Microbix Biosystems Q1 2026 Earnings Report

Microbix Biosystems EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -C$0.01
• Consensus EPS: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

Microbix Biosystems Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $4.22 million
• Expected Revenue: N/A
• Beat/Miss: N/A
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

Microbix Biosystems Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q1 2026
• Date: 2/12/2026
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 10:00AM ET

Microbix develops proprietary biological technology solutions for human health and well-being, with about 90 skilled employees and sales growing from a base of over $1 million per month. It makes a wide range of critical biological materials for the global diagnostics industry, notably antigens for immunoassays and its laboratory quality assessment products that support clinical lab proficiency testing, assay development and validation, or clinical lab workflows.

Microbix Biosystems Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Reported sequential revenue improvement to CAD 4.2 million in Q1 (up 13% QoQ) and said results were in line with budget expectations.
• Negative Sentiment: Recorded a controlled net loss the company stated as CAD 1.2 billion, citing use of substantial cash reserves and a temporary working-capital timing impact from higher accounts receivable at quarter end.
• Positive Sentiment: Announced new customer programs including support for SEKISUI (US), CGene (Mexico) and the College of American Pathologists, and commercialized a recombinant SARS‑CoV‑2 capsid antigen to strengthen supply chain and margins.
• Negative Sentiment: Sales into China remain very low due to distributor/inventory dynamics, with the company expecting any meaningful resumption likely in late summer to early fall.
• Neutral Sentiment: Urokinase modernization work (replacement of animal components with synthetic/recombinant inputs) is progressing and the company targets an sBLA/approval pathway around late 2027, but timing remains regulator-dependent.

Presentation

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Started. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We have an update from Microbix to discuss their fiscal Q1 2026 results. A sequential improvement quarter-over-quarter, so starting to see a rebound in company progress after 2025, which we all know was a bit of a down year due to two events outside the company's control. But, you know, things seem to be tracking in the right direction. So here to tell us more about that, I have Cameron Groome, CEO, Jim Currie, CFO, Ken Hughes, COO. We won't be working off a presentation today. We will be finalizing the presentation with the Q1 numbers, so you can expect to see that online either later today or tomorrow at the latest. And we will have a Q&A section, so feel free to enter questions in the Q&A box.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

And again, not working off a presentation, but we are gonna talk about forward-looking statements, so if you'd like to know more about those, you can find them on the presentation on the company's website. With that all out of the way, I'll hand the mic over to Cameron, who I think is gonna give us a little bit of a review on the quarter.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Thank you. Good morning, Deborah. Thank you, Deborah and everyone. Deborah, you didn't want to spend five or 10 minutes reading through a detailed safe harbor statement?

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Oh, yeah, I would love to. Should I pull it up? Is everyone -

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Sure. Why don't-

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Yeah, you can all-

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Why don't we assume it's been read, and we'll refer to the one in the quarterly disclosure and leave it at that?

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Yeah, everyone can go back to bed halfway through my interpretation of it.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Okay. Well, pleased to announce our results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026. That is, just to remind everybody, the three months ended December 31st, 2025, as we operate on a September 30 fiscal year. The results for Q1 reflect the start of our ongoing work to recover our sales above our engineered break-even point, following the disclosed setbacks with two large clients in the second half of fiscal 2025, as you were describing, Deborah. Our revenues came in for Q1 at CAD 4.2 million for the quarter, and that's up 13%, from the prior quarter and in line with our budget expectations. And that, at revenues, we recorded a controlled net loss for the quarter of CAD 1.2 billion, using up some of our substantial cash reserves.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

We continue to view this as a tactical setback, not necessitating a change in the strategic direction of the corporation, whereby we're building our revenues with the test makers, with the PT/EQA providers, that's the proficiency testing and external quality assessment agencies that support the quality of lab testing, and with the clinical labs themselves. We have a growing portion of revenues that are more widely distributed, which is a positive for the business, as we've seen, you know, what you can experience with customer concentration issues. I'll shortly ask Jim to go into some more detail about our Q1 results in terms of the composition of sales, our margins, our costs, and our uses of cash, followed by Ken, who will touch on our operational progress. But first, I just want to highlight some of our recent disclosures.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Across Q1, and just before I get into the disclosures, I'll just emphasize that our policy is to disclose things once they are signed, sealed, and delivered. We do not typically disclose projects that, you know, are not either, already generating revenues or, have formal agreement associated with them. That's our watermark or waterline there on which we surface and discuss things. So just when you see these news release disclosures that are often written as much to highlight our progress to potential clients and our reach and sophistication, these are things that are done, and I'll just want to re-emphasize that. Across Q1, the September, October 1 to December 31 period, you've seen us disclose some announced new clients and new client programs in the molecular pathology and point-of-care genetics testings field.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

So again, taking us, continuing our moves to support oncology-related testing, as well as genetics-related testing, to add to our addressable markets and add to our long-standing expertise in the infectious disease space. So those programs announced in the fall, as well as two further test maker relationships, one in the United States with SEKISUI, supporting a point-of-care testing system, and another with Seegene in Mexico, beginning with support for cervical cancer screening programs. So again, this is Microbix continuing to prove our growing thought leadership and our reach across the industry with each of those programs linked to immediate sales, as I referenced earlier. I'll have some further comments as well about client programs and what we've announced just since the new year, but let me first ask for Jim's comment and further color on our Q1 results.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Jim, if you'd like to go ahead, that'd be great.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Sure, Cameron. Thank you. Yeah, Q1 was a sequential growth quarter when compared to last year, we saw a rather significant decline in revenues of 30%. That, however, was a result of predominantly the lack of sales through our distributor in China, and that was the differential from quarter to quarter was over CAD 2 million. So that's where we saw a rather significant decline in our antigen business, which was down 49% because of that lack of revenues. Now, without that lack of Chinese distributor revenues, the rest of our antigen business was actually up 5% for the quarter, quarter-over-quarter. Antigen business, the QAPs business was up at CAD 1.9 million, a 15% improvement over last year.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

So combined, we saw CAD 4.2 million worth of revenue for the quarter. Gross margins, again, disappointing in comparison to last year, as well as expectations. This is a result of the fact that we've got fewer products going through production, with the lower sales absorbing a similar level of fixed overheads. As we move towards our sort of break-even point of in excess of CAD 5.5 million, we'll start to see the margins improve, as well as our profitability level. Operating expenses for the quarter were at or below expected levels, as we continue to try and keep control of our costs during these quarters, as we lead up to quarters with more significant revenues. Cameron talked about the cash flow consumption during the quarter.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Most of that was a result of timing of receivables and collections of receivables. We finished Q4 with a fairly low level of receivables. And for the end of Q1, it was a high level, so. And in fact, during January, we received payments of CAD 3.3 million, and our cash balance at the end of January was CAD 10.6 million, so up 1.5 million from our closing at the end of December. Three million dollars is not what we expect to see on an ongoing basis for the consumption of cash. From an inventory standpoint, inventory was still fairly relatively level as we retain stock of predominantly finished goods to support our antigen business, as well as the growth in our QAPs business. That's about all I've got to cover off on the financial side for right now.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Well, thank you, Jim. I'll take a few moments now to just discuss the disclosures we've made thus far in 2026. Now, in January, we provided an update on our recombinant antigens program, and that's creating the ability to synthetically make the test ingredients, the antigens, as well as our long-standing expertise in creating native antigens from actually culturing viruses and bacteria, and so forth. The ability to make those ingredients as synthetically is very important. Our team, as we announced in January of 2025 and then updated in January of 2026, our team successfully onboarded these important technologies.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

In January, what we announced was our first commercial product resulting from that, and that's the SARS-CoV-2 viral capsid antigen, which is now actively being used in our QAPs, in our own products, and that strengthens our supply chain, improves our margins, and we'll ultimately be adding that product to our and other recombinant products to our catalog of test ingredients that we can sell more broadly. Very successful outcome on that program. Also, earlier this month, February, we disclosed progress in our QAPs business as relates to our PT/EQA clients. These are the proficiency testing and external quality assessment agencies that regularly challenge the clinical labs with programs to which they subscribe with our test patient sample mimetics, so that tests could be checked that a positive is a true positive and a negative is a true negative.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

The first program we disclosed was progress with our QAPs oriented towards molecular pathology. This is the combination of traditional, pathology methods, looking at cell type and confirmation with, PCR or other molecular testing to look for genetic signatures and improve the accuracy of certain diagnoses, specifically related to cancers and, infections that may cause granulation cysts that could look like cancer. That work was presented at Labquality Days in Finland, one of our PT/EQA important clients. Closer to home, we're also very proud to be permitted to disclose that the College of American Pathologists has joined the Microbix family of customers.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

The College of American Pathologists is the world's largest provider of PT/EQA programs to support the quality management in clinical labs, and we're now supporting the CAP on some important PT/EQA programs, again, adding to our demonstrating our thought leadership, adding to our relationships, and frankly, our revenues. So, thank you, and welcome to the College of American Pathologists. So that takes us up to date on some of our disclosures, and maybe I can now ask Ken. [audio distortion]

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

Forward-looking information, as well as in our management information circular on some of the performance feedback measures that we institute internally. So while those can be mind-numbingly boring documents to read, do encourage those that want to take a deeper cut. We do expend some effort on those to make sure you're getting full, plain, and true disclosure in a timely manner. So, do have a look if you've got interest or bandwidth. Those are available both on our website and at sedarplus.ca.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Thanks, Ken. Thanks, Jim. As everybody can see, the whole Microbix team has been really busy adding to our capabilities, our product offerings, our client projects, and our client relationships. And this is really all targeted towards delivering value to not just our customers, but of course, our shareholders as well. And we very much thank everybody for taking the time this morning to join us and for reviewing our results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026. With that, it's probably a great time, Deborah, to move over to questions. And if I can ask you to moderate on reading the questions, and we'll focus on giving the answers.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

I'm here for it, Cameron.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

All right, thanks.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

All right. So let's start with some investor questions. So was the sequential improvement at all due to seasonality?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

I don't, I wouldn't say so, no. I think, I think that is, there's always some issue of order timing and where, you know, a product may get finished and, you know, released by QC and QA to ship to a client, but there's no specific seasonality in that quarter. Jim, would you want to expand or differ on that?

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

No, no, I would agree, Cameron. I don't think there was any seasonality that impacted between Q3, Q4, and Q1.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Okay. Okay, thank you.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Accounts receivable more than doubled versus Q4. Is there any unusual reason for that?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, I think a resumption in client orders and the flow, just the timing of orders. What we carried over quarter end was a higher balance of receivables from product that had been shipped, but invoices not yet collected. That was reflected in the cash flow from operations figure, reflected that increased flow of working capital into accounts receivable. As Jim has indicated, you know, those receivables have since been collected, moving our cash balances higher and our receivables figure lower. So just the normal business flow there, and what was carried across a quarter-end snapshot of the balance sheet.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, timing of shipments has an impact on it. Typically, I guess in Q4, the shipments were earlier in the quarter, and we collected a good portion of them during the quarter, whereas in the first quarter of this year, we had a fair number of shipments that went out in December and obviously weren't collected by December 31st.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah. Our vast majority of our sales are business to business, and you know, we're normally, it's a very rare situation that we ever have a bad receivable, and I don't think I've ever recalled anything, any provision annually in excess of maybe CAD 50,000. Jim?

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, we've kept a provision of CAD 35,000 for quite a while because we have next to no write-offs from our customers.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

It's not to say somebody doesn't push it out a little bit on the collection, on the payment timing particularly, you know, some clients have a regular habit of doing that, but they are all creditworthy.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Okay, great. And then, OpEx in the quarter—OpEx was low in the quarter. Is that a seasonal effect, or should we see OpEx stable going forward?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Take it away, Jim.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, I mean, seasonality, I still don't know whether you call it seasonality, but for some reason, Q1 always tends to be a lower spend level from an OpEx standpoint. Some of it's due to the fact that the, for instance, up from a sales and marketing front, not as much activity on the trade shows, et cetera, in the first quarter. We'll start to see that bump up in Q2 and Q3, as there's been a number of trade shows that have been attended and are being attended to in the next in the coming months. So that, that impacts us, as well as our R&D spend. I think, our R&D spend will go up, so I wouldn't expect the operating expenses to stay at the Q1 level, but they're not gonna jump up dramatically throughout the year.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

I mean, we've been pretty consistent recently with our operating expenses.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, and this is very, very much, you know, holding the line on the expense side, you know, as we build the revenue side of back up from some of those customer setbacks.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

When will China purchases start for the next flu season? And are you seeing any signs of sales resuming there?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

You know, China's not the most transparent market. We've certainly been pushing hard at our distributor to get a good handle on that. We've not seen sales in China resume to much of an extent as yet. We're continuing to be told that it's a flu incidence and inventory being consumed from tests that were built for last season, but we've not yet seen a resumption in draw of antigen sales into China, so it continues at a very low level right now.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Okay, and what is the revenue potential with the College of American Pathologists?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Well, you know, that client will certainly start well, you know, is well into the six figures for 2026, and we would view that as a, you know, we would be targeting them to be a meaningful seven-figure account for Microbix. So, it comes with each additional program that we support and the rollout of new programs across the potential base of about 22,000 pathologists and labs that the college supports. Now, not every lab is testing for every pathogen, so it's always a subset of that potential pool. And, you know, we look at modeling those as we go forward and seeing what it can be. But it is meaningful for us, and that's why we disclosed it, of course.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Got it. When would you typically see China start buying again for the next flu season, if they're going to?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

I think we'd see that over the late summer to early fall. We should see what's going on there. And, you know, we've been supporting Chinese manufacturers on some of the childhood disease testing, but principally in the respiratory disease side of things. And some of the immunologic testing that happens in China, there's a lot of air pollution is an issue in China, as is, you know, a large population in concentrated urban centers. So oftentimes, people can have low-level infections, and you're really not going to get useful information out of PCR tests if somebody has a low-level infection, but that's really not the problem. So the immunologic tests are used looking for an acute phase antibody reaction, indicative of an active walking pneumonia, and that's where we've been supporting testing in China.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

So it's really about the incidence of potential respiratory bacterial infections that we're supporting in China, more than it is in relation to, you know, cold and flu. So the bad seasons, I think, are where our products get used more extensively, and that form of testing is done more extensively.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Understood. Was Sequel always aware that animal components would need to be replaced with synthetic, or is that new information?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

No, we've all been aware of that from the very outset of the program, and that's, you know, that's belt and suspenders, not meat and potatoes work, really, to bring that up to contemporary standards. So this has always been on the path. It's completely well known on the path for redevelop and relaunch. So no, no surprises there.

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah. None whatsoever. Let's remember that the original urokinase, Abbokinase, as was, production process was developed in the 1970s, and then the last time it was updated by Abbott, before it became Kinlytic, was just at the turn of the millennium. So not much of updating has gone on in the last two decades. The expectation is to bring it up to contemporary standards. You know, its animal-derived products can be replaced by plant-derived versions thereof, and indeed, growth factors from that would be derived from pigs or cows can now be replaced with recombinant versions. This is standard fare.

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

It also goes down to the downstream, the chromatography resins and the filters that you can use to, you know, to clean up feedstock are so much better these days, and the levels of purity can be much higher can be realized. This is entirely expected. It's been discussed with the FDA. It's not required to eliminate animal components, but we're asked to make best efforts, which is just contemporary standard, and this is going very well, and that's why we had an uncontroversial meeting with the FDA. We're just doing what we agreed to do, and we're proceeding forwards.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Great.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah. Well said.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Would you expect any big QAPs customers will shift to commercial sales with any of your products this year?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Repeat that to me.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Would you expect that any big QAPs customers will shift to commercial sales with products this year? I think they're asking, are you expecting any large orders?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, we are certainly targeting large orders and large programs with different major multinationals. But again, that's aspirational. That's not forward-looking information. We will announce agreements again when they're signed, sealed, and delivered. You know, the fish may be on the line, but thank you. We'll announce it when it's been reeled into the boat and is in the cooler, not when it's on the line. Thank you. So yes, there are multiple large clients with significant projects that we're working on now, and when those reach a point at which we can make specific disclosures, we'll do so.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Are any of the large orders expected for products that are commercial, not in development?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Just thinking. Yes, typically, they are for, they can be for an existing assay on an existing instrument platform, and in which case, you're replacing an incumbent supplier. They can be for a new assay on an existing instrument platform, in which case there is a large installed base of instruments, but the assay is new. And then, there can be a new assay on a new instrument, in which case, of course, there isn't an installed base. So we're working across each of those categories in our efforts to secure new client programs as well as new clients. And you see some of that, for example, with Seegene in Mexico.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Well, that is a support for an existing assay on an existing instrument, where they're penetrating new markets, in this case, Mexico. Or you can have, in the case of SEKISUI in the United States, where it is support for a new assay on a new instrument in a new market. So, you know, each of these will accelerate and have a different shaped S-curve for adoption, but that's a little more granular than we're prepared to go. And really, you know, investors have to rely either on the analysts or themselves to model out those expectations. That's a little more liability than we're willing to take on. Thank you.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Last question here. So last webinar, you indicated a 30% increase in revenue off the 2025 low point for fiscal 2026. That seems affirmed today, and today's results were said on plan. Microbix also expected profitability in fiscal Q4, July to September quarter. Do you still expect profitability to be reached by Q4?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

I think we're targeting to get back into the CAD 5.5 million-CAD 6 million range, and that's our break-even point there. I, I think profitability in Q4 may be a bit of a, you know, meaning it, there won't be, there shouldn't be a meaningful loss in Q4, but I don't think there'll be, there'll be significant profitability based on the numbers we're looking at currently. Now, that's things, again, that's based on orders we can reasonably anticipate at the present time. We could well exceed those numbers if some of the new business development projects that we're hunting land and begin to generate revenues in that, in that, in those final quarters. But again, we're setting, you know, annualized revenues at 30% above the Q3 low point.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

In the CAD 18.5 million-CAD 19 million range for the full year is a reasonable expectation, and that's the sort of budget targets, and that will be distributed quarter by quarter based on order timing and when we actually ship product. And that's consistent with the forward-looking information that is in our management discussion analysis that you should be relying on, if you're looking for detailed information, rather than the more off-the-cuff commentary I can give here.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Congrats on the success with FDA and on the uncontroversial feedback. What is the timing for final FDA approval?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Well, tough, tough to know on FDA approval because the FDA can be faster or slower to review a file. What we're working to generate is the best possible supplemental biologics licensing application, or sBLA filing, that we can generate. And there's some moving parts on that, always based on the package that we can generate. So what we're doing now is the most robust modernization of the drug substance manufacturing, and then we'll be completing, as another step, the formulated drug product. That's the final product in the vial. And then we'll be doing as many purity and potency assays on that as we can, preparatory to an sBLA submission.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

You know, that certainly won't be in 2026, but I think we can look for that in the latter part of 2027, and that's remained a consistent target for us, but there's any number of thing, moving parts to that equation.

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

I would just add, yeah, the 2027 was the stated target at the beginning. It remains the same based on what's going on. We have parallel drug substance and drug product development, so the technical aspects are going expeditiously. We're at the mercy of the regulator. You know, they can be very quick, but there is a market demand for urokinase. We have a monopolist which has difficulty supplying or servicing the market right now. And, I think we've already told the group that the European regulators have already reached out to us to ask us not to forget about them and their market. So they want the urokinase product on the Kinlytic product on the market as well. There is a driver there, but, you know, there is politics, and there is a capacity at the regulator, but right now, 2027 remains the goal.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

A follow-on question here: Has FDA confirmed the sBLA is okay, given the replacement of animal products with synthetic?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

No sBLA has been filed yet. That happens at the end of the process, so what we're continuing to do is keep the FDA updated through the process. This is a touch point, not an endpoint.

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

The replacement of animal-derived components with either plant-derived or recombinant components is entirely expected and entirely uncontroversial. This is just part of the engineering of a process. It has no effect on the sBLA or the regulatory filing. It's just doing things in, according to contemporary standards. It's been discussed since day one. It's not perceived to be, in any way, a controversial situation. Why would you use an animal component when a synthetic one is available?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Exactly.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Got it. So the filing path remains the same?

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

Absolutely.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Correct. Yeah.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Can China use the antigens they have in inventory, or do they need new antigens for new strains?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

The antigens are designed to work across multiple strains, so, you know, inventory kept at -80 has a long shelf life. If the product, however, has been incorporated into a test, then it has a defined shelf life. So ingredients have a long shelf life. Finished tests have a defined shelf life, and they either have to be sold or they risk expiring unused.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Got it.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

This is-

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Can you update us-

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, go, go ahead.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Sorry, go ahead. No, no, you go ahead.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

No, I-

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

I was switching gears.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, I was just gonna say, you know, it's always more challenging when you're once removed from the client relationships and working through a distributor to get that kind of detailed intelligence. And, you know, we've not, however, built, you know, boots-on-the-ground sales infrastructure in China. That's something a little beyond our current aspirations.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Can you update us on the NCIB for the quarter and looking forward?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Absolutely. Well, we renewed the NCIB. This is the normal course issuer bid, for those that don't speak financial. And that's otherwise known as the share buyback program. So we renewed that in early December, and under the normal course issuer bid renewal, we're allowed to buy back a certain number of shares every week and react to one block trade per week. But, Jim, maybe I'll ask you to touch on the specifics of the renewal, what we're currently doing, and what we've done so far this year.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, under the renewal, to be honest, I can't remember the exact number. It's in excess of 20,000 shares per week that we can acquire, but we've-

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Per day, Jim.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Per day. Sorry. Thank you. But we've chosen to currently repurchase at a level of 15,000 per day, given our current situation. And we've since in Q1, in Q1, we acquired about 700,000 shares at a cost of about CAD 175,000. And through January and today, we've, we've repurchased approximately 1 million shares to date. That is both the old NCIB through December 9 and the new one starting December 9, 2025. And our plan is to continue repurchasing at the 15,000 per day level, unless we see a reason to change that.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, and this is really. Thank you, Jim. This is really striking a balance between more than offsetting any usage of for stock options, but over roughly a 250-day business day calendar year, repurchasing at 15,000 shares a day will result in the repurchase of about 3.75 million shares, well in excess of any option awards that are granted, so the company continuing to be in a net anti-dilutive position, but not burning through an excessive amount of our cash. Now, you know, as we see landing large new client programs, we may get more aggressive on that and move up to the full daily repurchases, as well as potentially blocks. But currently, we're moving between at a heightened level.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Last year, we were buying back 12,000 and change a day, so we are buying back more shares on a daily basis this year, and we have the potential to move up to that maximum. And I did pull up, but I'm not pretending this is from my memory either, but I did pull up the daily maximum is 20,339 that would we be able to buy back per day, and that's based on a quarter of the average daily trading volume on the shares, the shares of the TSX for the most recently completed six months prior to the renewal, drives the mechanics of that.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Great. I don't see any other questions. Cameron, do you want to give some final thoughts?

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Yeah, I mean, you know, for concluding thoughts, you know, as Ken said, we continue to build the capabilities and capacity, but also we're continuing to demonstrate some real thought leadership with our within our industry and across our different customer categories. And we continue to add new client relationships in the PT/EQA provider space with the major test makers, test manufacturers, and with individual clinical lab customers. So we're not only seeing an increase of revenues across an increase of customers, but we're seeing an increase of touch points with those customers, and that's driving not only revenue growth, but dispersion of our revenues across a greater number of customers, which ideally reduces volatility going forward.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

So, we're doing the right things for the right reasons, and I think you're seeing that reflected in the number of great customers that we're engaged with and, as well as the financial results that we're going to have reported and are going to be reporting.

[Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets]

Well, it's good to see you making progress. Thank you all three for your time this morning. Thanks to the audience for your participation and your questions. As always, if anyone has any follow-up questions or would like a meeting with management, please feel free to reach out to myself. I'd be happy to set that up. And yeah, thanks, everyone, for your time.

[Ken Hughes, COO at Microbix Biosystems]

Thank you.

[Jim Currie, CFO at Microbix Biosystems]

Thanks.

[Cameron Groome, CEO at Microbix Biosystems]

Thank you so much. Thanks, everyone.

Participants

Executives

• Cameron Groome, CEO
• Jim Currie, CFO
• Ken Hughes, COO

Analysts

• Deborah Honig, Investor Relations Representative at Adelaide Capital Markets