Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in the “Item 1A. Risk Factors” section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.
Overview
We are a commercial-stage medical technology company transforming organ transplant therapy for end-stage organ failure patients across multiple disease states. We developed the OCS to replace a decades-old standard of care that we believe is significantly limiting access to life-saving transplant therapy for hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide. Our innovative OCS technology replicates many aspects of the organ’s natural living and functioning environment outside of the human body. As such, the OCS represents a paradigm shift that transforms organ preservation for transplantation from a static state to a dynamic environment that enables new capabilities, including organ optimization and assessment. We believe our substantial body of clinical evidence has demonstrated the potential for the OCS to significantly increase the number of organ transplants and improve post-transplant outcomes.
We developed the OCS to comprehensively address the major limitations of cold storage. The OCS is a portable organ perfusion, optimization and monitoring system that utilizes our proprietary and customized technology to replicate near-physiologic conditions for donor organs outside of the human body. We designed the OCS technology platform to perfuse donor organs with warm, oxygenated, nutrient-enriched blood, while maintaining the organs in a living, functioning state; the lung is breathing, the heart is beating and the liver is producing bile. Because the OCS significantly reduces injurious ischemic time on donor organs as compared to cold storage and enables the optimization and assessment of donor organs, it has demonstrated improved clinical outcomes relative to cold storage and offers the potential to significantly improve donor organ utilization.
We designed the OCS to be a platform that allows us to leverage core technologies across products for multiple organs. To date, we have developed three OCS products, one for each of lung, heart and liver transplantations, making the OCS the only multi-organ technology platform. Our OCS products have been used for over 1,800 human organ transplants. We have commercialized the OCS Lung and OCS Heart outside of the United States and received our first PMA from the FDA in March 2018 for the use in the United States of the OCS Lung for donor lungs currently utilized for transplantation and since May 2019, for donor lungs currently unutilized for transplantation.
Since our inception, we have focused substantially all of our resources on designing, developing and building our proprietary OCS technology platform and organ-specific OCS products; obtaining clinical evidence for the safety and effectiveness of our OCS products through clinical trials; securing regulatory approval; organizing and staffing our company; planning our business; raising capital; commercializing our products; developing our market and distribution chain and providing general and administrative support for these operations. To date, we have funded our operations primarily with proceeds from sales of preferred stock and borrowings under loan agreements, proceeds from the sale of common stock in our IPO, the sale of our common stock in equity offerings, and revenue from clinical trials and commercial sales of our OCS products.
Since our inception, we have incurred significant operating losses. Our ability to generate net revenue sufficient to achieve profitability will depend on the successful further development and commercialization of our products. We generated net revenue of $25.6 million and $23.6 million for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively. We incurred net losses of $28.7 million and $33.5 million, respectively, for those same years. As of December 31, 2020, we had an accumulated deficit of $398.2 million. We expect to continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future as we focus on growing commercial sales of our products in both the United States and select non-U.S. markets, including growing our sales and clinical adoption team, which will pursue increasing commercial sales and clinical adoption of our OCS products; scaling our manufacturing operations; continuing research, development and clinical trial efforts; and seeking regulatory clearance for new products and product enhancements, including new indications, in both the United States and select non-U.S. markets. Further, following the closing of our IPO we have incurred and expect to continue to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company. As a result, we will need substantial additional funding for expenses related to our operating activities, including selling, general and administrative expenses and research, development and clinical trials expenses.
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On May 6, 2019, we completed our IPO, pursuant to which we issued and sold 6,543,500 shares of common stock, inclusive of 853,500 shares we sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The aggregate net proceeds received by us from the IPO were $91.4 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions as well as other offering costs of $6.0 million.
On May 26, 2020, we completed an underwritten public offering of our common stock, which resulted in the sale of 5,750,000 shares of common stock, inclusive of 750,000 shares we sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The aggregate net proceeds received by us from the offering were $75.1 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions as well as other offering costs of $0.6 million.
Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with product development and commercialization, we are unable to accurately predict the timing or amount of increased expenses or when, or if, we will be able to achieve or maintain profitability. Until such time, if ever, as we can generate substantial net revenue sufficient to achieve profitability, we expect to finance our operations through a combination of equity offerings, debt financings and strategic alliances. We may be unable to raise additional funds or enter into such other agreements or arrangements when needed on favorable terms or at all. If we are unable to raise capital or enter into such agreements as, and when, needed, we may have to significantly delay, scale back or discontinue the further development and commercialization efforts of one or more of our products, or may be forced to reduce or terminate our operations.
We believe that our cash and cash equivalents, and marketable securities, will be sufficient for us to fund our operating expenses, capital expenditure requirements and debt service payments for at least the next 12 months. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could exhaust our available capital resources sooner than we expect. See “—Liquidity and Capital Resources”.
COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been and will likely continue to be extensive in many aspects of society, which has resulted in and will likely continue to result in significant disruptions to the global economy, as well as businesses and capital markets around the world. Impacts to our business as a result of COVID-19 include the temporary disruption of transplant procedures at many of the organ transplant centerswho purchase OCS products; disruptions to our manufacturing operations and supply chain caused by facility closures, reductions in operating hours, staggered shifts and other social distancing efforts; labor shortages; decreased productivity and unavailability of materials or components; restrictions on or delays of our clinical trials and studies; delays of reviews and approvals by the FDA and other health authorities; limitations on our employees’ and customers’ ability to travel, and delays in product installations, trainings or shipments to and from affected countries and within the United States. In response to the pandemic, healthcare providers have, and may need to further, reallocate resources, such as physicians, staff, hospital beds and intensive care unit facilities, and these actions significantly delay the provision of other medical care such as organ transplantation and reduce the number of transplant procedures that are performed, which has a negative impact on our revenue and clinical trial activities. Our sales and clinical adoption team has been and may continue to be restricted in visiting many transplant centers in person. Customer delays or reductions in capital expenditures and operating budgets also have a negative impact on our product sales. We plan to maintain these or similar restrictions until we believe employees can fully resume such activities in accordance with federal, state and local requirements. The COVID-19 pandemic also has impacted operations at the FDA and other health authorities, resulting in delays of reviews and approvals, including with respect to our OCS Heart PMA application, and may affect other potential PMA applications. For example, although the FDA had scheduled an advisory committee of experts from outside the FDA to review and evaluate our OCS Heart PMA application in the second quarter of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the advisory committee meeting was postponed to October 2020. However, this meeting was further postponed to allow the FDA to review additional, already collected, short and longer-term data from the OCS Heart EXPAND Trial and OCS Heart EXPAND CAP trial. The FDA advisory committee meeting is expected to be held on April 6, 2021.
In April 2020, we announced several steps to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. These steps are intended to protect the health and safety of our employees, to establish a process to support the continuous supply of our OCS products at transplant centers globally and to maintain financial flexibility. These actions include transitioning most employees to a remote work environment, except for those who are deemed essential to product supply and reducing near-term expenses, such as reducing non-essential discretionary expenses. We also deferred a portion of executive and employee compensation from April 2020 through August 31, 2020. While the COVID-19 pandemic did not significantly impact our business or results of operations during the first quarter of 2020, OCS product sales have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since the second quarter of 2020 and we anticipate a negative impact to OCS product sales in 2021. The extent of the future impact on our operations and financial condition will depend on the length and severity of the pandemic, its consequences, and containment and vaccination efforts. While the FDA approved emergency use authorization of vaccines in December 2020, it is expected to take several months for widespread vaccinations to occur and it is not yet known how vaccination efforts will impact the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We have observed recovery in the frequency of transplant procedures, but not yet at the same activity level as prior to the disruption of business and economic activities resulting from COVID-19. In addition, while the number of transplant procedures performed has declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, organ transplantations are non-elective, life-saving procedures and we believe that the need for these procedures will persist. However, as interventions to contain the spread of the virus are lifted or reduced, new COVID-19 outbreaks may result in new or heightened restrictions, which could again cause disruptions to our customers’ operations and adversely impact organ transplant procedures.
We continue to monitor developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. However, we are unable to predict the extent of the impact with confidence due to the uncertainty of future developments, such as the duration of the pandemic, additional or modified government actions, new information which may emerge concerning the severity and incidence of COVID-19 and actions to contain the virus or treat its impact. In particular, the speed of the continued spread of COVID-19 globally, and the magnitude, duration and frequency of interventions to contain the spread of the virus, such as government-imposed quarantines, including shelter-in-place mandates, sweeping restrictions on travel, mandatory shutdowns for non-essential businesses, requirements regarding social distancing, and other public health safety measures, will determine the impact of the pandemic on our business.
Components of Our Results of Operations
Net Revenue
We generate revenue primarily from sales of our single-use, organ-specific disposable sets (i.e., our organ-specific OCS Perfusion Sets sold together with our organ-specific OCS Solutions) used on our organ-specific OCS Consoles, each being a component of our OCS products. To a lesser extent, we also generate revenue from the sale of OCS Consoles to customers and from the implied rental of OCS Consoles loaned to customers at no charge. For each new transplant procedure, customers purchase an additional OCS disposable set for use on the customer’s existing organ-specific OCS Console.
All of our revenue has been generated by sales to transplant centers in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific, or, in some cases, to distributors selling to transplant centers in select countries. Substantially all of our customer contracts have multiple-performance obligations that contain promises consisting of OCS Perfusion Sets and OCS Solutions. In some of those contracts, the promises also include an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned to the customer.
Some of our revenue has been generated from products sold in conjunction with the clinical trials conducted for our OCS products, under arrangements referred to as customer clinical trial agreements. Under most of these customer clinical trial agreements, we place an organ-specific OCS Console at the customer site for its use free of charge for the duration of the clinical trial, and the customer separately purchases from us the OCS disposable sets used in each transplant procedure during the clinical trial. When we loan the OCS Console to the customer, we retain title to the console at all times and do not require minimum purchase commitments from the customer related to any OCS products. In such cases, we invoice the customer for OCS disposable sets based on customer orders received for each new transplant procedure and the prices set forth in the customer agreement. Over time, we typically recover the cost of the loaned OCS Console through the customer’s continued purchasing and use of additional OCS disposable sets. For these reasons, we have determined that part of the selling price for the disposable set is an implied rental payment for use of the OCS Console. We continue to loan OCS Consoles to some of our customers during commercialization of our OCS products.
Because all promises of a customer contract are delivered and recognized as revenue at the same time and because revenue allocated to promises other than OCS disposable sets, such as implied rental income and service revenue, is insignificant, all performance obligations from customer contracts are classified as a single category of revenue in our consolidated statements of operations.
Under some of our customer clinical trial agreements, we make payments to our customers for reimbursements of clinical trial materials and for specified clinical documentation related to their use of our OCS products. Because some of these payments do not provide us with a separately identifiable benefit, we record such payments as a reduction of revenue from the customer, resulting in our net revenue presentation. We recorded reimbursable clinical trial costs as a reduction of revenue of $2.7 million and $2.2 million for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively.
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In March 2018, we received our firstFDA PMA for the OCS Lung, and we began commercial sales of this product in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2018. In May 2019, we received our second FDA PMA for the OCS Lung for additional clinical indications. Therefore, our net revenue in the United States for the OCS Lung is now derived primarily from commercial sales and consists of sales of OCS disposable sets and, to a much lesser extent, sales of OCS Consoles. In 2019, we also recorded revenue from clinical trial sales of the OCS Lung for our OCS Lung EXPAND II Trial, which stopped enrollment as of June 24, 2019 since we received FDA PMA for the OCS Lung EXPAND indication.
In the United States, we expect to continue to only have clinical trial sales for our OCS Heart and OCS Liver products until we receive similar FDA PMA for those products. Our net revenue in the United States for OCS Heart and OCS Liver products fluctuates from period to period as a result of the timing of patient enrollment in our clinical trials. Historically, our net revenue during periods of patient enrollment has been higher due to the sale of OCS disposable sets for use during these clinical trials, as compared to periods during which our clinical trials were not actively enrolling. Our OCS Heart EXPAND Trial began patient enrollment in September 2015 and completed patient enrollment in March 2018. Our OCS Liver PROTECT trial began enrollment in January 2016 and completed enrollment in October 2019. Our OCS Heart EXPAND CAP trial began patient enrollment in May 2019 and is currently enrolling patients. Our OCS Heart DCD trial began patient enrollment in December 2019 and has completed enrolling patients. Our OCS Heart DCD CAP trial has been approved by the FDA and we began enrolling patients in December 2020. Our OCS Liver PROTECT CAP trial began patient enrollment in February 2020 and has completed initial enrollment; however, we have applied to the FDA to enroll additional patients in this trial. Our net revenue may continue to fluctuate from period to period as a result of the timing of ongoing clinical trials in which our OCS products are used.
Through December 31, 2020, all of our sales outside of the United States have been commercial sales (unrelated to any clinical trials) and our net revenue has been generated primarily from sales of OCS disposable sets and, to a much lesser extent, sales of OCS Consoles. Commercial sales of OCS disposable sets generally have a higher average selling price than clinical trial sales of OCS disposable sets.
We expect that our net revenue will increase over the long term as a result of receiving our first two FDA PMAs for the OCS Lung in the United States in March 2018 and May 2019 and any potential future FDA approvals in the United States for OCS Heart and OCS Liver. We also expect that our net revenue will increase over the long term as a result of anticipated growth in non-U.S. sales if national healthcare systems begin to reimburse transplant centers for the use of the OCS, if transplant centers utilize the OCS in more transplant cases, and if more transplant centers adopt the OCS in their programs. We expect that net revenue will continue to be negatively impacted in 2021 a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cost of Revenue, Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Cost of revenue consists primarily of costs of components of our OCS Consoles and disposable sets, costs of direct materials, labor and the manufacturing overhead that directly supports production, and costs related to the depreciation of OCS Consoles loaned to customers. When we loan an OCS Console to a customer for its use free of charge, we capitalize as property and equipment the cost of our OCS Console and depreciate these assets over the five-year estimated useful life of the console. Included in the cost of OCS disposable sets are the costs of our OCS Lung, OCS Heart and OCS Liver Solutions.
We expect that cost of revenue will increase or decrease in absolute dollars primarily as, and to the extent that, our net revenue increases or decreases.
Gross profit is the amount by which our net revenue exceeds our cost of revenue in each reporting period. We calculate gross margin as gross profit divided by net revenue. Our gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a variety of factors, primarily production volumes, the cost of components and direct materials, manufacturing costs, headcount, the selling price of our OCS products and fluctuations in amounts paid by us to customers related to reimbursements of their clinical trial expenses.
We expect that cost of revenue as a percentage of net revenue will decrease and gross margin and gross profit will increase over the long term as our sales and production volumes increase and our cost per unit of our OCS disposable sets decreases due to economies of scale. We intend to use our design, engineering and manufacturing capabilities to further advance and improve the efficiency of our manufacturing processes, which we believe will reduce costs and increase our gross margin. As utilization by customers of our OCS products increases, we expect that a greater number of OCS disposable sets will be used per year on the same OCS Console, thereby driving overall gross margin improvement. Because we expect that the number of OCS disposable sets sold over time will be significantly greater than the number of OCS Consoles sold or loaned to customers over that same period, we expect that our gross margin improvement will not be significantly affected by the number of OCS Consoles that we sell or loan to customers. While we expect gross margin to increase over the long term, it will likely fluctuate from quarter to quarter.
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Operating Expenses
Research, Development and Clinical Trials Expenses
Research, development and clinical trials expenses consist primarily of costs incurred for our research activities, product development, hardware and software engineering, clinical trials to develop clinical evidence of our products’ safety and effectiveness, regulatory expenses, testing, consultant services and other costs associated with our OCS technology platform and OCS products, which include:
• laboratory supplies and research materials; and
We expense research, development and clinical trials costs as incurred. In the future, we expect that research, development and clinical trials expenses will increase over the long term due to ongoing product development and approval efforts. We expect to continue to perform activities related to obtaining additional regulatory approvals for expanded indications in the United States and to developing the next generation of our OCS technology platform.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and related costs, including stock-based compensation, for personnel in our sales and clinical adoption team and personnel in executive, marketing, finance and administrative functions. Selling, general and administrative expenses also include direct and allocated facility-related costs, promotional activities, marketing, conferences and trade shows as well as professional fees for legal, patent, consulting, investor and public relations, accounting and audit services. We expect to continue to increase headcount in our sales and clinical adoption team and increase marketing efforts as we continue to grow commercial sales of our OCS products in both U.S. and select non-U.S. markets.
We expect that our selling, general and administrative expenses will increase over the long term as we increase our headcount to support the expected continued sales growth of our OCS products. We also anticipate that we will continue to incur increased accounting, audit, legal, regulatory, compliance and director and officer insurance costs as well as investor and public relations expenses associated with our continued operation as a public company.
Other Income (Expense)
Interest Expense
Interest expense consists of interest expense associated with outstanding borrowings under our loan agreement as well as the amortization of debt discount associated with such agreement.
Change in Fair Value of Preferred Stock Warrant Liability
Prior to our IPO in May 2019, we had outstanding warrants to purchase preferred stock. We classified these warrants as a liability on our consolidated balance sheet that we remeasured to fair value at each reporting date, and we recognized changes in the fair value of the warrant liability as a component of other income (expense) in our consolidated statements of operations.
On May 6, 2019, immediately prior to the closing of our IPO, the warrants to purchase preferred stock were converted into warrants to purchase common stock, and the fair value of the warrant liability at that time was reclassified to common stock. As a result, subsequent to the closing of our IPO, we no longer remeasure the fair value of the warrant liability at each reporting date.
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Other Income (Expense), Net
Other income (expense), net includes interest income, realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction gains and losses and other non-operating income and expense items unrelated to our core operations.
Interest income consists of interest earned on our invested cash balances. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses result from intercompany transactions as well as transactions with customers or vendors denominated in currencies other than the functional currency of the legal entity in which the transaction is recorded.
Provision for Income Taxes
Since our inception, we have not recorded any U.S. federal or state income tax benefits for the net operating losses we have incurred in each year or for the research and development tax credits we generated in the United States, as we believe, based upon the weight of available evidence, that it is more likely than not that all of our net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits will not be realized. In reporting periods subsequent to 2016, we have recorded provisions for foreign income taxes of an insignificant amount related to the operations of one of our foreign subsidiaries.
As of December 31, 2020, we had U.S. federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of $322.0 million and $252.7 million, respectively, which may be available to offset future taxable income and begin to expire in 2021 and 2030, respectively. Our federal net operating losses include $108.0 million, which can be carried forward indefinitely. As of December 31, 2020, we also had U.S. federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of $7.6 million and $5.0 million, respectively, which may be available to offset future tax liabilities and begin to expire in 2021 and 2024, respectively. As of December 31, 2020, we had no foreign net operating loss carryforwards. We have recorded a full valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets at each balance sheet date.
Results of Operations
Prior to 2020, our fiscal year ended on the last Saturday in December, and we reported fiscal years using a 52/53-week convention. Under this convention, certain fiscal years contained 53 weeks. Each fiscal year was typically composed of four 13-week fiscal quarters, but in years with 53 weeks, the fourth quarter was a 14-week period. Our fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 included 52 weeks. In February 2020, we changed the end of our fiscal year from the last Saturday in December to December 31.
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Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019:
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
(in thousands)
Operating expenses:
Other income (expense):
Change in fair value of preferred stock warrant liability — (341 ) 341
Provision for income taxes (32 ) (40 ) 8
Net Revenue
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
(in thousands)
Net revenue by geography:
Net revenue by OCS product:
Net revenue from customers in the United States was $19.2 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and increased by $3.0 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019. The increase in net revenue from customers in the United States was primarily due to sales of OCS disposable sets for use in our OCS Heart EXPAND CAP Trial and OCS Heart DCD Trial and sales of OCS disposable sets to customers for use in our OCS Liver PROTECT CAP Trial, partially offset by a decrease in sales of our OCS Lung disposable sets. Net revenue from sales of OCS Lung products in the United States decreased from $8.0 million in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 to $5.4 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. The decrease was due to fewer sales of OCS Lung disposable sets as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted lung transplants more than other organ transplants due to the nature of the disease, new protocols required for safe lung transplants and the necessary use of ventilators post-transplant. Net revenue from OCS Heart disposable sets sold to customers for use in our OCS Heart EXPAND CAP Trial and OCS Heart DCD Trial increased from $4.7 million in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 to $8.6 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. Net revenue from OCS Liver disposable sets sold to customers for use in our OCS Liver PROTECT Trial increased from $3.5 million in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 to $5.2 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. In addition, the U.S. selling price of OCS disposable sets sold in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 was approximately 12% higher than the U.S. selling prices of OCS disposable sets sold in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019, which accounted for $2.0 million of the overall $3.0 million increase in net revenue in the United States from the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
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Net revenue from customers outside the United States was $6.4 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and decreased by $1.0 million compared to the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019. The decrease in net revenue from customers outside the United States was primarily due to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy.
Cost of Revenue, Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Cost of revenue decreased by $0.7 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019. Gross profit increased by $2.8 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 compared to the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019. Gross margin was 65% and 59% for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively. Gross profit and gross margin increased primarily as a result of a higher average selling price of OCS disposable sets sold in the United States in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 relative to the average selling price of OCS disposable sets sold in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 and cost reduction and cost containment measures adopted by management to address the challenges of the operating environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating Expenses
Research, Development and Clinical Trials Expenses
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
(in thousands)
Laboratory supplies and research materials 2,095 2,254 (159 )
Total research, development and clinical trials expenses decreased by $1.0 million from $19.9 million in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 to $18.8 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. Personnel related costs and clinical trial costs increased by $1.5 million and $0.4 million, respectively, due primarily to additional resources supporting clinical trials and new product development. Consulting and third-party testing, laboratory supplies and research materials costs and other costs decreased by $2.7 million, $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively, due primarily to our cost management and cost containment strategies implemented by our management in 2020 to address the challenges of the operating environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
(in thousands)
Total selling, general and administrative expenses $ 24,188 $ 23,596 $ 592
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Total selling, general and administrative expenses increased by $0.6 million from $23.6 million in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 to $24.2 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 due primarily to increases in personnel related costs, as we hired additional resources and engaged consultants to support commercial sales of our OCS Lung product in the United States and to support our operation as a public company. Stock-based compensation expense also increased by $1.3 million due primarily to additional grants to existing employees. These increases were partially offset by professional and consultant fees and tradeshows and conferences decreases of $0.8 million and $1.1 million, respectively, primarily as a result of tradeshows and conferences being canceled or delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and cost management and cost containment strategies implemented by our management.
Other Income (Expense)
Interest Expense
Interest expense decreased to $4.0 million for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 from $4.4 million for the fiscal year ending December 28, 2019, as a result of lower interest rates.
Change in Fair Value of Preferred Stock Warrant Liability
The change in the fair value of our preferred stock warrant liability in the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 was due primarily to the changes in the fair value of our preferred stock during that period.
On May 6, 2019, immediately prior to the closing of our IPO, the warrants to purchase preferred stock were converted into warrants to purchase common stock, and the fair value of the warrant liability at that time was reclassified to common stock. As a result, subsequent to the closing of our IPO, we no longer remeasure the fair value of the warrant liability at each reporting date.
Other Income (Expense), Net
Other income (expense), net for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019 included interest income of $0.7 million and $1.0 million, respectively, resulting from interest earned on invested cash balances, and included $1.0 million of realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction gains and $0.2 million of realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction losses for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively. Interest income decreased from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020 as a result of lower interest rates on invested balances.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Since our inception, we have incurred significant operating losses. To date, we have funded our operations primarily with proceeds from sales of preferred stock and borrowings under loan agreements, proceeds from the sale of common stock in our public offerings and revenue from clinical trials and commercial sales of our OCS products.
On May 6, 2019, we completed our IPO, pursuant to which we issued and sold 6,543,500 shares of common stock, inclusive of 853,500 shares we sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The aggregate net proceeds received by us from the IPO were $91.4 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions as well as other offering costs of $6.0 million. On May 26, 2020, we completed an underwritten public offering of our common stock, which resulted in the sale of 5,750,000 shares of common stock, inclusive of 750,000 shares we sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The aggregate net proceeds received by us from the offering were $75.1 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions as well as other offering costs of $0.6 million.
As of December 31, 2020, we had cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $125.6 million.
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Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our sources and uses of cash for each of the fiscal periods presented:
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
(in thousands)
Cash used in operating activities $ (30,265 ) $ (32,286 )
Cash used in investing activities (41,598 ) (60,501 )
Cash provided by financing activities 75,549 92,723
Operating Activities
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, operating activities used $30.3 million of cash, primarily resulting from our net loss of $28.7 million and net cash used by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $5.6 million, partially offset by net non-cash charges of $4.1 million. Net cash used by changes in our operating assets and liabilities for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 consisted primarily of a $3.9 million decrease in accounts payable and accrued expenses and other current liabilities, a $1.7 million increase in inventory and a $0.8 million increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets, partially offset by a $0.9 million increase in deferred rent.
During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019, operating activities used $32.3 million of cash, primarily resulting from our net loss of $33.5 million and net cash used by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $1.6 million, partially offset by net non-cash charges of $2.9 million. Net cash used by changes in our operating assets and liabilities for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 consisted primarily of a $4.1 million increase in inventory and a $3.2 million increase in accounts receivable, partially offset by a $5.9 million increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses and other current liabilities.
Changes in accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and accrued expenses and other current liabilities in each reporting period are generally due to growth in our business, including the growth in sales, expenses and employee headcount.
Investing Activities
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, net cash used in investing activities of $41.6 million consisted of $121.8 million in purchases of marketable securities and $0.5 million in purchases of property and equipment, partially offset by proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities of $80.7 million.
During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019, net cash used by investing activities was $60.5 million, primarily due to the purchases of marketable securities of $82.4 million and purchases of property and equipment of $0.2 million, partially offset by the proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities of $22.0 million.
Financing Activities
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, net cash provided by financing activities of $75.5 million consisted primarily of proceeds from the issuance of common stock in our May 2020 public offering of $75.7 million and our employee share ownership plans of $0.6 million, both partially offset by payments of offering costs of $0.7 million.
During the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019, net cash provided by financing activities was $92.7 million, consisting primarily of net proceeds from issuance of common stock in our IPO that closed in May 2019, partially offset by payment of offering costs related to our IPO.
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Long-Term Debt
In June 2018, TransMedics entered into the Credit Agreement with OrbiMed, pursuant to which it borrowed $35.0 million.
Borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear interest at an annual rate equal to the LIBOR subject to a minimum of 1.0% and a maximum of 4.0%, plus 8.5%, or the Applicable Margin, subject in the aggregate to a maximum interest rate of 11.5%. In addition, borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear paid-in-kind, or PIK interest, at an annual rate equal to the amount by which LIBOR plus the Applicable Margin exceeds 11.5%, but not to exceed 12.5%. The PIK interest is added to the principal amount of the borrowings outstanding at the end of each quarter until the maturity date of the Credit Agreement in June 2023. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement are repayable in quarterly interest-only payments until the maturity date, at which time all principal and accrued interest is due and payable. At our option, we may prepay outstanding borrowings under the Credit Agreement, subject to a prepayment premium that decreases annually. Our current prepayment premium is 4.5% and will decrease to zero in June 2021. We are also required to make a final payment in an amount equal to 3.0% of the principal amount of any prepayment or repayment, which we are accreting to interest expense over the term of the Credit Agreement using the effective interest method.
All obligations under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by us and each of our material subsidiaries. All obligations of us and each guarantor are secured by substantially all of our and each guarantor’s assets, including their intellectual property, subject to certain exceptions, including a perfected security interest in substantially all tangible and intangible assets of us and each guarantor. Under the Credit Agreement, we have agreed to certain affirmative and negative covenants to which we will remain subject until maturity. The covenants include maintaining a minimum liquidity amount of $3.0 million; the requirement, on an annual basis, to deliver to OrbiMed annual audited financial statements with an unqualified audit opinion from our independent registered public accounting firm; and restrictions on our activities, including limitations on dispositions, mergers or acquisitions; encumbering our intellectual property; incurring indebtedness or liens; paying dividends; making certain investments; and engaging in certain other business transactions. The obligations under the Credit Agreement are subject to acceleration upon the occurrence of specified events of default, including payment default, change in control, bankruptcy, insolvency, certain defaults under other material debt, certain events with respect to governmental approvals (if such events could cause a material adverse change in our business), failure to comply with certain covenants. including the minimum liquidity and unqualified audit opinion covenants, and a material adverse change in our business, operations or other financial condition. As of December 31, 2020, we were in compliance with all of the other covenants under the Credit Agreement.
Upon the occurrence of an event of default and until such event of default is no longer continuing, the Applicable Margin will increase by 4.0% per annum. If an event of default (other than certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency) occurs and is continuing, OrbiMed may declare all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount of the borrowings plus accrued and unpaid interest to be due and payable. Upon the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency, all of the outstanding principal amount of the borrowings plus accrued and unpaid interest will automatically become due and payable. In addition, we may be required to prepay outstanding borrowings, subject to certain exceptions, with portions of net cash proceeds of certain asset sales and certain casualty and condemnation events. While we do not expect that the transition from LIBOR, including any legal or regulatory changes made in response to its future phase out, or the risks related to its discontinuance will have a material effect on our financing costs, the impact is uncertain at this time.
Funding Requirements
As we continue to pursue and increase commercial sales of our OCS products, we expect our costs and expenses to increase in the future, particularly as we expand our sales and clinical adoption team, scale our manufacturing operation, continue research, development and clinical trial efforts, and seek regulatory approval for new products and product enhancements, including new indications, both in the United States and in select non-U.S. markets. In addition, following the closing of our IPO, we have incurred and expect to continue to incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company. The timing and amount of our operating and capital expenditures will depend on many factors, including:
• the extent to which our OCS products are adopted by the transplant community;
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• the emergence of competing or complementary technologies;
• the number and types of future products we develop and commercialize;
• the level of our selling, general and administrative expenses.
We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities will enable us to fund our operating expenses, capital expenditure requirements, and debt service payments for at least 12 months following the filing of our annual report on Form 10-K.
We may need to raise additional funding, which might not be available on favorable terms or at all. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Financial Position and Need for Additional Capital” in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2020 and the effects that such obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods:
Payments Due by Period
Total Less Than 1 Year 1 to 3 Years 4 to 5 Years More Than 5 Years
(in thousands)
In January 2021, we entered into an unconditional $9.5 million purchase commitment in the ordinary course of business, for goods with specified annual minimum quantities to be purchased through December 2029. The contract is not cancellable without penalty and therefore, our commitments in the table above will increase by $1.5 million in the next year, $2.0 million in 1-3 years, $2.0 million in years 3-5, and $4.0 million in more than 5 years.
We also enter into other contracts in the normal course of business with consulting firms, material suppliers and other third parties for clinical trials and testing and manufacturing services. These contracts do not contain minimum purchase commitments and are cancelable by us upon prior written notice. Payments due upon cancellation consist only of payments for services provided or expenses incurred, including noncancelable obligations of our service providers, up to the date of cancellation. These payments are not included in the table above as the amount and timing of such payments are not known.
Inflation Risk
We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. If our costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, financial condition or results of operations.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates
Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The preparation of our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures requires us to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs and expenses, and related disclosures. We evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
While our significant accounting policies are described in more detail in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we believe that the following accounting policies are those most critical to the judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.
Revenue Recognition
We generate revenue primarily from sales of our single-use, organ-specific disposable sets (i.e., our organ-specific OCS Perfusion Sets sold together with our organ-specific OCS Solutions) used on our organ-specific OCS Consoles, each being a component of our OCS products. To a lesser extent, we also generate revenue from the sale of OCS Consoles to customers and from the implied rental of OCS Consoles loaned to customers at no charge. For each new transplant procedure, customers purchase an additional OCS disposable set for use on the customer’s existing organ-specific OCS Console.
We recognize revenue from sales to customers by applying the following five steps: (1) identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer, (2) identification of the performance obligations in the contract, (3) determination of the transaction price, (4) allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract, and (5) recognition of revenue when, or as, performance obligations are satisfied. Because all performance obligations of a customer order are delivered and recognized as revenue at the same time and because revenue allocated to performance obligations other than OCS disposable sets, such as implied rental income and service revenue, is insignificant, all components of revenue from customer contracts are classified as a single category of revenue in our consolidated statements of operations.
Substantially all of our customer contracts have multiple-performance obligations that contain deliverables consisting of OCS Perfusion Sets and OCS Solutions. In some of those contracts, the promises also include an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned to the customer. We evaluate each promise within a contract to determine whether it represents a distinct performance obligation. A performance obligation is distinct if (1) the product or service is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract and (2) the customer can benefit from the product or service on its own or with other resources that are readily available to the customer.
When a customer order includes an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned, we have determined that customer training and the equipment set-up of the OCS Console, each performed by us, are not distinct because they are not sold on a standalone basis and can only be performed by us in conjunction with a sale or loan of our OCS Console. In addition, we have determined that the OCS Console itself is not distinct because the customer cannot benefit from the OCS Console without the training and equipment set-up having been completed. As a result, when the order includes an OCS Console, we have concluded that training, OCS Console equipment set-up, and the OCS Console itself are highly interdependent and represent a single, combined performance obligation. Consequently, we do not recognize any revenue from any component of a customer order that includes an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned, until the OCS Console has arrived at the customer site and the training and equipment set-up have been completed by us. We have concluded that “transfer of control” of an OCS Console occurs only after the console has arrived at the customer site and the training and equipment set-up have been completed by us.
Some of our revenue has been generated from products sold in conjunction with the clinical trials conducted for our OCS products, under contracts referred to as customer clinical trial agreements. Under most of these customer clinical trial agreements, we place an organ-specific OCS Console at the customer site for its use free of charge for the duration of the clinical trial, and the customer separately purchases from us the OCS disposable sets used in each transplant procedure during the clinical trial. When we loan the OCS Console to the customer, we retain title to the console at all times and do not require minimum purchase commitments from the customer related to any OCS products. In such cases, we invoice the customer for OCS disposable sets based on customer orders received for each new transplant procedure and the prices set forth in the customer agreement. Over time, we typically recover the cost of the loaned OCS Console through the customer’s continued purchasing and use of additional OCS disposable sets. For these reasons, we have determined that part of the selling price for the disposable set is an implied rental payment for use of the OCS Console.
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When a customer contract contains multiple-performance obligations that include a loan of an OCS Console for the customer’s use at the customer site as well as OCS disposable sets that are delivered simultaneously, we allocate the selling price between the lease deliverables (i.e., the OCS Console) and non-lease deliverables (i.e., the OCS disposable sets) based on the relative estimated standalone selling price, or SSP, of each distinct performance obligation. To date, the amounts allocated to lease deliverables have been insignificant. In determining SSP, we maximize observable inputs and consider a number of data points, including: (1) the pricing of standalone sales (in instances where available), (2) the pricing established by management when setting prices for deliverables that are intended to be sold on a standalone basis, (3) contractually stated prices for deliverables that are intended to be sold on a standalone basis, and (4) other pricing factors, such as the geographical region in which the products are sold and expected discounts based on the customer size and type.
Revenue is recognized when control of the OCS product or products is transferred to the customer in an amount that reflects the amount we expect to be entitled to in exchange for the product or products.
Performance Obligations
The primary performance obligations in our customer contracts from which we derive revenue are as follows:
Payments Made to Customers
Under our customer contracts that include a customer clinical trial agreement, we receive payments from sales to the customer of its OCS products and also make payments to that customer for reimbursements of clinical trial costs, materials, and for specified clinical documentation related to the customer’s use of our OCS products. We also make payments to customers involved in post-approval studies for information related to the transplant procedures performed. We determine the appropriate accounting treatments for these payments depending on the nature of the payment and whether they are for distinct goods or services.
In these cases, we have determined that the payments made to the customer for reimbursement of clinical trial materials and its costs incurred to execute specific clinical trial protocols related to our OCS products do not provide us with a distinct good or service transferred by the customer, and, therefore, we record such payments as a reduction of revenue from the customer in our consolidated statements of operations. Reductions of revenue related to such payments made to customers for reimbursements are recognized when we recognize the revenue for the sale of our OCS disposable sets. For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, we recorded as a reduction of revenue $2.7 million and $2.2 million, respectively, of reimbursable clinical trial costs.
In these same cases, we have also determined that payments made to the customer to obtain information related to post-approval studies or existing standard-of-care protocols (i.e., unrelated to our OCS products) do meet the criteria to be classified as a cost because we receive a distinct good or service transferred by the customer separate from the customer’s purchase of our OCS products and the price paid represents the fair value of the distinct good or service received by us. As a result, these payments made by us to customers for information related to post-approval studies or standard-of-care protocols are recorded as operating expenses. For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, we recorded as operating expenses $1.6 million and $1.2 million, respectively, related to payments made to customers for information related to post-approval studies or existing standard-of-care protocols.
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Variable Consideration
Revenue is reported net of any taxes assessed by a governmental authority that are directly imposed on a revenue-producing transaction (e.g., sales, use, and value added taxes). We only include estimated variable amounts in the transaction price to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is resolved.
Revenue from reimbursements of out-of-pocket expenses, including travel, lodging, and meals, is accounted for as variable consideration and is insignificant.
We do not consider shipping to be a performance obligation. We record shipping costs billed to customers as revenue and records the associated costs incurred by us for those items as cost of revenue.
Stock-Based Compensation
We measure stock-based option awards granted to employees, directors and non-employees based on their fair value on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. Compensation expense for those awards is recognized over the requisite service which is generally the vesting period of the respective award. Generally, we issue awards with only service-based vesting conditions and record the expense for these awards using the straight-line method. We account for forfeitures as they occur and record compensation cost assuming all option holders will complete the requisite service period. If an award is forfeited, the Company reverses compensation expense previously recognized in the period the award is forfeited.
The Black-Scholes option-pricing model uses as inputs the fair value of our common stock and assumptions we make for the volatility of our common stock, the expected term of our common stock options, the risk-free interest rate for a period that approximates the expected term of our common stock options, and our expected dividend yield.
Valuation of Inventory
We value inventory at the lower of cost or net realizable value, with cost computed using the first-in, first-out method. We regularly review inventory quantities on-hand for excess and obsolete inventory and, when circumstances indicate, record charges to write down inventories to their estimated net realizable value, after evaluating historical sales, future demand, market conditions and expected product life cycles. Such charges are classified as cost of revenue in our consolidated statements of operations. Any write-down of inventory to net realizable value creates a new cost basis.
At the end of each reporting period, we assess whether losses should be accrued on long-term manufacturing purchase commitments in accordance with ASC 330, Inventory, which requires that losses that are expected to arise from firm, noncancelable and unhedged commitments for the future purchase of inventory, measured in the same way as inventory losses, should be recognized in the current period in the statements of operations unless they are deemed recoverable through firm sales contacts or when there are other circumstances that reasonably assure continuing sales without price decline. As of the end of each reporting period presented in our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, we did not identify any potential losses arising from remaining future purchase commitments as compared to estimated future customer sales through the remainder of the term of the manufacturing purchase commitment and, as a result, did not recognize in a current period any loss provision for future-period remaining purchase commitments.
Backlog
We define backlog as contractually committed orders for our products for which the associated revenue has not been recognized and the customer has not been invoiced. Amounts that have been invoiced but not yet recognized as revenue are reported as deferred revenue on our consolidated balance sheets and are not included in our calculation of backlog. As of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, we had backlog of $0.5 million. Of the amount of backlog as of December 31, 2020, we expect that substantially all of it will be invoiced to customers within the following 12 months. However, because our customers may cancel, change or reschedule orders without penalty at any time prior to shipment, we have no assurance that we will be able to convert our backlog into shipped orders.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We did not have during the periods presented, and we do not currently have, any off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined in the rules and regulations of the SEC.
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Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
A description of recently issued accounting pronouncements that may potentially impact our financial position, results of operations or cash flows is disclosed in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
We are exposed to changes in interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates because we finance certain operations through variable rate debt instruments and denominate our transactions in a variety of foreign currencies. Changes in these rates may have an impact on future cash flow and earnings. We manage these risks through normal operating and financing activities.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our foreign currency transaction exposure results primarily from intercompany transactions and transactions with customers or vendors denominated in currencies other than the functional currency of the legal entity in which the transaction is recorded by us. Assets and liabilities arising from such transactions are translated into the legal entity’s functional currency using the period-end exchange rates. Foreign currency transaction gains (losses) are included in the consolidated statements of operations as a component of other income (expense). We recognized foreign currency transaction gains of $1.0 million during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
Foreign currency translation exposure results from the translation of the financial statements of our subsidiaries whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar into U.S. dollars for consolidated reporting purposes. Assets and liabilities of these subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars using the period-end exchange rates, and income and expense items are translated into U.S. dollars using average exchange rates in effect during each period. The effects of these foreign currency translation adjustments are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss, a separate component of stockholders’ equity (deficit) on our consolidated balance sheets. We recorded a foreign currency translation loss of less than $0.1 million during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, 18% of our net revenue and 7% of our operating costs and expenses were generated by subsidiaries whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar and therefore are subject to foreign currency exposure.
Currently, our largest foreign currency exposure is that with respect to the euro. We believe that a 10% change in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and euro would not materially impact our operating results or financial position. We have experienced and we will continue to experience fluctuations in our net loss as a result of revaluing our assets and liabilities that are not denominated in the functional currency of the entity that recorded the asset or liability. At this time, we do not hedge our foreign currency risk.
Interest Rate Sensitivity
As of December 31, 2020, we had cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $125.6 million, which consisted of cash, money market funds and short-term investments. Interest income is sensitive to changes in the general level of interest rates; however, due to the nature of these investments, an immediate 10% change in interest rates would not have a material effect on the fair market value of our investment portfolio.
In June 2018, we entered into our Credit Agreement with OrbiMed. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear interest at a variable rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus 8.5%. As of December 31, 2020 borrowings outstanding under the Credit Agreement totaled $35.0 million and the interest rate applicable to such borrowings was 9.5%. An immediate 10% change in LIBOR would not have a material impact on our debt-related obligations, financial position or results of operations.
Inflation Risk
We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. If our costs were to become subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do so could harm our business, financial condition or results of operations.
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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
Index to Consolidated Financial Statements
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 90
Consolidated Balance Sheets 91
Consolidated Statements of Operations 92
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss 93
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 95
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 96
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of TransMedics Group, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of TransMedics Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive loss, of convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit) and of cash flows for the years then ended, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits of these consolidated financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
March 11, 2021
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2001.
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TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
December 31, December 28,
Assets
Current assets:
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 2,326 1,538
Other long-term assets 6 6
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 10,317 8,332
Current portion of deferred rent 93 370
Long-term debt, net of discount and current portion 34,657 34,146
Deferred rent, net of current portion 1,599 389
Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)
Stockholders’ equity:
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (95 ) (2 )
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $ 152,026 $ 105,299
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
Operating expenses:
Research, development and clinical trials 18,831 19,870
Other income (expense):
Change in fair value of preferred stock warrant liability — (341 )
Total other expense, net (2,332 ) (3,904 )
Provision for income taxes (32 ) (40 )
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(In thousands)
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustment (49 ) 45
Unrealized gains (losses) on marketable securities, net of tax of $0 (44 ) 54
Total other comprehensive income (loss) (93 ) 99
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
(In thousands, except share amounts)
Convertible Preferred Stock Common Stock Additional Accumulated Other Total
Stock-based compensation expense — — — 797 57 — — 854
Settlement of accrued financing fees — — — 124 — — — 124
Foreign currency translation adjustment — — — — — 45 — 45
Unrealized gains on marketable securities — — — — — 54 — 54
Stock-based compensation expense — — — 2,414 — — — 2,414
Foreign currency translation adjustment — — — — — (49 ) — (49 )
Unrealized losses on marketable securities — — — — — (44 ) — (44 )
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In thousands)
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
Cash flows from operating activities:
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization expense 1,577 1,222
Stock-based compensation expense 2,414 854
Change in fair value of preferred stock warrant liability — 341
Non-cash interest and end of term accretion expense 511 475
Unrealized foreign currency transaction (gains) losses (1,065 ) 200
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses and other current assets (769 ) 250
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities 1,948 2,453
Deferred revenue 60 (136 )
Net cash used in operating activities (30,265 ) (32,286 )
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment (455 ) (165 )
Proceeds from sales and maturities of marketable securities 80,650 22,035
Net cash used in investing activities (41,598 ) (60,501 )
Cash flows from financing activities:
Payments of public offering and other financing costs (705 ) (4,846 )
Proceeds from issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options 227 202
Proceeds from Paycheck Protection Program loan 2,249 —
Repayment of Paycheck Protection Program loan (2,249 ) —
Net cash provided by financing activities 75,549 92,723
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period 20,592 20,741
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period $ 25,081 $ 20,592
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:
Transfers of inventory to property and equipment $ 1,191 $ 2,146
Purchases of property and equipment included in accounts payable $ — $ 169
Offering costs included in accounts payable and accrued expenses $ — $ 120
Settlement of accrued financing fee $ — $ 124
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash:
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Nature of the Business and Basis of Presentation
TransMedics Group, Inc. (“TransMedics Group” and together with its consolidated subsidiaries, the “Company”) was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in October 2018. TransMedics, Inc. (“TransMedics”), an operating company and wholly owned subsidiary of TransMedics Group was incorporated in the State of Delaware in August 1998. The Company is a commercial-stage medical technology company transforming organ transplant therapy for end-stage organ failure patients across multiple disease states. The Company developed the Organ Care System (“OCS”) to replace a decades-old standard of care. The OCS represents a paradigm shift that transforms organ preservation for transplantation from a static state to a dynamic environment that enables new capabilities, including organ optimization and assessment. The Company’s OCS technology replicates many aspects of the organ’s natural living and functioning environment outside of the human body.
On May 6, 2019, the Company completed its initial public offering (the “IPO”), pursuant to which it issued and sold 6,543,500 shares of common stock, inclusive of 853,500 shares sold by the Company pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The aggregate net proceeds received by the Company from the IPO were $91.4 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions as well as other offering costs of $6.0 million. On May 26, 2020, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of 5,750,000 shares of its common stock, inclusive of 750,000 shares sold by the Company pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The aggregate net proceeds received by the Company from the offering were approximately $75.1 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions as well as other offering costs of $0.6 million.
Prior to 2020, the Company’s fiscal year ended on the last Saturday in December, and the Company reported fiscal years using a 52/53-week convention. Under this convention, certain fiscal years contained 53 weeks. Each fiscal year was typically composed of four 13-week fiscal quarters, but in years with 53 weeks, the fourth quarter was a 14-week period. The fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 included 52 weeks. In February 2020, the Company changed the end of its fiscal year end from the last Saturday in December to December 31. As a result of this change, the Company’s current fiscal year ended on December 31, 2020 and its fiscal quarters end on March 31, June 30 and September 30.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the basis of continuity of operations, realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the ordinary course of business. The Company has incurred recurring losses since inception, including net losses attributable to the Company of $28.7 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and $33.5 million for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $398.2 million. The Company expects to continue to generate operating losses in the foreseeable future.
The Company believes that its existing cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $125.6 million as of December 31, 2020 will be sufficient to fund operations, capital expenditures, and debt service payments for at least the next twelve months following the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Company may need to seek additional funding through equity financings, debt financings or strategic alliances. The Company may not be able to obtain financing on acceptable terms, or at all, and the terms of any financing may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of the Company’s shareholders. If the Company is unable to obtain funding, the Company will be required to delay, reduce or eliminate some or all of its research and development programs, product expansion or commercialization efforts, or the Company may be unable to continue operations.
The Company is subject to risks and uncertainties common to companies in the medical device industry and of similar size, including, but not limited to, development by competitors of new technological innovations, dependence on key personnel, protection of proprietary technology, compliance with government regulations, uncertainty of market acceptance of products, and the need to obtain additional financing to fund operations. Potential risks and uncertainties also include, without limitation, uncertainties regarding the duration and magnitude of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business and the economy generally. Products currently under development will require additional research and development efforts, including additional clinical testing and regulatory approval, prior to commercialization. These efforts require additional capital, adequate personnel, infrastructure and extensive compliance-reporting capabilities. The Company’s research and development may not be successfully completed, adequate protection for the Company’s technology may not be obtained, the Company may not obtain necessary government regulatory approval on its expected timeline or at all, and approved products may not prove commercially viable. The Company operates in an environment of rapid change in technology and competition.
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been and will likely continue to be extensive in many aspects of society, which has resulted in and will likely continue to result in significant disruptions to the global economy, as well as businesses and capital markets around the world. Impacts to the Company’s business as a result of COVID-19 include the temporary disruption of transplant procedures at many of the organ transplant centers that purchase OCS products; disruptions to the Company’s manufacturing operations and supply chain caused by facility closures, reductions in operating hours, staggered shifts and other social distancing efforts; labor shortages; decreased productivity and unavailability of materials or components; restrictions on or delays of the Company’s clinical trials and studies; delays of reviews and approvals by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and other health authorities; limitations on its employees’ and customers’ ability to travel, and delays in product installations, trainings or shipments to and from affected countries and within the United States. In response to the pandemic, healthcare providers have, and may need to further, reallocate resources, such as physicians, staff, hospital beds and intensive care unit facilities, and these actions significantly delay the provision of other medical care such as organ transplantation and reduce the number of transplant procedures that are performed, which negatively impacts the Company’s revenue and clinical trial activities. The Company’s sales and clinical adoption teamhas been and may continue to be restricted in visiting many transplant centers in person. The Company plans to maintain these or similar restrictions until it believes employees can fully resume such activities in accordance with federal, state and local requirements. In addition, the Company had temporarily reduced the manufacturing and distribution of its OCS products at its facility in Andover, Massachusetts. Starting in May 2020, the Company resumed manufacturing and distribution operations to pre-COVID levels. While the Company maintains an inventory of finished products and raw materials used in its OCS products, a prolonged pandemic could lead to shortages in the raw materials necessary to manufacture its products. The COVID-19 pandemic also has impacted operations at the FDA and other health authorities, resulting in delays of reviews and approvals, including with respect to the Company’s OCS Heart Pre-Market Approval (“PMA”) application, and may affect other potential PMA applications.
While the COVID-19 pandemic did not significantly impact the Company’s business or results of operations during the first quarter of 2020, OCS product sales have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic since the second quarter of 2020 and the Company anticipates a negative impact to OCS product sales in 2021. The extent of the future impact on the Company’s operations and financial condition will depend on the length and severity of the pandemic, its consequences, and containment and vaccination efforts. While the FDA approved emergency use authorization of vaccines in December 2020, it is expected to take several months for widespread vaccinations to occur and it is not yet known how vaccination efforts will impact the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Company’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Any reference in these notes to applicable guidance is meant to refer to the authoritative GAAP as found in the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) and Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. Significant estimates and assumptions reflected in these consolidated financial statements include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, the valuation of inventory and the valuation of stock-based awards. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience, known trends and other market-specific or other relevant factors that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates as there are changes in circumstances, facts and experience. Changes in estimates are recorded in the period in which they become known. The full extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will directly or indirectly impact the Company’s business, results of operations and financial condition, including sales, expenses, reserves and allowances, manufacturing, clinical trials, research and development costs and employee-related amounts, will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain, including as a result of new information that may emerge concerning COVID-19 and the actions taken to contain it or treat COVID-19, as well as the economic impact on local, regional, national and international customers and markets. The Company has made estimates of the impact of COVID-19 within its financial statements and there may be changes to those estimates in future periods. As of the date of issuance of these consolidated financial statements, the Company is not aware of any specific event or circumstance that would require the Company to update estimates, judgments or revise the carrying value of any assets or liabilities. Actual results may differ from those estimates or assumptions.
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Risk of Concentrations of Credit, Significant Customers and Significant Suppliers
Financial instruments that potentially expose the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities and accounts receivable. The Company has not experienced any other-than-temporary losses with respect to its cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities and does not believe that it is subject to unusual credit risk beyond the normal credit risk associated with commercial banking relationships.
Significant customers are those that accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s total revenue or accounts receivable. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, two customers represented 14% and 10% of net revenue, respectively. For the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019, no customer accounted for 10% or more of net revenue. As of December 31, 2020, one customer accounted for 30% of accounts receivable. As of December 28, 2019, no customer accounted for 10% or more of accounts receivable.
Certain of the components and subassemblies included in the Company’s products are obtained from a sole source, a single source or a limited group of suppliers. Although the Company seeks to reduce dependence on those limited sources of suppliers and manufacturers, the partial or complete loss of certain of these sources could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s operating results, financial condition and cash flows and damage its customer relationships.
Deferred Financing Costs
Deferred financing costs related to a recognized debt liability are recorded as a reduction of the carrying amount of the debt liability and amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the repayment term of the debt.
Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash equivalents.
Restricted Cash
As of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the Company maintained two letters of credit totaling $0.5 million for the benefit of the landlord of its leased property. The Company was required to maintain a separate cash balance of $0.5 million to secure the letters of credit. Related to this separate cash balance, the Company classified $0.5 million as restricted cash (non-current) on its consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019. The Company’s cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was $25.1 million and $20.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts receivable are presented net of a provision for doubtful accounts, which is an estimate of amounts that may not be collectible. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and, if necessary, provides an allowance for doubtful accounts and expected losses. The Company writes off accounts receivable against the allowance when it determines a balance is uncollectible and no longer actively pursues collection of the receivable. As of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the Company had no allowance for doubtful accounts. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the Company did not record any provisions for doubtful accounts and did not write off any accounts receivable balances.
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Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization expense is recognized using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of each asset as follows:
Estimated Useful Life
Manufacturing equipment 5 years
OCS Consoles loaned to customers 5 years
Computer equipment and software 3 years
Laboratory equipment 3 years
Office and trade show equipment 5 years
Leasehold improvements Shorter of term of lease or 15 years
Costs incurred for OCS Consoles are recorded as inventory unless and until the Company determines that an OCS Console will be loaned to a customer for its use. When an OCS Console is loaned to a customer, the Company reclassifies the cost of the OCS Console from inventory to property and equipment and begins to depreciate the loaned OCS Console over its estimated life. Related depreciation expense for the loaned OCS Console is classified as a cost of revenue. If an OCS Console is returned to the Company, it will continue to be classified as property and equipment and depreciated over its remaining useful life. The Company retains title to all OCS Consoles loaned to customers.
Other than for OCS Consoles loaned to customers, costs for capital assets not yet placed into service are capitalized as construction-in-progress and depreciated once placed into service. Upon retirement or sale, the cost of assets disposed of and the related accumulated depreciation and amortization are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is included in loss from operations. Expenditures for repairs and maintenance are charged to expense as incurred.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
Long-lived assets consist of property and equipment. Long-lived assets to be held and used are tested for recoverability whenever events or changes in business circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be fully recoverable. Factors that the Company considers in deciding when to perform an impairment review include significant underperformance of the business in relation to expectations, significant negative industry or economic trends and significant changes or planned changes in the use of the assets. If an impairment review is performed to evaluate a long-lived asset group for recoverability, the Company compares forecasts of undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the long-lived asset group to its carrying value. An impairment loss would be recognized in loss from operations when estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of an asset group are less than its carrying amount. The impairment loss would be based on the excess of the carrying value of the impaired asset group over its fair value. The Company did not record any impairment losses on long-lived assets during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019.
Software Development Costs
The Company incurs costs to develop computer software that is embedded in the hardware components of the Company’s OCS Console and OCS Perfusion Sets. Research and development costs related to this software are expensed as incurred, except for costs of internally developed or externally purchased software that qualify for capitalization. Software development costs incurred subsequent to the establishment of technological feasibility, but prior to the general release of the product, are capitalized and, upon general release, are amortized based upon the pattern in which economic benefits related to such assets are realized. Due to the short time period between achieving technological feasibility and product release and the insignificant amount of costs incurred during such periods, the Company did not capitalize any software development costs during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019.
Inventory
Inventory is valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Cost is computed using the first-in, first-out method. The Company regularly reviews inventory quantities on-hand for excess and obsolete inventory and, when circumstances indicate, records charges to write down inventories to their estimated net realizable value, after evaluating historical sales, future demand, market conditions and expected product life cycles. Such charges are classified as cost of revenue in the consolidated statements of operations. Any write-down of inventory to net realizable value creates a new cost basis.
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At the end of each reporting period, the Company assesses whether losses should be accrued on long-term manufacturing purchase commitments in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 330, Inventory, which requires that losses that are expected to arise from firm, noncancelable and unhedged commitments for the future purchase of inventory, measured in the same way as inventory losses, should be recognized in the current period in the statements of operations unless they are deemed recoverable through firm sales contacts or when there are other circumstances that reasonably assure continuing sales without price decline. As of the end of each reporting period presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements, the Company did not identify any potential losses arising from remaining future purchase commitments as compared to estimated future customer sales through the remainder of the term of the manufacturing purchase commitment and, as a result, did not recognize any loss provision for future-period remaining purchase commitments for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
Deferred Rent
The Company’s lease agreements include payment escalations, rent holidays and other lease incentives, which are accrued or deferred as appropriate such that rent expense for each lease is recognized on a straight-line basis over the respective lease term. Adjustments for such items, consisting primarily of payment escalations, are recorded as deferred rent and amortized over the respective lease terms.
Fair Value Measurements
Certain assets and liabilities are carried at fair value under GAAP. Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. Financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value are to be classified and disclosed in one of the following three levels of the fair value hierarchy, of which the first two are considered observable and the last is considered unobservable:
• Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
The Company’s cash equivalents and marketable securities are carried at fair value, determined according to the fair value hierarchy described above (see Note 3). The carrying values of the Company’s accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair values due to the short-term nature of these assets and liabilities. The carrying value of the Company’s long-term debt approximates its fair value (a level 2 measurement) at each balance sheet date due to its variable interest rate, which approximates a market interest rate.
Marketable Securities
The Company’s marketable securities (non-equity instruments) are classified as available-for-sale and are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity (deficit). Realized gains and losses and declines in value determined to be other than temporary are based on the specific identification method and are included as a component of other income (expense), net in the consolidated statements of operations.
The Company evaluates its marketable securities with unrealized losses for other-than-temporary impairment. When assessing marketable securities for other-than-temporary declines in value, the Company considers such factors as, among other things, how significant the decline in value is as a percentage of the original cost, how long the market value of the investment has been less than its original cost, the Company’s ability and intent to retain the investment for a period of time sufficient to allow for any anticipated recovery in fair value and market conditions in general. If any adjustment to fair value reflects a decline in the value of the investment that the Company considers to be “other than temporary,” the Company reduces the investment to fair value through a charge recorded in the consolidated statements of operations. No such adjustments were necessary during the periods presented.
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Segment Information
The Company manages its operations as a single segment for the purposes of assessing performance and making operating decisions. The Company is developing and commercializing a proprietary system to preserve human organs for transplant in a near-physiologic condition to address the limitations of cold storage organ preservation. Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is regularly evaluated by the Company’s chief operating decision maker, or decision-making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and assess performance. The Company has determined that its chief operating decision maker is its Chief Executive Officer. The Company’s chief operating decision maker reviews the Company’s financial information on a consolidated basis for purposes of allocating resources and assessing financial performance.
Product Warranties
The Company provides a one-year warranty on its OCS Consoles and disposable sets and replaces or repairs any OCS Console or disposable set that does not function in accordance with the product specifications. OCS Consoles returned to the Company may be refurbished and redeployed. Estimated warranty costs are recorded at the time of shipment of the OCS Console or disposable set. Warranty costs are estimated based on the current expected product replacement or repair cost and expected replacement or repair rates based on historical experience. The Company evaluates its warranty accrual at the end of each reporting period and makes adjustments as necessary. As of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the warranty accrual was less than $0.1 million.
Revenue Recognition
The Company generates revenue primarily from sales of its single-use, organ-specific disposable sets (i.e., its organ-specific OCS Perfusion Sets sold together with its organ-specific OCS Solutions) used on its organ-specific OCS Consoles, each being a component of the Company’s OCS products. To a lesser extent, the Company also generates revenue from the sale of OCS Consoles to customers and from the implied rental of OCS Consoles loaned to customers at no charge. For each new transplant procedure, customers purchase an additional OCS disposable set for use on the customer’s existing organ-specific OCS Console.
The Company recognizes revenue from sales to customers applying the following five steps: (1) identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer, (2) identification of the performance obligations in the contract, (3) determination of the transaction price, (4) allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract, and (5) recognition of revenue when, or as, performance obligations are satisfied. Because all performance obligations of a customer order are delivered and recognized as revenue at the same time and because revenue allocated to performance obligations other than OCS disposable sets, such as implied rental income and service revenue, is insignificant, all components of revenue from customer arrangements are classified as a single category of revenue in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.
Substantially all of the Company’s customer contracts have multiple-performance obligations that contain deliverables consisting of OCS Perfusion Sets and OCS Solutions. In some of those customer contracts, the deliverables also include an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned to the customer. The Company evaluates each promise within a multiple-performance obligation arrangement to determine whether it represents a distinct performance obligation. A performance obligation is distinct if (1) the product or service is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract and (2) the customer can benefit from the product or service on its own or with other resources that are readily available to the customer.
When a customer order includes an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned, the Company has determined that customer training and the equipment set-up of the OCS Console, each performed by the Company, are not distinct because they are not sold on a standalone basis and can only be performed by the Company in conjunction with a sale or loan of its OCS Console. In addition, the Company has determined that the OCS Console itself is not distinct because the customer cannot benefit from the OCS Console without the training and equipment set-up having been completed. As a result, when the order includes an OCS Console, the Company has concluded that training, OCS Console equipment set-up, and the OCS Console itself are highly interdependent and represent a single, combined performance obligation. Consequently, the Company does not recognize any revenue from any component of a customer order that includes an OCS Console, whether sold or loaned, until the OCS Console has arrived at the customer site and the training and equipment set-up have been completed by the Company. The Company has concluded that “transfer of control” of an OCS Console occurs only after the console has arrived at the customer site and the training and equipment set-up have been completed by the Company.
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Some of the Company’s revenue has been generated from products sold in conjunction with the clinical trials conducted for the Company’s OCS products, under arrangements referred to as customer clinical trial agreements. Under most of these customer clinical trial agreements, the Company places an organ-specific OCS Console at the customer site for its use free of charge for the duration of the clinical trial, and the customer separately purchases from the Company the OCS disposable sets used in each transplant procedure during the clinical trial. When the Company loans the OCS Console to the customer, it retains title to the console at all times and does not require minimum purchase commitments from the customer related to any OCS products. In such cases, the Company invoices the customer for OCS disposable sets based on customer orders received for each new transplant procedure and the prices set forth in the customer agreement. Over time, the Company typically recovers the cost of the loaned OCS Console through the customer’s continued purchasing and use of additional OCS disposable sets. For these reasons, the Company has determined that part of the arrangement consideration for the disposable set is an implied rental payment for use of the OCS Console.
When the Company’s customer arrangements have multiple-performance obligations that contain a loan of an OCS Console for the customer’s use at its customer site as well as OCS disposable sets that are delivered simultaneously, the Company allocates the arrangement consideration between the lease deliverables (i.e., the OCS Console) and non-lease deliverables (i.e., the OCS disposable sets) based on the relative estimated standalone selling price (“SSP”) of each distinct performance obligation. To date, the amounts allocated to lease deliverables have been insignificant. In determining SSP, the Company maximizes observable inputs and consider a number of data points, including: (1) the pricing of standalone sales (in instances where available), (2) the pricing established by management when setting prices for deliverables that are intended to be sold on a standalone basis, (3) contractually stated prices for deliverables that are intended to be sold on a standalone basis, and (4) other pricing factors, such as the geographical region in which the products are sold and expected discounts based on the customer size and type.
Revenue is recognized when control of the OCS product or products is transferred to the customer in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for the product or products.
Performance Obligations
The primary performance obligations in the Company’s customer arrangements from which it derives revenue are as follows:
Payments Made to Customers
Under the Company’s customer arrangements that include a customer clinical trial agreement, the Company receives payments from sales to the customer of its OCS products and also makes payments to that customer for reimbursements of clinical trial costs, materials, and for specified clinical documentation related to the customer’s use of its OCS products. The Company also makes payments to customers involved in post-approval studies for information related to the transplant procedures performed. The Company determines the appropriate accounting treatments for these payments depending on the nature of the payment and whether they are for distinct goods or services.
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The Company has determined that the payments made to the customer for reimbursement of clinical trial materials and customer’s costs incurred to execute specific clinical trial protocols related to the Company’s OCS products do not provide the Company with a distinct good or service transferred by the customer, and therefore such payments are recorded as a reduction of revenue from the customer in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. Reductions of revenue related to such payments made to customers for reimbursements are recognized when the Company recognizes the revenue for the sale of its OCS disposable sets. The Company recorded the reimbursable clinical costs as a reduction of revenue of $2.7million and $2.2million for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively, as presented below in disaggregated revenue.
The Company has also determined that payments made to customers to obtain information related to post-approval studies or existing standard-of-care protocols (i.e., unrelated to the Company’s OCS products) do meet the criteria to be classified as a cost because the Company receives a distinct good or service transferred by the customer separate from the customer’s purchase of the Company’s OCS products and the consideration paid represents the fair value of the distinct good or service received by the Company. As a result, these payments made to the customers for information related to post-approval studies or standard-of-care protocols are recorded as operating expenses. The Company recorded payments made to customers related to post-approval studies and for documentation related to existing standard-of-care protocols of $1.6 million and $1.2 million for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively, as operating expenses.
Variable Consideration
Revenue is reported net of any taxes assessed by a governmental authority that are directly imposed on a revenue-producing transaction (e.g., sales, use, and value added taxes). The Company only includes estimated variable amounts in the transaction price to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is resolved.
Revenue from reimbursements of out-of-pocket expenses, including travel, lodging, and meals, is accounted for as variable consideration and is insignificant.
The Company does not consider shipping to be a contract performance obligation. The Company records shipping costs billed to customers as revenue and records the associated costs incurred by the Company for those items as cost of revenue.
Contract Assets and Liabilities
The Company recognizes a receivable at the point in time at which it has an unconditional right to payment. Such receivables are not contract assets. Payment terms for customer orders, including for each of the Company’s primary performance obligations, are typically 30 days for customers in the United States and 30 to 90 days for customers in non-U.S. markets, and such payments do not include payments that are variable, dependent on specified factors or events.
Contract assets arise from unbilled amounts in customer arrangements when revenue recognized exceeds the amount billed to the customer and the Company’s right to payment is not just subject to the passage of time. The Company had no contract assets as of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019.
Contract liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to transfer goods or services to a customer for which it has received consideration (or the amount is due) from the customer. The Company has determined that its only contract liabilities are deferred revenue, which consists of amounts that have been invoiced but that have not been recognized as revenue.
The Company generally satisfies performance obligations within one year of the contract inception date. As of December 31, 2020, the Company’s wholly- or partially unsatisfied performance obligations totaled $0.8 million and are expected to be completed within the next year.
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Disaggregated Revenue
In determining total net revenue under the revenue recognition guidance applicable to both periods presented, the Company reduces revenue by the amount of certain payments made to customers (see “Payments Made to Customers” above). The reconciliation of gross revenue to net revenue for these certain payments is shown below (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
Gross revenue from sales to customers $ 28,356 $ 25,844
Less: Clinical trial payments reducing revenue 2,717 2,240
The Company disaggregates revenue from contracts with customers by product type and geographical area as it believes this presentation best depicts how the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of the Company’s revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors, as shown below (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
Net revenue by OCS product:
Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, December 28,
Net revenue by country (1):
Other Revenue Considerations
The Company does not assess whether promised goods or services are performance obligations if they are deemed immaterial in the context of the contract with the customer. Additionally, the Company does not assess whether a contract has a significant financing component if the expectation at contract inception is that the period between payment by the customer and the transfer of the promised goods or services to the customer will be one year or less.
Distributors
The Company markets and sells its products primarily through its direct sales force, which sells its products to end customers globally. A small portion of the Company’s revenue is generated by sales to a limited number of distributors in Europe and Asia-Pacific. When the Company transacts with a distributor, its contractual arrangement is with the distributor and not with the end customer. Whether the Company transacts business with and receives the order from a distributor or directly from an end customer, its revenue recognition policy and resulting pattern of revenue recognition for the order are the same.
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In its business with distributors, the Company enters into a distributor agreement under which the distributor places orders to the Company for its products in connection with the distributor’s own sales to identified end customers, and the Company confirms the identification of the end customer prior to accepting each order. The Company’s distributors do not stock OCS Consoles purchased from the Company and stock only minimal quantities of OCS disposable sets. Under these contractual arrangements, the Company invoices the distributor for the selling price (which reflects a distributor discount relative to typical end customer pricing) and payment to the Company from the distributor is not contingent upon the distributor’s collection from the end customer. The Company records revenue based on the amount of the discounted selling price.
When a sale to a distributor includes an OCS Console, the Company performs the training and OCS Console equipment set-up for the end customer. The Company recognizes no revenue from a distributor order that includes an OCS Console until the OCS Console has arrived at the customer site and the training and equipment set-up have been completed by the Company.
Research, Development and Clinical Trials Costs
Research, development and clinical trials expenses consist of costs incurred for research activities, product development, hardware and software engineering and clinical trial activities, including salaries and bonuses, stock-based compensation, employee benefits, facilities costs, laboratory supplies, depreciation, testing, regulatory, data management and consulting costs.
Research, development and clinical trials costs are expensed as incurred. Advance payments for goods or services to be received in the future for use in research, development and clinical trials activities are recorded as prepaid expenses. Such prepaid expenses are recognized as an expense when the related goods have been delivered or the related services have been performed, or when it is no longer expected that the goods will be delivered or the services rendered.
Patent Costs
All patent-related costs incurred in connection with filing and prosecuting patent applications are expensed as incurred due to the uncertainty about the recovery of the expenditure. Amounts incurred are classified as general and administrative expenses.
Foreign Currency Translation
The functional currency of each of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries is the currency of the local country. Assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars using the period-end exchange rates, and income and expense items are translated into U.S. dollars using average exchange rates in effect during each period. The effects of these foreign currency translation adjustments are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss, a separate component of stockholders’ equity (deficit).
The Company also incurs transaction gains and losses resulting from intercompany transactions as well as transactions with customers or vendors denominated in currencies other than the functional currency of the legal entity in which the transaction is recorded. Realized and unrealized foreign currency transaction gains (losses) are included in the consolidated statements of operations as a component of other income (expense) and totaled $1.0 million and $(0.2) million for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, respectively.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company measures stock-based option awards granted to employees, non-employees and directors based on their fair value on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. Generally, the company issues awards with only service-based vesting conditions. Compensation expense for those awards is recognized over the vesting period of the respective award using the straight-line method. The Company accounts for forfeitures as they occur and records compensation cost assuming all option holders will complete the requisite service period. When the unvested portion of an award is forfeited, the Company reverses compensation expense previously recognized in the period of the forfeiture.
The Company classifies stock-based compensation expense in its consolidated statements of operations in the same manner in which the award recipient’s payroll costs are classified or in which the award recipient’s service payments are classified.
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Comprehensive Loss and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Comprehensive loss includes net loss as well as other changes in stockholders’ equity (deficit) that result from transactions and economic events other than those with stockholders. The Company’s only elements of other comprehensive loss are foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains (losses) on marketable securities.
Accumulated other comprehensive gains (losses) on the consolidated balance sheets consists primarily of foreign currency translation adjustments. Accumulated other comprehensive loss attributable to unrealized losses on marketable securities has not been significant.
Net Income (Loss) per Share
Prior to closing of the IPO, the Company followed the two-class method when computing net income (loss) per share, as TransMedics had issued shares that met the definition of participating securities. The two-class method determines net income (loss) per share for each class of common and participating securities according to dividends declared or accumulated and participation rights in undistributed earnings. The two-class method requires income available to common stockholders for the period to be allocated between common and participating securities based upon their respective rights to receive dividends as if all income for the period had been distributed. The outstanding convertible preferred stock contractually entitled the holders of such shares to participate in dividends but did not contractually require the holders of such shares to participate in losses of the Company. Accordingly, in periods in which the Company reported a net loss, such losses were not allocated to such participating securities, and as a result, basic and diluted net loss per share were the same.
Subsequent to the closing of its IPO, the Company only has one class of shares outstanding and basic net income (loss) per common share is computed by dividing the net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period. Diluted net income (loss) per common share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period, including potential dilutive common shares assuming the dilutive effect of outstanding stock awards. For periods in which the Company reports a net loss, diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share, since dilutive common shares are not assumed to have been issued if their effect is anti-dilutive. The Company reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019.
The Company’s potential dilutive securities have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share as the effect would be to reduce the net loss per share. The Company excluded the following potential common shares, presented based on amounts outstanding at each period end, from the computation of diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders for the periods indicated above because including them would have had an anti-dilutive effect:
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Employee stock purchase plan 14,951 —
Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in the financial statements or in the Company's tax returns. Deferred taxes are determined based on the difference between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect in the years in which the differences are expected to reverse. Changes in deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded in the provision for income taxes. The Company assesses the likelihood that its deferred tax assets will be and, to the extent it believes, based upon the weight of available evidence, that it is more likely than not that all or a portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized, a valuation allowance is established through a charge to income tax expense. Potential for recovery of deferred tax assets is evaluated by analyzing carryback capacity in periods with taxable income, reversal of existing taxable temporary differences and estimating the future taxable profits expected and considering prudent and feasible tax planning strategies.
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The Company accounts for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in the financial statements by applying a two-step process to determine the amount of tax benefit to be recognized. First, the tax position must be evaluated to determine the likelihood that it will be sustained upon external examination by the taxing authorities. If the tax position is deemed more-likely-than-not to be sustained, the tax position is then assessed to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the financial statements. The amount of benefit that may be recognized is the largest amount that has a greater than 50%likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. The provision for income taxes includes the effects of any resulting tax reserves, or unrecognized tax benefits, that are considered appropriate as well as the related net interest and penalties.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
The Company qualifies as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 and has elected not to “opt out” of the extended transition related to complying with new or revised accounting standards, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public and nonpublic companies, the Company will adopt the new or revised standard at the time nonpublic companies adopt the new or revised standard and will do so until such time that the Company either (i) irrevocably elects to “opt out” of such extended transition period or (ii) no longer qualifies as an emerging growth company.
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”), which sets out the principles for the recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of leases for both parties to a contract (i.e., lessees and lessors). The new standard requires lessees to apply a dual approach, classifying leases as either finance or operating leases based on the principle of whether or not the lease is effectively a financed purchase by the lessee. This classification will determine whether lease expense is recognized based on an effective interest method or on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. A lessee is also required to record a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all leases with a term of greater than 12 months regardless of their classification. Leases with a term of 12 months or less may be accounted for similar to existing guidance for operating leases today. For public entities, the guidance has been effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018 and for interim periods within those fiscal years. ASU 2016-02 initially required adoption using a modified retrospective approach, under which all years presented in the financial statements would be prepared under the revised guidance. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842), which added an optional transition method under which financial statements may be prepared under the revised guidance for the year of adoption, but not for prior years. Under the latter method, entities will recognize a cumulative catch-up adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-10, which deferred the effective date for nonpublic entities to annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2020, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021. In June 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-05, which grants a one-year effective-date delay for nonpublic entities to annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2021 and to interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. The Company is currently planning to adopt this guidance on January 1, 2022 in accordance with the nonpublic company requirements and is evaluating the method of adoption and the impact that the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have on its consolidated financial statements.
In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326). The new standard adjusts the accounting for assets held at amortized costs basis, including marketable securities accounted for as available for sale, and trade receivables. The standard eliminates the probable initial recognition threshold and requires an entity to reflect its current estimate of all expected credit losses. The allowance for credit losses is a valuation account that is deducted from the amortized cost basis of the financial assets to present the net amount expected to be collected. For public entities except smaller reporting companies, the guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019 and for interim periods within those fiscal years. For non-public entities and smaller reporting companies, the guidance was effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2021. Early adoption is permitted for all entities. In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-10, which deferred the effective date for non-public entities to annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early application continues to be allowed. The Company is currently assessing the date of adoption and the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, Income Taxes – Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (Topic 740). The amendments in this update simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles as well as clarifying and amending existing guidance to improve consistent application. For public entities, the guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2020 and for interim periods within those fiscal years. For nonpublic entities, the guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2021 and to interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. Early adoption is permitted for all entities. Depending on the amendment, adoption may be applied on the retrospective, modified retrospective or prospective basis. The Company is currently assessing the date of adoption and the impact of the adoption of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements.
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3. Marketable Securities and Fair Value Measurements
Marketable securities by security type consisted of the following (in thousands):
Amortized Cost Gross Unrealized Gains Gross Unrealized Losses Fair Value
U.S. Treasury securities (due within one year) $ 74,066 $ 10 $ (3 ) $ 74,073
U.S. government agency bonds (due within one year) 26,984 4 — 26,988
Amortized Cost Gross Unrealized Gains Gross Unrealized Losses Fair Value
U.S. Treasury securities (due within one year) $ 23,318 $ 17 $ — $ 23,335
U.S. government agency bonds (due within one year) 37,224 39 (2 ) 37,261
The following tables present the Company’s fair value hierarchy for its assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis (in thousands):
Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2020 Using:
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Assets:
Cash equivalents:
Marketable securities:
Fair Value Measurements at December 28, 2019 Using:
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total
Assets:
Cash equivalents:
Marketable securities:
Money market funds were valued by the Company based on quoted market prices, which represent a Level 1 measurement within the fair value hierarchy. U.S. Treasury securities and U.S. government agency bonds were valued by the Company using quoted prices in active markets for similar securities, which represent a Level 2 measurement within the fair value hierarchy. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, there were no transfers between Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3.
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4. Inventory
Inventory consisted of the following (in thousands):
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the Company made non-cash transfers of OCS Consoles from inventory to property and equipment (OCS Consoles loaned to customers) of $1.2 million and $2.1 million, respectively.
5. Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands):
OCS Consoles loaned to customers 7,196 6,005
Computer equipment and software 1,338 1,273
Office and trade show equipment 177 177
Construction-in-progress 409 433
Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization (8,027 ) (6,347 )
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, total depreciation and amortization expense was $1.6 million and $1.2 million, respectively. Of those amounts, $1.3 million and $1.0 million, respectively, was recorded as expense in cost of revenue related to the depreciation of OCS Consoles loaned to customers. The Company retains title to OCS Consoles loaned to customers.
Construction-in-progress recorded as of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019 was primarily related to the in-process construction of manufacturing equipment.
6. Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):
Accrued research, development and clinical trial expenses $ 4,426 $ 3,144
Accrued payroll and related expenses 4,030 3,604
Accrued financing fees — 120
Accrued professional fees 344 537
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7. Long-Term Debt
As of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, long-term debt consisted of the following (in thousands):
Principal amount of long-term debt $ 35,000 $ 35,000
Less: Current portion of long-term debt — —
Long-term debt, net of current portion 35,000 35,000
Debt discount, net of accretion (834 ) (1,139 )
Accrued end-of-term payments 491 285
Long-term debt, net of discount and current portion $ 34,657 $ 34,146
In June 2018, the Company entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with OrbiMed Royalty Opportunities II, LP (“OrbiMed”) pursuant to which OrbiMed made certain term loans available to the Company. The Credit Agreement provides for aggregate maximum borrowings of up to $65.0 million, consisting of (i) $35.0 million upon entering into the Credit Agreement, which was borrowed by the Company in June 2018, and (ii) potential additional borrowings of up to $30.0 million that could have become available upon the Company’s achievement of specified revenue thresholds and a regulatory milestone by determinable dates. The Company did not achieve these revenue thresholds and regulatory milestones by such dates, and therefore OrbiMed’s commitment to fund any additional borrowing was terminated.
Borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear interest at an annual rate equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), subject to a minimum of 1.0% and a maximum of 4.0%, plus 8.5% (the “Applicable Margin”), subject in the aggregate to a maximum interest rate of 11.5%. In addition, borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear paid-in-kind (“PIK”) interest at an annual rate equal to the amount by which LIBOR plus the Applicable Margin exceeds 11.5%, but not to exceed 12.5%. The PIK interest is added to the principal amount of the borrowings outstanding at the end of each quarter until the maturity date of the Credit Agreement in June 2023. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement are repayable in quarterly interest-only payments until the maturity date, at which time all principal and accrued interest is due and payable. At its option, the Company may prepay outstanding borrowings under the Credit Agreement, subject to a prepayment premium that decreases annually. The current prepayment premium is 4.5% and will decrease to zero in June 2021. The Company is also required to make a final payment in an amount equal to 3.0% of the principal amount of any prepayment or repayment. The final payment and debt discount amounts are being accreted to interest expense over the term of the Credit Agreement using the effective interest method.
In connection with entering into the Credit Agreement, the Company paid OrbiMed an upfront fee of $0.9 million and paid other costs to OrbiMed and third parties of $0.7 million, both of which were recorded by the Company as a debt discount. The debt discount is reflected as a reduction of the carrying value of long-term debt on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and is being accreted to interest expense over the term of the Credit Agreement using the effective interest method.
All obligations under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by the Company and each of its material subsidiaries. All obligations of the Company and each guarantor are secured by substantially all of the Company’s and each guarantor’s assets, including their intellectual property, subject to certain exceptions, including a perfected security interest in substantially all tangible and intangible assets of the Company and each guarantor. Under the Credit Agreement, the Company has agreed to certain affirmative and negative covenants to which it will remain subject until maturity. The financial covenants include maintaining a minimum liquidity amount of $3.0 million; the requirement, on an annual basis, to deliver to OrbiMed annual audited financial statements with an unqualified audit opinion from the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm; and restrictions on the Company’s activities, including limitations on dispositions, mergers or acquisitions; encumbering its intellectual property; incurring indebtedness or liens; paying dividends; making certain investments; and engaging in certain other business transactions. As of December 31, 2020, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants under the Credit Agreement.
The obligations under the Credit Agreement are subject to acceleration upon the occurrence of specified events of default, including payment default, change in control, bankruptcy, insolvency, certain defaults under other material debt, certain events with respect to governmental approvals (if such events could cause a material adverse change in the Company’s business), failure to comply with certain covenants, including the minimum liquidity and unqualified audit opinion covenants, and a material adverse change in the Company’s business, operations or other financial condition.
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Upon the occurrence of an event of default and until such event of default is no longer continuing, the Applicable Margin will increase by 4.0% per annum. If an event of default (other than certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency) occurs and is continuing, OrbiMed may declare all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount of the borrowings plus accrued and unpaid interest to be due and payable. Upon the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency, all of the outstanding principal amount of the borrowings plus accrued and unpaid interest will automatically become due and payable. In addition, the Company may be required to prepay outstanding borrowings, subject to certain exceptions, with portions of net cash proceeds of certain asset sales and certain casualty and condemnation events.
The Company assessed all terms and features of the Credit Agreement in order to identify any potential embedded features that would require bifurcation. As part of this analysis, the Company assessed the economic characteristics and risks of the debt. The Company determined that all features of the Credit Agreement are either clearly and closely associated with a debt host or have a de minimis fair value and, as such, do not require separate accounting as a derivative liability.
As of December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the interest rate applicable to borrowings under the Credit Agreement was 9.5% and 10.6%, respectively. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the weighted average effective interest rate on outstanding borrowings under the Credit Agreement was approximately 11.2% and 12.4%, respectively.
Paycheck Protection Program Loan
On April 20, 2020, TransMedics issued a Promissory Note to Bank of America, NA, pursuant to which it received loan proceeds of $2.2 million (the “Loan”) provided under the Paycheck Protection Program established under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (the “Paycheck Protection Program”). However, based on updated guidance related to this program, the Company decided to repay the full amount of the Loan, and repaid the Loan on May 1, 2020. The Loan was unsecured, was scheduled to mature on April 20, 2022, had a fixed interest rate of 1.0% per annum and was subject to the standard terms and conditions applicable to loans administered under the Paycheck Protection Program.
8. Convertible Preferred Stock and Warrants
Convertible Preferred Stock
TransMedics, Inc. issued Series A-1 convertible preferred stock (the “Series A-1 Preferred Stock”), Series B convertible preferred stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”), Series B-1 convertible preferred stock (the “Series B-1 Preferred Stock”), Series C convertible preferred stock (the “Series C Preferred Stock”), Series D convertible preferred stock (the “Series D Preferred Stock”), Series E convertible preferred stock (the “Series E Preferred Stock”) and Series F convertible preferred stock (the “Series F Preferred Stock”). The Series A-1 Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, Series B-1 Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock, Series D Preferred Stock, Series E Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock are collectively referred to as the “Preferred Stock”.
Immediately prior to the closing of the IPO on May 6, 2019, all of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock of TransMedics were converted into an aggregate of 13,119,424 shares of common stock of TransMedics Group.
Warrants
TransMedics had outstanding warrants to purchase shares of Series D Preferred Stock and Series F Preferred Stock as of December 29, 2018. The Company classified all of its preferred stock warrants as a liability on its consolidated balance sheets because the warrants were freestanding financial instruments that could require TransMedics to transfer assets upon exercise. The liability associated with each of these warrants was initially recorded at fair value upon the issuance date of each warrant and subsequently remeasured to fair value at each reporting date.
Immediately prior to the closing of the IPO on May 6, 2019, all of the outstanding preferred stock warrants of TransMedics were converted into warrants to purchase an aggregate of 64,440 shares of which warrants to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $8.75 per share expire on November 7, 2022 and warrants to purchase 14,440 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $17.47 per share have an expiration date of May 6, 2024. Upon conversion, the fair value of the warrant liability at that time was reclassified to common stock. As a result, subsequent to the closing of the Company’s IPO, the Company no longer remeasures the fair value of the warrant liability at each reporting date.
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9. Equity
On May 6, 2019, the Company filed a restated certificate of incorporation in the State of Massachusetts, which, among other things, restated the number of shares of all classes of stock that the Company has authority to issue to 175,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 25,000,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value per share, and (ii) 150,000,000 shares of common stock, no par value per share. The preferred stock will have such rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions, including voting rights, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, as shall be determined by the Company’s boards of directors upon issuance. The shares of preferred stock currently undesignated. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders. The holders of common stock, voting exclusively and as a separate class, are entitled to elect two directors of the Company. The holders of common stock are entitled to receive dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors, as described above. Through December 31, 2020, no dividends had been declared or paid.
10. Stock-Based Compensation
2019 Stock Incentive Plan and Option Grants
On April 15, 2019, TransMedics Group’s board of directors adopted and its sole stockholder approved the 2019 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”), which became effective on that same date. The 2019 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, unrestricted stock, unrestricted stock units, and other stock-based awards to employees, directors, and consultants of the Company and its subsidiaries. The number of shares of common stock of TransMedics Group initially available for issuance under the 2019 Plan was 3,428,571 shares, plus the number of shares underlying awards under the previously outstanding 2014 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”), not to exceed 1,595,189 shares, that expire or are terminated, surrendered, or cancelled without the delivery of shares, are forfeited to or repurchased by TransMedics Group or otherwise become available again for grant. Since the effectiveness of the Company’s 2019 Plan in April 2019, no future awards will be made under the 2014 Plan.
Shares withheld in payment of the exercise or purchase price of an award or in satisfaction of tax withholding requirements, and the shares covered by a stock appreciation right for which any portion is settled in stock, will reduce the number of shares available for issuance under the 2019 Plan. In addition, the number of shares available for issuance under the 2019 Plan (i) will not be increased by any shares delivered under the 2019 Plan that are subsequently repurchased using proceeds directly attributable to stock option exercises and (ii) will not be reduced by any awards that are settled in cash or that expire, become unexercisable, terminate or are forfeited to or repurchased by TransMedics Group without the issuance of stock under the 2019 Plan. As of December 31, 2020, 2,447,687 shares of common stock were available for issuance under the 2019 Plan.
During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, the Company granted options to its employees and a director with service-based vesting for the purchase of an aggregate of 603,336 shares of common stock with a weighted average grant-date fair value of $7.91 per share.
2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
On April 15, 2019, TransMedics Group’s board of directors adopted and its sole stockholder approved the 2019 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2019 ESPP”), which became effective that same date. A total of 371,142 shares of common stock of TransMedics Group are reserved for issuance under the 2019 ESPP as of December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2020, 22,697 shares have been issued under the 2019 ESPP and 348,445 shares remained available for issuance.
Stock Option Valuation
The fair value of stock option grants is estimated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. Prior to the IPO, the Company was a private company and lacks company-specific historical and implied volatility information. Therefore, it estimates its expected stock volatility based on the historical volatility of a publicly traded set of peer companies and expects to continue to do so until such time as it has adequate historical data regarding the volatility of its own traded stock price. For options with service-based vesting conditions, the expected term of the Company’s stock options has been determined utilizing the “simplified” method for awards that qualify as “plain-vanilla” options. The risk-free interest rate is determined by reference to the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant of the award for time periods approximately equal to the expected term of the award. Expected dividend yield is based on the fact that the Company has never paid cash dividends and does not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
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The following table presents, on a weighted average basis, the assumptions used in the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to determine the grant-date fair value of stock options granted to employees and directors:
Fiscal Year Ended
Risk-free interest rate 0.91 % 2.29 %
Expected term (in years) 5.97 6.02
Expected volatility 54 % 52 %
Expected dividend yield 0 % 0 %
The following table summarizes the Company’s option activity since December 28, 2019:
(in years) (in thousands)
The aggregate intrinsic value of stock options is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the stock options and the fair value of the Company’s common stock for those stock options that had exercise prices lower than the fair value of the Company’s common stock. The aggregate intrinsic value of stock options exercised during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, was $2.9 million and $2.3 million, respectively.
The weighted average grant-date fair value of stock options granted during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019 was $7.91 per share and $8.55 per share, respectively.
The Company has not granted to employees any stock-based awards with performance-based vesting conditions.
Stock-Based Compensation
The Company recorded stock-based compensation expense in the following expense categories of its consolidated statements of operations (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended
Cost of revenue $ 27 $ 17
Research, development and clinical trials expenses 396 104
Selling, general and administrative expenses 1,991 733
As of December 31, 2020, total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested share-based awards was $5.9 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.5 years.
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11. Income Taxes
Tax Provision Components
During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019, the Company recorded no income tax benefits for the net operating losses incurred or for the research and development tax credits generated in each year in the United States, due to the uncertainty regarding the realizability of these respective deferred tax assets. The Company generated income in the Netherlands for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019 and, accordingly, recorded a foreign income tax provision of less than $ 0.1 million for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and December 28, 2019.
Income Before Taxes
The domestic and foreign components of (loss) profit before income taxes were as follows (in thousands):
Fiscal Year Ended
A reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory income tax rate to the Company’s effective income tax rate is as follows:
Fiscal Year Ended
Federal statutory income tax rate (21.0 )% (21.0 )%
State taxes, net of federal benefit (5.7 )% (6.2 )%
Federal and state research and development tax credits (3.6 )% (2.8 )%
Nondeductible items (0.2 )% 0.2 %
Deferred tax effect of change in state blended rate 7.8 % 0.0 %
Return to provision 1.7 % 0.0 %
Change in deferred tax asset valuation allowance 20.9 % 29.0 %
Effective income tax rate (0.1 )% 0.1 %
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Net deferred tax assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
Deferred tax assets:
Capitalized research and development expense 6,136 8,505
Research and development tax credit carryforwards 11,541 10,745
Stock-based compensation expense 791 243
Deferred tax liabilities:
Unrealized gain (loss) (212 ) —
Total deferred tax liabilities (430 ) (141 )
Net deferred tax assets $ — $ —
As of December 31, 2020, the Company had U.S. federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of $322.0 million and $252.7 million, respectively, which may be available to offset future taxable income and begin to expire in 2021 and 2030, respectively. The Company’s federal net operating losses include $108.0 million, which can be carried forward indefinitely. As of December 31, 2020, the Company also had U.S. federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of $7.6 million and $5.0 million, respectively, which may be available to offset future tax liabilities and begin to expire in 2021 and 2024, respectively. As of December 31, 2020, the Company had no foreign net operating loss carryforwards.