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Organization and Significant Accounting Policies
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Organization and Significant Accounting Policies ORGANIZATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
General and Recent Developments
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its subsidiaries (referred to herein collectively as the “Company”) are primarily engaged in developing medicines that treat intractable diseases by silencing the genes that cause them. Using a broad portfolio of RNA chemistries and efficient modes of delivery, the Company’s therapies trigger the RNA interference mechanism to induce rapid, deep and durable knockdown of target genes. RNA interference (“RNAi”) is a mechanism present in living cells that inhibits the expression of a specific gene, thereby affecting the production of a specific protein. The Company’s RNAi-based therapeutics may leverage this natural pathway of gene silencing to target and shut down specific disease-causing genes.
The following table presents the Company’s current pipeline:
Therapeutic AreaNameStageProduct Rights
Cardiometabolicplozasiran
Phase 3
Arrowhead
zodasiranPhase 2bArrowhead
olpasiran
Phase 3Amgen
PulmonaryARO-RAGE
Phase 1/2a
Arrowhead
ARO-MMP7
Phase 1/2a
Arrowhead
LiverGSK-4532990Phase 2bGSK
fazirsiran
Phase 3Takeda and Arrowhead
daplusiran/tomligisiranPhase 2GSK
ARO-PNPLA3
Phase 1
Arrowhead
ARO-C3
Phase 1/2a
Arrowhead
ARO-CFBPhase 1/2aArrowhead
ARO-INHBEPhase 1/2aArrowhead
Muscle
ARO-DUX4Phase 1/2aArrowhead
ARO-DM1Phase 1/2aArrowhead
Central Nervous System (CNS)
ARO-ATXN2Phase 1/2aArrowhead
The Company operates lab facilities in California and Wisconsin, where its research and development activities, including the development of RNAi therapeutics, take place. The Company’s principal executive offices are located in Pasadena, California.
During the first quarter of fiscal 2025, the Company continued to develop and advance its pipeline and partnered candidates. Several key recent developments include:
Submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on November 16, 2024, which was accepted for filing on January 17, 2025. The FDA provided a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of November 18, 2025, and indicated it is not currently planning to hold an advisory committee meeting;
Entered into a global and collaboration agreement with Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. The Company received $325.0 million as an equity investment on February 7, 2025 and will receive $500.0 million as an upfront payment during the second quarter of fiscal 2025. The Company will also receive $250.0 million to be paid in equal installments over five years and is eligible to receive an additional $300.0 million in near-term payments. Additionally, the Company is eligible to receive royalties on commercial sales and up to approximately $10.0 billion in future potential milestone payments;
GSK dosed the fifth patient in a Phase 2 trial in December 2024, triggering a $2.5 million milestone payment to the Company which was paid in the second quarter of fiscal 2025;
Announced that the Company has dosed the first subjects in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of ARO-INHBE;
Presented interim results from a Phase 1/2a clinical study of ARO-CFB at the 8th Complement-Based Drug
Development Summit. The study resulted in multiple promising findings including: (1) ARO-CFO led to dose dependent reductions in circulating CFB protein by up to 90% with greater than 3 months duration, (2) single and multiple doses of ARO-CFB led to near complete inhibition of alternative pathway activity based on Wieslab AP, and (3) single and multiple doses of ARO-CFB led to near complete inhibition of alternative pathway hemolytic activity, measured by AH50; and
Filed a request for regulatory clearance to initiate Phase 1/2a clinical trial of ARO-ALK7, which is being developed as a potential treatment for obesity.
Consolidation and Basis of Presentation
The interim Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and its subsidiaries (wholly-owned subsidiaries and a variable interest entity for which the Company is the primary beneficiary). Subsidiaries refer to Arrowhead Madison, Inc., Arrowhead Australia Pty Ltd., Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Ireland Limited, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals NZ Limited and Visirna Therapeutics, Inc. (“Visirna”). For subsidiaries in which the Company owns or is exposed to less than 100% of the economics, the Company records net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests in its consolidated statements of operations equal to the percentage of the economic or ownership interests retained in such entity by the respective noncontrolling party.
The interim Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The financial data of the Company included herein are unaudited. In the opinion of management, all material adjustments of a normal recurring nature have been made to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of December 31, 2024 and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform with the current period presentation.
Certain financial information that is normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP, but that is not required for interim reporting purposes, has been omitted from the accompanying interim consolidated financial statements and related notes. Readers are urged to review the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2024 for more complete descriptions and discussions. Operating results and cash flows for the three months ended December 31, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025.
Liquidity
The Company’s primary sources of financing have been through the sale of its equity securities, credit facility, revenue from its licensing and collaboration agreements and the sale of certain future royalties. Research and development activities have required significant investment since the Company’s inception and are expected to continue to require significant cash expenditure in the future, particularly as the Company’s pipeline of drug candidates and its headcount have both expanded. Additionally, significant investment will be required as the Company’s pipeline matures into later stage clinical trials, including commercialization efforts.
As of December 31, 2024, the Company had $53.9 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash ($2.1 million in restricted cash) and $499.0 million in available-for-sale securities to fund operations. During the three months ended December 31, 2024, the Company’s cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and investments balance decreased by $128.0 million, which was primarily due to ongoing expenses related to the Company’s research and development programs, general and administrative expenses, and capital expenditures, offset by proceeds of $25.0 million from the sale of pre-funded warrants.
In total, the Company is eligible to receive up to $14.1 billion in developmental, regulatory and sales milestones, and may receive various royalties on net sales from its licensing and collaboration agreements, subject to the terms and conditions of those agreements.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no changes to the significant accounting policies disclosed in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In January 2025, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standard Update (“ASU”) 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, in November 2024, and ASU 2025-01, Clarifying the Effective Date. These
updates require entities to provide disaggregated disclosure of income statement expenses. The ASUs do not affect the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement but instead require the disaggregation of certain expense captions into specified categories within the footnotes to the financial statements. The ASUs will become effective for the Company beginning October 1, 2027, and is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, to improve its income tax disclosure requirements. Under the guidance, entities must annually (1) disclose specific categories in the rate reconciliation and (2) provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. This ASU will become effective for the Company beginning October 1, 2025, and is not expected to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures, which is intended to improve reportable segment disclosure requirements, primarily through additional disclosures about significant segment expenses. This ASU requires public companies with a single reportable segment to provide all disclosures required under ASC 280. In addition, this ASU requires public companies to include in interim reports all disclosures related to a reportable segment’s profit or loss and assets that are currently required in annual reports. While the ASU implements further segment disclosure requirements, it does not change how an entity identifies its operating or reportable segments and it will have no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. This ASU is applicable to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, and subsequent interim periods. Early adoption is permitted and the amendments must be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented.