Good morning and welcome to Cryoport's investor conference call. All participants will start in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Monday, March 31, 2025. I will now turn the call over to your host, Todd Fromer from KCSA Strategic Communications. Please go ahead.
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Thank you, Todd, and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I have some exciting news to share with you today. Today we've announced that we have entered into a partnership agreement with the DHL Group, which includes the acquisition of CRYOPDP by DHL. This is a decisive step that pushes our strategy forward as we continue to develop an essential supply chain company supporting the life sciences with a focus on the cell and gene therapy industry. These actions expand our capabilities, strengthen our supply chain network, accelerate our growth trajectory, and fortify our financial position. This partnership with DHL is highly strategic in nature in that it unlocks dynamic growth opportunities in the APAC and EMEA regions with one of the most leading logistics companies in the world.
CRYOPDP, as a part of DHL and with access to the vast resources DHL will provide, will help Cryoport to continue to drive its leadership position in the temperature control supply chain support for the life sciences with a focus on cell and gene therapy. With this partnership with DHL/CRYOPDP, Cryoport will accelerate its momentum and solidify its market leadership in APAC and EMEA in an industry where we have set the pace for over a decade. In a moment, Tom Heinzen, our VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, and Robert Stefanovich, our CFO, will guide you through the details of our new partnership and the strategic vision behind it. What will become clear to you is that Cryoport is a much stronger company with the DHL/CRYOPDP partnership.
It reshapes our competitive profile within the industry, and it makes Cryoport an even more attractive global partner to key players in the life sciences and the cell and gene therapy ecosystem. After Tom and Robert have made their presentations, we will open the call for questions, and then I'll provide you some closing remarks. Tom, it's over to you.
Thank you, Jerry, and good morning to those in the U.S., and good afternoon to those in Europe. As Jerry mentioned, this is a very intentional move on our part to pull forward our strategy. To understand our thinking, we feel that it would be helpful to first look back in time. When we acquired CRYOPDP in 2020, the cell and gene industry and Cryoport were in a very different place. The industry was in a more nascent stage, and the pace of commercial approvals was low. Five years ago, Cryoport was supporting only six commercial therapies and had about a 43% market share of the cell and gene clinical trials. The industry was mainly focused on proving the efficacy of these therapies and not yet focused on scaling their usage.
Because of that, the large logistics and drug distribution companies were not focusing on the industry and not willing to invest resources or time on supporting it. We made the bold decision to acquire and build out our own network by acquiring CRYOPDP for a bit under $57 million. CRYOPDP brought to us 220 employees and 22 facilities in 12 countries. Now, layer on top of all this the COVID pandemic. There was clearly a global focus on the vaccines and the distribution of them on a massive basis at the time. Now let's move forward to today. Both Cryoport and the industry have made a lot of progress. Cryoport is now supporting 701 clinical trials, about 70% of the industry trials, and we are now supporting 19 commercial therapies.
As you can see by the stats on the slide, the pace of approvals is picking up momentum, as is the amount of revenue that the commercial therapies are generating. The good news is that in many ways, this is just a hint of the growth that we expect to take place in the next five years. This slide shows the total commercial revenue expected by Wall Street analysts for the 19 approved therapies that we are currently supporting. They project a six-year CAGR that is over 30%. As I said earlier, this is just the 19 that we support today. We think there could be at least five more approved therapies this year and perhaps 18 BLA and MAA filings. The commercial growth will be partly driven by the shift to treating patients on an outpatient basis.
This shift doubles the patient capacity at most points of care, and it is more profitable for the points of care. Last year, 35% of Gilead/Kite's commercial revenue was outpatient-related, and Legend/J&J are predicted that the majority of their patients getting their therapy this year will be in an outpatient setting. If we zoom back out away from Cryoport, back to the overall industry, on the right side of this slide, you can see that Deloitte and ARM are predicting that by 2030, the industry will have at least 10 blockbuster therapies, and more than 30 therapies will surpass $500 million in annual revenue. Beyond the number of therapies, the number of patients being treated is extremely important to us.
The chart on the left is a bit busy, but what it is indicating is a shift that is starting to occur, where the approved therapies are starting to address more common disease states instead of the rare or orphan diseases. There are actually a number of drivers for the expected growth over the next five years and more: the increase and progression of clinical trials targeting solid tumors—actually, the first solid tumor therapy was approved last year—the expansion beyond oncology and into autoimmune diseases, the expansion into regional points of care beyond just the large city centers, the continued expansion of the therapies globally, the progress in the therapies moving forward to first or second-line treatments from the fourth or fifth line where they were initially approved, and of course, more commercial therapies being approved. This brings us to our strategic pivot today.
We see many key players across the industry: the large integrators, large specialty couriers, large drug distributors, just to name a few. They are seeing what we just laid out in the last few slides, and they are increasing their focus and committing more resources to this growing cell and gene therapy sector. We have had extensive dialogue with our customers, and as the commercial therapies of today and tomorrow ramp, they will require global scale, global efficiencies, and global flexibility beyond what we could accomplish on our own. Therefore, we have made the decision to focus on leveraging the larger global networks of our strategic partners. Our new strategic partnership with DHL Group is extremely important to us. DHL has a 2030 growth strategy, and one of their targets for growth is the life sciences.
DHL currently has over 11,000 life sciences and healthcare-certified specialists, 257 Good Distribution P ractice qualified warehouses in over 50 countries, and now, through their acquisition of CRYOPDP, has the ability to capture more growth through the shipments of the more complex, temperature-critical, and customized shipments of the biopharma and the cell and gene therapy sector. Of course, Cryoport will help enable that. To quickly recap our announcement today, it has really four main components: the pull forward of our strategy to leverage our partners' global networks and be carrier-neutral, the global strategic partnership with DHL Group, accelerating our growth and strengthening our financial profile by sharpening our focus on our core, and achieving an attractive valuation for CRYOPDP. Now I'll turn the presentation over to our CFO, Robert Stefanovich.
Thank you, Tom. Yeah, as outlined by Jerrell and Tom, you can understand how the strategic partnership with DHL, coupled with the divestiture of CRYOPDP to DHL, aligns with our strategy moving forward, focusing on our core and differentiated solutions offerings for the life sciences and for the cell and gene therapy space in particular. In that space, we have established ourselves as the clear market leader. Now, we can actually leverage CRYOPDP's offering more effectively in combination with DHL's broader offering, especially in the EMEA and APAC regions. The transaction is an all-cash transaction. The negotiated enterprise value is $195 million, and our proceeds from this transaction will bring the fiscal year end 2024 cash balance on a pro forma basis to over $450 million. You may recall that we purchased CRYOPDP for approximately $57 million in Q4 of 2020.
The transaction represents about a 2.7% multiple of CRYOPDP's fiscal year 2024 revenue. This is, of course, a very strong infusion of capital, giving us a number of avenues to build shareholder value in the future. The transaction itself is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the next six to eight weeks. I'll also note that we filed an 8-K with the SEC, which includes the details of the transaction as well as the press release that we issued earlier today. Tom, you want to move to the next slide on the financial snapshots?
Yes.
Just to highlight a couple of components related to the financial profile of the company moving forward. On the left, you can see the cell and gene therapy revenue for 2024 on a proforma basis as a percentage of total life science services. The proforma percentage obviously increases significantly to roughly about 84% of our services being tied and leveraged to the growing market of the cell and gene therapy space. From a gross margin perspective, it's also margin accretive in terms of the transaction as the margin increases on a proforma basis from 44.5% to 46.1%. More importantly, going forward, as we see the cell and gene therapy market grow further, we always talked in the past about the elasticity of the gross margin, in particular for Cryoport Systems.
Lastly, I just wanted to point out the revenue guidance, obviously new guidance for 2025 based on the transaction. We expect revenue in total to be between $165 million and $173 million for the fiscal 2025 period. As I mentioned lastly, obviously, we have a very, very strong balance sheet moving forward to execute on our core strategy moving forward. With that, I'll hand back over to Jerry.
Thank you, Tom. Robert, thank you. Operator, we'll open the floor for questions.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Should you have a question, please press star followed by the one on your touch-tone phone. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press star followed by the two. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. Your first question comes from Puneet Souda with Leerink Partners. Your line is now open.
Yeah, hi guys. Thanks for the questions here. Jerry and the team, if I could ask, what brought about this transaction at this point? I know you went about vertical integration with MVE and CRYOPDP. I'm wondering if there is a fundamental shift in that strategy providing a number of solutions across the chain under one umbrella of Cryoport. What does this mean for MVE going forward?
Thank you, Puneet. That's a good question, and I'm sure it's on a lot of folks' mind. There's no change, actually, in our strategy. This is a refocus of our strategy, and it's in response to the industry. When we bought CRYOPDP, there really wasn't much going on that we could depend on in the last-mile delivery and so forth. That's changed. As Tom mentioned in his comments, with larger companies making more investment, the cell and gene therapy getting a lot more interest and so forth, the companies have wanted to have more say in some of the courier decisions and so forth. Owning a courier had its issues in relationship to what I just said.
As we looked at the current situation and we looked at where we should be moving, and after a lot of conversations with customers, we made this move primarily for three or four reasons, for maybe five or six reasons. Some of the reasons were this is a global strategic partnership that opens up the EMEA and APAC in a way that we have never been able to open in EMEA and APAC. We've had some progress in EMEA, some progress in APAC, but this will propel us, this relationship. These are the places where DHL is really strong and where CRYOPDP is really strong. With the resources behind CRYOPDP of DHL, this is an explosive combination in the nearest to our benefit. It will be a win-win-win. Next, it pulls forward our strategy of our strategy pivot to be carrier-neutral.
Although we'll have preference toward CRYOPDP and so forth, we will be carrier-neutral, and we will enhance our global network of preferred providers. Thirdly, it sharpens our focus on cell and gene therapy, especially in APAC and EMEA, and it improves our financial profile as well. We were able to get a very attractive valuation on CRYOPDP, but most importantly, we were able to carve out a strategic partnership with DHL, which is a propellant that is almost more than money could buy. Those are the reasons. That's the reasoning, Puneet. Now, as far as MVE is concerned, MVE is vertically integrated within our company. You may know that back in the day when things were tight, we had a real problem on acquiring—we sought dewars and cryogenic freezers. There was an issue.
We had a chance to carve out MVE from Chart Industries, and we did so. MVE supplies freezers for cryogen for Cryoport Systems. It supplies dewars for Cryoport Systems. The engineering teams are coordinated. It is a strategic asset. It is vertically integrated. The cryogenic systems market will come back. It is in a state of recovery now from COVID reasons that we have talked about in other calls, but it will come back. MVE is a strong company. It has always been cash flow positive. It has always been profitable, even in the worst of times. We see signs of that industry leveling out now. We are positive on MVE.
Make no mistake about it, this strategic move with DHL and putting CRYOPDP in DHL hands is nearest to our benefit, it is highly—this will be an accretive move, and it will help us better serve the industry in a way that we've never been able to serve it in the past. We have been at this for over a decade. We are the leaders, and this will assure our leadership position as we move forward.
Okay. Thanks for that. I did not see the—we are at March 31. I did not see the first quarter results. Apologies if I missed that. I appreciate you providing the guide. It appears that CRYOPDP is just shy of $80 million in revenue that you are stripping out for the year. Can you just elaborate a bit on overall the core business itself, what you are seeing in the field today? We saw a departure at FDA, a very strong supporter of cell and gene therapies late last week. There are questions as to the strength of this overall sector going forward with such a high-profile departure, someone who was very strongly supportive of cell and gene therapies. I just wanted to get your thoughts on that too. Thank you.
Yeah. Yeah. Puneet, we have a high regard for Dr. Marks. He is a professional, and he's an distinguished scientist, an MD, and he's always been supportive of cell and gene therapy. However, cell and gene therapy has always enjoyed bipartisan support. We are hopeful moving forward that we will continue to have the same kind of support that we've had in the past. We think we will because cell and gene therapy is for the benefit of mankind. It's very hard to be divisive on cell and gene therapy. I think we're okay. We wish Dr. Marks well. I think he will land on his feet. Given the administration and Dr. Marks' positions, as he stated publicly, the collision happened, and he decided to depart the administration.
We think the administration will continue to support cell and gene therapy, and we think that cell and gene therapy will continue to be supported on a bipartisan basis.
On the first quarter?
In the first quarter, that's too early to comment. Robert, go ahead and talk.
Yeah. I don't think we want to specifically talk about first quarter performance until we release our earnings.
The first quarter ends today, by the way.
Yeah. It is really too early for us to comment on this publicly.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe just to add to that, to give a little color, we had year-end, we did provide some color around the expectations, especially for the cell and gene therapy space. I think that continues to move along. We talked about BLA MAA filings, potential approvals. We do not see a slowdown at this point in time.
Okay. All right. Thank you.
Your next question comes from Subbu Nambi with Guggenheim. Your line is now open.
Hey, guys. Thank you for taking my question. My first question is, you spoke about the gross margin, but could you provide any color on operating margins, please, for this business?
Yeah, I think.
Yeah. Maybe just to give a little bit of color, with the divestiture of CRYOPDP, we still expect to drive towards positive EBITDA during 2025. That has not changed. We do see a lot more leverageability within Cryoport Systems. We mentioned that in the past as well, that that's really where we expect to see margin expansion in the longer term as we see higher utilization of our current facilities and assets as more and more cell and gene therapies come online with commercial therapies or move up into the lines of treatments. Compared to the CRYOPDP business, that was a little bit more restricted in terms of upwards mobility. The business model itself, on a longer-term basis, provides for more growth, both from a gross margin and operating margin perspective.
Thank you for that. How much was CRYOPDP important in winning customer accounts for you guys?
CRYOPDP, the majority of CRYOPDP's business was outside of the cell and gene therapy space. When we talk about clinical trials supported, the 701 clinical trials that we support as of year-end, or the commercial therapies that we're supporting, these are Cryoport Systems clients that we're supporting that in some cases, CRYOPDP would support from a specialty courier perspective. Those are Cryoport Systems end clients. The clients on the CRYOPDP side are the broader life science, also biologics globally. Again, cell and gene therapy specific is really driven by Cryoport Systems.
That's helpful. The last one, from DHL, do you now get discounted rates, or will you get similar pricing?
No, absolutely.
For both?
There are a couple of things to highlight there. As Jerry alluded to, the combination of CRYOPDP and DHL gives us actually a greater ability to offer a more competitive and high-quality solution to the cell and gene therapy space and to our client base in the cell and gene therapy space. That is coupled with discounts that we obviously get, and it is coupled with the benefits and synergies of that combined offering from both companies.
Perfect. Thank you so much, guys.
Your next question comes from Paul Knight with KeyBanc . Your line is now open.
Hi, Jerry. With the cash proceeds, what do you see as use of funds? You have apparently, obviously, the $190 million or so of convert. But what do you plan to do next? Is it working capital? Is it the preferred share paydown, or is M&A back in picture?
All of the above, Paul. I mean, it'll certainly shrink on our balance sheet. We do have all those options, and we'll continue to look at those options as we move forward. Certainly, we could pay down the debt at any time. If we have a compelling acquisition that comes along, we certainly could entertain that, and we have a stronger balance sheet.
If you look at the possible combinations that were out there, I mean, it's obviously DHL. UPS has been making a lot of noise. I don't know the position of Marken and Thermo, but what's your evaluation of DHL's position? Are they the best, you think, for your partnership? I mean, are they the biggest? What are your thoughts on DHL?
I think DHL is a very strong company and a very select partner. Certainly, we do a lot with FedEx in the United States and some in EMEA, but mostly in the United States. We do very little with UPS at this point because they bought Marken, and so we do very little with that. DHL, if you look at them and you look at their 2030 strategy, their strength, their momentum, the kind of people that they have, the number of healthcare professionals they have, it is a superlative organization. It is like a hand in glove when it comes to Cryoport and DHL, especially Cryoport, CRYOPDP, and DHL because the initial efforts will go through CRYOPDP with DHL backing. DHL gives CRYOPDP resources that they've never had and would take forever to acquire. DHL is the ideal partner.
DHL's strength is in EMEA and in APAC, and that's where we have a real need. It's not that they don't have a presence in the United States, but their real strength is in those two regions of the world. We are absolutely delighted. They have over 10,000 healthcare professionals. If you read their 2030 strategy, you can see how we fit in and how this partnership fits in with DHL. It has some very, very exciting prospects, and we are just delighted with the leadership and the people that we've interacted with.
Lastly, Robert, is the revenue for the year either $172 million or $173 million on the top end?
$172 million and there was a third question earlier just on the revenue for 2024 at being around the $80 million. Actually, it's lower than that. It's just in the $70 million range.
That was Puneet.
Yeah, from Puneet. It is in the 70s, not 80.
Okay. Thanks.
2024.
Your next question comes from Tejas Savant with Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.
Hey, guys. Good morning and appreciate the time here today. Jerry, a couple of sort of questions for you, which you alluded to in your prior answers. I just wanted to flesh out a little bit. Were you actually running into an issue with new customer wins, particularly in Europe and Asia, given the fact that CRYOPDP was limited in its ability to service those regions? And if so, now that you have the strategic partnership with DHL in place, how much of an unlock could that be? I mean, obviously, it's not going to be something that happens in the next 12 months. As you look at sort of the next three years, can you help us sort of quantify that a little bit or perhaps set some guardrails around the opportunity that is now in play for you in those markets?
Jerry, would you like to?
I'm going to make a comment or two, Tejas, and then I'm going to turn it over to Mark Sawicki. The opportunity is enormous, and I'm going to let Mark talk more about that opportunity. It's truly an opportunity.
Yeah. As Jerrell had mentioned, the benefit of the DHL infrastructure combined with CRYOPDP is it gives them a tremendous amount of additional flexibility as it relates to logistics solutions and allows them to push a much, much higher volume of material through the lift, the quote-unquote "lift," which allows them to be much more competitive on a pricing standpoint. We have always been heavily engaged in both the European and the Asian markets, and we do hold a fairly large portfolio of clinical and commercial activity in both locations. However, we have had challenges with freight competitiveness, and this will absolutely allow us to accelerate engagement in both regions. We are very, very excited about it.
Tejas, just to add in, this is Tom. As we laid out in the slide deck, this is not just about today. This is about what is coming, what we can see from the commercial ramps that we already have, and what we are projecting for what is coming forward.
Got it. That's helpful. Maybe one for you, Rob. I think in the deck, you talked about sort of CRYOPDP gross margins being under 40%. I remember from back in the day, at the time of the transaction, you talked about those margins being in the low 50s or the past to 60. Is that sort of essentially tying into what Mark just said about access to competitive sort of freight rates and so on? As a second part of an earlier question as well, can you talk to sort of the key gaps in the portfolio that you see today in the context of this strategic pivot that we could see you sort of pull the trigger on M&A?
Yeah. Tejas, on the last one first, and then we'll talk about margins. We don't have anything on our mind right now in terms of M&A specifically. We do look at a stream of things, and we get a stream of suggestions and activity coming in from investment bank firms and from individual firms and from other advisors. We don't have anything specifically, and I don't have any gaps to talk about right at this point that we would be pursuing specifically. That's part of the M&A strategy, but I have nothing to disclose at this point or talk about. Now, in terms of margins, I think Robert can comment further on this if he wishes, but let me just say that I think there's some confusion there because CRYOPDP is in the 40% margin range.
What we have stated in the past is that our margin objective, our gross margin objective is 55%, and that our adjusted EBITDA target is 30%. Hopefully, that clarifies it to some degree. Do you have anything else to add to that, Robert?
No, just maybe to just amplify it a little bit. In our long-term modeling, a few things. One, if you look at the assets in our portfolio going forward, we really have the number one leaders in each of the respective spaces, right? MVE is number one in cryogenic systems. Cryogene within their regional areas, they are clearly the number one. Obviously, Cryoport Systems is the number one in supporting cell and gene therapies. That gives some pricing power. More importantly, as the cell and gene therapy advances, we all said Cryoport Systems has a lot more upwards mobility from a gross margins perspective. CRYOPDP is in the more competitive market where, because of the services, margins are a little bit more restricted compared to the ability for us to seek margin expansion for Cryoport Systems.
That is obviously leveraged to the cell and gene therapy and as that advances. The reason why you do not see us at those 55% gross margin levels yet is because we are obviously building out facilities. We have just launched IntegriCell earlier this year, and that has some impact on the margins temporarily as those businesses start growing. However, 55% certainly continues to be our target with some potential for upwards mobility.
Got it. That's helpful. Thanks, guys.
Thank you.
Your next question comes from David Larsen with BTIG. Your line is now open.
Hi. Can you just talk a little bit about the remaining business like MVE, CRYOPDP, Cryogene, Cryoport Systems? For Cryoport Systems and Cryogene, just what is remaining, and will you be able to sell more accounts with this arrangement? Any color there on the lift to revenue? Thanks.
Yeah. Yeah. David, I wouldn't characterize this with what's remaining. What I emphasized in my opening comments was that this is a strengthening. This makes Cryoport stronger than it's ever been. I mean, certainly, CRYOPDP is in the hands of a partner now as opposed to directly in our hands. This partnership cannot be underestimated. This partnership is exciting. This partnership strengthens Cryoport. It strengthens its ability to, as Mark just said, to make us more competitive in EMEA and in APAC. Robert just went over the number one position we have in the three business units that continue to make up Cryoport. This is absolutely a strengthening in all stretches of the imagination. This relationship, by the way, is with Cryoport and the DHL Group, the whole group. We have the leverage ability, that is we have leverage ability.
It has enormous potential.
Yeah. Jerry, can I add a little bit to that just quickly here? If you think about our business itself, Cryoport Systems, as Robert had mentioned a little while ago, we've been really focused around building out capacity and scalability. That's largely due to the fact that we're seeing that rapid acceleration in commercial approvals. We had a record number of approvals last year. This year looks to be a parity of last year, maybe even a little bit better. That acceleration is occurring. Scalability is a significant consideration in every discussion that we have with our client bases as they look towards commercialization. This partnership, the strategic partnership with DHL, provides inherent scalability and a lot more flexibility in looking at creative solutions around getting these therapies out on a global basis.
That's going to be a substantial benefit for the markets as well as for ourselves.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, should you have a question, please press star one. Your next question comes from David Saxon with Needham . Your line is now open.
Great. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. Maybe first for Robert, just on the new guidance $165 million-$172 million, just confirming that excludes first-quarter contribution from PDP. And then just on the underlying assumptions for the kind of base business, have those assumptions changed at all? Specifically wondering around MVE order expectations and then all of the quick follow-up.
Yeah. No, it's a very good point. It does not include the Q1 CRYOPDP revenue number. If you look at the overall business and the revenue, the growth that we expect, we always talked about Cryoport Systems as really one of the core assets, and that's really where we expect to see the revenue increase substantially. I think for 2025, this transaction itself will have some contribution on margin improvements. I think you'll see a greater impact from the transaction and from the strategy in 2026 moving forward. I wouldn't say that there's any change in dynamics for 2025 compared to when we announced our full-year earnings for fiscal 2024.
Okay. Great. And then just on Bluebird Express, I think that the kind of rationale behind that acquisition was to better align with CRYOPDP. So kind of talk about your view on the Bluebird business. And then kind of along a similar train of thought, just the global supply chain centers, does your view on that, building out that network, change at all now that PDP is an external partner? Thanks so much.
The global supply chain center network is Cryoport Systems. No, that strategy does not change. Those global supply chain centers that we have built out are in process of ramping up, and they're working very well. Bluebird Express was an acquisition for CRYOPDP to strengthen its rollout in the United States. It's working quite well and continues to be a part of the CRYOPDP operation, which will be a part of DHL going forward once closing takes place.
Okay. Just to clarify, the $70 million number for CRYOPDP, that includes Bluebird revenue contribution?
That's correct. Yes.
Okay. Great. Thank you.
There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call over to Jerry for closing remarks.
Thank you. Thank all of you for joining us today. I just want to underscore the significance of this moment for Cryoport. It's exciting. The partnership with DHL Group is a catalyst for growth. It pulls us forward strategically, strengthens our financial foundation. It opens new growth frontiers for us. As a result, we're not only poised for accelerated growth, but we are also better equipped to continue to lead in a market that is on a fantastic growth trajectory. We appreciate your continued support and confidence in our vision. Our team is energized by what lies ahead, and we're looking forward to delivering on the promise of this important strategic advancement. Thank you for joining us today.
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