Oncopeptides AB: Year-end Report 2018

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Summary of Q4

Financial overview October 1 - December 31, 2018

    --  Net sales amounted to SEK 0.0 M (0.0)
    --  Loss for the period was SEK 111.4 M (loss: 66.2)
    --  Loss per share, before and after dilution, was 2.53 (loss: 1.68) SEK
    --  On December 31 cash and cash equivalents amounted to SEK 375.6 M (404.1)

Significant events during the period October 1 to December 31, 2018

    --  At the company's Capital Markets Day in December, an updated strategy
        for Oncopepti­des' business was presented
    --  At the company's extraordinary general meeting in December, Dr Jennifer
        Jackson was elected as a new board member
    --  Professor Paul G Richardson presented new interim data from the ongoing
        HORIZON study with melflufen at the 60th American Society of Hematology
        Meeting (ASH)
    --  The first interim results from the ongoing combination study ANCHOR with
        melflufen were presented at ASH in December

Significant events after the reporting period

    --  In January 2019, Oncopeptides completed a directed share issue of SEK
        546.2 M before issue costs (approximately USD 60 M)

Financial overview of the group


                        SEK thousand 2018 Oct -Dec 2017 Oct -Dec  2018 Jan -Dec

                                                                                  2017 Jan -Dec



            Net sales


             Operating loss               -111,212        -66,704        -419,300         -247,620


             Loss before tax              -111,214        -66,704        -419,302         -247,620


             Loss for the period          -111,361        -66,704        -419,449         -247,620


             Earnings per share
              before and after
              dilution (SEK)                 -2.53          -1.68           -9.77            -6.44


             Cash flow from
              operating activities        -108,855        -45,679        -333,727         -271,497


             Cash and cash
              equivalents at the
              end of the period            375,617        404,050         375,617          404,050


    Research & development
     costs/operating
     expenses %                              81%           79%            77%             80%

Conference call for investors, analysts and the media

The Year-end Report for 2018 and an operational update will be presented by CEO Jakob Lindberg and members of Oncopeptides management team, Friday February 22, 2019 at 14:00 (CET).

The conference call will also be streamed via a link on the website: www.oncopeptides.com.

Phone numbers for participants from:

Sweden: +46-8-566-427 06Europe: +44-3333-009-270 USA: +1-833-526-83-82

Financial calendar


               Annual Report 2018:        
              Week 17, 2019


               Annual General Meeting:    
              May 21, 2019


               Q1 Report 2019:            
              May 21, 2019


               Q2 Report 2019:            
              July 12, 2019


               Q3 Report 2019:                       November 19, 2019

For more information, please contact:

Jakob Lindberg, CEO, Oncopeptides AB
E-mail: jakob.lindberg@oncopeptides.com
Telephone: +46-8-615-20-40

Rein Piir
Head of Investor Relations at OncopeptidesCell
phone: +46-70-853-72-92
E-mail: rein.piir@oncopeptides.com

This information is information that Oncopeptides is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at 08:00 CET on February 22, 2019.

About Oncopeptides

Oncopeptides is a pharmaceutical company developing drugs for the treatment of cancer. The company is focusing on the development of the lead product candidate melflufen (Ygalo®), a novel peptide conjugated alkylator that selectively targets multiple myeloma belonging to the class of peptide-enhanced compounds. Melflufen is intended as an effective treatment of hematological cancers, and in particular multiple myeloma. The goal with the current clinical study program is to demonstrate better results from treatment with melflufen compared with established alternative drugs for patients with multiple myeloma. Melflufen will potentially provide physicians with a new treatment option for patients suffering from this serious disease.

More information is available on www.oncopeptides.com.

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