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| Our free cash flow performance continues a favorable trend as our operating expense discipline, combined with efficient working capital management, provide for strong results |
| We're encouraged by the fact that over half of our total revenue in Q3 came from reconstruction |
| It supports a growth strategy of portfolio diversification, which we believe would give us a competitive edge by allowing surgeons, hospitals, and accounts to source all their breast procedures products from us |
| So that's progressing extremely well for both brands |
| As a reminder, with the launch of those two new products, Sientra has more than doubled its total addressable market and set up the platform for growth |
| We've showed consistent improvement in our Q3 results are, again, a record for us in terms of non-GAAP and actually GAAP operating expense |
| hospital contracting process? How has that process been ongoing and maybe what level of retention there's been with your current existing accounts? And then I did hear you say some favorable free cash flow trends moving forward, given some of the positive momentum you've had there |
| While Q3 revenue performance was disappointing, we're pleased with the continued improvement on operating results in the quarter as it executed on our path to free cash flow positive performance |
| The results of our study are showing unparalleled fat retention |
| This trend has resolved the hard work we have been communicating to the street over the past year, and we expect continued favorable free cash flow results going forward |
| This is the fifth consecutive quarter of improved free cash flow performance |
| We believe that this presents a unique opportunity for Sientra in the rapidly growing fat transfer market, opening up procedure opportunities in augmentation and reconstruction, as it offers the first truly minimally invasive way for patients to confidentially increase their breast size, even without the need for an implant |
| We also saw great excitement at the meeting around our new MRI- compatible tissue expander AlloX2Pro |
| Accounts receivable also is performing well |
| We're also very encouraged by the reorder rates by those number of hospitals is at par with our tissue expanders and the implants |
| So we're seeing a really nice pace for both products |
| We're also encouraged by the customer response to Viality and SimpliDerm as we're in the initial stages of our control launches of those products |
| We're also encouraged by the early trends in October, as well as their early feedback from our control launches of Viality and SimpliDerm |
| So we're very encouraged by the beginning, the first four or five months of this control launch |
| We you know, started the control launch in the summer and we're seeing really nice adoption by some of the hospitals |
| This is an incredible result, making this technology a game changer for fat transfer procedures that surgeons can now, for the first time, confidently relocate a patient's fat, knowing that what they see on the operating table is what the end result would look like |
| And so it's going quite well |
| However, we continue to realize favorable year-over-year EBITDA and free cash flow results |
| We see consistent, strong performance in our inventory management with ending inventories at September 30, 2023, up $39.3 million, down from year end December 31, 2022 of $42.7 million |
| Now, as we look forward, as we said before, we're targeting year-end free-cash flow positive performance |
| As we reported at the meeting, Viallity is achieving over 80% fat retention with a high degree of predictability |
| And that makes it really nice for us to have a portfolio strategy as we negotiate contracts with both hospitals, GPOs, and different institutions that prefer to deal with one vendor |
| Once on the market next year, this will truly be the most innovative tissue expander available, since it includes dual ports, MRI conditional labeling, negligible interference with radiotherapy signing, and less-told disturbance, and four-time faster peeling |
| In the meantime, we'll continue to take steps to improve our cost structure and we're focusing on cash flow and profitability goals, which are positioned as well when demand rebounds |
| Non-GAAP EBITDA was a $6.4 million loss as compared to an $8.6 million loss for the prior year period, representing a 25.6% improvement |
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| As Ron mentioned earlier, our Q3 2023 financial results included seasonally challenged revenue results |
| There has been a broad trend across aesthetic companies reporting lower-than-expected procedural volumes during the third quarter |
| GAAP gross margins of 51.3% is negatively affected by a non-cash depreciation and amortization charge of $1.4 million |
| The third quarter was a challenging quarter for Sientra as we experienced a much larger impact from seasonality during the summer months than we had in prior years |
| Additionally, our year-over-year decline in revenue has a negative effect on current period gross margins, as certain expenses, such as the cost of running our distribution center, are fixed costs |
| And the recent change that's going to affect that particular timing is the, as we've commented to both myself and Ron, the seasonally challenged performance here in Q3 in terms of revenue |
| And again, looking forward to Q4, there's uncertainty in the markets in terms of how long this seasonally challenged dynamic is going to continue throughout not just our business, but the whole industry |
| Our key Q3 2023 financial results include revenue of $19.5 million, as compared with $22.6 million for the prior year period, a decrease of 13.7% |
| We have reported lower than average surgical cases during the third quarter driven by consumer and certainly over macro-economic trends, as well as an increase in physician, inpatient leisure, travel during the summer |
| You haven't seen really a fall off on reconstruction due to the headwinds, macro headwinds |
| What we saw in reconstruction in the summer is really the impact of, as I stated before, potentially leisure traveled by patients, delay in some of the surgeries and reconstruction, and also travel by surgeons |
| During the past five quarters, we saw free cash flow usage decrease from $56.5 million to $18.4 million from a year-over-year perspective |
| Given the early stages of those launches, however, in macroeconomic uncertainty specific to aesthetics and economy more broadly, we felt it prudent to withdraw guidance at this time |
| This impact was most pronounced in our augmentation business, which is more prone to seasonality and changes in consumer spending |
| Our reconstruction business, which is less vulnerable to these trends, was less impacted by seasonality this quarter |
| And really when that rebounds back to expected results |
| Cash at September 30, 2023 was $15 million, a decrease of $3.6 million from the previous quarter |
| Importantly, those trends were not unique to Sientra with the breast implants |
| Total GAAP loss from continuing operations for Q3 ‘23 was $14.8 million, however, includes a $3.2 million non-cash charge for change in fair value of derivative liability and compares to a $14.9 million loss for the previous year period |
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