Karuna Therapeutics, Inc.

NasdaqGM:KRTX Stock Report

Market Cap: US$12.6b

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Karuna Therapeutics Balance Sheet Health

Financial Health criteria checks 5/6

Karuna Therapeutics has a total shareholder equity of $1.3B and total debt of $0.0, which brings its debt-to-equity ratio to 0%. Its total assets and total liabilities are $1.3B and $82.0M respectively.

Key information

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Debt to equity ratio

US$0

Debt

Interest coverage ration/a
CashUS$1.26b
EquityUS$1.25b
Total liabilitiesUS$81.97m
Total assetsUS$1.34b

Recent financial health updates

Recent updates

Seeking Alpha • Feb 18

Karuna Therapeutics: Getting Sold Short

Summary Karuna Therapeutics is developing a novel product, KarXT, to treat psychoses related to Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. The product targets muscarinic receptors in an agonist/antagonist combination. Some shareholders are suing to prevent the acquisition of Karuna by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Also, the vote is outstanding. The 10% or so deal spread seems small. While the chance that the deal falls through would be bad for the short-term performance of Karuna, it may be a buying moment considering the imminent release and size of markets. Read the full article on Seeking Alpha
Seeking Alpha • Sep 09

Karuna Therapeutics: This Ship Has Sailed

Summary Karuna produced excellent data from its phase 3 trial. They have a boatload of cash. Speaking of boats, however, this ship has already sailed. Since my last coverage of Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. (KRTX) just over a year back, the stock has nearly tripled after posting strong results from its schizophrenia trial, meeting the primary endpoint of that trial. That was a month back, and even though the company took the opportunity to carry out a massive $600mn secondary, the dilution hasn’t put a dent in public enthusiasm. The stock is still going strong, although it is back down a few notches. From my previous coverage of the company, they were running a 246-patient phase 3 trial called EMERGENT-2, and 3 more phase 3 trials in the EMERGENT series, in their lead candidate KarXT in acutely psychotic patients with a DSM-5 diagnosis of schizophrenia. KarXT is a differentiated antipsychotic molecule that combines muscarinic-agonist xanomeline and muscarinic-antagonist trospium chloride together. While xanomeline works in the CNS, trospium helps avoid undesirable, cholinergic side effects that arise due to the stimulation of muscarinic receptors in peripheral tissues. The FDA has guided that “data from EMERGENT-1 [a phase 2 study], one successful Phase 3 efficacy and safety trial, and additional safety data to meet regulatory requirements would be acceptable to support NDA filing in schizophrenia.” The first two phase 3 studies were supposed to have toplined in early 2022. In August, the company announced positive data from the EMERGENT-2 trial. This was a double blind, placebo controlled trial done entirely in the United States. It enrolled 252 adult patients with a confirmed diagnosis of schizophrenia who were experiencing symptoms of psychosis. The primary endpoint was change from baseline in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale ((PANSS)) total score, a scale for measuring schizophrenia symptom severity, of KarXT compared to placebo at Week 5. The trial resoundingly met its primary endpoint, with KarXT demonstrating a statistically significant 9.6-point reduction in PANSS Total Score compared to placebo at Week 5 (p<0.0001). The trial also met key secondary endpoints. Data include: 2.9-point reduction in the PANSS positive subscale with KarXT compared to placebo (-6.8 KarXT vs. -3.9 placebo, p<0.0001). 1.8-point reduction in the PANSS negative subscale with KarXT compared to placebo (-3.4 KarXT vs. -1.6 placebo, p=0.0055). 2.2-point reduction in the PANSS negative Marder factor subscale with KarXT compared to placebo (-4.2 KarXT vs. -2.0 placebo, p=0.0022). The PANSS scores are used to measure positive symptoms (e.g., hallucinations or delusions) and negative symptoms (e.g., difficulty enjoying life or withdrawal from others) of schizophrenia. Benefit in the negative symptoms has historically been difficult to achieve. The trial’s Cohen’s d effect size of 0.61 compares well “to that of widely used and multibillion-dollar blockbusters Risperdal and Zyprexa (about a 0.5 effect size),” according to William Blair analysts. The drug was generally well-tolerated with little differentiation from placebo. There was transient increase in heart rate, which subsided as the trial ended. Importantly, KarXT was not associated with known side effects of current treatments. As FierceBiotech noted: The clinical trial studied KarXT, a xanomeline formulation designed to address the problems that led Lilly to give up on the molecule despite generating evidence of efficacy. Lilly found the M1 agonist improved cognition in Alzheimer’s disease patients in the 1990s, only for tolerability to stop the program. Karuna sought to address the tolerability problems by giving xanomeline with a peripherally restricted molecule that blocks receptors at the root of the issues without crossing the blood-brain barrier to limit efficacy.
Seeking Alpha • Aug 08

Karuna Therapeutics GAAP EPS of -$2.17 misses by $0.10, revenue of $5.28M

Karuna Therapeutics press release (NASDAQ:KRTX): Q2 GAAP EPS of -$2.17 misses by $0.10. Revenue of $5.28M. The Company ended the quarter with $407.4 million in cash, cash equivalents and available-for-sale investment securities compared to $494.0 million as of December 31, 2021. The Company expects that current cash, cash equivalents and available-for-sale investment securities as of June 30, 2022 will enable the Company to fund its operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements for at least 12 months following the potential NDA submission of KarXT for the treatment of psychosis in adults with schizophrenia. Shares +8.29% PM.
Seeking Alpha • Jun 26

Karuna Therapeutics: Front-Running KarXT Phase 3

Treatments for schizophrenia – a truly complex disease--are plagued with a high late-stage trial failure rate. Phase 3 KarXT results will be released this quarter. It will be a binary event. Despite cash balance issues and new clinical stage competitors, market  indicators suggest that investors are re-engaged.

Financial Position Analysis

Short Term Liabilities: KRTX's short term assets ($1.3B) exceed its short term liabilities ($68.1M).

Long Term Liabilities: KRTX's short term assets ($1.3B) exceed its long term liabilities ($13.8M).

Debt to Equity History and Analysis

Debt Level: KRTX is debt free.

Reducing Debt: KRTX has no debt compared to 5 years ago when its debt to equity ratio was 20.9%.

Balance Sheet

Cash Runway Analysis

For companies that have on average been loss-making in the past, we assess whether they have at least 1 year of cash runway.

Stable Cash Runway: KRTX has sufficient cash runway for more than 3 years based on its current free cash flow.

Forecast Cash Runway: Insufficient data to determine if KRTX has enough cash runway if its free cash flow continues to grow or shrink based on historical rates.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/03/18 10:03
End of Day Share Price 2024/03/15 00:00
Earnings2023/12/31
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

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Ownership10 years
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Management10 years
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Key Developments10 years
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Analyst Sources

Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. is covered by 17 analysts. 16 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Caroline PalomequeBerenberg
Esther Lannie HongBerenberg
Jason Matthew GerberryBofA Global Research