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Biotest AG Call Transcript 2022

Mar 24, 2022

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Biotest AG

FY 2021 Results Conference call

March 24, 2022

  • This document contains forward-looking statements on overall economic development as well as on the business, earnings, financial and asset situation of Biotest AG and its subsidiaries. These statements are based on current plans, estimates, forecasts and expectations of the company and thus are subject to risks and elements of uncertainty that could result in deviation of actual developments from expected developments.
  • The forward-looking statements are only valid at the time of publication. Biotest does not intend to update the forward-looking statements and assumes no obligation to do so.
  • All comparative figures relate to the corresponding last year´s period, unless stated otherwise.

Facts & Figures FY 2021

Biotest Group – Overview FY 2021

  • Voluntary takeover offer by Grifols, S.A.: almost completed
  • Expansion of EU plasma collection centres continued: now 29 centres
  • R&D pipeline projects are progressing

  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) awarded Biotest's Trimodulin project with financial support in the volume of up to € 29 million

  • Sales FY 2021: € 515.6 million, +6.5% compared to FY 2020; Adjusted EBIT FY 2021: € 29.4 million after one-time write-off of € 40.1 million
  • Manufacturing licence granted for Biotest Next Level facility in July 2021
  • New Management Board member Dr. Jörg Schüttrumpf (CSO) appointed

Grifols S.A. – voluntary public takeover offer for all shares of Biotest AG

Grifols S.A. voluntary public takeover ongoing:

Status as of Jan 21, 2022:

  • 6.22% outstanding ordinary shares and 42.24% outstanding preference shares were tendered
  • After closing, Grifols S.A. will own 96.2% ordinary shares and 43.2% preference shares
  • Anti-trust/merger control filings settled in Austria, Germany, Spain; ongoing in Turkey
  • Closing expected within the next weeks
  • Squeeze out for ordinary shares planned

5 Biotest AG

Current Status CREAT - Grifols – Biotest - as of Jan 21, 2022

Strategic considerations for Grifols S.A. takeover of Biotest

  • Providing a more complete range of plasma derived products of both companies
  • Improved availability of life saving medicines by combining Biotest innovative pipeline and manufacturing capacities with existing Grifols activities
  • Intention: Intensify and accelerate Biotest´s Trimodulin and Fibrinogen development

Biotest COVID-19 update

  • Biotest has managed well the COVID-19 situation so far
  • Antigen tests introduced for employees in late 2020
  • 1 st & 2nd vaccination offered to employees starting in June 2021
  • Booster vaccination offer from December 2021 onwards
  • Little quarantine was experienced during the past 2 years
  • Current absenteeism among employees like severe flu

Corona vaccination activities

Biotest – Sustainability Report 2021

Can anything be more sustainable than ensuring and protecting not only the basis of life of future generations, but already this of today?

  • based on products made from renewable raw materials
  • with low environmental impact and
  • climate-neutral production (Scope 1 and 2)
  • due to the switch to green electricity and
  • voluntary compensation measures for all greenhouse gas emissions

Report on the EU Taxonomy Regulation

Income statement (€ million)

FY
2020
FY
2021
FY 2021
w/o FVIII
one-time effect
Sales 484.2 515.6 515.6
Therapy
thereof:
430.5 461.6
Plasma & Services 46.7 46.7
Other
Segments
7.0 7.3
Operating costs & expenses -485.5 -562.7 -522.6
Operating profit (EBIT) -1.3 -47.1 -7.0
Financial result, result
from joint ventures, taxes
-30.1 -16.3 -16.3
Earnings after tax (EAT) Biotest
Group
-31.4 -63.4 -23.3

Sales development of sales regions* (€ million)

*: In Q1 2021, Poland and the Czech Republic were reclassified from the Central Europe region to the Eastern Southern Europe region. The previous year's figures have been adjusted accordingly.

Therapy sales up +7.2% to € 461.6.8 million in FY 2021 vs. € 430.5 million in FY 2020

Reconciliation EBIT FY 2020 – EBIT FY 2021 (€ million)

€ million* FY 2021
w/o FVIII
one-time effect
EBIT FY
2020
-1.3 -1.3
Reduced
Gross Profit (-38.0%)
-49.5 -9.4
Higher
Marketing & Distribution expenses
-0.9 -0.9
Higher
Administrative expenses
-1.9 -1.9
Lower
R&D expenses
3.6 3.6
Others (Other
operating income and Other
Oper. Expense)
2.9 2.9
EBIT FY 2021 -47.1 -7.0

*: a positive sign is favorable to EBIT, an negative sign is unfavorable to EBIT

EBIT reported and adjusted (€ million)

FY
2020
FY
2021
FY 2021
w/o FVIII
one-time effect
EBIT
reported
-1.3 -47.1 -7.0
Biotest
Next Level costs*
79.6 76.5 76.5
Monoclonal
antibodies
0.1 0.0 0.0
EBIT
adjusted
78.4 29.4 69.5

*: including R&D costs for BNL development projects

Biotest Next Level (BNL) costs in FY 2021

1. BNL facility costs: € 38.3 million:

  • Facility costs (energy, building costs, security, etc.)
  • Depreciation
  • Personnel costs (for ramp-up, commissioning etc.)
  • Project administration

2. BNL R&D costs in total: € 37.5 million*; thereof:

  • € 13.5 million IgG Next Generation
  • € 16.6 million Trimodulin (IgM Concentrate)
  • € 7.4 million Fibrinogen

Total BNL costs: € 76.5 million in FY 2021

*: including external vendor cost (e.g. CRO) and internal cost of personnel and infrastructure

Reconciliation Financial Result FY 2020 – Financial Result FY 2021 (€ million)

€ million
Financial
Result FY 2020
-28.2
Variation
in valuation of ADMA shares held by trustee
+5.4
Higher
interest expenses
-0,1
Positive effect of FX / hedging +6.1
Financial
Result FY 2021
-16.8

Balance sheet (€ million)

Cash flow from operating activities January – December 2021 (€ million)

R&D Opportunities - Biotest with Grifols

    1. Grifols to be new major shareholder
    1. New strategic options for R&D developments with significant increase of market expectations due to complementary expertise and strengths
    1. Wider commercial reach
    1. Acceleration of R&D projects with higher R&D spending

BNL: IgG Next Generation

Clinical development

  • Phase III study in PID1 (EU + US; study 991):
  • Treatment of adults and children completed
  • All clinical endpoints met
  • Phase III study in ITP2 (EU; study 992):
  • Treatment completed
  • Data shows expected good efficacy and a good safety profile of the product
  • Phase III study for high dose indication (EU, US; study 999): Planned to be started in 2022
  • Results in EU Clinical Trials Register published
  • Preparation of submission documents for Marketing Authorization for spring 2022

1 Primary Immune Deficiency; 2 Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

BNL: Fibrinogen Concentrate -

development for congenital and acquired fibrinogen deficiencies

Phase I/III study fibrinogen deficiency:

Congenital fibrinogen deficiency is a very rare, inherited bleeding disorder in which the body's ability to form blood clots is impaired Phase I/III: completed

Phase III study acquired fibrinogen deficiency:

  • In acquired fibrinogen deficiency body´s own coagulation factor fibrinogen is lost i.e. due to major bleeding
  • Replacement of lost fibrinogen is critical to restore effective haemostasis
  • Patients undergoing spinal surgery or tumor surgery (Pseudomyxoma peritonei) are treated with fibrinogen

Phase III: ongoing

Trimodulin – Clinical development program Phase III

  • Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) recommended to continue COVID-19 development of Trimodulin in a phase III trial
  • TRICOVID development is supported by a € 29 million grant by the German Government

Trimodulin Status update

  • In both phase II clinical trials, the ESsCOVID trial for COVID-19 and the CIGMA trial for severe Community Acquired Pneumonia (sCAP) Biotest identified patient populations that markedly benefited from treatment with Trimodulin compared to placebo treated patients
  • The Phase III program for Trimodulin will start with two trials in 2022:
  • a) TRICOVID trial targeting hospitalized COVID-19 patients: First study, preparation ongoing
  • b) ESsCAPE trial targeting patients with sCAP: Second study, preparation ongoing

Biotest Next Level update

BNL achievements 2021 – IgG Next Generation

BNL Update

  • The last Process Performance Qualification (PPQ) batch was manufactured in August 2021; herewith all prerequisites for successful commercial production of IgG Next Generation have been established
  • All data collected will be compiled as part of preparing the dossier; submission of the dossier to the competent authorities planned for spring 2022
  • Approval/ marketing authorization for IgG Next Generation is expected at the end of 2022
  • Start of validation & commissioning of Trimodulin and Fibrinogen plant

Next Steps

Ramp-up IgG Next Generation

Expansion of plasma collection centers ongoing – now 29 centres

Five centres opened in 2021 Two centres opened in Jan and Mar 2022

  • Czech Republic:
  • Brno
  • Budweis
  • Strakonice
  • Kolin
  • Ostrava
  • Hungary:
  • Sopron
  • Szombathely

Expansion of plasma collection centres ongoing

Cara Plasma, Strakonice, Czech Republic – 11/ 2021 PDU, Sopron, Hungary – 7/ 2021

Impact of COVID-19 on US and EU Commercial Plasma Collections

  • Strong and persisting impact of COVID-19 on US source plasma collections in 2021; >60% of global plasma for fractionation collected in the US
  • EU (DE, HU, CZ, AT) collections less impacted and recovering faster, but with minor share of global plasma supply
  • Global shortage of plasma and, consequently, shortage of IgG ongoing in 2022

Source: PPTA, Biotest internal analysis; charts not to scale

Forecasting capability for 2022 impaired by

  • Weakening of the economy expected due to Russian Ukraine war
  • Strong increase of energy costs: gas, electricity, oil etc. > 20%
  • Significant increase of costs for other operational materials and supplies > 15%
  • Supply difficulties expected: i.e. for Ethanol (alcohol), plasma and other operating materials
  • Increased operational risks due to prolonged delivery times (spare parts, filters etc.)
  • COVID-19 related staff shortages
  • Potential production interruption

Guidance 2022: Sales & Risks

Sales

No general demand or medical need issue

But:

Overall economic situation may reduce "purchase power" of health systems

More risky:

  • Production slow down or interruption
  • COVID-19 induced staff shortage
  • Delayed delivery of plasma
  • Postponed inspections of new plasma centers
  • Limited availability of spare parts, important supplies
  • Energy shortages

Guidance 2022

Financial Calendar 2022 and Contact

Financial Calendar 2022

  • 05 May 2022 Q1 Report
  • 05 May 2022 AGM
  • 11 Aug 2022 H1 Report
  • 14 Nov 2022 Q1-Q3 Report

Investor Relations Public Relations

Dr. Monika Buttkereit Dirk Neumüller Tel.: +49-6103-801-4406 Tel.: +49-6103-801-269 [email protected] [email protected]