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Analyst

Antti Siltanen

Head of Nordic ER Development, Analyst

Antti Luiro

Faron is a global, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focused on tackling cancers via novel immunotherapies. Its mission is to bring the promise of immunotherapy to a broader population by uncovering novel ways to control and harness the power of the immune system. The Company's lead asset is bexmarilimab, a novel anti-Clever-1 humanized antibody, with the potential to remove immunosuppression of cancers through reprogramming myeloid cell function. Bexmarilimab is being investigated in Phase I/II clinical trials as a potential therapy for patients with hematological cancers in combination with other standard treatments.

These Faron webcasts have so far had the flaw that they don’t allow difficult questions to be asked. Hopefully, the situation will be different on March 17th.

The prospectus isn’t out yet; it will apparently be released this evening or tomorrow morning at the latest. Hopefully, it will clarify why Faron will net only slightly over 32 million euros from a 40 million euro offering. The lead manager bank doesn’t charge such large fees, so is it some HCM loan arrangement, or does Faron have to pay extra fees to those parties that provided guarantees to ensure the success of the offering? The advance commitments to participate in the offering were only about 11 million euros. This probably indicates that institutions didn’t have much appetite for this round; they were still actively involved in the 30 million public offering in 2024. If this 8 million euro mystery isn’t solved in the prospectus, the company management will definitely be questioned about it in the March 17th webcast.

For once, let’s post something negative and factually grounded about Faron, so the casual naysayers don’t think it’s strange that I’m always hyping it up. I personally find it genuinely negative that even after the offering, the cash will only last until November 2027. This is very close to the estimated Phase IIb readout, and it shouldn’t be the case that we’re always operating with a knife to our throats, barely having enough money for the next stage. One unexpected hiccup and we’re digging for funding again. Even more importantly, even if the results are incredibly good and on schedule, it’s not a good negotiating position for a partnership deal if the coffers are empty. For this reason, it’s important for Faron to leave no stone unturned to secure, for example, about €10–20M in additional non-dilutive funding. If I were Juho, I would make finding this funding the CFO’s primary number one task once the offering is wrapped up. There is plenty of time to complete this task.

I was looking at Medsir’s history: over 48 trials and more than 2,310 patients recruited. That’s an average of about 50 patients per trial. Now, the estimated recruitment for the STS trial is 278 patients. In this sense, BEXAR is a massive study, even for Medsir, and demonstrates their confidence as a for-profit company in the power of Bex and also in Faron.

Without knowing anything about the actual contract terms, I’d wager that royalties will be shared in some proportion with Faron, provided they reach the finish line.

If I’ve understood correctly, biotech companies fund Medsir. Whether Faron has funded them, I don’t know.

Medsir is a for-profit company that doesn’t fund research as charity. At this point, I’m personally interested in whether Faron has relinquished/licensed its commercial rights regarding these cancer types.

Faron Pharmaceuticals

Faron again published positive results of the BEXMAB study that focuses on blood cancers. The company seems to have preliminary efficacy proof already in the phase I/II study, which we believe...

<p>Faron again published positive results of the BEXMAB study that focuses on blood cancers. The company seems to have preliminary efficacy proof already in the phase I/II study, which we believe supports the probabilities of the study path being successful. With the positive estimate changes justified by the results we feel that the valuation picture of the share is slightly more neutral, but still not sufficiently attractive in terms of the risk/return ratio. </p> 

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EBIT (adj.)	-27.4	-15.8	-3.1
EBIT-% (adj.)	-685,650.0 %	-394,522.5 %	-76,864.0 %
EPS (adj.)	-0.46	-0.24	-0.05
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Faron Pharmaceuticals: BEXMAB study’s good momentum supports valuation

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