Navidea Biopharmaceuticals : Announces Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results; Total Revenues Grow to $1.1 Million

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NAVB), a biopharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, today announced financial results and business highlights for the second quarter and first half of 2014. Revenue to Navidea from sales of Lymphoseek^® (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) Injection grew to more than $1 million in the second quarter of 2014, an increase of 67% compared to the first quarter 2014 and an increase of over 700% compared to the second quarter of 2013 when the product was first launched. Based on the sales trends observed, Navidea reiterates its full-year 2014 Lymphoseek revenue expectation of $5 to $6 million.

“Lymphoseek sales growth is being driven by favorable product characteristics, recent CMS reimbursement, as well as commercial and medical education activities directed at major cancer centers,” said Michael Goldberg, M.D., Navidea Interim Chief Executive Officer. “This is resulting in strong customer retention with positive trends in utilization and account growth. We believe additional near-term and medium-term revenue growth will be enhanced in part by our recent label expansion for guiding sentinel lymph node biopsy in certain head and neck cancers, anticipated U.S. label expansion stemming from our second sNDA later this year, as well as increased commercial activities targeting surgical oncologists, and our international activities.”

Dr. Goldberg continued, “We have significantly advanced our pipeline by adding a therapeutic application to our Manocept™ platform by having recently entered a partnership with a company funded by the leading venture capital firm, Essex Woodlands, to co-develop Manocept to detect and treat Rheumatoid Arthritis and other arthritic conditions. We continue to aggressively pursue partnerships for our neurodegenerative disease detection agents to complete Phase 3 development and registration. Late in the second quarter, we announced a restructuring to reduce expenses primarily related to the reprioritization of our product development pipeline which, coupled with strong gross profit from Lymphoseek, we anticipate will begin to meaningfully offset our cash burn by Q4 2014.”

Milestones & Highlights

Select milestones and highlights that the Company has achieved during the first half of 2014 include the following:

• With our partner, Lymphoseek generated approximately $2 million in sales, of which just over $1 million in revenue was recognized by Navidea in the second quarter of 2014, a 67% increase from the prior quarter.
• Realized attractive gross margins on Lymphoseek revenue of nearly 75% for the second quarter and the first half of 2014.
• Grew Lymphoseek customer base since launch to more than 350 hospitals with 123 new accounts added in Q2 2014 alone.
• Received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Lymphoseek for guiding sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in head and neck cancer patients with clinically node negative squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, making Lymphoseek the first and only FDA-approved radiopharmaceutical for sentinel lymph node detection.
• Presented encouraging positive data and results from Lymphoseek studies in breast cancer, melanoma, head and neck or colorectal cancer and Manocept studies in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Kaposi’s Sarcoma at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting. Eleven presentations were made by Navidea and its collaborators which reinforce the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of Lymphoseek and the potential for our macrophage-targeting Manocept platform.
• Formed a joint enterprise, R-NAV, LLC, with Essex Woodlands-backed Rheumco, LLC to develop and commercialize radiolabeled diagnostics and therapeutics for rheumatologic and arthritic diseases using Navidea’s Manocept macrophage targeting platform and Rheumco’s Tin-117m technology.

Financial Results

Total recognized revenue for the second quarter of 2014 was $1.1 million compared to $195,000 for the same period in 2013. Product revenue from sales of Lymphoseek in the second quarter of 2014 was $1,046,000 compared to $627,000 in the first quarter of 2014. For the six months ended June 30, 2014, Navidea’s total revenue was $1,826,000 compared to $195,000 for the same period in 2013.

Second quarter 2014 operating expenses were $10.0 million compared to $8.5 million for the second quarter of 2013. Operating expenses were $19.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2014, compared to $15.6 million for the same period in 2013. Research and development (R&D) expenses were $5.1 million in the second quarter of 2014 compared to $4.4 million in the same period of 2013. R&D expenses were $10.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2014, compared to $8.0 million for the same period in 2013. The net increases in R&D expenses were primarily a result of NAV4694, NAV5001 and Manocept product development and clinical trial-related costs incurred prior to our decision late in the second quarter to reprioritize our development plans to reduce our cash burn. Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses for the second quarter of 2014 were $4.9 million compared to $4.2 million in the same period of 2013. SG&A expenses were $8.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2014, compared to $7.5 million for the same period in 2013. The net increases in SG&A expenses were due primarily to the one-time separation costs associated with the Company’s former CEO coupled with costs to support Lymphoseek medical education efforts.

Second quarter 2014 net loss attributable to common stockholders was $10.2 million, or $0.07 per share, compared to net loss attributable to common stockholders of $10.3 million, or $0.09 per share, in the second quarter of 2013. For the six months ended June 30, 2014, Navidea’s net loss attributable to common stockholders was $22.0 million, or $0.15 per share, compared to a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $17.6 million, or $0.15 per share, for the same period in 2013.

Conference Call Details

Navidea will provide a business update and discuss the second quarter 2014 financial results during a conference call with the investment community scheduled for Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. EDT. Investors and the public are invited to access the live webcast through the link below. Participants who would like to ask questions during the question and answer session following the presentation must participate by telephone also. Participants are encouraged to log-in and/or dial-in fifteen minutes before the conference call begins. The webcast replay is expected to be available on our investor website, http://ir.navidea.com, approximately two to four hours after the live event.

About Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc.
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NAVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of precision diagnostics and radiopharmaceutical agents. Navidea is developing multiple precision diagnostic products and platforms including Manocept™, NAV4694, NAV5001, and NAV1800 (RIGScan™), to help identify the sites and pathways of undetected disease and enable better diagnostic accuracy, clinical decision-making and, ultimately, patient care. Lymphoseek^® (technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept) Injection, Navidea’s first commercial product from the Manocept platform, was approved by the FDA in March 2013. Navidea’s strategy is to deliver superior growth and shareholder return by bringing to market novel radiopharmaceutical agents and advancing the Company’s pipeline through selective acquisitions, global partnering and commercialization efforts. For more information, please visit www.navidea.com.

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