient population that continued. However, when looking at all two thirty three patients from that study included in the primary analysis, that did give a very strong signal of durability at least to twelve weeks. And then for those who did continue into the long term extension study and were followed out to fifty two weeks, response up to six months.

Speaker 9

Now in phase three, of course, we'll be reporting initially the six week data. And frankly, durability even to week six in this population, given the limited options available today, is already a shift in the paradigm. That already would be of tremendous value to patients, to healthcare providers, psychiatrists, and others. We will be looking at durability, of course, beyond six weeks, wind it out to week 26, and then we'll have continued opportunity to look at durability in the open label portion from week 26 to week 52. And so we'll have to see what we see there.

Speaker 9

But, again, even with the initial data we have, durability up to six weeks would be really groundbreaking in this in this area.

Speaker 3

No. So the, impact of, antidepressants and

Speaker 5

The use of antidepressants on the interpretation of

Speaker 12

the drug?

Speaker 6

Yeah. I I think that, you know, the the key thing in practice will be that antidepressants are gonna be part of the picture for the treatment of these patients. I'm not sure that really it affects the the key for the patients is to remain well. We're going to see the addition of antidepressant treatments. We can look at that post hoc within the trials, but I think in ordinary practice, we'll expect to see a lot of co administration.

Speaker 6

We await, obviously, proper data on this, but I think you have to anticipate that they will pay a part of long term treatment in these patients.

Speaker 9

And maybe worth saying that it does land a real world element to the latter portions of these studies because that is quite common in clinical practice for patients to be on multiple treatments simultaneously, often to continue an antidepressant in the background while they're trying other options. In most cases, the reason why they're trying new treatments is because those background treatments have not been particularly effective. And in some cases, it's just the comfort of being on something. So as Guy said, the trial is designed for us to, particularly in the beginning of the study, differentiate and fully characterize the profile of our drug effect. But it is the likelihood that patients will resume some treatments and that will give us an opportunity to better understand what real world practice may look like.

Speaker 5

And on PTSD, Patrick, we will be reviewing and discussing those plans As you'll recall, we choose not to give specific feedback on what our discussions are with the agency.

Speaker 13

Great. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Operator

That concludes our Q and A session. I'd now like to hand back the call to the management.

Speaker 5

Thank you very much. So thanks, everyone, for your time and attention this morning. I think, to state the obvious, we are very eagerly awaiting data next month. We know that you are as well, but we remain confident in that data, in that first six week primary endpoint readout of o o five. And we continue to make very good progress on recruiting in o o six as well and reconfirm the timelines for that, the data in the second half of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5

So with that, thank you, and we look forward to pressing on and executing and potentially bringing forward a paradigm changing treatment for TRD. Thanks, everyone, and have a good day.

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Key Takeaways

  • Compass completed dosing in Part A of its pivotal COMP005 Phase III trial for treatment-resistant depression and expects to report six-week topline results—including MADRS change, p-value, and confidence interval—in late June.
  • The global COMP006 Phase III trial with three active arms is enrolling on track, aiming to define dose or regimen effects on response durability with 26-week data due in H2 2026.
  • Fifty-two-week observational follow-up from the Phase 2b program showed a single 25 mg psilocybin dose yielded an average time to depressive event of over 12 weeks and nearly 189 days in a responder subset, highlighting potential long-term benefits.
  • As of March 2025, Compass held $260 million in cash and cash equivalents—up from $165 million at year-end—expected to fund operations through the second Phase III readout, with FY 2025 cash burn guidance of $120 million–$145 million.
  • Broader commercialization planning includes strategic collaborations—most recently with HealthPort—to establish delivery models and address equitable access and operational readiness across diverse care settings.
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