NeuroOne Medical Technologies Corp (NMTC) 2026 Q1 法說會逐字稿

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the first quarter fiscal 2026 financial results conference call for NeuroOne Medical Technologies Corporation. Today's call will be conducted by the company's Chief Executive Officer, Dave Rosa, and Ron McClurg, the company's Chief Financial Officer.

Before I turn the call over to Mr. Rose, I'd like to remind you that this conference call will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of US federal securities laws with respect to future operations financial results, including our 2026 revenue guidance, events, trends and performance, which are based on management's beliefs and assumptions as of today's call.

Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. See NeuroOne's financial results press release and SEC filings for information regarding specific risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ. Except as required by law, NeuroOne undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements.

With that, I will turn the call over to Mr. Dave Rosa, CEO of NeuroOne. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, operator, and thank you to everyone for joining us today. I'd like to welcome you to our first quarter fiscal 2026 financial results conference call. The company continued the positive momentum from fiscal year 2025 by making progress in a number of different areas of the business.

Our first quarter sales were sequentially higher than the previous quarter and down slightly as expected from the initial stocking order that was placed in Q1 of fiscal 2025 with the launch of the 1RF brain ablation system. We are also projecting fiscal year 2026 sales to be at least $10.5 million, which is a minimum 17% increase from fiscal year 2025. With respect to our existing product portfolio, we continue to make exciting progress across all of our programs. First, regarding our 1RF brain ablation system, the number of ablations performed in fiscal Q1 2026 was nearly half of all ablations performed since the launch of the technology.

This demonstrates continued penetration and adoption of the technology in the market. We also reported that Mark Burnell, a professional pianist from Chicago, was able to resume his career after receiving an ablation with our system. These types of stories are not only exciting to hear but also confirm our enthusiasm for future potential growth with this platform. As previously mentioned, we are also establishing a registry to capture these outcomes and hope to enroll the first patient by the end of the third fiscal quarter.

We also attended the American Epilepsy Society Meeting in December where our system was exhibited at Zimmer Biomet's booth.

In addition, doctors from the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, provided their experience with the system at the booth. We also believe there's an opportunity internationally for our technology and continue to work towards receiving ISO 13485 certification as a first step towards commercializing internationally.

Moving on to our OneRF trigeminal nerve ablation system. We previously disclosed that in August of 2025, we received FDA 510(k) clearance for this system to treat facial pain by ablating trigeminal nerve.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, we initiated a limited commercial launch and reported that the first two patients were treated at the University Hospitals Cleveland with both patients reporting pain relief from the procedure. To date, nine total patients have been treated at three centers and all our reported pain free, which is extremely encouraging.

As a reminder, unlike traditional ablation systems, our probe was intended to be placed once due to the multiple contacts present on the device. Traditional systems typically require multiple pro placements, which can cause additional patient discomfort.

Given the positive outcomes to date, we expect to complete this limited launch by the end of Q2 fiscal 2026. We are currently in diligence discussions with a strategic to potentially license this technology and look to conclude these discussions as quickly as possible. Regarding our drug delivery program, we were able to accelerate the program and expect that we will have devices available for commercial use and investigational clinical studies or animals in Q3 fiscal 2026.

This is approximately six months sooner than originally expected. We are currently organizing an advisory board of leading oncology experts that treat challenging brain tumors such as glioblastomas to provide guidance in utilizing the system to deliver therapies to the brain for this application.

We are also continuing discussions with various pharma and biotech companies regarding the potential use of the device for animal and/or investigational human studies for gene and cell therapies in development. As reported last quarter, we are evaluating opportunities with 2 organizations interested in forming a partnership to use our drug-related technology to deliver their experimental therapies to the brain to treat a variety of different neurological conditions.

Moving on to our two lower back pain management programs, I will first provide an update on our percutaneously placed pad electrode. This system is designed to offer broader customizable stimulation less energy consumption and can be concerted through a 14-gauge needle, eliminating the need for an incision in the patient's back. We plan to initiate a long-term animal study next month in preparation for our first human implant. We are actively engaged in diligence discussions with strategic organizations regarding their interest in this platform.

The second technology and development to treat lower back pain is our base vertebral nerve ablation system.

This past quarter we held multiple advisory board meetings with leading pain experts to confirm the product requirements as well as to validate the system's potential benefits compared to existing technologies. We are confident in our strategy to leverage our existing 1RF generator and SEEG probe for this application. We are also in diligence discussions with strategics regarding this product technology and the potential partnership. Next up in development is to identify firms that can provide manufacturing or required access tools for the system.

Finally, we were excited to announce the appointment of Jason Mills to our board of directors. Jason is currently the executive Vice President of strategy for Penumbra Incorporated, which was recently acquired by Boston Scientific for $14.5 billion. Prior to that, Jason was managing director at Canaccord Genuity and has held similar roles in other investment banks over his career.

We believe his expertise will translate smoothly into helping address the company's business development opportunities currently in process.

I would now like to turn the call over to Ron McClurg, Chief Financial Officer, to provide a review of our first quarter fiscal 2026 financial results.

Thanks, Dave. Product revenue was $2.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 compared to product revenue of $3.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, which included Zimmer's initial stocking.

On a sequential basis, revenue increased 5.5% from $2.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.

The company had no license revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 compared to license revenue of $3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, which was derived from the expanded exclusive distribution agreement with Zimmer.

Product gross profit was $1.6 million or 54.2% of revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 compared to product gross profit of $1.9 million or 58.9% of revenue in the same quarter of the prior fiscal year. On a sequential basis, product gross profit increased 2.6% from $1.5 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025.

Total operating expenses were $3.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal '26 compared to $3.2 million in the same quarter of the prior year.

Research and development expense in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 was $1.4 million compared to $1.2 million in the same quarter of the prior year.

Selling general and administrative expense in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 decreased 7.7% to $1.9 million compared to $2 million in the same quarter of the prior year.

Net loss in the first quarter of 2026 was $1.4 million, or a loss of $0.03 per share, compared to net income of $1.8 million or $0.06 per share in the same quarter of the prior year.

Net income in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 included the license revenue of $3 million related to the distribution license granted to Zimmer for the 1RF product in October of 2024.

As of December 30, 2025, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $3.6 million compared to 6.6 million as of September 30, 2025. Of note, [noriw] is funded through fiscal 2026, potentially longer if key milestones are hit.

The company had working capital of $6.8 million as of December 31, 2025 compared to working capital of $7.9 million as of September 30, 2025. No one had no debt outstanding as of December 30, 2025.

I'll now turn the call back over to Dave for his closing remarks.

Thank you, Ron. As I mentioned at the top of the call, we continued the positive momentum from fiscal year 2025 by making progress across all of our programs. In addition, we are projecting revenues of at least $10.5 million in fiscal 2026 and look forward to providing updates on our progress in other areas of the business as well throughout the year.

In addition, we will be attending the Oppenheimer 36th annual Healthcare MedTech and Services conference and invite investors to meet with Neuroone March 16th through 19th and join our presentation at 1:20 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 17.

Lastly, before we move into the Q&A portion of today's call, I and everyone at Neuroone would like to extend our sympathies for the unexpected loss of Doctor [Sanjeet Griwal], a brilliant neurosurgeon, valued collaborator, and friend to NeuroO.

Our deepest condolences to his wife Angela, his children, and the entire Mayo Clinic family.

Operator, at this time we can open up the call for questions.

(Operator Instructions) Jeffrey Cohen, Ladenburg.

Could you talk about trigeminal, firstly? I know, congrats on getting up to non cases. Could you give us a sense of number of physicians or number of centers that do the non cases and then maybe talk about, interest from Zimmer and, or others for trigeminal. Please.

Sure. I'll take that. So, the nine cases that we've done, were done at three centers. One of those centers, by the way, was Doctor Greenwald's, that, I mentioned just recently passed away, but, in all 9 cases, the patients were reportedly pain-free. That's really the objective, of this therapy. So that was very encouraging to see. And really, one of the major advantages of the technology is that due to the multiple contacts on the electrode itself, you're able to place the device once, instead of multiple times, to really find the area of the nerve that's triggering the pain. So it's a much more comfortable procedure, let's say, for patients and may require less time because you're only placing the device once.

And in terms of strategic interest, yes, there are discussions underway, obviously you would always like to conclude those discussions as soon as possible, and that's really the goal, but, right now we're in diligence, with the company, but would be prepared, if we don't move forward in diligence, to commercialize this ourselves.

Okay, got it. And could you give us a sense, I don't know how much clarity or transparency you have, could you give us a sense of the number of physicians or number of centers for which, Zimmer is present domestically?

Yeah, we don't have that information. The information that I referred to, earlier in the discussion was that, they've told us that the first fiscal quarter, in terms of number of patients, that there were almost half of all the patients they've treated since they launched this were actually completed in the first, excuse me, in the first fiscal quarter, but. We don't have clarity on the number of centers or the number of cases.

Okay, got it. And then one more, if I may be a question for Ron. Can you talk about OpEx, generally speaking, would you expect that to be fairly flattish off of Q1 levels for the balance of the year?

We, thanks, Jeff. We would expect that the, SG&A would be fairly flat the rest of the year, but we do expect that the R&D may fluctuate, as we're, depending on what phase of the projects that we're working on, as Dave mentioned before, we did accelerate our drug delivery, project and made significant progress there. And so you know I we're not sure exactly that there will be some near term expenses and then that project will start to taper off a little bit.

Got it. Okay, so the two, the animal studies for drug delivery and also, spinal cord will pick up in the back half of the year, it looks like, Q2 and Q3.

Yes.

Yes. Not significantly, but it will pick up a little bit.

Okay, perfect. That does it for me. Thanks for taking the questions.

Jeremy Pearlman, Maxim Group.

Thank you. Good morning. A question regarding the, any clinical feedback you may have received from neurologists or surgical teams that are using the installed products so far that you could share. Thank you.

So, yes, in general, what we're finding is that the device is very successful or has been successful, in either reducing the amount of pain, sorry, reducing the number of seizures, that patients are having or, completely eliminating them. Now, those metrics are really measured over time, so.

One of the reasons why we want to capture those, despite our enthusiasm for it, this is the main reason why we started the registry, as a way to really capture what the results are long-term, but the, I think the results speak for themselves, to date, the system, the feedback that we have is the actual generator, the device that, creates, the ablation.

It's very easy to use, and the system itself, is very easy to use, and these procedures do not require, patients, in the operating room to be in the operating room for it. At least from what we know, all of them, to date have been done at the patient's bedside. That is the actual ablation itself. So I, I've never seen a procedure, a surgical procedure, done by a patient's bedside. So it's exciting, to really see the results that we're getting and really the feedback on ease of use.

Okay, that's great to hear. And then maybe again I just might, you might not have this information, it might be more at Zimmer's end, but is there a specific region in the US where they are seeing the most attraction and adoption of the technology and then maybe how do they replicate that across the rest of the country?

Yeah, that information we don't have.

Okay. And then this last question, sales and marketing, your expectations for '26, is that going to be, are you going to share that burden with Zimmer to promote the products or is that fully on Zimmer's shoulders?

Yeah, part of our agreement that we signed way back in 2020, the responsibility for all marketing and sales costs, lie with Zimmer. We're obviously responsible for providing all the training and field support, as is reasonable, and it, it's worked very well, but, it's actually their responsibility, to cover, all commercialization and marketing costs.

Okay, all right, great. And then just, this last question, the revenue breakdown for the first quarter, was that just pre predominantly or all just restocking, or was there any, additional purchases that Zimmer made maybe beyond what they had originally expected to use the device and they were restocking with even within the quarter?

Most of the revenue, yeah, I'll take that, Dave. Most of the revenue is what you're calling restocking, which is replenishing and selling into the market. A year ago, if you remember, in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, that was their initial stocking order, and pretty much everything since then has been the continuation and restocking.

Okay, got it, understood. All right, thank you for taking my questions. Have a nice day.

Thank you. That appears to be the last question at this time, so I would like to turn the call back over to Mr. David Rosa for any closing remarks.

Thank you, operator. I would like to thank everyone again for attending the call, and we look forward to connecting with the investor community throughout the quarter. If we were unable to answer any of your questions today, please reach out to our Investor Relations firm, MZ Group, who would be more than happy to assist.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference. We thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect your airlines at this time and have a great rest of the day.