Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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In addition, over the long term, we continue to see strong opportunity for kits gross margins to improve as we increase our own content on the platform
Olin saw continued success on business momentum in the second quarter
So, we are very excited about that and sort of how that will sort of improve sort of margins on the service side as we consider sort of the second half of the year, in particular, sort of the 2024 and beyond
Overall, we continue to make expected and solid progress on all major strategic objectives
And I think that's being recognized by our customers, which is a really positive statement in terms of, again, customer reception
Explore 1536 and Explore 3072 were both incredible innovations that helped launch the next-generation proteomics market, while also laying the foundation for Olink's leadership
So, so far, again, in the context of what I stated in terms of pricing and then total cost per experiment, the product is being received extremely well
So again, overall, we feel very positive and HT is most definitely a part of that optimism, especially sort of the early signals that we're getting just in this past month
And we think that we're in good shape for the second half of the year
So, we remain really positive on the outlook for the mid-plex business as well
So, we're continuing to see positive effects of growing that installed base of Signature instruments
We had good kit growth, again, as noted in Q2
We expect that Explore HT will help further cement our market-leading position by demonstrating our commitment to high-quality products and innovation
In software and our data ecosystem, we also made strong progress with Olink Insight by significantly expanded its normal ranges resource with data from 2 large cohorts
We have a very strong pipeline going forward
As Olink Insight's users base and data pool both expand over time, its value will increase dramatically for customers within the Olink ecosystem and can be further enhanced through advanced data techniques like machine learning and algorithmic approaches
So, we're really happy with that
Today, less than a year from that impressive achievement, we've exceeded 1,300 and expect to see the rate of strong scientific productivity to continue
Carl Raimond Yes, no, we're very happy with the placements in Q2, met expectations for the first half, really tremendous
We believe Olink's culture of ceaseless innovation has yielded the industry's broadest and most well-positioned product portfolio today, across high to low-plex and with end-to-end workflow solutions
The engine of Olink's success is stronger than ever, and we look to the future with even greater optimism
Being able to contemplate now a study on the scale of 500,000 to 1 million samples with the kind of throughput that we can do now is incredible to consider in how short a period of time that can now be executed, which is, I think, a very exciting proposition for the market
So yes, it's very, very impressive
It was another strong quarter for Explore externalizations with 11 new sites, and the total reaching 74 at the end of June
But otherwise, I mean, just fundamentally, yes, we have a fantastic team that's executing very well, I think is really the statement
They've been executing extremely well
Geographic highlights included very strong performance from APAC led by China and Japan, with APAC revenue nearly doubling year-over-year
Trends in the base business improved from the first quarter
On the question of China, yes, I mean, obviously, when you compare us to many others likely -- I mean, we obviously start from smaller starting points in terms of dollar revenues, right? So, we are extremely impressed about our Chinese team and their success in the market
The aggregate results on our revenue was that several late-quarter orders were pushed into the second half of the year, particularly in the Americas, where year-over-year growth in the region is expected to rebound strongly in Q3
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

Statement
In addition, while reported revenue growth in EMEA was negative in Q2 once again, due largely to the high plex biopharma market
Throughout this quarter, China has been a pain point
We navigated through a challenging external operating environment, which, in combination with our new product launch, pushed our revenue seasonality to be more back-half weighted as indicated earlier in the year
In addition, we reported adjusted EBITDA of negative $11.6 million versus negative $7.9 million in second quarter of 2022
So again, and as I noted, the headwinds that even sort of you've heard and our peer groups talk about in the biopharma segment, there's pockets of headwinds is may be a good way to describe it because you can't paint all accounts with the same brush
Now proteins in health individuals is a critical biological problem
And then on the -- it seems like from your opening comments, the academic end market clearly is holding up in the challenging macro compared to the biopharma customer segment
The result has been an increase in deal friction that has lengthened our sales cycle and impacted timing of customer purchases, which has been compounded by customer anticipation of the recently launched Explore HT
Customer activity, more notably with biopharma customers, continued to be impacted by the macroeconomic environment, which we previously cited
Second quarter kit mix was 36% of total revenue versus 26% a year ago and down sequentially from Q1 2023
And we've considered, of course, as noted in the commentary some of those macro headwinds that exist out there
Average pull-through number is something we often discuss together, right? And it's very difficult to predict
This pull-through remains healthy and the sequential quarterly decline was driven in part by the expected lower kit mix in Q2 versus Q1 of this year
Net loss for the second quarter was $8.3 million as compared to a net loss of $4.8 million for the second quarter of 2022, while net loss per share was $0.07 as compared to a net loss per share of $0.04 for the second quarter 2022
Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors
The question, what does normal look like? It's a fundamental one that remains largely unanswered
So yes, as noted in that second half outlook and our sort of full-year guide, yes, we've sort of -- the optimism for Explore HT, I mean, we knew it was going to be a big hit
Again, we launched less than a month ago really, but all of those conversations have now been and are being reengaged in light of a very significant product introduction here
   

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