- Q3 2024 sales revenue increased 164% year-over-year to $135 thousand.
- Sequential (quarter-over-quarter) net product revenue growth of 8.3%.
- Gross profit increased from ($20 thousand) to $24 thousand.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SXTP; SXTPW) (the “Company”), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing new medicines for infectious diseases, reported today their financial results for the third fiscal quarter of the 2024 year, ended September 30, 2024.
Financial Highlights for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2024:
- A 140% increase in ARAKODA® pharmacy deliveries from 550 boxes (Q3 2023) to 1,319 boxes (Q3 2024) generated 164% in sales revenues from $51 thousand for the third quarter of 2023 to approximately $135 thousand for the third quarter of 2024.
- The Company achieved a gross profit of approximately $24 thousand in the third quarter of 2024, compared to an approximate gross loss of $20 thousand in the third quarter of 2023.
- Operating expenses were approximately $2.16 million in the third quarter of 2024, compared to approximately $1.58 million in the third quarter of 2023. The increase in operating expenses was primarily due to the delivery of $600,000 of research material previously paid for in stock prior to our initial public offering in July of 2023.
- Net loss attributable to common shareholders in the third quarter of 2024 was approximately $2.27 million, or ($0.93) per share, compared to a net income of approximately $4.09 million, or $9.13 per share in the third quarter of 2023, representing a $6.36 million decline. This decline is nearly entirely attributable to a change in the fair value of liabilities of $6.20 million in Q3 2023 to ($0.06) million in Q3 2024.
- A $4 million private placement priced at-the-market comprising common stock and associated warrants at $1.38 per share was concluded in September with net proceeds to support working capital, commercialization of ARAKODA (tafenoquine), and ongoing R&D efforts.
Business Highlights for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2024
- 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals granted the University of Kentucky right of reference to the Company’s new drug application (NDA) for ARAKODA® (tafenoquine). The right of reference will allow FDA to review clinical efficacy and safety data, non-clinical data, and chemistry, manufacturing and controlled information on ARAKODA as the agency reviews protocols and new IND submissions related to the University of Kentucky SJ733 Phase IIb program.
- The Company was awarded a fixed-price contract with the United States Army Medical Materiel Development Activity to support commercial validation of new bottle and replacement blister packaging of ARAKODA® (tafenoquine).
- Ethics approval of an open label, expanded access study of the ARAKODA® regimen of tafenoquine in combination with standard of care regimens in immunosuppressed patients with persistent/relapsing babesiosis was granted in the third quarter of 2024.
- The Company signed clinical trial agreements with all planned trial sites for the Tafenoquine Babesiosis Study.
About 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc., founded in 2010, specializes in developing and marketing new medicines for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that affect the lives of millions of people. 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc. achieved FDA approval of its lead product, ARAKODA® (tafenoquine), for malaria prevention, in 2018. 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc. also collaborates with prominent research organizations in the U.S., Australia, and Singapore. The 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc. mission has been supported through in-kind funding from the U.S. Department of Defense and private institutional investors including Knight Therapeutics Inc., a Canadian-based pan-American specialty pharmaceutical company. 60 Degrees Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is headquartered in Washington D.C., with a majority-owned subsidiary in Australia. Learn more at www.60degreespharma.com.
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Media Contact:
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