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Axogen, Inc. Reports 2023 First Quarter Financial Results
ALACHUA, Fla. and TAMPA, Fla., May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Axogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXGN), a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical
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[{"type":"text","content":"ALACHUA, Fla. and TAMPA, Fla., May 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Axogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXGN), a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for peripheral nerve injuries, today reported financial results and business highlights for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. First Quarter Financial Results and Business Highlights Net revenue was $36.7 million, an increase of 18% over the first quarter of 2022.Gross margin was 81.7%, compared to 82.1% in the first quarter of 2022.Net loss of $7.1 million, or $0.17 per share, compared to net loss of $11.5 million, or $0.27 per share in the first quarter of 2022.Adjusted net loss of $4.1 million, or $0.10 per share, compared to adjusted net loss of $8.5 million, or $0.20 per share, in the first quarter of 2022.Adjusted EBITDA loss of $3.8 million, compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $7.4 million in the first quarter of 2022.The balance of all cash and cash equivalents and investments on March 31, 2023, was $44.1 million, as compared to $55.0 million on December 31, 2022. The net change includes capital expenditures of $3.3 million related to the construction of the Company's new processing facility in Dayton, OH, and $7.6 million of other cash burn, including approximately $7.2 million of items which typically occur in the first quarter, including bonuses, sales meetings and awards, and insurance premiums.In early April, a new comprehensive study was published that analyzed all-payor data of 1,300 procedural costs of nerve injury repairs. The authors' findings indicated that there were no significant differences in procedure cost between autograft and allograft repair. Additionally, the study concluded that there was significant operating room time savings of 41 minutes on average, for allograft compared to autograft in the outpatient setting, where the majority of nerve repairs are performed. Additionally, on April 7th, the Company received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Axoguard HA+ Nerve Protector™. The category of nerve protection covers a wide range of nerve injuries including compression, crush injuries, complex traumatic injuries where the nerve remains intact, and protecting the coaptation sites of nerve transections. The Company believes that these injury types and their anatomical locations present diverse challenges requiring unique targeted solut...