UNITED STATES  

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2020

OR

For the transition period from                      to                     .

Commission file number: 001-36284

 

Biocept, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

5810 Nancy Ridge Drive, San Diego, California

(Address of principal executive offices)

92121

(Zip Code)

(858) 320-8200

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒

As of August 7, 2020, there were 133,934,314 shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding.

 

 

 

 

 

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BIOCEPT, INC.

FORM 10-Q

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED

JUNE 30, 2020

INDEX

 

 

 

 

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IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, or Quarterly Report, contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements included or incorporated by reference in this Quarterly Report other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. You can identify these and other forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “believe,” “continue” or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements also include the assumptions underlying or relating to such statements.

Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. Moreover, we operate in an evolving environment. New risk factors and uncertainties emerge from time to time and it is not possible for us to predict all risk factors and uncertainties, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they are made except as required by law. Readers should, however, review the factors and risks we describe in the reports we file from time to time with the SEC. In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date the statement is made, and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain, and you are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Financial Statements

Biocept, Inc.

Condensed Balance Sheets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.

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Biocept, Inc.

Condensed Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.

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Biocept, Inc.

Condensed Statements of Shareholders’ Equity

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.

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Biocept, Inc.

Condensed Statements of Shareholders’ Equity

(Unaudited)

(Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.

 

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Biocept, Inc.

Condensed Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

 

 

Non-cash Investing and Financing Activities:

During the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020, Biocept, Inc., or the Company, financed insurance premiums of approximately $393,000 and $567,000, respectively, through third-party financings.    

Fixed assets purchased totaling approximately $149,000 and $703,000 during the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020, respectively, were recorded as finance lease obligations and were excluded from cash purchases in the Company’s statements of cash flows (see Note 6).

The amount of unpaid fixed assets excluded from cash purchases in the Company’s statements of cash flows increased from approximately $25,000 at December 31, 2018 to approximately $53,000 at June 30, 2019 and increased from approximately $32,000 at December 31, 2019 to approximately $57,000 at June 30, 2020.

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On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted the accounting rules in ASC Topic 842, Leases (ASC 842), and as a result, recorded net lease right-of-use assets of $1.9 million related to its operating lease, and recorded operating lease liabilities of $2.2 million.  In addition, in accordance with the guidance, $1.4 million of assets under capital leases previously classified in the property, plant, and equipment section of the balance sheet were reclassified to lease right-of-use assets.

On January 18, 2019, the Company completed an offering of 990,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The shares were sold at a purchase price of $2.25 per share and the net proceeds to the Company from this offering were approximately $2.0 million, after deducting expenses related to the offering including dealer-manager fees and expenses.

On February 12, 2019, the Company received net cash proceeds of approximately $6.6 million as a result of the closing of a follow-on public offering of 6,250,000 shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 6,250,000 shares of its common stock at a combined offering price of $1.20 per unit. All warrants sold in this offering have an exercise price of $1.20 per share, are exercisable immediately and expire five years from the date of issuance. In addition, the Company sold warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 937,500 shares of the Company’s common stock in connection with the partial exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters. Upon closing of the transaction, warrants to purchase 915,000 shares were issued pursuant to the placement agents’ partial exercise of their overallotment. The estimated aggregate grant date fair value on a relative fair value basis of approximately $6.8 million associated with these warrants was recorded as an offset to additional paid-in capital (see Note 4).

Pursuant to the down round adjustment feature of the January 2018 warrants, the exercise price of these warrants was adjusted to the $1.20 offering price per share in the February 2019 financing transaction and it resulted in recording a deemed dividend of $99,000.

On March 19, 2019, the Company received net cash proceeds of approximately $7.5 million as a result of completing a registered direct offering of 5,950,000 shares at a negotiated purchase price of $1.37 per share. In addition, in a concurrent private placement, the Company issued to purchasers a warrant to purchase one share of the Company’s common stock for each share purchased for cash in the offering.  All warrants issued in this offering have an exercise price of $1.25 per share, are exercisable immediately upon issuance and expire 5.5 years following the date of issuance. The estimated aggregate grant date fair value on a relative fair value basis of approximately $6.0 million associated with these warrants was recorded as an offset to additional paid-in capital (see Note 4).

 

In January 2020, the Company issued an aggregate of 6,927,258 shares of its common stock pursuant to the exercise of certain warrants issued by the Company in February 2019 and March 2019, as part of a warrant repricing and exchange transaction. As part of the warrant repricing and exchange transaction, the Company issued an aggregate of 6,927,258 new warrants in exchange for the exercise of the February 2019 and March 2019 warrants and received net proceeds of approximately $2.3 million. As a result of the warrant repricing, the exercise price of warrants to purchase an aggregate of 896,578 shares of common stock issued by the Company in January 2018 was adjusted from $0.405 to $0.3495 per share.

In January 2020, the Company issued 1,927,500 shares of common stock pursuant to the partial exercise of the underwriters’ overallotment option from the Company’s December 2019 public offering. The net proceeds to the Company from the overallotment closing, was approximately $700,000.

In June 2020, the Company entered into an amendment of its facility lease relating to its current facility in San Diego, California to extend the term of the lease originally set to expire in July 2020 to November 2020. Pursuant to the extension of the lease term, the Company recorded an additional lease right-of-use asset and lease liability of $482,000 (see Note 6).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed financial statements.

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BIOCEPT, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Unaudited)

 

1. The Company, Business Activities and Basis of Presentation

The Company and Business Activities

The Company was founded in California in May 1997 and is an early stage molecular oncology diagnostics company that develops and commercializes proprietary circulating tumor cell, or CTC, and circulating tumor DNA, or ctDNA, assays utilizing a standard blood sample, or liquid biopsy. The Company’s current and planned assays are intended to provide information to aid healthcare providers to identify specific oncogenic alterations that may qualify a subset of cancer patients for targeted therapy at diagnosis, progression or for monitoring in order to identify specific resistance mechanisms. Sometimes traditional procedures, such as surgical tissue biopsies, result in tumor tissue that is insufficient and/or unable to provide the molecular subtype information necessary for clinical decisions. The Company’s assays, performed on blood, have the potential to provide more contemporaneous information on the characteristics of a patient’s disease when compared with tissue biopsy and radiographic imaging. Additionally, commencing in October 2017, the Company’s pathology partnership program, branded as Empower TC ^TM, provides the unique ability for pathologists to participate in the interpretation of liquid biopsy results and is available to pathology practices and hospital systems throughout the United States. Further, sales to laboratory supply distributors of the Company’s proprietary blood collection tubes commenced in June 2018, which allow for the intact transport of liquid biopsy samples for research use only, or RUO, from regions around the world.

The Company operates a clinical laboratory that is CLIA-certified (under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment of 1988) and CAP-accredited (by the College of American Pathologists), and manufactures cell enrichment and extraction microfluidic channels, related equipment and certain reagents to perform the Company’s diagnostic assays in a facility located in San Diego, California. CLIA certification and accreditation are required before any clinical laboratory may perform testing on human specimens for the purpose of obtaining information for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment of disease, or assessment of health. The assays the Company offers are classified as laboratory developed tests under the CLIA regulations.

In July 2013, the Company effected a reincorporation to Delaware by merging itself with and into Biocept, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which had been formed to be and was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company since July 23, 2013.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements and notes are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, and on the basis that the Company will continue as a going concern (see Note 2). The accompanying unaudited condensed financial statements and notes do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the possible inability of the Company to continue as a going concern.

The unaudited condensed financial statements included in this Form 10-Q have been prepared in accordance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, instructions for Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Accordingly, the condensed financial statements are unaudited and do not contain all the information required by GAAP to be included in a full set of financial statements. The balance sheet at December 31, 2019 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for a complete set of financial statements. The audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, with our Annual Report on Form 10-K on March 27, 2020 include a summary of our significant accounting policies and should be read in conjunction with this Form 10-Q. In the opinion of management, all material adjustments necessary to present fairly the results of operations for such periods have been included in this Form 10-Q. All such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations for the entire year.

Significant Accounting Policies

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, there were no changes to our significant accounting policies as described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, except as described in Recent Accounting Pronouncements below.

 

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Revenue Recognition and Accounts Receivable

The Company's commercial revenues are generated from diagnostic services provided to patient’s physicians and billed to third-party insurance payers such as managed care organizations, Medicare and Medicaid and patients for any deductibles, coinsurance or copayments that may be due. Commencing on January 1, 2018, the Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, or ASC 606, which requires that an entity recognize revenue when it transfers promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled to in exchange for those goods or services.

Contracts

For its commercial revenues, while the Company markets directly to physicians, its customer is the patient. Patients do not enter into direct agreements with the Company, however, a patient’s insurance coverage requirements would dictate whether or not any portion of the cost of the tests would be patient responsibility. Accordingly, the Company establishes contracts with commercial insurers in accordance with customary business practices, as follows:

 

 

 

The Company’s development services revenues are supported by contractual agreements and generated from assay development services provided to entities, as well as certain other diagnostic services provided to physicians, and revenues are recognized upon delivery of the performance obligations in the contract.

Performance Obligations

A performance obligation is a promise in a contract to transfer a distinct good or service, or a bundle of goods or services, to the customer. For its commercial and development services revenues, the Company’s contracts have a single performance obligation, which is satisfied upon rendering of services, which culminates in the delivery of a patient’s assay result(s) to the ordering physician or entity. The duration of time between accession receipt and delivery of a valid assay result to the ordering physician or entity is typically less than two weeks. Accordingly, the Company elected the practical expedient and therefore, does not disclose the value of unsatisfied performance obligations.

Transaction Price

The transaction price is the amount of consideration that the Company expects to collect in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer, excluding amounts collected on behalf of third parties, such as sales taxes. The consideration expected from a contract with a customer may include fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both. The Company’s gross commercial revenues billed, and corresponding gross accounts receivable, are subject to estimated deductions for such allowances and reserves to arrive at reported net revenues, which relate to differences between amounts billed and corresponding amounts estimated to be subsequently collected, and is deemed to be variable although the variability is not explicitly stated in any contract. Rather, the implied variability is due to several factors, such as the payment history or lack thereof for third-party payers, reimbursement rate changes for contracted and non-contracted payers, any patient co-payments, deductibles or compliance incentives, the existence of secondary payers and claim denials. The Company estimates the amount of variable consideration using the most likely amount approach to estimating variable consideration for third-party payers, including direct patient bills, whereby the estimated reimbursement for services are established by payment histories on CPT codes for each payer, or similar payer types. When no payment history is available, the value of the account is estimated at Medicare rates, with additional other payer-specific reserves taken as appropriate. Collection periods for billings on commercial revenues range from less than 30 days to several months, depending on the contracted or non-contracted nature of the payer, among other variables. The estimates of amounts that will ultimately be realized from commercial diagnostic services for non-contracted payers require significant judgment by management.

The Company limits the amount of variable consideration included in the transaction price to the unconstrained portion of such consideration. Revenue is recognized up to the amount of variable consideration that is not subject to a significant reversal until

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additional information is obtained or the uncertainty associated with the additional payments or refunds is subsequently resolved. Differences between original estimates and subsequent revisions, including final settlements, represent changes in the estimate of variable consideration and are included in the period in which such revisions are made. The Company monitors its estimates of transaction price to depict conditions that exist at each reporting date. If the Company subsequently determines that it will collect more consideration than it originally estimated for a contract with a customer, it will account for the change as an increase in the estimate of the transaction price in the period identified as an increase to revenue. Similarly, if the Company subsequently determines that the amount it expects to collect from a customer is less than it originally estimated, it will generally account for the change as a decrease in the estimate of the transaction price as a decrease to revenue, provided that such downward adjustment does not result in a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized. Revenue recognized from changes in transaction prices was not significant during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020.

Allocate Transaction Price

For the Company’s commercial revenues, the entire transaction price is allocated to the single performance obligation contained in a contract with a customer. For the Company’s development services revenues, the contracted transaction price is allocated to each single performance obligation contained in a contract with a customer as performed.

Point-in-time Recognition

The Company’s single performance obligation is satisfied at a point in time, and that point in time is defined as the date a patient’s successful assay result is delivered to the patient’s ordering physician or entity. The Company considers this date to be the time at which the patient obtains control of the promised diagnostic assay service. 

Contract Balances

The timing of revenue recognition, billings and cash collections results in accounts receivable recorded in the Company’s condensed balance sheets. Generally, billing occurs subsequent to delivery of a patient’s test result to the ordering physician or entity, resulting in an account receivable.

Practical Expedients

The Company does not adjust the transaction price for the effects of a significant financing component, as at contract inception, the Company expects the collection cycle to be one year or less.

The Company expenses sales commissions when incurred because the amortization period is one year or less, which are recorded within sales and marketing expenses.  

The Company incurs certain other costs that are incurred regardless of whether a contract is obtained. Such costs are primarily related to legal services and patient communications. These costs are expensed as incurred and recorded within general and administrative expenses. 

Disaggregation of Revenue and Concentration of Risk

The composition of the Company’s net revenues recognized during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020, disaggregated by source and nature, are as follows:

 

 

*Includes Medicare and Medicare Advantage, as reimbursement amounts are fixed.

 

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Concentrations of credit risk with respect to revenues are primarily limited to geographies to which the Company provides a significant volume of its services, and to specific third-party payers of the Company’s services such as Medicare, insurance companies, and other third-party payers. The Company’s client base consists of many geographically dispersed clients diversified across various customer types.

The Company's third-party payers that represent more than 10% of total net revenues in any period presented, as well as their related net revenue amount as a percentage of total net revenues, during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020 were as follows:

 

The Company's third-party payers that represent more than 10% of total net accounts receivable, and their related net accounts receivable balance as a percentage of total net accounts receivable, at December 31, 2019 and June 30, 2020 were as follows: