Q4 2025 Microbix Biosystems Inc Earnings Call

Speaker #1: meeting. Good morning, everyone.

Deborah Honig: Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. We have Microbix here to talk about their Q4 and year-end results for 2025. Before we get into those, I don't believe we're going to work off our presentation today, but I'd like to remind you that this session, as always, will contain forward-looking statements. If you'd like to know more about those, you can find them on the company's website in the presentation. There's disclosures there. I believe the format will be an update from the team on the Q4 and year-end results. Then we'll jump into Q&A. So if you have any questions, please feel free to input them in the Q&A box, or you can email them to me. With that out of the way, I'd like to introduce Cameron Groom, President and CEO; Ken Hughes, COO; and Jim Curry, CFO. Hi, gentlemen.

Deborah Honig: Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us today. We have Microbix here to talk about their Q4 and year-end results for 2025. Before we get into those, I don't believe we're going to work off our presentation today, but I'd like to remind you that this session, as always, will contain forward-looking statements. If you'd like to know more about those, you can find them on the company's website in the presentation. There's disclosures there. I believe the format will be an update from the team on the Q4 and year-end results. Then we'll jump into Q&A. So if you have any questions, please feel free to input them in the Q&A box, or you can email them to me. With that out of the way, I'd like to introduce Cameron Groom, President and CEO; Ken Hughes, COO; and Jim Curry, CFO. Hi, gentlemen.

Speaker #3: Thanks for joining us today. We have Microbix here to talk about their Q4 and year-end results for 2025. Before we get into those, I don't believe we're going to work off our presentation today, but I'd like to remind you that this session, as always, will contain forward-looking statements.

Speaker #3: If you'd like to know more about those, you can find them on the company's website in the presentation. There are disclosures there. I believe the format will be an update from the team on the Q4 and year-end results.

Speaker #3: And then we'll jump into Q&A. So if you have any questions, please feel free to input them in the Q&A box, or you can email them to me.

Speaker #3: And with that out of the way, I'd like to introduce Cameron Groom, President and CEO; Ken Hughes, COO; and Jim Curry, CFO. Hi, gentlemen.

Speaker #3: Thanks for joining me today.

Deborah Honig: Thanks for joining me today.

Thanks for joining me today.

Speaker #4: Thank you very much, Deborah. That's brilliant. Much appreciated—the help, as always.

Cameron L. Groome: Thank you very much, Deborah. That's brilliant.

Cameron Groome: Thank you very much, Deborah. That's brilliant.

Deborah Honig: Thank you.

Thank you.

Cameron L. Groome: Much appreciate the help, as always.

Much appreciate the help, as always.

Speaker #3: Yeah, well, before we get started, I wanted to thank you all for contributing to our fundraiser this year in support of food banks.

Deborah Honig: Yeah. Well, before we get started, I wanted to thank you all for contributing to our fundraiser this year in support of food banks. We're actually at CAD 52,000 that we're raising so far. I could not do 26 webinars in December, so a bunch of them are being pushed to January. But the donations are going in before the holiday season, which I think is really important given the economic situation in certain communities globally. So I appreciate you supporting us, and I'd love to hear which food bank you decided to donate to.

Deborah Honig: Yeah. Well, before we get started, I wanted to thank you all for contributing to our fundraiser this year in support of food banks. We're actually at CAD 52,000 that we're raising so far. I could not do 26 webinars in December, so a bunch of them are being pushed to January. But the donations are going in before the holiday season, which I think is really important given the economic situation in certain communities globally. So I appreciate you supporting us, and I'd love to hear which food bank you decided to donate to.

Speaker #3: We're actually at $52,000 that we're raising so far. I could not do 26 webinars in December, so a bunch of them are being pushed to January.

Speaker #3: But the donations are going in before the holiday season, which I think is really important, given the economic situation in certain communities globally. So I appreciate you supporting us, and I'd love to hear which food bank you decided to donate to.

Speaker #3: to. Be supporting

Cameron L. Groome: We're supporting the Mississauga Food Bank. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of their executive leadership through work at the Board of Trade. They do an excellent job in the community, and as I'm sure is the case across Canada, the need and the demand for such assistance has never been greater. So we're delighted to be able to make a contribution on that basis. And thank you, Deborah and Adelaide, for suggesting this and for you contributing what would normally be your income onto this. So thank you.

Cameron Groome: We're supporting the Mississauga Food Bank. I've had the pleasure of meeting some of their executive leadership through work at the Board of Trade. They do an excellent job in the community, and as I'm sure is the case across Canada, the need and the demand for such assistance has never been greater. So we're delighted to be able to make a contribution on that basis. And thank you, Deborah and Adelaide, for suggesting this and for you contributing what would normally be your income onto this. So thank you.

Speaker #4: The Mississauga Food Bank—I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some of their executive leadership through work at the Board of Trade. They do an excellent job in the community, and, as I’m sure is the case across Canada, the need and the demand for such assistance has never been greater.

Speaker #4: So we're delighted to be able to make a contribution on that basis. And thank you, Deborah and Adelaide, for suggesting this, and for you contributing what would normally be your income onto this.

Speaker #4: So thank

Speaker #4: you. Yeah, of course.

Deborah Honig: Yeah, of course. It's been our pleasure. I mean, it's been a great year for us as a team, so we thought it'd be something that we could do to give back. Before we get started, I know it's been a tough year for Microbix. There's no two ways about that. I have to commend the team on the guidance that you provided throughout the year, even early on the year, on the obstacles that you were facing. I think the market's really appreciated that. So I just wanted to point that out and say I think you guys did an incredible job managing through a couple of major obstacles. So for what it's worth, I'm very proud of you and proud to be working with you.

Deborah Honig: Yeah, of course. It's been our pleasure. I mean, it's been a great year for us as a team, so we thought it'd be something that we could do to give back. Before we get started, I know it's been a tough year for Microbix. There's no two ways about that. I have to commend the team on the guidance that you provided throughout the year, even early on the year, on the obstacles that you were facing. I think the market's really appreciated that. So I just wanted to point that out and say I think you guys did an incredible job managing through a couple of major obstacles. So for what it's worth, I'm very proud of you and proud to be working with you.

Speaker #3: It's been our pleasure. I mean, it's been a great year for us as a team, so we thought it'd be something that we could do to give back.

Speaker #3: Before we get started, I know it's been a tough year for Microbix. There's no two ways about that. I have to commend the team on the guidance that you provided throughout the year—even early on in the year—on the obstacles that you were facing.

Speaker #3: I think the market's really appreciated that. So I just wanted to point that out and say I think you guys did an incredible job managing through a couple of major obstacles.

Speaker #3: For what it’s worth, I’m very proud of you and proud to be working with you.

Speaker #4: Gosh, thank you so much. And we, in turn, appreciate Adelaide's support, and that of all of our shareholders and investors, and the confidence they show in our professionalism.

Cameron L. Groome: Gosh, thank you so much. We, in turn, appreciate Adelaide's support and that of all of our shareholders, investors, and the confidence they show in our professionalism. Just recapping a little bit of that element, and we'll get into some of the precise numbers for the fiscal year. Folks will recall that Microbix is on a 30 September fiscal year. So we had a very strong Q1 of our fiscal 2025, a very strong Q2, and then we had an abrupt slowdown of sales into China through our distribution partners there for epidemiological reasons. There just wasn't as much respiratory disease this past season, which reduced the need for tests and, in turn, our test ingredients. We also had a major client very abruptly announce the termination of a multi-hundred million dollar instrument development program that we were supporting that occurred at the start of June.

Cameron Groome: Gosh, thank you so much. We, in turn, appreciate Adelaide's support and that of all of our shareholders, investors, and the confidence they show in our professionalism. Just recapping a little bit of that element, and we'll get into some of the precise numbers for the fiscal year. Folks will recall that Microbix is on a 30 September fiscal year. So we had a very strong Q1 of our fiscal 2025, a very strong Q2, and then we had an abrupt slowdown of sales into China through our distribution partners there for epidemiological reasons. There just wasn't as much respiratory disease this past season, which reduced the need for tests and, in turn, our test ingredients. We also had a major client very abruptly announce the termination of a multi-hundred million dollar instrument development program that we were supporting that occurred at the start of June.

Speaker #4: Just recapping a little bit of that element, and we'll get into some of the precise numbers for the fiscal year. Folks will recall that Microbix is on a September 30th fiscal year.

Speaker #4: So we had a very strong Q1 of our fiscal 2025, a very strong Q2, and then we had a slowdown—an abrupt slowdown—of sales into China through our distribution partners there for epidemiological reasons.

Speaker #4: There just wasn't as much respiratory disease this past season, which reduced the need for tests and, in turn, our test ingredients. And then we also had a major client very abruptly announce the termination of a multi-hundred-million-dollar instrument development program that we were supporting.

Speaker #4: That occurred at the start of June, and that really impacted our Q3, where we were expecting to see stocking deliveries, and in Q4, particularly.

Cameron L. Groome: And that really impacted our Q3, where we were expecting to see stocking deliveries, and in Q4, particularly. So we're now in that process of building back with new clients and new projects that we have been working on but are not all yet ripe to announce. So our results that we've just announced for the quarter and for the year are reflective of that. And maybe I can ask Jim to speak about fiscal 2025 financials before I begin to chat about the many achievements that we've made across the fiscal year and what our outlook is going into 2026 and beyond. Jim, would you like to comment on the 2025 fiscal?

And that really impacted our Q3, where we were expecting to see stocking deliveries, and in Q4, particularly. So we're now in that process of building back with new clients and new projects that we have been working on but are not all yet ripe to announce. So our results that we've just announced for the quarter and for the year are reflective of that. And maybe I can ask Jim to speak about fiscal 2025 financials before I begin to chat about the many achievements that we've made across the fiscal year and what our outlook is going into 2026 and beyond. Jim, would you like to comment on the 2025 fiscal?

Speaker #4: So, we're now in that process of building back with new clients and new projects that we have been working on, but are not all yet ripe to announce.

Speaker #4: So, our results that we've just announced for the quarter and for the year are reflective of that. And maybe I can ask Jim to speak about fiscal 2025 financials before I begin to chat about the many achievements that we've made across the fiscal year, and what our outlook is going into 2026 and beyond.

Speaker #4: Jim, would you like to comment on the 2025?

Speaker #4: fiscal? Sure.

James S. Currie: Sure. Thanks, Cameron. Yeah, it was certainly a tale of two halves. We started off the year very well and basically hitting and/or exceeding our budget in the first half of the year. It wasn't until we got the sort of unexpected news, both from our distributor in China as well as on our QAPs business, the loss of business of a key customer for one of their projects that had been canceled, which changed things quite significantly in the second half of the year. Overall, for the year, revenues were down 27%. A good chunk of that actually was we had Kinlytic revenues of CAD 4.1 million last year. We didn't have any this year. We didn't expect to have any this year. That was a good portion of it.

Jim Currie: Sure. Thanks, Cameron. Yeah, it was certainly a tale of two halves. We started off the year very well and basically hitting and/or exceeding our budget in the first half of the year. It wasn't until we got the sort of unexpected news, both from our distributor in China as well as on our QAPs business, the loss of business of a key customer for one of their projects that had been canceled, which changed things quite significantly in the second half of the year. Overall, for the year, revenues were down 27%. A good chunk of that actually was we had Kinlytic revenues of CAD 4.1 million last year. We didn't have any this year. We didn't expect to have any this year. That was a good portion of it.

Speaker #5: Thanks, Cameron. Yeah, it was certainly a tale of two halves. We started off the year very well, basically hitting and/or exceeding our budget in the first half of the year.

Speaker #5: And it wasn't until we got the sort of unexpected news both from our distributor in China, as well as on our CAPS business—the loss of business of a key customer for one of their projects that had been canceled.

Speaker #5: Which changed things quite significantly in the second half of the year. Overall, for the year, revenues were down 27%. A good chunk of that actually was we had Kinetic revenues of $4.1 million last year.

Speaker #5: We didn't have any this year. We didn't expect to have any this year, so that was a good portion of it. Plus, we also had these events in the second half of the year that led to the rest of the decline versus last year.

James S. Currie: Plus, we also had these events in the second half of the year that led to the rest of the decline versus last year. If you look at, if you took all of those factors out, the Kinlytic out, the China distribution, the QAPs program cancellation, our revenues in all other areas actually increased 12% during the year. From a margin perspective, we were down from last year at 53% versus 61%. Again, a good portion of last year's strong margin was Kinlytic, which had $4.1 million worth of revenues and very little cost of sales last year. So in comparison, again, we were fairly flat, if not up, on last year's gross margin. And that's coming from we've had a very good year from a process and yield standpoint on our antigens business. And we've seen yields improve quite significantly on a few of our key products.

Plus, we also had these events in the second half of the year that led to the rest of the decline versus last year. If you look at, if you took all of those factors out, the Kinlytic out, the China distribution, the QAPs program cancellation, our revenues in all other areas actually increased 12% during the year. From a margin perspective, we were down from last year at 53% versus 61%. Again, a good portion of last year's strong margin was Kinlytic, which had $4.1 million worth of revenues and very little cost of sales last year. So in comparison, again, we were fairly flat, if not up, on last year's gross margin. And that's coming from we've had a very good year from a process and yield standpoint on our antigens business. And we've seen yields improve quite significantly on a few of our key products.

Speaker #5: If you look at though, if you took all of those factors out, the kinetic out, the China's distribution, the CAPS program cancellation, our revenues in all other areas actually increased 12% during the From a margin perspective, we were down from year.

Speaker #5: Last year at 53% versus 61%. Again, a good portion of last year's strong margin was Kinetic, which had $4.1 million worth of revenues and very little cost of sales.

Speaker #5: Last year—so in comparison, again, we were fairly flat, if not up, on last year's gross margin. And that's coming from—we've had a very good year from a process.

Speaker #5: And yield standpoint on our antigen business. And we've seen yields improve quite significantly on a few of our key products. And the number of batch failures declined substantially.

James S. Currie: The number of batch failures declined substantially, and in some cases, almost to zero. So very important for us as we move forward as well. On the OPEX side, we were up 4% on OPEX. Key contributors there were, we had lower investment income during the year. Again, decline in interest rates led to that. Although we did make continued investments in trade shows as well as increasing our R&D spend, predominantly in the caps area, but spending more there. It was a profitable first half of the year. Unfortunately, a sizable loss in the second half of the year. Our expectation is, as we go into 2026, which I think Cameron will focus on a little bit later, we expect to see some improvements in all areas. We did maintain a cash balance. We've got a strong balance sheet.

The number of batch failures declined substantially, and in some cases, almost to zero. So very important for us as we move forward as well. On the OpEx side, we were up 4% on OpEx. Key contributors there were, we had lower investment income during the year. Again, decline in interest rates led to that. Although we did make continued investments in trade shows as well as increasing our R&D spend, predominantly in the caps area, but spending more there. It was a profitable first half of the year. Unfortunately, a sizable loss in the second half of the year. Our expectation is, as we go into 2026, which I think Cameron will focus on a little bit later, we expect to see some improvements in all areas. We did maintain a cash balance. We've got a strong balance sheet.

Speaker #5: And in some cases, almost to zero. So, very important for us as we move forward as well. On the OPEX side, we were up 4% on OPEX.

Speaker #5: Key contributors there were we had lower investment income during the year. Again, declined in interest rates led to that. We had—although we did make continued investments in trade shows, as well as increasing our R&D spend, predominantly in the CAPS area—but spending more there.

Speaker #5: It was a profitable first half of the year. Unfortunately, there was a sizable loss in the second half of the year. Our expectation is, as we go into 2026—which I think Cameron will focus on a little bit later—we expect to see some improvements in all areas.

Speaker #5: We did maintain cash; we've got a strong balance sheet. We maintained a cash balance of over $12 million. At the end of the fiscal year, we made sizable investments in our capital equipment and facilities throughout the year as well.

James S. Currie: We maintained a cash balance of over CAD 12 million at the end of the fiscal year. We made sizable investments in our capital equipment and facilities throughout the year as well. So we're poised to enter, or we've already entered 2026 at this point in time. We're almost finished Q1, but we're entering it in a strong position and looking forward to our 2026. Cameron?

We maintained a cash balance of over CAD 12 million at the end of the fiscal year. We made sizable investments in our capital equipment and facilities throughout the year as well. So we're poised to enter, or we've already entered 2026 at this point in time. We're almost finished Q1, but we're entering it in a strong position and looking forward to our 2026. Cameron?

Speaker #5: So we're poised to enter what we've already entered 2026 at this point in time where we're almost finished Q1, but we're entering it in a strong position.

Speaker #5: And looking forward to our 2026.

Speaker #1: That's great, Jim. Thank you. I think that the clarifications that you've made there are excellent. Last, if we look at our 2024 fiscal year and remove the $4.1 million in kinetic milestones, we achieved revenues of $21.3 million from sort of recurring product sales and royalties in that year.

Cameron L. Groome: That's great, Jim. Thank you. I think that's the clarifications that you've made there are excellent. If we look at our fiscal 2024 and remove the CAD 4.1 million in Kinlytic milestones, we achieved revenues of CAD 21.3 million from recurring product sales and royalties in that year. We were looking to grow beyond the total 25.4 inclusive of Kinlytic in 2025 based on the outlook we had for all of our different clients. But with two major clients falling off the table, we effectively went from 21.3 down to 18.6 in terms of recurring revenues and royalties. So again, while it's not what we were looking for, it's a very solid performance from our team. And as you pointed out, Jim, if we remove those variables, we grew in sales of pretty much every category and customer outside of the two problematic instances. So very good context on there.

Cameron Groome: That's great, Jim. Thank you. I think that's the clarifications that you've made there are excellent. If we look at our fiscal 2024 and remove the CAD 4.1 million in Kinlytic milestones, we achieved revenues of CAD 21.3 million from recurring product sales and royalties in that year. We were looking to grow beyond the total 25.4 inclusive of Kinlytic in 2025 based on the outlook we had for all of our different clients. But with two major clients falling off the table, we effectively went from 21.3 down to 18.6 in terms of recurring revenues and royalties. So again, while it's not what we were looking for, it's a very solid performance from our team. And as you pointed out, Jim, if we remove those variables, we grew in sales of pretty much every category and customer outside of the two problematic instances. So very good context on there.

Speaker #1: We were looking to grow beyond the total $25.4 million, inclusive of Kinetic, in 2025, based on the outlook we had for all of our different clients. But with two major clients falling off the table, we effectively went from $21.3 million down to $18.6 million in terms of recurring revenues and royalties.

Speaker #1: So again, well, it's not what we were looking for. It's a very solid performance from our team. And as you pointed out, Jim, if we remove those variables, we grew in sales of pretty much every category and customer outside of the two problematic instances.

Speaker #1: So, very good context on there. And some of the achievements we've made across fiscal 2025, I think, are very good to call out. I'll think to calendar year because it's in my mind, rather than fiscal, for the achievements.

Cameron L. Groome: Some of the achievements we've made across fiscal 2025, I think, are very good to call out. I'll think to calendar year because it's in my mind rather than fiscal for the achievements now that we're in December, but we've announced our intention to onboard full recombinant antigen capabilities to add to our long-standing native antigen capabilities. That program has been moving forward through the year, and I think we'll soon have some progress reports on that. We've continued our strong support of industry and public health with regards to potentially emerging respiratory pandemics and respiratory illness with new products in H5N1 put to market, and as well H3N2 most recently, which is this season's emerged flu strain that is the latest clade that's driving infections.

Some of the achievements we've made across fiscal 2025, I think, are very good to call out. I'll think to calendar year because it's in my mind rather than fiscal for the achievements now that we're in December, but we've announced our intention to onboard full recombinant antigen capabilities to add to our long-standing native antigen capabilities. That program has been moving forward through the year, and I think we'll soon have some progress reports on that. We've continued our strong support of industry and public health with regards to potentially emerging respiratory pandemics and respiratory illness with new products in H5N1 put to market, and as well H3N2 most recently, which is this season's emerged flu strain that is the latest clade that's driving infections.

Speaker #1: Now that we're in December, we've announced our intention to onboard full recombinant antigen capabilities to add to our longstanding native antigen capabilities.

Speaker #1: And that program has been moving forward through the year, and I think we'll soon have some progress reports on that. We've continued our strong support of industry and public health with regards to potentially emerging respiratory pandemics and respiratory illness, with new products in H5N1 put to market, and as well H3N2, most recently, which is this season's emerged flu strain.

Speaker #1: That is the latest clade that's driving infections. We've announced support for cervical cancer screening in multiple countries, all throughout the Indo-Pacific, through our collaboration with the Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.

Cameron L. Groome: We've announced support for cervical cancer screening in multiple countries all throughout the Indo-Pacific through our collaboration with the Australian Center for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. Our partner on Kinlytic has engaged the drug product manufacturing contract development and manufacturing organization to help drive that program forward. Work continues with Ken's firm support on that program, and I'll ask him to speak to that as well as opex generally. We've had multiple new program and product collaborations with our proficiency testing and external quality assessment scheme providers in infectious diseases, in oncology, molecular pathology, and genetics testing, which broadens out our addressable markets again beyond our traditional strength in infectious diseases in relation to QAPs. We strengthen our supply chains with our exclusive supply agreement to access the more than 100-year-old collection of pathogens at the Bulgarian National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in Bulgaria.

We've announced support for cervical cancer screening in multiple countries all throughout the Indo-Pacific through our collaboration with the Australian Center for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer. Our partner on Kinlytic has engaged the drug product manufacturing contract development and manufacturing organization to help drive that program forward. Work continues with Ken's firm support on that program, and I'll ask him to speak to that as well as OpEx generally. We've had multiple new program and product collaborations with our proficiency testing and external quality assessment scheme providers in infectious diseases, in oncology, molecular pathology, and genetics testing, which broadens out our addressable markets again beyond our traditional strength in infectious diseases in relation to QAPs. We strengthen our supply chains with our exclusive supply agreement to access the more than 100-year-old collection of pathogens at the Bulgarian National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in Bulgaria.

Speaker #1: Our partner on Kinetic has engaged the drug product manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization to help drive that program forward. Work continues at Ken's firm supporting that program.

Speaker #1: And I'll ask him to speak to that, as well as ops generally. We've had multiple new program and product collaborations with our proficiency testing and external quality assessment scheme providers.

Speaker #1: In infectious diseases, in oncology, molecular pathology, and genetics testing—which broadens out our addressable markets. Again, beyond our traditional strength in infectious diseases, in relation to CAPS, we strengthened our supply chains with our exclusive supply agreement to access the more than 100-year-old collection of pathogens at the Bulgarian National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases in Bulgaria.

Speaker #1: We launched our new QuantBx reference materials product line, which potentially may become as important for the company, on a revenue basis, as CAPS has become for us.

Cameron L. Groome: We launched our new Quantibix reference materials product line, which potentially may become as important for the company on a revenue basis as QAPs has become for us. And further test manufacturer collaborations, most recently with Sekisui Diagnostics for point-of-care tests being marketed in the United States, and with Seegene with respect to cervical cancer screening in Mexico of a population of 140 million. So tremendous fundamental achievements through the year that I think are important to call out. Ken, what would you most want to talk about from an operations point of view in terms of what we achieved in fiscal 2025 and for that matter, some of what you see for '26?

We launched our new Quantibix reference materials product line, which potentially may become as important for the company on a revenue basis as QAPs has become for us. And further test manufacturer collaborations, most recently with Sekisui Diagnostics for point-of-care tests being marketed in the United States, and with Seegene with respect to cervical cancer screening in Mexico of a population of 140 million. So tremendous fundamental achievements through the year that I think are important to call out. Ken, what would you most want to talk about from an operations point of view in terms of what we achieved in fiscal 2025 and for that matter, some of what you see for '26?

Speaker #1: And further test manufacturer collaborations with most recently with Secasui from Point of Care Tests, being marketed in the United States, and with CGene with respect to cervical cancer screening in Mexico, a population of 140 million.

Speaker #1: So, tremendous fundamental achievements throughout the year, I think, are important to call out. Ken, what would you most want to talk about from an operations point of view, in terms of what we achieved in fiscal 2025?

Speaker #1: And for that matter, some of what you see for '26?

Speaker #2: Well, I think it's quite apparent that we're in excellent shape operationally at Microbix. We have the capacity necessary to fulfill our market desires in the next little while.

Kenneth Hughes: Well, I think it's quite apparent that we're in excellent shape operationally at Microbix. We have the capacity necessary to fulfill our market desires in the next little while, and we've also built capabilities from there. We have an ongoing focus on operational excellence. We've seen batch yields increase. We've seen batch failure rates reduced, and that, of course, reduces costs and increases margins. And we've also been working hard on further implementing aspects of our electronic quality management system and connecting that with our ERP system to further increase efficiencies. So we've added new capabilities. We've talked about the recombinant protein program, which adds in addition to our native antigen program, and that is going extremely well. And the first product will be ready for prime time imminently, but there's a whole pipeline behind that. And that's just a description of the scientific excellence we have at Microbix.

Ken Hughes: Well, I think it's quite apparent that we're in excellent shape operationally at Microbix. We have the capacity necessary to fulfill our market desires in the next little while, and we've also built capabilities from there. We have an ongoing focus on operational excellence. We've seen batch yields increase. We've seen batch failure rates reduced, and that, of course, reduces costs and increases margins. And we've also been working hard on further implementing aspects of our electronic quality management system and connecting that with our ERP system to further increase efficiencies. So we've added new capabilities. We've talked about the recombinant protein program, which adds in addition to our native antigen program, and that is going extremely well. And the first product will be ready for prime time imminently, but there's a whole pipeline behind that. And that's just a description of the scientific excellence we have at Microbix.

Speaker #2: And we've also built capabilities from there. We have an ongoing focus on operational excellence. We've seen batch yields increase. We've seen batch failure rates.

Speaker #2: Reduced, and that, of course, reduces costs and increases margins. We've also been working hard on further implementing aspects of our electronic quality management system and connecting that with our ERP system to further increase efficiencies.

Speaker #2: So we've added new capabilities. We've talked about the recombinant protein program, which adds in addition to our native antigen program. And that is going extremely well.

Speaker #2: And the first product will be ready for prime time imminently, but there's a whole pipeline behind that. And that's just a description of the scientific excellence we have.

Speaker #2: At Microbix, and so from a capacity perspective, from a capability perspective, we continue to grow. I don't really have anything negative to say in this regard.

Kenneth Hughes: From a capacity perspective, from a capability perspective, we continue to grow. I don't really have anything negative to say in this regard. All we've seen is increased yields and reduced costs. I think that's the way it's going to stay, and we'll be able to support our business growth in the future. That's for operations in general. I think we're in really excellent shape right now. Kudos to all the staff for doing that because we're replete with outstanding scientific leadership and scientific support throughout this company. The increased yields and reduced costs are a manifestation of that.

From a capacity perspective, from a capability perspective, we continue to grow. I don't really have anything negative to say in this regard. All we've seen is increased yields and reduced costs. I think that's the way it's going to stay, and we'll be able to support our business growth in the future. That's for operations in general. I think we're in really excellent shape right now. Kudos to all the staff for doing that because we're replete with outstanding scientific leadership and scientific support throughout this company. The increased yields and reduced costs are a manifestation of that.

Speaker #2: All we've seen is increased yields and reduced costs, and I think that's the way it's going to stay. And we'll be able to support our business growth in the future.

Speaker #2: That's for operations in general. I think we're in really excellent shape right now. And kudos to all the staff for doing that because we have replete with outstanding scientific leadership and scientific support throughout this company.

Speaker #2: And the increased yields and reduced costs are a manifestation of that.

Speaker #3: Oh, very good, Ken. Thank you. I think that really highlights how we've entered into fiscal 2026 with incredibly strong capabilities, with an absolutely marvelous team.

Cameron L. Groome: Oh, very good, Ken. Thank you. I think that really highlights how we have entered into fiscal 2026 with incredibly strong capabilities, with an absolutely marvelous team, great capacity that we have to bring to bear. I will say as well, a very rich business development pipeline. There are multiple new products and programs that we're working on with both existing and new customers. I'll just remind everyone that our policy is we announce programs when they are effectively signed, sealed, and delivered, not when we're discussing or negotiating with partners on them. So as those come to full fruition and with the consent of our partners, we'll make those disclosures as and when we pull things over the line with our partners. Very good position in that.

Cameron Groome: Oh, very good, Ken. Thank you. I think that really highlights how we have entered into fiscal 2026 with incredibly strong capabilities, with an absolutely marvelous team, great capacity that we have to bring to bear. I will say as well, a very rich business development pipeline. There are multiple new products and programs that we're working on with both existing and new customers. I'll just remind everyone that our policy is we announce programs when they are effectively signed, sealed, and delivered, not when we're discussing or negotiating with partners on them. So as those come to full fruition and with the consent of our partners, we'll make those disclosures as and when we pull things over the line with our partners. Very good position in that.

Speaker #3: Great capacity that we have to bring to bear and I will say as well a very rich business development pipeline and there are multiple new products and programs that we're working on with both existing and new customers.

Speaker #3: And I'll just remind everyone that our policy is we announce programs when they are effectively signed, sealed, and delivered—not when we're discussing or negotiating with partners on them.

Speaker #3: So, as those come to full fruition and, with the consent of our partners, we'll make those disclosures as and when we pull things over the line with our partners.

Speaker #3: So, very good position in that, and for our financial goals for fiscal 2026, really what we're seeing—and we've seen in Q4—is this is beginning our recovery from the revenue setback that began in Q3.

Cameron L. Groome: For our financial goals for fiscal 2026, really what we're seeing and we've seen in Q4 is this is beginning our recovery from the revenue setback that began in Q3, leading to our below, certainly our target full-year results for fiscal 2025. I think across fiscal 2026, we'll continue to build out that recovery quarter by quarter and be looking to regain quarterly profitability likely in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, is what on the order of what we're targeting. That really would represent a growth of approximately 30% from the quarterly low point of $3.5 million that we had in Q3. If we were just flat across fiscal 2026, we'd have revenues of $14 million. We will not be with revenues of $14 million. We'll be substantially higher than that from everything we see in our current outlook.

For our financial goals for fiscal 2026, really what we're seeing and we've seen in Q4 is this is beginning our recovery from the revenue setback that began in Q3, leading to our below, certainly our target full-year results for fiscal 2025. I think across fiscal 2026, we'll continue to build out that recovery quarter by quarter and be looking to regain quarterly profitability likely in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, is what on the order of what we're targeting. That really would represent a growth of approximately 30% from the quarterly low point of $3.5 million that we had in Q3. If we were just flat across fiscal 2026, we'd have revenues of $14 million. We will not be with revenues of $14 million. We'll be substantially higher than that from everything we see in our current outlook.

Speaker #3: Leading to our below certainly our target full year results for fiscal 2025. And I think across fiscal 2026, we'll continue to build out that recovery quarter by quarter and be looking to regain quarterly profitability, likely in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.

Speaker #3: That is on the order of what we're targeting. That really would represent a growth of approximately 30% from the quarterly low point of 3.5 million that we had in Q3.

Speaker #3: So if we were just flat across fiscal 2026, we'd have revenues of 14 million. We will not be with revenues of 14 million. We'll be substantially higher than that from everything we see in our current outlook.

Speaker #3: And this, again, our outlook is based on projects that have already been signed, sealed, and delivered, and we can look at, say, what product is going to be ordered and what quarter by what customer.

Cameron L. Groome: And this, again, our outlook is based on projects that have already been signed, sealed, and delivered. And we can look at, say, what product is going to be ordered in what order by what customer. We don't speculate on things that are not yet fully delivered. And some of our work across 2026, as Jim stated, and we should emphasize, we continue to have sufficient financial resources to fully execute. And that's both in terms of our cash on the balance sheet, which, as Jim had mentioned, was over $12 million at the end of our fiscal 2025, 30 September 2025.

And this, again, our outlook is based on projects that have already been signed, sealed, and delivered. And we can look at, say, what product is going to be ordered in what order by what customer. We don't speculate on things that are not yet fully delivered. And some of our work across 2026, as Jim stated, and we should emphasize, we continue to have sufficient financial resources to fully execute. And that's both in terms of our cash on the balance sheet, which, as Jim had mentioned, was over $12 million at the end of our fiscal 2025, 30 September 2025.

Speaker #3: We don't speculate on things that are not yet fully delivered. And some of our work across 2026, we—as Jim stated—we should emphasize we continue to have sufficient financial resources to fully execute.

Speaker #3: And that's both in terms of our cash on the balance sheet, which, as Jim had mentioned, was over $12 million at the end of our fiscal 2025, September 30th, 2025.

Speaker #3: And I'll just remind folks that we also have an undrawn mortgage facility on our own facility, and that could be up to $8 million drawable off that.

Cameron L. Groome: I'll just remind folks that we also have an undrawn mortgage facility on our owned facility, and that could be up to CAD 8 million drawable off that, plus an undrawn line of credit, which could be up to CAD 4 million, depending, of course, on a loan credit lending formula with the bank. Altogether, at September 30, we could have access to up to CAD 24 million in further funds before we would need to tap a dollar of new equity. That's very much not on the table to issue equity. In fact, you've seen the recent renewal of our Normal Course Issuer Bid. That's the technical name for share buyback program. We're actually able to proceed, should we choose, at a higher level of daily purchases for the renewal and we had available in fiscal across fiscal 2025.

I'll just remind folks that we also have an undrawn mortgage facility on our owned facility, and that could be up to CAD 8 million drawable off that, plus an undrawn line of credit, which could be up to CAD 4 million, depending, of course, on a loan credit lending formula with the bank. Altogether, at September 30, we could have access to up to CAD 24 million in further funds before we would need to tap a dollar of new equity. That's very much not on the table to issue equity. In fact, you've seen the recent renewal of our Normal Course Issuer Bid. That's the technical name for share buyback program. We're actually able to proceed, should we choose, at a higher level of daily purchases for the renewal and we had available in fiscal across fiscal 2025.

Speaker #3: Plus, an undrawn line of credit—which could be up to $4 million—dependent, of course, on a loan credit lending formula with the bank.

Speaker #3: So altogether, at September 30, we could have access to up to 24 million in further funds before we would need to tap a dollar of new equity.

Speaker #3: So that's very much not on the table to issue equity. And in fact, you've seen the recent renewal of our normal course issuer bid.

Speaker #3: That's the technical name for the share buyback program. And we're actually able to proceed, should we choose, at a higher level of daily purchases for the renewal.

Speaker #3: And we had available in fiscal, across fiscal 2025. So again, very positive from an operational point of view, and very bright prospects that we're looking at going forward.

Cameron L. Groome: So again, very positive from an operational point of view and very bright prospects that we're looking at going forward. So I think that would conclude my comments, and I just thank everybody for their engagement and support as we've continued to build the strength of Microbix in terms of our capabilities, our capacity. And I'm just delighted to see more large multinational companies relying on Microbix as a critical supply chain partner for QAPs, for antigens, and for more touch points such as our reference materials as they get into assay development. We're becoming much more known across the industry and recognized and respected. And I think that is a great way to continue building value for shareholders.

So again, very positive from an operational point of view and very bright prospects that we're looking at going forward. So I think that would conclude my comments, and I just thank everybody for their engagement and support as we've continued to build the strength of Microbix in terms of our capabilities, our capacity. And I'm just delighted to see more large multinational companies relying on Microbix as a critical supply chain partner for QAPs, for antigens, and for more touch points such as our reference materials as they get into assay development. We're becoming much more known across the industry and recognized and respected. And I think that is a great way to continue building value for shareholders.

Speaker #3: So I think that would conclude my comments. And I just thank everybody for their engagement and support as we've continued to build the strength of Microbix in terms of our capabilities and our capacity, and I'm just delighted to see more large multinational companies relying on Microbix as a critical supply chain partner for CAPs and for antigens, and for more touch points such as our reference materials as they get into assay development.

Speaker #3: We're becoming much more known across the industry, and recognized and respected. And I think that is a great way to continue building value for shareholders. And then, of course, we have the very substantial kicker with Kinetic that's continuing to advance towards the filing of a supplemental BLA with the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Cameron L. Groome: And then, of course, we have the very substantial kicker with Kinlytic that's continuing to advance towards the filing of a supplemental BLA with the US Food and Drug Administration. We're continuing to target the advancement of that. The refreshing, renewal, and updating of drug substance manufacturing is progressing. We'll hopefully have some update disclosures from that in the first half of this calendar year that will fiscal calendar 2026. That continues to have tremendous revenue potential through royalties, recurring royalties, and one-time sales, and regulatory achievement-driven milestone payments. That is sort of the turbocharger supercharger on a very nice V8 engine that we've built and are now putting gas into. With that, that would be the conclusion of my comments.

And then, of course, we have the very substantial kicker with Kinlytic that's continuing to advance towards the filing of a supplemental BLA with the US Food and Drug Administration. We're continuing to target the advancement of that. The refreshing, renewal, and updating of drug substance manufacturing is progressing. We'll hopefully have some update disclosures from that in the first half of this calendar year that will fiscal calendar 2026. That continues to have tremendous revenue potential through royalties, recurring royalties, and one-time sales, and regulatory achievement-driven milestone payments. That is sort of the turbocharger supercharger on a very nice V8 engine that we've built and are now putting gas into. With that, that would be the conclusion of my comments.

Speaker #3: And we're continuing to target the advancement of that, the refreshing and renewal and updating of drug substance manufacturing as progressing. And we'll hopefully have some update disclosures from that in the first half of this calendar year—that will be fiscal '20, calendar 2026.

Speaker #3: And that continues to have tremendous revenue potential through royalties, recurring royalties, and one-time sales, and regulatory achievement-driven milestone payments. That is sort of the turbocharger, supercharger on a very nice B8 engine that we've built and are now putting gas into.

Speaker #3: So with that, that would be the conclusion of my comments. Jim and Ken, did you have any further comments you'd want to make before Deborah may ask some questions and open it up to those on the line?

Cameron L. Groome: Jim and Ken, did you have any further comments you'd want to make before Deborah may ask some questions and open it up to those on the call?

Jim and Ken, did you have any further comments you'd want to make before Deborah may ask some questions and open it up to those on the call?

Speaker #3: Call? The only thing I would add, I

Kenneth Hughes: The only thing I would add, I forgot to say when I was talking about general operations, was we also have a focus on automation, as you would expect, as part of efficiency increments in Microbix, and that initiative both within manufacturing and QC, the highly scientific disciplines, and of course, fed by R&D and engineering, ongoing and continuing to drive efficiencies at Microbix. And the basic operational side, no doubt we'll get to Ken that they can do costs.

Ken Hughes: The only thing I would add, I forgot to say when I was talking about general operations, was we also have a focus on automation, as you would expect, as part of efficiency increments in Microbix, and that initiative both within manufacturing and QC, the highly scientific disciplines, and of course, fed by R&D and engineering, ongoing and continuing to drive efficiencies at Microbix. And the basic operational side, no doubt we'll get to Ken that they can do costs.

Speaker #2: What I forgot to mention when I was talking about general operations is that we also have a focus on automation. As you'd expect, that's part of the efficiency improvements at Microbix.

Speaker #2: And that initiative, both within manufacturing and QC, is designed to be highly scientific, and, of course, fed by R&D and engineering—ongoing and continuing to drive efficiencies at Microbix.

Speaker #2: And the basic operational side, no doubt we'll get to Kinetic in due course.

Speaker #2: Course. And that's so great, because

Cameron L. Groome: That's so great because that liberates our staff to do work with their minds more than their hands and gives everybody the potential to do their best work, best and most fulfilling work. Jim, what would you want to flag?

Cameron Groome: That's so great because that liberates our staff to do work with their minds more than their hands and gives everybody the potential to do their best work, best and most fulfilling work. Jim, what would you want to flag?

Speaker #3: That liberates our staff to do work with their minds more than their hands, and gives everybody the potential to do their best work—the best and most fulfilling work.

Speaker #2: Absolutely.

Speaker #3: Jim, what would you want to

Speaker #3: flag? No, I

Speaker #2: I don't have anything else. Cameron, to add to this, I'm more than happy to answer any questions that anyone that's on the line has regarding the financials.

James S. Currie: No, I don't have anything else, Cameron, to add to this. I'm more than happy to answer any questions that anyone that's on the line has regarding the financials.

Jim Currie: No, I don't have anything else, Cameron, to add to this. I'm more than happy to answer any questions that anyone that's on the line has regarding the financials.

Speaker #3: Oh, okay. Thank you. Deborah, what would you want to ask before we open it up to the audience? Any questions?

Cameron L. Groome: Okay. Thank you. Deborah, what would you want to ask before we open it up to the audience? Any questions that you've had?

Cameron Groome: Okay. Thank you. Deborah, what would you want to ask before we open it up to the audience? Any questions that you've had?

Speaker #3: that you've had? I mean, for

Deborah Honig: I mean, for me, I would just like a bit of a more detailed update on Kinlytic and timelines and catalysts. I know, Ken, you've walked us through the process many times, but it'd be good to just kind of hear the updated timelines that you're seeing.

Deborah Honig: I mean, for me, I would just like a bit of a more detailed update on Kinlytic and timelines and catalysts. I know, Ken, you've walked us through the process many times, but it'd be good to just kind of hear the updated timelines that you're seeing.

Speaker #4: me, I would just like a bit of a more detailed update on kinetic and timelines and catalysts. I know Ken, you've walked us through the process many times, but it'd be good to just kind of hear the updated timelines that you're seeing.

Speaker #2: I saw some specific questions in the Q&A. I thought we were going to talk then. I'm happy to update now if the group would like it.

Kenneth Hughes: I saw some specific questions in the Q&A. I thought we were going to talk then. I'm happy to update now if the group would like it.

Ken Hughes: I saw some specific questions in the Q&A. I thought we were going to talk then. I'm happy to update now if the group would like it.

Speaker #3: Okay.

Cameron L. Groome: Okay. Sure.

Cameron Groome: Okay. Sure.

Speaker #3: Sure. So it's quite

Kenneth Hughes: So it's quite straightforward. As everyone knows, we're working with Sequent, and the relationship is excellent. We're moving forward in updating, as per FDA's request, at the US FDA's request, production processes to contemporary standards that involves reducing animal components in there and increasing the veracity, if you like, of testing. We're moving forward, it appears. We're currently scaling up processes with two separate CDMOs, contract development and manufacturing organizations. One for drug substance, the active ingredient, one for drug product, which is the finished and filled and packaged product. These are moving forward at a pace. In fact, we're expecting to be going back to the FDA; well, we are going back to the FDA early in the new year specifically to update them on the work we've done in bringing the process up to contemporary standards.

Ken Hughes: So it's quite straightforward. As everyone knows, we're working with Sequent, and the relationship is excellent. We're moving forward in updating, as per FDA's request, at the U.S. FDA's request, production processes to contemporary standards that involves reducing animal components in there and increasing the veracity, if you like, of testing. We're moving forward, it appears. We're currently scaling up processes with two separate CDMOs, contract development and manufacturing organizations. One for drug substance, the active ingredient, one for drug product, which is the finished and filled and packaged product. These are moving forward at a pace. In fact, we're expecting to be going back to the FDA; well, we are going back to the FDA early in the new year specifically to update them on the work we've done in bringing the process up to contemporary standards.

Speaker #2: straightforward. The relationship, as everyone knows, we're working with SQL and the relationship is excellent. And we're moving forward in updating us per FDA's request at the US FDA's request production processes to contemporary standards that involves reducing animal components in there.

Speaker #2: And increasing the veracity, if you like, of testing. We're moving forward. It appears we're currently scaling up processes with two separate CDMOs—contract development or manufacturing organizations—one for drug substance, the active ingredient; one for drug product, which is the finished and filled and packaged product.

Speaker #2: These are moving forward at a pace. In fact, we're expecting to be going back to the well—we are going back to the FDA early in the new year, specifically to update them on the work we've done in bringing the process up to contemporary standards.

Speaker #2: Because, recall, of course, the original kinetic process was in the early 2000s. And here we sit at the end of 2025. This work has gone extremely well.

Kenneth Hughes: Because recall, of course, the original Kinlytic process was in the early 2000s, and here we sit at the end of 2025. This work has gone extremely well, and we don't expect to be anything contentious in that. It's mainly an update. They asked us to improve the processes. We've done that, and now we're implementing it at commercial scale along the timelines discussed. So we talked about filings in 2026, 2027. That remains the case, and we're moving forward at a pace. So I really don't have anything negative to say about this. This is mainly an engineering function now, and we're going forward with our two CDMOs and with SQL, as we said we would. So that's really the update.

Because recall, of course, the original Kinlytic process was in the early 2000s, and here we sit at the end of 2025. This work has gone extremely well, and we don't expect to be anything contentious in that. It's mainly an update. They asked us to improve the processes. We've done that, and now we're implementing it at commercial scale along the timelines discussed. So we talked about filings in 2026, 2027. That remains the case, and we're moving forward at a pace. So I really don't have anything negative to say about this. This is mainly an engineering function now, and we're going forward with our two CDMOs and with SQL, as we said we would. So that's really the update.

Speaker #2: And we don't expect there to be anything contentious in that. It's mainly an update. You asked us to improve the processes—we've done that. And now we're implementing it at commercial scale, along the timelines discussed.

Speaker #2: So, we talked about filings in 2026, 2027. That remains the case. And we're moving forward at a pace, so I really don't have anything negative to say about this.

Speaker #2: This is mainly an engineering function now, and we're going forward with our two CDMOs, and with SQL, as we said we would. So that's really the update.

Speaker #2: The fact that we have concluded the work in reducing and bringing the process up to contemporary standards is a milestone. And it's a milestone that will be reflected in our discussions with the FDA.

Speaker #2: The fact that we have concluded the work in reducing and bringing the process up to contemporary standards is a milestone. And it's a milestone that will be reflected in our discussions with

Kenneth Hughes: The fact that we have concluded the work in bringing the process up to contemporary standards is a milestone, and it's a milestone that will be reflected in our discussions with FDA.

The fact that we have concluded the work in bringing the process up to contemporary standards is a milestone, and it's a milestone that will be reflected in our discussions with FDA.

Speaker #3: Small clarification, Ken. You stated filings in 2026 or 2027. I think there would be interactions in ’26, but not a filing.

Cameron L. Groome: Small clarification, Ken. You stated filings in 2026 or 2027. I think there would be interactions in '26, but not a filing.

Cameron Groome: Small clarification, Ken. You stated filings in 2026 or 2027. I think there would be interactions in '26, but not a filing.

Speaker #2: Yeah, yeah. Updates and future updates to the file, of course — Kinetic is already approved, is already an approved drug with decades of clinical success. And as I say many times here, I've said many times on this type of forum, there's no chance of clinical failure because there's 20 years of clinical success.

Kenneth Hughes: Yeah, yeah. Updates and future updates to the file, of course. Kinlytic is already approved. It's already approved drug with decades of clinical success. And as I say many times here, I've said many times on this type of forum, there's no chance of clinical failure because there's 20 years of clinical success. What we're doing is bringing new manufacturing to bear and adding to the currently approved file. And that's where the interaction with the FDA is going and is going well.

Ken Hughes: Yeah, yeah. Updates and future updates to the file, of course. Kinlytic is already approved. It's already approved drug with decades of clinical success. And as I say many times here, I've said many times on this type of forum, there's no chance of clinical failure because there's 20 years of clinical success. What we're doing is bringing new manufacturing to bear and adding to the currently approved file. And that's where the interaction with the FDA is going and is going well.

Speaker #2: What we're doing is bringing new manufacturing to bear, and adding to the currently approved file. And that's where the interaction with the FDA is going.

Speaker #2: And

Speaker #2: it's going well. Yeah.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. And just to state that the relationship with the partner is excellent, and it's that partner that's providing and it's private equity backers who are providing full project funding. So Microbix participates in the upside of that through one-time milestones, non-recurring milestones that could total up to $31 million US dollars plus, unless the product completely disappoints in the marketplace. Then we'll see a double-digit recurring stream of royalties on all revenues generated from all applications in all markets for the product, starting with the catheter clearance indication in the United States market. But certainly, we hope and our partner hopes that it will go beyond that, both geographically and in terms of the clinical indications for the product.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. And just to state that the relationship with the partner is excellent, and it's that partner that's providing and it's private equity backers who are providing full project funding. So Microbix participates in the upside of that through one-time milestones, non-recurring milestones that could total up to $31 million U.S. dollars plus, unless the product completely disappoints in the marketplace. Then we'll see a double-digit recurring stream of royalties on all revenues generated from all applications in all markets for the product, starting with the catheter clearance indication in the United States market. But certainly, we hope and our partner hopes that it will go beyond that, both geographically and in terms of the clinical indications for the product.

Speaker #3: And just to state that the relationship with the partner is excellent. And it's that partner that's providing— and its private equity backers— so providing full project funding. So Microbix participates in the upside of that through one-time milestones, non-recurring milestones, that could total up to $31 million plus, unless the product completely disappoints in the marketplace. Then we'll see a double-digit recurring stream of royalties on all revenues generated from all applications in all markets for the product, starting with the catheter clearance indication in the United States market.

Speaker #3: But certainly, we hope—and our partner hopes—that it will go beyond that, both geographically and in terms of the clinical indications for the product.

Speaker #2: And we're working very closely with SQL and others on the technical, regulatory, and market components of this. And absolutely, catheter clearance is only the start.

Kenneth Hughes: We're working very closely with Sequent and others on the technical, regulatory, and market components of this. Absolutely, catheter clearance is only the start, and there are many larger indications and geographies outside of North America that we intend to pursue.

Ken Hughes: We're working very closely with Sequent and others on the technical, regulatory, and market components of this. Absolutely, catheter clearance is only the start, and there are many larger indications and geographies outside of North America that we intend to pursue.

Speaker #2: And there are many larger indications in that, and geographies outside of North America that we intend to pursue.

Speaker #3: Deborah, yes, I think that’s a good summary. And perhaps you can start to guide us through some of the questions in the queue.

Cameron L. Groome: Deborah, I think that's a good summary, and perhaps you can start to guide us through some of the questions in the queue.

Cameron Groome: Deborah, I think that's a good summary, and perhaps you can start to guide us through some of the questions in the queue.

Speaker #4: Yeah, perfect. That covered my question about it, as well as an audience one. So, one down. So inventory is continuing to grow— is there a substantial amount of antigen intended for China in the inventories? Sorry, let me rephrase that.

Deborah Honig: Yep. Perfect. That covered my question about it as well as an audience one. So one down. So inventories continue to grow. Is there a substantial amount of antigen intended for China in the inventories? Sorry, let me rephrase that. Is there a substantial amount of antigen intended for China in the inventories that is at risk of being written down?

Deborah Honig: Yep. Perfect. That covered my question about it as well as an audience one. So one down. So inventories continue to grow. Is there a substantial amount of antigen intended for China in the inventories? Sorry, let me rephrase that. Is there a substantial amount of antigen intended for China in the inventories that is at risk of being written down?

Speaker #4: Is there a substantial amount of antigen intended for China in the inventories that is at risk of being written down?

Speaker #3: I think that this is definitely I was just going to tease Jim that do you ever look at inventories? Yeah, very much on Jim's mind across the board.

Cameron L. Groome: I think that this is definitely. I was just going to tease Jim that. Do you ever look at inventories? Yeah, very much on Jim's mind across the board. Jim, can you give full context in that, as well as some of the comments on cell bank renewals and how that is treated in inventory?

Cameron Groome: I think that this is definitely. I was just going to tease Jim that. Do you ever look at inventories? Yeah, very much on Jim's mind across the board. Jim, can you give full context in that, as well as some of the comments on cell bank renewals and how that is treated in inventory?

Speaker #3: Jim, can you give full context in that, as well as some of the comments on cell bank renewals and how that is treated in inventory?

Speaker #2: Sure. From an antigen standpoint, yeah, there's no question that we ended up with some inventory that we had not necessarily planned on, relating to the China distributor, because of the sudden shutdown of the business.

James S. Currie: Sure. From an antigen standpoint, yeah, there's no question that we ended up with some inventory that we had not necessarily planned on relating to the China distributor because of the sudden shutdown of the business. And we had also been acquiring raw materials to support the anticipated growth and the forecast that they had been providing us with. So we also chose to convert those raw materials into finished goods as well. And both of those in combination led to an increase in inventory. But no, there's no risk of write-down. Antigens don't expire. We fully anticipate being able to sell that inventory during the fiscal year as it comes up. So.

Jim Currie: Sure. From an antigen standpoint, yeah, there's no question that we ended up with some inventory that we had not necessarily planned on relating to the China distributor because of the sudden shutdown of the business. And we had also been acquiring raw materials to support the anticipated growth and the forecast that they had been providing us with. So we also chose to convert those raw materials into finished goods as well. And both of those in combination led to an increase in inventory. But no, there's no risk of write-down. Antigens don't expire. We fully anticipate being able to sell that inventory during the fiscal year as it comes up. So.

Speaker #2: And we had also been acquiring raw materials to support the anticipated growth and the forecast that they had been providing us with. So we also chose to convert those raw materials into finished goods as well.

Speaker #2: And both of those in combination led to an increase in inventory. But no, there's no risk of write-down. Antigens don't expire. We fully anticipate being able to sell that inventory during the fiscal year.

Speaker #2: As it comes up.

Speaker #2: So yeah. Just for

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. Just for clarity, for antigens, those materials are kept at minus 80 degrees Celsius and have effectively an infinite or near infinite shelf life.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. Just for clarity, for antigens, those materials are kept at minus 80 degrees Celsius and have effectively an infinite or near infinite shelf life.

Speaker #3: Clarity, for antigens, those materials are kept at minus 80, and have effectively an infinite or near-infinite shelf life.

Speaker #2: Yeah, they're effectively

Kenneth Hughes: Yeah. They're effectively indestructible.

Ken Hughes: Yeah. They're effectively indestructible.

Speaker #3: Yeah.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah.

Cameron Groome: Yeah.

Speaker #2: Yeah. indestructible.

James S. Currie: Yeah. The other factor that Cameron mentioned was seed banks. This was a year of investment in our seed banks and our seed bank inventory. We believe that it was a long-term, and we actually had lobbied to move that into being more of a long-term asset as opposed to inventory. But from an IFRS standpoint, it was deemed that this was still inventory, that it is consumed during production. It's just over a much longer period of time. It's important, but there's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $750,000 in that increment that belongs to the seed bank.

Jim Currie: Yeah. The other factor that Cameron mentioned was seed banks. This was a year of investment in our seed banks and our seed bank inventory. We believe that it was a long-term, and we actually had lobbied to move that into being more of a long-term asset as opposed to inventory. But from an IFRS standpoint, it was deemed that this was still inventory, that it is consumed during production. It's just over a much longer period of time. It's important, but there's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $750,000 in that increment that belongs to the seed bank.

Speaker #4: That Cameron mentioned was fee banks. And this was a year of investment in our seed banks and our seed bank inventory. We believe that it was long-term, and we actually had lobbied to move that into being more of a long-term asset as opposed to inventory.

Speaker #4: But from an IFRS standpoint, it was deemed that this was still inventory—that it is consumed during production. It's just over a much longer period of time.

Speaker #4: It's important, but there's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of three-quarters of a million dollars in that increment that belongs to the seed.

Speaker #4: Bank. Maybe I'll just take a moment to explain.

Cameron L. Groome: Maybe I'll just take a moment to explain what that means for folks that aren't too wholly steeped in our industry. It's a little bit literally like think of it like a seed. These are the cells, the cells or viruses or bacteria that will start to grow up and propagate to become the finished antigen products. And in some cases, the finished QAPs, active ingredients. And those are literally like the seed corn that one would sow at the beginning of the season and then harvest after it grows and propagates. So those stalks of seeds will be used over years, sometimes even over a decade or more, and consequently are really a long-term asset in that sense. But they appear in inventory as, I think, in the raw materials category, Jim, and they appear as a current asset under IFRS.

Cameron Groome: Maybe I'll just take a moment to explain what that means for folks that aren't too wholly steeped in our industry. It's a little bit literally like think of it like a seed. These are the cells, the cells or viruses or bacteria that will start to grow up and propagate to become the finished antigen products. And in some cases, the finished QAPs, active ingredients. And those are literally like the seed corn that one would sow at the beginning of the season and then harvest after it grows and propagates. So those stalks of seeds will be used over years, sometimes even over a decade or more, and consequently are really a long-term asset in that sense. But they appear in inventory as, I think, in the raw materials category, Jim, and they appear as a current asset under IFRS.

Speaker #3: What that means for folks that aren't too wholly steeped in our industry—it's a little bit, literally, like, think of it like a seed.

Speaker #3: These are the cells—the cells, or viruses, or bacteria—that will start to grow up and propagate to become the finished antigen products, and, in some cases, the finished caps’ active ingredients.

Speaker #3: And those are literally like the seed corn that one would sow at the beginning of the season, and then harvest after it grows and propagates.

Speaker #3: So those stalks of seeds will be used over years, sometimes even over a decade or more, and consequently are really a long-term asset in that sense.

Speaker #3: But they appear in inventory, as I think, in the raw materials category, Jim, and they appear as a current asset under IFRS. So it's a little bit of—it's certainly, we've said, it's certainly not intuitive treatment.

Cameron L. Groome: So it's a little bit of, certainly, we've said it's certainly not intuitive treatment, but it is prescriptive on the accounting standard. So you do see that in the growth in inventory as well. And then just for, as we increase the number of SKUs as well in QAPs, particularly, we've been laying in biological materials for those programs, many of which are new programs and new products for different customers.

So it's a little bit of, certainly, we've said it's certainly not intuitive treatment, but it is prescriptive on the accounting standard. So you do see that in the growth in inventory as well. And then just for, as we increase the number of SKUs as well in QAPs, particularly, we've been laying in biological materials for those programs, many of which are new programs and new products for different customers.

Speaker #3: But it is prescriptive on the accounting standard. So you do see that in the growth in inventory as well. And then, as we increase the number of SKUs, as well in QAPs particularly, we've been laying in materials—biological materials—for those programs, many of which are new programs and new products for different customers.

Speaker #2: And all of those seeds and cell banks are stored frozen. Cells are generally stored in liquid in beta-phase liquid nitrogen, and seeds generally are stored at minus 80.

Kenneth Hughes: All of those seeds and cell banks are stored frozen. Cells are generally stored in beta-phase liquid nitrogen, and seeds generally are stored at minus 80. So once again, they're pretty much indestructible, and there's no chance of them going off. And of course, that frozen state is monitored in real time.

Ken Hughes: All of those seeds and cell banks are stored frozen. Cells are generally stored in beta-phase liquid nitrogen, and seeds generally are stored at minus 80. So once again, they're pretty much indestructible, and there's no chance of them going off. And of course, that frozen state is monitored in real time.

Speaker #2: So once again, they're pretty much indestructible, and there's no chance of them going off. And of course, that frozen state is monitored in real time.

Speaker #2: time. Yeah.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. With uninterruptible power sources and backup, and viral seeds are actually stored in multiple locations as further backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. With uninterruptible power sources and backup, and viral seeds are actually stored in multiple locations as further backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.

Speaker #3: With uninterruptible power sources and backup and vital seeds are actually stored in multiple locations. As further backup and disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Speaker #2: Absolutely.

Kenneth Hughes: Absolutely.

Ken Hughes: Absolutely.

Speaker #4: So literally planting seeds for

Deborah Honig: So literally planting seeds for growth.

Deborah Honig: So literally planting seeds for growth.

Speaker #4: Growth. I like to hear that.

Speaker #3: Literally.

Cameron L. Groome: Literally. Absolutely.

Cameron Groome: Literally. Absolutely.

Speaker #3: Absolutely, yeah. And just as our products expand and our capabilities expand, and you have one touchpoint with a major international customer, getting that foot in the door the first time is very challenging.

Deborah Honig: I like to hear that.

Deborah Honig: I like to hear that.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. Just as our products expand and our capabilities expand, and you have one touchpoint with a major international customer, getting that foot in the door the first time is very challenging, and it becomes a little bit easier each time to gain another product or another project once a customer knows us and likes us. I'm probably the least likable person here. The rest of the team shines in comparison.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. Just as our products expand and our capabilities expand, and you have one touchpoint with a major international customer, getting that foot in the door the first time is very challenging, and it becomes a little bit easier each time to gain another product or another project once a customer knows us and likes us. I'm probably the least likable person here. The rest of the team shines in comparison.

Speaker #3: And it becomes a little bit easier each time to gain another product or another project once a customer knows us and likes us.

Speaker #3: And I'm probably the least likable person here, so the rest of the team shines in comparison.

Speaker #4: I wouldn't say that. Certainly not to your face, Cameron. Okay, a couple more audience questions here. With the respiratory disease season expected to be stronger this year, do you see any signs of recovery in

Deborah Honig: I wouldn't say that. Certainly not to your face, Cameron. Okay. A couple more audience questions here. With the respiratory disease season expected to be stronger this year, do you see any signs of recovery in China?

Deborah Honig: I wouldn't say that. Certainly not to your face, Cameron. Okay. A couple more audience questions here. With the respiratory disease season expected to be stronger this year, do you see any signs of recovery in China?

Speaker #4: China? Oh,

Cameron L. Groome: Most of our China sales are related to some of the complications downstream of a viral infection. So a viral infection will often lead somebody to then have a bacterial infection in their lungs. So it starts with a cold or a flu and then leads to a pneumonia. And a lot of the sales we've made into China are for the immunologic test to diagnose pneumonia. So we'll have to see how that goes. And we're trying. It's always tougher when you're once removed from the end-use customer with the distributor. So those clients have to burn through their inventory of tests before they reorder ingredients. So we do see, and we do have some reorders budgeted for fiscal 2026, but at a lower number. And we don't have current plans to build more product than our current inventory of those products.

Cameron Groome: Most of our China sales are related to some of the complications downstream of a viral infection. So a viral infection will often lead somebody to then have a bacterial infection in their lungs. So it starts with a cold or a flu and then leads to a pneumonia. And a lot of the sales we've made into China are for the immunologic test to diagnose pneumonia. So we'll have to see how that goes. And we're trying. It's always tougher when you're once removed from the end-use customer with the distributor. So those clients have to burn through their inventory of tests before they reorder ingredients. So we do see, and we do have some reorders budgeted for fiscal 2026, but at a lower number. And we don't have current plans to build more product than our current inventory of those products.

Speaker #3: Most of our China sales are related to sort of the complications downstream of a viral infection. So, a viral infection will often lead somebody to then have a bacterial infection.

Speaker #3: And in their lungs. So it starts with a folder of flu and then leads to a pneumonia. And a lot of the sales we've made into China are for the immunologic test to diagnose pneumonia.

Speaker #3: So, we'll have to see how that goes. And we're trying. It's always tougher when you're once removed from the end-use customer, with the distributor.

Speaker #3: So, those clients have to burn through their inventory of tests before they reorder ingredients. So, we do see—and we do have—some reorders budgeted for fiscal 2026.

Speaker #3: But at a lower number. And we don't have current plans to build more product than our current inventory of those products.

Speaker #4: And I had a follow-on question, which was about your China distributor. Shut down permanently or just for the past?

Deborah Honig: I had a follow-on question, which was about your China distributor. Are they shut down permanently or just for the past?

Deborah Honig: I had a follow-on question, which was about your China distributor. Are they shut down permanently or just for the past?

Speaker #3: No, no, no, no. Not shutdown at all. It's just that they've seen and we've seen a decline in customer orders from that market. But we don't have any indication that the market has gone away, nor has our distributor indicated any plans to exit that.

Cameron L. Groome: No, no, no, no. Not shut down at all. This is just they've seen, and we've seen, a decline in customer orders from that market, but we don't have any indication that the market has gone away, nor has our distributor indicated any plans to exit that market.

Cameron Groome: No, no, no, no. Not shut down at all. This is just they've seen, and we've seen, a decline in customer orders from that market, but we don't have any indication that the market has gone away, nor has our distributor indicated any plans to exit that market.

Speaker #3: market. Got

Speaker #4: And your royalties were up quite a bit this quarter from recent quarters. Can you talk a little bit about that and the reasons?

Deborah Honig: Got it. Your royalties were up quite a bit this quarter from recent quarters. Can you talk a little bit about that and the reasons why?

Deborah Honig: Got it. Your royalties were up quite a bit this quarter from recent quarters. Can you talk a little bit about that and the reasons why?

Speaker #4: why? Sure.

Cameron L. Groome: Sure. Well, there are two categories of royalties, and I'll ask Jim to go into that without being too prescriptive on names. But we have royalties on antigens that we sell to other parties from which they make their own QAPs, and that's been a historic legacy. And then we also have a royalty stream from prior inventions of Microbix that are used by others specifically. And I think this has been disclosed previously, the target of that, Jim, but this being a rabies vaccine technology on which Microbix receives royalties on an ongoing basis. Jim, do you want to comment on how the accounting of that is treated?

Cameron Groome: Sure. Well, there are two categories of royalties, and I'll ask Jim to go into that without being too prescriptive on names. But we have royalties on antigens that we sell to other parties from which they make their own QAPs, and that's been a historic legacy. And then we also have a royalty stream from prior inventions of Microbix that are used by others specifically. And I think this has been disclosed previously, the target of that, Jim, but this being a rabies vaccine technology on which Microbix receives royalties on an ongoing basis. Jim, do you want to comment on how the accounting of that is treated?

Speaker #3: Well, there are two categories of royalties in the last, Jim, to go into that without being too prescriptive on names. But we have royalties on antigens that we sell to other parties, from which they make their own caps.

Speaker #3: And that's been historic legacy. And then we also have a royalty stream from prior inventions of Microbix that are used by others. Specifically, and I think this has been disclosed previously, the target of that, Jim, but this being a rabies vaccine technology, on which Microbix receives royalties on an ongoing basis.

Speaker #3: Jim, do you want to comment on how the accounting of that is treated?

Speaker #2: Sure, yeah. The one related to the selling of antigens—it's been fairly consistent. So, the increase in Q4 has nothing to do with that.

James S. Currie: Sure. Yeah. The one related to the selling of antigens, it's been fairly consistent. So the increase in Q4 has nothing to do with that. It is through the rabies royalties. We only get a report once a year. And as it turns out, it comes in 16 December of every year. We get the final report. So during the year, we accrue for royalties based upon. Historically, we've used the prior year's results as what we accrue based upon. As it turns out, when we got the royalty report this year, it was a much stronger year than last year. And that's why we had some incremental revenues that were booked in the fourth quarter. And as we move forward, we'll be utilizing that information for accruals for fiscal 2026. So that should be an increase year over year as well.

Jim Currie: Sure. Yeah. The one related to the selling of antigens, it's been fairly consistent. So the increase in Q4 has nothing to do with that. It is through the rabies royalties. We only get a report once a year. And as it turns out, it comes in 16 December of every year. We get the final report. So during the year, we accrue for royalties based upon. Historically, we've used the prior year's results as what we accrue based upon. As it turns out, when we got the royalty report this year, it was a much stronger year than last year. And that's why we had some incremental revenues that were booked in the fourth quarter. And as we move forward, we'll be utilizing that information for accruals for fiscal 2026. So that should be an increase year-over-year as well.

Speaker #2: It is through the rabies royalties. We only get a report once a year, and as it turns out, it comes in on December 16th of every year.

Speaker #2: We get the final report. So, during the year, we accrue for royalties based upon—historically, we've used the prior year's results as what we accrue based upon.

Speaker #2: As it turns out, when we got the royalty report this year, it was a much stronger year than last year. And that's why we had some incremental revenues that were booked in the fourth quarter.

Speaker #2: And we will, as we move forward, be utilizing that information for accruals for fiscal 2026. So that should be an increase year over year.

Speaker #2: As

Speaker #2: well. So that's great, Jim.

Cameron L. Groome: No, that's great, Jim. And just this is a technology for creating oral rabies vaccines for feral and wild animals and control of rabies in wildlife and such animal populations. And it's an invention of Microbix going back a number of years that is used commercially by others to create products and support those programs.

Cameron Groome: No, that's great, Jim. And just this is a technology for creating oral rabies vaccines for feral and wild animals and control of rabies in wildlife and such animal populations. And it's an invention of Microbix going back a number of years that is used commercially by others to create products and support those programs.

Speaker #3: And just this is a technology for creating oral rabies vaccines for feral and wild animals, and control of rabies in wildlife and such animal populations.

Speaker #3: And it's an invention of Microbix going back a number of years, that is used commercially by others to create products and support those.

Speaker #3: programs. Well,

Deborah Honig: Well, I always learn something new on a Microbix call. I did not expect a bull market for rabies to be today's learning lesson. Who would have thought?

Deborah Honig: Well, I always learn something new on a Microbix call. I did not expect a bull market for rabies to be today's learning lesson. Who would have thought?

Speaker #4: I always learn something new on a Microbix call. I did not expect a bull market for rabies to be today. Turning

Speaker #3: Yeah.

Speaker #4: us. Who would have

Speaker #4: Thought? I guess. Yeah. Be careful out there.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah.

Cameron Groome: Yeah.

Deborah Honig: I guess be careful out there.

Deborah Honig: I guess be careful out there.

Speaker #3: Absolutely. The biological world.

Cameron L. Groome: Absolutely. It's a biological world.

Cameron Groome: Absolutely. It's a biological world.

Speaker #4: Okay, so here's a question: How will AI affect your business? Are you seeing any implications? Or, on the flip side, are you able to benefit from any of the advances in AI?

Deborah Honig: Okay. So here's a question. How will AI affect your business? Are you seeing any implications? Or on the flip side, are you able to benefit from any of the advances in AI?

Deborah Honig: Okay. So here's a question. How will AI affect your business? Are you seeing any implications? Or on the flip side, are you able to benefit from any of the advances in AI?

Speaker #3: Well, we try to find an intelligence in all corners. And sometimes we do. No, for AI, Ken, do you want to do you want to touch on that?

Speaker #3: Well, we try to find an intelligence in all corners. And sometimes we do. No, for AI, Ken, do you want to do you want to touch on that?

Cameron L. Groome: Well, we try to find intelligence in all corners, and sometimes we do. No, for AI, Ken, do you want to touch on that? And I can talk to you.

Cameron Groome: Well, we try to find intelligence in all corners, and sometimes we do. No, for AI, Ken, do you want to touch on that? And I can talk to you.

Speaker #1: Absolutely. I mean, we have an IT department. So, of course, we have IT, an AI interest. So, I mean, AI is being deployed in data analytics.

Kenneth Hughes: Absolutely. I mean, we have an IT department, so of course, we have an IT, an AI interest. So I mean, AI is being deployed in data analytics. It's being deployed in documentation development. We have to be absolutely sure that our AI tools that we use are protected. So we're not putting our information out there in the worldwide web for people to enjoy. And we're very sensitive to that. But there's a whole load of efficiencies you can bring to bear based on use of AI in understanding the marketplace, understanding operations, and understanding efficiencies. And all of these are being deployed. I mean, like I say, we have a very active IT department, and their plans for 2026 are substantially oriented to further implementing AI efficiencies.

Ken Hughes: Absolutely. I mean, we have an IT department, so of course, we have an IT, an AI interest. So I mean, AI is being deployed in data analytics. It's being deployed in documentation development. We have to be absolutely sure that our AI tools that we use are protected. So we're not putting our information out there in the worldwide web for people to enjoy. And we're very sensitive to that. But there's a whole load of efficiencies you can bring to bear based on use of AI in understanding the marketplace, understanding operations, and understanding efficiencies. And all of these are being deployed. I mean, like I say, we have a very active IT department, and their plans for 2026 are substantially oriented to further implementing AI efficiencies.

Speaker #1: It's being deployed in documentation development. We have to be absolutely sure that our AI tools that we use are protected, so we're not putting our information out there on the World Wide Web for people to enjoy.

Speaker #1: And we're very sensitive to that. But there's a whole load of efficiencies you can bring to bear based on use of AI in understanding the marketplace, understanding operations, understanding efficiencies, and all of these are being deployed.

Speaker #1: I mean, like I say, we have a very active IT department, and their plans for 2026 are substantially oriented to further implementing AI efficiencies.

Cameron L. Groome: Oh, that's great. I'll just mention something for those that are Luddites such as myself. Some of the AI, you have to be careful with your use of it. If a free software tool says, "This looks like a long document. Would you like us to summarize it for you?" If you click yes, your document is ported up and becomes the property of that free service provider. So just be very careful in what tools you permit yourself to use on this. And we've developed and are developing the appropriate policies with proprietary tools that do not jeopardize the proprietary or confidential nature of our documentation.

Cameron Groome: Oh, that's great. I'll just mention something for those that are Luddites such as myself. Some of the AI, you have to be careful with your use of it. If a free software tool says, "This looks like a long document. Would you like us to summarize it for you?" If you click yes, your document is ported up and becomes the property of that free service provider. So just be very careful in what tools you permit yourself to use on this. And we've developed and are developing the appropriate policies with proprietary tools that do not jeopardize the proprietary or confidential nature of our documentation.

Speaker #3: For those that are Luddites, such as myself, some of the AI—you have to be careful with your use of it. If a free software tool says, 'This looks like a long document, would you like us to summarize it for you?'—if you click yes, your document is ported up.

Speaker #3: And it becomes the property of that free service provider. So just be very careful in what tools you permit yourself to use on this.

Speaker #3: And we've developed and are developing the appropriate policies with proprietary tools that do not jeopardize the proprietary or confidential nature of our documentation.

Speaker #1: And we are fully integrating all our systems, as I've said many times. And we're using AI tools to facilitate that. Obviously, we have developers on staff who know what they're doing, but they know how to deploy these tools.

Kenneth Hughes: We are fully integrating all our systems, as I've said many times, and we're using AI tools to facilitate that. Obviously, we have developers on staff who know what they're doing, but they know how to deploy these tools. We deal with third-party people that do that as well, again, under the appropriate confidentiality provisions. Yes, AI is unavoidable, and we'll facilitate efficiencies in the future.

Ken Hughes: We are fully integrating all our systems, as I've said many times, and we're using AI tools to facilitate that. Obviously, we have developers on staff who know what they're doing, but they know how to deploy these tools. We deal with third-party people that do that as well, again, under the appropriate confidentiality provisions. Yes, AI is unavoidable, and we'll facilitate efficiencies in the future.

Speaker #1: And we deal with third-party people that do that as well, again under the appropriate confidentiality provisions. So yes, AI is unavoidable, and it will facilitate efficiencies in the—

Speaker #1: future. Yeah.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. And we already use some of those, for example, in secrets construct design and some of the deep data analytics that Ken's speaking to. So those are tools we're already familiar with. Jim, anything you'd want to highlight with regards to AI in ERP or some of the other areas?

Cameron Groome: Yeah. And we already use some of those, for example, in secrets construct design and some of the deep data analytics that Ken's speaking to. So those are tools we're already familiar with. Jim, anything you'd want to highlight with regards to AI in ERP or some of the other areas?

Speaker #3: And we already use some of those, for example, in secrets construct design and some of the deep data analytics that Ken's speaking to. So those are tools we're already familiar with.

Speaker #3: Jim, is there anything you'd want to highlight with regards to AI and ERP, or some of the other areas?

Speaker #2: Yeah. No, nothing. Don't want artificial intelligence in our financials, thank you. But certainly, there's opportunities for AI to be utilized within our ERP solutions.

James S. Currie: Yeah. No, nothing. I don't want artificial intelligence in our financials, thank you. But certainly, there's opportunities for AI to be utilized within our ERP solutions. And like Ken identified, it's an area with our IT department that we're continuing to review.

Jim Currie: Yeah. No, nothing. I don't want artificial intelligence in our financials, thank you. But certainly, there's opportunities for AI to be utilized within our ERP solutions. And like Ken identified, it's an area with our IT department that we're continuing to review.

Speaker #2: And, as Ken identified, it's an area with our IT department that we're continuing to review.

Speaker #1: We have quite sophisticated expertise in that regard, actually. Yeah.

Kenneth Hughes: We have quite sophisticated expertise in that regard, actually. Yeah.

Ken Hughes: We have quite sophisticated expertise in that regard, actually. Yeah.

Speaker #3: Yeah, very good. Deborah, why don't we roll?

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. Very good. Deborah, why don't we roll on?

Cameron Groome: Yeah. Very good. Deborah, why don't we roll on?

Speaker #3: on? Yeah, sure.

Deborah Honig: Yep. Sure. For caps, is there a client or clients that you expect to be as big with regards to revenue as the major client that terminated the program this year? And when do you expect that client or clients to move to commercial launches?

Deborah Honig: Yep. Sure. For caps, is there a client or clients that you expect to be as big with regards to revenue as the major client that terminated the program this year? And when do you expect that client or clients to move to commercial launches?

Speaker #4: For CAPS, is there a client or clients that you expect to be as big, with regards to revenue, as the major client that terminated the program this year?

Speaker #4: And when do you expect that client, or clients, to move to commercial launches?

Speaker #3: Well, it's proven to be perilous.

Cameron L. Groome: Well, it's proven to be perilous to try and predict when clients will move to commercial launches, even based on their own internal targets and expectations. So I think I'll be once burned, twice shy on any such predictions of that nature. But I can say that we're working with most, but not all, of the largest diagnostics companies in the world currently on programs and projects. And as those tip over, we'll start to see some of those, if we secure the business we're chasing, targeting, and deeply engaged with, some of those, yes, can absolutely be as large or larger potentially than the program that was canceled in 2025. So yeah, there's a lot of potential here, and we're pushing hard on that.

Cameron Groome: Well, it's proven to be perilous to try and predict when clients will move to commercial launches, even based on their own internal targets and expectations. So I think I'll be once burned, twice shy on any such predictions of that nature. But I can say that we're working with most, but not all, of the largest diagnostics companies in the world currently on programs and projects. And as those tip over, we'll start to see some of those, if we secure the business we're chasing, targeting, and deeply engaged with, some of those, yes, can absolutely be as large or larger potentially than the program that was canceled in 2025. So yeah, there's a lot of potential here, and we're pushing hard on that.

Speaker #1: There . Their own targets and internal expectations . So I think I'll be . Once burned . Twice shy on on any such predictions of that nature .

Speaker #1: But I can say that we're working with many, most, but not all of the largest diagnostics companies in the world.

Speaker #1: Currently on on programs and projects . And as those tip over , we'll start to see some of those . If we secure the business , we're we're chasing and targeting and deeply engaged with some of those .

Speaker #1: Yes . Can absolutely be as large as , as or larger potentially than the program that was canceled in in 2025 . So yeah , there's a lot of potential here .

Speaker #1: And we're pushing hard on that . And , you know , this is really where you you have to have the capabilities to be at the table .

Speaker #1: And you've got to have the capacity to be at the table . So those are the those are the investments that we've made in in systems and people .

Cameron L. Groome: And this is really where you have to have the capabilities to be at the table, and you've got to have the capacity to be at the table. So those are the investments that we've made in systems and people that enable us to have these conversations. And now locking in the business is going to be the next step.

And this is really where you have to have the capabilities to be at the table, and you've got to have the capacity to be at the table. So those are the investments that we've made in systems and people that enable us to have these conversations. And now locking in the business is going to be the next step.

Speaker #1: And that , that enable us to have these conversations . And now locking in the business is going to be the next step .

Speaker #2: Can you talk about the replacement value of Microbix and how investors should think about that in the context of the current enterprise value?

Deborah Honig: Can you talk about the replacement value of Microbix and how investors should think about that in the context of current enterprise value?

Deborah Honig: Can you talk about the replacement value of Microbix and how investors should think about that in the context of current enterprise value?

Speaker #1: Yeah , I you know , this this strays into the realm of opinion . Of course , Deborah . And , you know , we all have some very firm opinions on this .

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. This strays into the realm of opinion, of course, Deborah. And we all have some very firm opinions on this. But for us, for somebody to try and start this business with the legacy of knowledge, capability, the seed banks that we've talked about that are all clean title and royalty-free, the history of knowledge, and the diversity of skills that we've mastered, both in terms of classical virology, bacteriology, upstream and downstream production methods, synthetic biology now moving into recombinant, I can't imagine that you could even start the business from a cold start in less than five years, probably 10 or more, to get anywhere with unlimited money. So you're looking at a replacement value to me well north of 100 million for maybe even hundreds. It's really extraordinary when we look at the breadth of capability the company has.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. This strays into the realm of opinion, of course, Deborah. And we all have some very firm opinions on this. But for us, for somebody to try and start this business with the legacy of knowledge, capability, the seed banks that we've talked about that are all clean title and royalty-free, the history of knowledge, and the diversity of skills that we've mastered, both in terms of classical virology, bacteriology, upstream and downstream production methods, synthetic biology now moving into recombinant, I can't imagine that you could even start the business from a cold start in less than five years, probably 10 or more, to get anywhere with unlimited money. So you're looking at a replacement value to me well north of 100 million for maybe even hundreds. It's really extraordinary when we look at the breadth of capability the company has.

Speaker #1: But for us to somebody for to try and start this business with the legacy of knowledge , capability , the seed we've banks that talked about that are all clean title and royalty free .

Speaker #1: history The of knowledge and the diversity of skills that we've mastered , you know , both in terms of , you know , classical virology , bacteriology , upstream and downstream production methods , synthetic biology .

Speaker #1: Now moving into recombinant I , I can't imagine that you could even start the business from a cold start in , in less than five years , probably ten or more to to , to get anywhere with , with unlimited money .

Speaker #1: So , you know , you're you're looking at a replacement value to me . Well , north of 100 million , maybe even hundreds .

Speaker #1: You know, it's really extraordinary when we look at the breadth of capability the company has. Ken, would you want to— I would.

Speaker #3: I would have answered that exactly the same way. We have in-house expertise, proprietary information, and materials that people just don't have. And the title 'Free Seeds' is a big part of that.

Cameron L. Groome: Ken, would you want to give an opinion?

Ken, would you want to give an opinion?

Kenneth Hughes: I would have answered that exactly the same way. We have in-house expertise, proprietary information, and materials that people just don't have. And the titer-free seed is a big part of that. But also the years of experience with native antigens and native viruses, native protozoans, native bacteria, added to the recombinant and synthetic biology capabilities. These are non-trivial lifts. And we have deep, deep expertise and history here. So I think it would be extremely difficult for anybody to recreate a Microbix in their backyard. And I think we should be pretty comfortable with that reality. So I would have answered pretty much exactly as you did, Cameron. We have a lot of proprietary expertise here.

Ken Hughes: I would have answered that exactly the same way. We have in-house expertise, proprietary information, and materials that people just don't have. And the titer-free seed is a big part of that. But also the years of experience with native antigens and native viruses, native protozoans, native bacteria, added to the recombinant and synthetic biology capabilities. These are non-trivial lifts. And we have deep, deep expertise and history here. So I think it would be extremely difficult for anybody to recreate a Microbix in their backyard. And I think we should be pretty comfortable with that reality. So I would have answered pretty much exactly as you did, Cameron. We have a lot of proprietary expertise here.

Speaker #3: But also the years of experience with native antigens and native viruses, native protozoans, native bacteria, added to the recombinant and synthetic biology capabilities.

Speaker #3: These are non-trivial lifts , and we have deep , deep expertise in history . Here . So I think it would be extremely difficult for anybody to recreate a microbix in their backyard .

Speaker #3: think we And I should be pretty comfortable with that reality . So I would have answered pretty much exactly as you did . Cameron , we have a lot of proprietary expertise here .

Speaker #1: Jim, you participate a lot in our strategic discussions. Do you have any perspectives you'd like to share on this?

Cameron L. Groome: Jim, you participate in a lot of our strategic discussions. Do you have any perspectives you'd like to share on this?

Cameron Groome: Jim, you participate in a lot of our strategic discussions. Do you have any perspectives you'd like to share on this?

Speaker #4: Yeah , I think both you and Ken have identified the key ones . I think in terms of our ability to the stocks , the seed banks and the importance of those as well as the people , the knowledge and the know how and the expertise are are all the keys to value that this company has .

James S. Currie: Yeah. I think both you and Ken have identified the key ones. I think in terms of our ability, the stocks, the seed banks, and the importance of those, as well as the people, the knowledge, and the know-how, and the expertise are all the keys to the value that this company has. And it's all these intangibles that are beyond what sits on the balance sheet. They're strategically important to the organization.

Jim Currie: Yeah. I think both you and Ken have identified the key ones. I think in terms of our ability, the stocks, the seed banks, and the importance of those, as well as the people, the knowledge, and the know-how, and the expertise are all the keys to the value that this company has. And it's all these intangibles that are beyond what sits on the balance sheet. They're strategically important to the organization.

Speaker #4: And all these intangibles that are beyond what sits on the balance sheet. There, trustees are strategically important to the organization. And it's...

Speaker #4: .

Speaker #3: And not only are we making the stuff , we've got the depth of expertise to make it better . We've talked about yielding increases .

Kenneth Hughes: And not only are we making this stuff, we've got the depth of expertise to make it better. We've talked about yield increases. We've talked about understanding the hardwares and the softwares so we have far fewer batch failures, and over this year, zero batch failures in really complex processes. And that's a description of the expertise in-house. And again, I can't speak highly enough of the scientific and technical staff at Microbix. And we have a low turnover of those staff members because we have a certain environment, and they appreciate the excellence and the way the excellence is brought to bear. So yeah, we're in a really strong situation here, and that should kind of be tumbled a little bit, in my view.

Ken Hughes: And not only are we making this stuff, we've got the depth of expertise to make it better. We've talked about yield increases. We've talked about understanding the hardwares and the softwares so we have far fewer batch failures, and over this year, zero batch failures in really complex processes. And that's a description of the expertise in-house. And again, I can't speak highly enough of the scientific and technical staff at Microbix. And we have a low turnover of those staff members because we have a certain environment, and they appreciate the excellence and the way the excellence is brought to bear. So yeah, we're in a really strong situation here, and that should kind of be tumbled a little bit, in my view.

Speaker #3: We've talked about understanding the hardware and the software . So we have far fewer failures in some in over this year , zero batch failures in really complex that's a processes .

Speaker #3: description And of the expertise in house . And again , I can't speak highly enough of the scientific and technical staff at Microbix .

Speaker #3: And we have a low turnover of those staff members because we have a certain environment, and they appreciate the excellence and the way the excellence is brought to bear.

Speaker #3: So yeah, we're in a really strong situation here, and that should kind of be trumpeted a little bit, in my view.

Speaker #1: You know , I think certainly that's been one of the , you know , one of the frustrating elements about , you know , TSX and capital markets as they now exist , where , you know , invest investors , particularly those that individuals with accounts at bank owned dealers , for example , are actively discouraged from owning individual small cap industrial companies .

Cameron L. Groome: And I think certainly that's been one of the frustrating elements about TSX and capital markets as they now exist, where investors, particularly those individuals with accounts at banks or dealers, for example, are actively discouraged from owning individual small-cap industrial companies. So we have a small market, a generalist-oriented market, or a resource-oriented market, and we're global specialists in this industry. And I think our peers really are recognizing much more of what we have than perhaps the capital markets are right now.

Cameron Groome: And I think certainly that's been one of the frustrating elements about TSX and capital markets as they now exist, where investors, particularly those individuals with accounts at banks or dealers, for example, are actively discouraged from owning individual small-cap industrial companies. So we have a small market, a generalist-oriented market, or a resource-oriented market, and we're global specialists in this industry. And I think our peers really are recognizing much more of what we have than perhaps the capital markets are right now.

Speaker #1: a So we small market , a generalist oriented or market resource oriented market . And we're global specialists in this industry . And I think our peers really are recognizing much more have what we than perhaps the the capital markets is are right now .

Speaker #2: A couple of questions on your cash level. Do you expect this to remain stable, moving forward, or will your increased investment eat into the balance over the course of the year until you regain profitability?

Deborah Honig: I had a couple of questions on your cash level. Do you expect this to remain stable moving forward, or will your increased investment eat into the balance over the course of the year until you regain profitability?

Deborah Honig: I had a couple of questions on your cash level. Do you expect this to remain stable moving forward, or will your increased investment eat into the balance over the course of the year until you regain profitability?

Speaker #1: Yeah , we'll see some some reduction of cash through fiscal 2026 as as move we towards regaining profitability . But not we will go through and we will not be anywhere near to going through our reserves in 2026 based on our current outlook .

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. We'll see some reduction of cash through fiscal 2026 as we move towards regaining profitability. But we will not go through, and we will not be anywhere near to going through our cash reserves in 2026 based on our current outlook.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. We'll see some reduction of cash through fiscal 2026 as we move towards regaining profitability. But we will not go through, and we will not be anywhere near to going through our cash reserves in 2026 based on our current outlook.

Speaker #2: How will that affect your usage of the NCIB?

Speaker #1: It's a it's a great question . You know , last year we were able to buy what was the number ? Jim , 12,373 or something a day .

Deborah Honig: How will that affect your usage of the NCIB?

Deborah Honig: How will that affect your usage of the NCIB?

Cameron L. Groome: It's a great question. Last year, we were able to buy, what was the number, Jim? 12,373 or something a day. And this year, I don't have the final digit in my mind, but it's about 20,000 shares a day. Yeah. A little over 20,000 a day. Our goal with the NCIB is, at a minimum, to offset the ongoing use of the stock option, the rolling stock option plan of 2% per year, and go beyond that. And we bought back, what did we buy back in percentage terms this past 12 months, Jim? It was closer to, well, over 3% and closer to 4%, I think.

Cameron Groome: It's a great question. Last year, we were able to buy, what was the number, Jim? 12,373 or something a day. And this year, I don't have the final digit in my mind, but it's about 20,000 shares a day. Yeah. A little over 20,000 a day. Our goal with the NCIB is, at a minimum, to offset the ongoing use of the stock option, the rolling stock option plan of 2% per year, and go beyond that. And we bought back, what did we buy back in percentage terms this past 12 months, Jim? It was closer to, well, over 3% and closer to 4%, I think.

Speaker #1: Yeah , yeah . And this year I don't have it . I don't have the final digit in my mind . But it's about 20,000 shares a day .

Speaker #1: Yeah , little a over 20,000 a day . You know , our goal with the NCIB is at a minimum to offset the the ongoing use of the stock option , rolling stock option plan of 2% per year .

Speaker #1: And go beyond that . And we bought back what did we buy back in percentage terms this past 12 months , Jim . It was close to close to well over three and close to 4% .

Speaker #4: I think... yeah, yeah, I don't have the exact number off the top of—

Speaker #1: My head . It's it's in our DNA filings and financial statements . So 20,000 effectively 250 trading days a year or close to that , 20,000 shares a day .

James S. Currie: Yeah. I don't have the exact number off the top of my head.

Jim Currie: Yeah. I don't have the exact number off the top of my head.

Cameron L. Groome: It's in our MD&A filings and financial statements. So effectively, 250 trading days a year or close to that, 20,000 shares a day would be about 5 million shares, roughly, that we would be buying back at that sort of run rate of 20,000 a day. We budgeted about $1 million in spend for the share buyback for this year, this coming year. And we could certainly go higher than that if we see it to be prudent use of capital. But I think that would be the minimum spend we'd look at.

Cameron Groome: It's in our MD&A filings and financial statements. So effectively, 250 trading days a year or close to that, 20,000 shares a day would be about 5 million shares, roughly, that we would be buying back at that sort of run rate of 20,000 a day. We budgeted about $1 million in spend for the share buyback for this year, this coming year. And we could certainly go higher than that if we see it to be prudent use of capital. But I think that would be the minimum spend we'd look at.

Speaker #1: And it'd be about 5 million shares, roughly, that we would be buying back at that sort of run rate of 20,000 a day. We've budgeted about $1 million in spend for the share buyback for this year.

Speaker #1: This coming year, and we could certainly go higher than that if we see it to be a prudent use of capital. But I think that would be the minimum spend.

Speaker #1: We'd look at .

Speaker #2: Suppose it's a bit of an off trade, right? Buying at these levels before the recovery starts to set in versus preserving cash and waiting and buying.

Deborah Honig: Suppose it's a bit of a trade-off, right, buying at these levels before the recovery starts to set in versus preserving cash and waiting and buying back.

Deborah Honig: Suppose it's a bit of a trade-off, right, buying at these levels before the recovery starts to set in versus preserving cash and waiting and buying back.

Speaker #1: You know ? Absolutely . And as you know , we'll we'll refresh this with , with our quarterly board meetings as well . And , and Lupin the board on this and see , you know , based on , you know , as we bring in and secure projects that we're working we'll on , I think have ever growing confidence in that and kind of become more aggressive .

Cameron L. Groome: Absolutely. We'll refresh this with our quarterly board meetings as well and loop in the board on this and see, based on as we bring in and secure projects that we're working on, I think we'll have ever-growing confidence in that and kind of become more aggressive. But it is striking a balance right now between making sure that we retain a very healthy cash balance in a volatile global environment and effectively using that NCIB.

Cameron Groome: Absolutely. We'll refresh this with our quarterly board meetings as well and loop in the board on this and see, based on as we bring in and secure projects that we're working on, I think we'll have ever-growing confidence in that and kind of become more aggressive. But it is striking a balance right now between making sure that we retain a very healthy cash balance in a volatile global environment and effectively using that NCIB.

Speaker #1: But is it striking the right balance now between making sure that we retain a very healthy cash balance in a volatile global environment and effectively using that NCIB?

Speaker #2: Got it, makes sense to me. Is there any update on the cybersecurity incident, and what was actually stolen?

Deborah Honig: Got it. Makes sense to me. Is there any update on the cybersecurity incident and what was actually stolen?

Deborah Honig: Got it. Makes sense to me. Is there any update on the cybersecurity incident and what was actually stolen?

Speaker #1: . You know , Yeah we we , you know , it's interesting when you have meetings , you know , these we had one cybersecurity meeting and and somebody said , you know , well if you could if you could deploy , you know , you know , 20 people from your IT team , you know , we could do all this , you know , in really short order .

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. It's interesting when you have these meetings. We had one cybersecurity meeting, and somebody said, "Well, if you could deploy 20 people from your IT team, we could do all this in really short order." We're going, "Yeah. If we had 20 people on our IT team, that would be great." So we've been progressing as quickly as we can on hardening systems and porting them. And I give kudos to Ken, Jim, Mark Lusher, Alex Gotshtein, and others on this. So we had fully hardened our email servers and ported that out of company hands into cloud-based technology there. Likewise, our upgrading of our ERP system to NetSuite, which is also a cloud-based international company system. Likewise, our digital quality management system, MasterControl. So all of those were completely unaffected.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. It's interesting when you have these meetings. We had one cybersecurity meeting, and somebody said, "Well, if you could deploy 20 people from your IT team, we could do all this in really short order." We're going, "Yeah. If we had 20 people on our IT team, that would be great." So we've been progressing as quickly as we can on hardening systems and porting them. And I give kudos to Ken, Jim, Mark Lusher, Alex Gotshtein, and others on this. So we had fully hardened our email servers and ported that out of company hands into cloud-based technology there. Likewise, our upgrading of our ERP system to NetSuite, which is also a cloud-based international company system. Likewise, our digital quality management system, MasterControl. So all of those were completely unaffected.

Speaker #1: And we're going , yeah , if we had 20 people on our IT team , that would be great . You know . So we've been progressing as quickly as we can on hardening systems and importing them and I give kudos to to Ken and Jim and Mark Lüscher , Alex and others Gottstein on this .

Speaker #1: So we had fully hardened our email and ported servers that out of company hands into cloud based technology . There . Likewise , are upgrading of our ERP system to NetSuite , which is also cloud based international company system .

Speaker #1: Likewise , our digital quality management system , master control . So all of those were completely unaffected where we were penetrated was effectively a legacy server .

Speaker #1: And that would have potentially some worksheets and files saved over . But it did not in any way disrupt our operations . So we were we recovered that system from backups and recovery within , you know , within a couple of days , we were fully back operational with no disruptions whatsoever .

Cameron L. Groome: Where we were penetrated was effectively a legacy server, and that would have potentially some worksheets and files saved over, but it did not in any way disrupt our operations. We recovered that system from backups and recovery within a couple of days. We were fully back operational with no disruptions whatsoever. But we made the news release alert really because, what was, you have a ransomware attack. It's blocked. You're then trying to identify what, if anything, was exfiltrated. So we have now received evidence that some data was exfiltrated, and that included some employee information. So we've moved forward with credit monitoring and protection for all staff. And we just wanted to alert our customers and our shareholders of the event, of course, and that everybody can be more vigilant. But when I talk to peers, I've talked to peers at companies 100 times our size.

Where we were penetrated was effectively a legacy server, and that would have potentially some worksheets and files saved over, but it did not in any way disrupt our operations. We recovered that system from backups and recovery within a couple of days. We were fully back operational with no disruptions whatsoever. But we made the news release alert really because, what was, you have a ransomware attack. It's blocked. You're then trying to identify what, if anything, was exfiltrated. So we have now received evidence that some data was exfiltrated, and that included some employee information. So we've moved forward with credit monitoring and protection for all staff. And we just wanted to alert our customers and our shareholders of the event, of course, and that everybody can be more vigilant. But when I talk to peers, I've talked to peers at companies 100 times our size.

Speaker #1: But we made the news release alert really , really . Because what was , you know , you have a ransomware attack . It's blocked .

Speaker #1: You're then trying to identify what, if anything, was exfiltrated. So we have now received evidence that some data was exfiltrated, and that included some employee information.

Speaker #1: So, we've moved forward with, you know, credit monitoring and protection for all staff. And we just wanted to alert our customers and our shareholders of the event.

Speaker #1: Of course . And that everybody can be more vigilant . But , you know , when I talk to peers , you know , I've talked to peers at companies a hundred times our size .

Speaker #1: And say , oh , so they yeah , you know , we got nailed some of them sometimes they pay , don't . Sometimes they're able sometimes they to recover as readily as we were able to .

Cameron L. Groome: And so they say, "Oh, yeah, we got nailed." Some of them, sometimes they pay. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're able to recover as readily as we were able to. Other times, companies have been massively disrupted. I think there was the example of the entire car dealership network software was hacked and shut down sales and service for the whole industry for a time. Fortunately, we didn't have that. And just for clarity, we did not and have not and do not intend to pay any ransoms for this event or going forward.

And so they say, "Oh, yeah, we got nailed." Some of them, sometimes they pay. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're able to recover as readily as we were able to. Other times, companies have been massively disrupted. I think there was the example of the entire car dealership network software was hacked and shut down sales and service for the whole industry for a time. Fortunately, we didn't have that. And just for clarity, we did not and have not and do not intend to pay any ransoms for this event or going forward.

Speaker #1: Other times, companies have been massively disrupted. I think there was the example of the entire car dealership network software that was hacked and shut down sales and service for the whole industry for a time.

Speaker #1: Fortunately , we didn't have that . And and just for clarity , we did not . And have not and do not tend to pay any ransoms on a for this event or going forward .

Speaker #3: And we continue to upgrade our systems, update our systems, and continue with retraining and retraining of staff to make sure that we, we, we mitigate the risk as best possible.

Kenneth Hughes: We continue to upgrade our systems, update our systems, and continue with retraining and retraining of staff to make sure that we mitigate the risk as best possible. I mean, we live in the real world here, but we are continuing to monitor the dark web. We're continuing to upgrade our systems and train our staff. That's what you have to do.

Ken Hughes: We continue to upgrade our systems, update our systems, and continue with retraining and retraining of staff to make sure that we mitigate the risk as best possible. I mean, we live in the real world here, but we are continuing to monitor the dark web. We're continuing to upgrade our systems and train our staff. That's what you have to do.

Speaker #3: I mean , we live in a in the real world here , but we are continuing to monitor the dark web . We're continuing to upgrade our systems and train our staff .

Speaker #3: And that's what you have to do.

Speaker #1: Yeah. And it's a double-edged sword. You know, you pick up the efficiencies from moving. It would be impossible to scale our business the way we want to if we were purely on paper-based systems.

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. And it's a double-edged sword. You pick up the efficiencies from moving. It would be impossible to scale our business the way we want to purely on paper-based systems. And then as you move into more reliance on software, you've got to then harden the systems appropriately. So it's unfortunate, but this is life in the big city, 21st century. And I think companies of our size have been targeted in some cases because they have a heightened obligation. If they have patient-specific medical information, there's a liability associated with that. We don't handle that kind of information, but it may have been one of the reasons why we were targeted with somebody thinking maybe we did.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. And it's a double-edged sword. You pick up the efficiencies from moving. It would be impossible to scale our business the way we want to purely on paper-based systems. And then as you move into more reliance on software, you've got to then harden the systems appropriately. So it's unfortunate, but this is life in the big city, 21st century. And I think companies of our size have been targeted in some cases because they have a heightened obligation. If they have patient-specific medical information, there's a liability associated with that. We don't handle that kind of information, but it may have been one of the reasons why we were targeted with somebody thinking maybe we did.

Speaker #1: And then as you move into, you know, more reliance on software, you've got to then harden the systems so it's appropriate.

Speaker #1: , but you know , this is this is , you know , life in the 20 big city , 21st century . And I think companies , you know , companies have of our size have been targeted on on know , you , in some cases because they have a heightened obligation if have they patient specific medical information , there's a liability associated with that .

Speaker #1: We don't handle that kind of information, but it may have been one of the reasons why we were targeted, with somebody thinking maybe we did.

Speaker #1: . Well ,

Speaker #2: Back to again, going to my initial comments, I commend you on your rules around disclosure, because a lot of companies would not have put out that press release.

Deborah Honig: Well, again, going back to my initial comments, I commend you on your rules around disclosure because a lot of companies would not have put out that press release.

Deborah Honig: Well, again, going back to my initial comments, I commend you on your rules around disclosure because a lot of companies would not have put out that press release.

Speaker #1: Well, thank you. Thank you, Deborah.

Speaker #2: Okay, two more questions. So if anyone has any more, feel free to get them in and we'll try and wrap by the hour.

Cameron L. Groome: Well, thank you. Thank you, Deborah.

Cameron Groome: Well, thank you. Thank you, Deborah.

Deborah Honig: Okay. Two more questions. So if anyone has any more, feel free to get them in, and we'll try and wrap by the hour. Bit of a blast from the past. Any progress on VTM sales in Ontario with the new provincial focus on Buy Ontario? Is there anything in the forecast for that?

Deborah Honig: Okay. Two more questions. So if anyone has any more, feel free to get them in, and we'll try and wrap by the hour. Bit of a blast from the past. Any progress on VTM sales in Ontario with the new provincial focus on Buy Ontario? Is there anything in the forecast for that?

Speaker #2: A bit of a blast from the past. Any progress on VM sales and Ontario with the new provincial focus on 'By Ontario'? Is there anything in the forecast for that?

Speaker #1: Our forecasts only include some sales to private industry, and this is more in the control elution buffer category. Different utilization of similar product formulations.

Cameron L. Groome: Our forecasts only include some sales to private industry, and this is more in the control dilution buffer category, different utilization of similar product formulations. We continue to engage with procurement authorities, but it does seem to be a riddle wrapped in a mystery surrounded by an enigma in terms of what some of the practices and motivations are.

Cameron Groome: Our forecasts only include some sales to private industry, and this is more in the control dilution buffer category, different utilization of similar product formulations. We continue to engage with procurement authorities, but it does seem to be a riddle wrapped in a mystery surrounded by an enigma in terms of what some of the practices and motivations are.

Speaker #1: We continue to engage with procurement authorities , but it is it does seem to a be riddle wrapped in a mystery . You know , so surrounded by an enigma in terms of what some of the practices and motivations are ?

Speaker #3: Yeah , it is good that we hear about bike Ontario . And by Canada , and that's great . And when we see a manifestation of that in real life , that will be great to cheap talk is .

Kenneth Hughes: Yeah. It is good that we hear about Buy Ontario and Buy Canada, and that's great. When we see a manifestation of that in real life, that would be great too. Talk is cheap. We continue to work in communication and showing the excellent global leadership that we have in this area, and hopefully, Canada and Ontario will buy our stuff soon. We continue to knock on the door.

Ken Hughes: Yeah. It is good that we hear about Buy Ontario and Buy Canada, and that's great. When we see a manifestation of that in real life, that would be great too. Talk is cheap. We continue to work in communication and showing the excellent global leadership that we have in this area, and hopefully, Canada and Ontario will buy our stuff soon. We continue to knock on the door.

Speaker #3: And we continue to work, where in communication and showing the excellent and the global leadership that we have in this area. And hopefully, Canada and Ontario will buy our stuff soon.

Speaker #3: We knock on the door to continue.

Speaker #1: Yeah Correct ? .

Speaker #2: One last question here. It's an interesting one: with the current U.S. administration focus on deregulation and ease of doing business, do you foresee any possible improvement on the timeline for either BLA approval or return to market, especially as this is already an approved drug?

Cameron L. Groome: Correct. Yeah.

Cameron Groome: Correct. Yeah.

Deborah Honig: One last question here. It's an interesting one. With the current US administration focus on deregulation and ease of doing business, do you foresee any possible improvement on timeline for either BLA approval or return to market, especially as this is already an approved drug?

Deborah Honig: One last question here. It's an interesting one. With the current U.S. administration focus on deregulation and ease of doing business, do you foresee any possible improvement on timeline for either BLA approval or return to market, especially as this is already an approved drug?

Speaker #1: Well, this is specifically in relation to Kinlytic.

Speaker #2: Kinlytic .

Speaker #1: I think all of our interactions with the FDA have been very supportive, and very appropriately scientifically oriented, responsibly oriented, and constructively oriented.

Cameron L. Groome: Well, this is specifically in relation to Kinlytic.

Cameron Groome: Well, this is specifically in relation to Kinlytic.

Deborah Honig: Qinlytiq.

Deborah Honig: Qinlytiq.

Cameron L. Groome: I think all of our interactions with FDA have been very supportive and very appropriately scientifically oriented, responsibly oriented, and constructively oriented. So really, we have nothing but, I think, positive and complimentary comments to make about our FDA interactions. I've not attended those meetings personally, just full disclosure. But from what information I've received from Ken and from our partners who have attended those meetings, it's just been superlative. So if it gets better from that, great, but no complaints so far.

Cameron Groome: I think all of our interactions with FDA have been very supportive and very appropriately scientifically oriented, responsibly oriented, and constructively oriented. So really, we have nothing but, I think, positive and complimentary comments to make about our FDA interactions. I've not attended those meetings personally, just full disclosure. But from what information I've received from Ken and from our partners who have attended those meetings, it's just been superlative. So if it gets better from that, great, but no complaints so far.

Speaker #1: So really , we have nothing . But I think positive and complimentary comments to make about our , our FDA interactions . I've not attended those personally .

Speaker #1: meetings I'm just full disclosure . But from what I'm what information I've received from cannon , from our partners who have attended those meetings , it's just been superlative .

Speaker #1: So if it gets better from that, great. But no complaints so far.

Speaker #3: I think this is—I mean, this is a really great question. I mean, at the end of the day, we're going to update our file and provide data to the FDA.

Speaker #3: Has has to review it. And, and, and they'll take their time. What the feedback we've had is they are now oriented to the market dynamic.

Kenneth Hughes: I think, yeah, I mean, this is a really great question. I mean, at the end of the day, we're going to update our file and provide data, and FDA has to review it, and they'll take their time. The feedback we've had is they're all now oriented to the market dynamic and the reality of this as an approved product. Let's remember that the current market is served by a monopoly, a single product. If that goes down, you have nothing. And people are always asking.

Ken Hughes: I think, yeah, I mean, this is a really great question. I mean, at the end of the day, we're going to update our file and provide data, and FDA has to review it, and they'll take their time. The feedback we've had is they're all now oriented to the market dynamic and the reality of this as an approved product. Let's remember that the current market is served by a monopoly, a single product. If that goes down, you have nothing. And people are always asking.

Speaker #3: And the reality is, and approved of this product. Let's remember that the current market is served by a monopoly, a single product.

Speaker #3: And if that goes down, you have nothing. And people are aware.

Speaker #1: Which it has, which.

Speaker #3: It has, and it has gone down. So, you know, the FDA is well aware of this, and we expect them to continue in the positive, as they have previously.

Cameron L. Groome: Which it has. Which it has.

Cameron Groome: Which it has. Which it has.

Kenneth Hughes: It has gone down. So the FDA is well aware of this, and we expect them to continue in the positive way they have previously. And if that facilitates the process, so much the better. It's also worth remembering that the European regulators reached out to us to ask us not to forget about them because they have the same monopoly situation. So regulators are well aware of the market dynamic here. I don't think we're going to have a negative interaction with it. But of course, we have to follow through with their mechanisms and their systems once we make our necessary filings. But as we sit here today, the interactions with those regulators have been excellent. We hope they will be as expeditious as it's possible to be.

Ken Hughes: It has gone down. So the FDA is well aware of this, and we expect them to continue in the positive way they have previously. And if that facilitates the process, so much the better. It's also worth remembering that the European regulators reached out to us to ask us not to forget about them because they have the same monopoly situation. So regulators are well aware of the market dynamic here. I don't think we're going to have a negative interaction with it. But of course, we have to follow through with their mechanisms and their systems once we make our necessary filings. But as we sit here today, the interactions with those regulators have been excellent. We hope they will be as expeditious as it's possible to be.

Speaker #3: And if that facilitates the process, so much the better. It's also worth remembering that the European regulators reached out to us to ask us not to forget about them because they have the same monopoly situation.

Speaker #3: So, regulators are well aware of the market dynamic here. So I don't think we're going to have a negative interaction with it.

Speaker #3: But of course , whereas we we have to follow through there mechanism and their system , once we make our necessary filings . But as we sit here today , the interactions with those regulators has been excellent .

Speaker #3: We hope they will be as expeditious as it's possible to be.

Speaker #1: Yeah . And I think I think those are two those are two questions because there's the positivity of the interactions . And then there will be the question about what is the speed of the review .

Cameron L. Groome: Yeah. I think those are two questions because there's the positivity of the interactions, and then there will be the question about what is the speed of the review. So there can be a very positive interaction and then a slower review. But the interactions have been very positive, and we'll see in due course in terms of what the review time of the file is. Part of that will be dependent on the excellence of the submissions, the awareness of the individuals reviewing, and their resources and prioritizations.

Cameron Groome: Yeah. I think those are two questions because there's the positivity of the interactions, and then there will be the question about what is the speed of the review. So there can be a very positive interaction and then a slower review. But the interactions have been very positive, and we'll see in due course in terms of what the review time of the file is. Part of that will be dependent on the excellence of the submissions, the awareness of the individuals reviewing, and their resources and prioritizations.

Speaker #1: So there can be a very positive interaction . And then a slower review . But but the interactions have been have been very positive and will will see in due course in terms of what the review time of the file is , part of that will be dependent on the excellence of the submissions .

Speaker #1: The, the, the awareness of the individuals reviewing, and their resources and prioritizations.

Speaker #3: Absolutely .

Speaker #2: And one audience question snuck in. We're just up on the hour. Can you guys go a few minutes over?

Kenneth Hughes: Absolutely.

Ken Hughes: Absolutely.

Speaker #1: Absolute .

Deborah Honig: I had one audience question sneak in. We're just up on the hour. Can you guys go a few minutes over?

Deborah Honig: I had one audience question sneak in. We're just up on the hour. Can you guys go a few minutes over?

Speaker #2: Okay , great . So the question is , which KPIs should we keep an eye on in Q1 fiscal 26 ? And I think I'd like to expand that just beyond KPIs .

Cameron L. Groome: Absolute.

Cameron Groome: Absolute.

Deborah Honig: Okay. Great. So the question is, which KPIs should we keep an eye on in Q1, fiscal 2026? I think I'd like to expand that just beyond KPIs, also catalysts, and maybe we can talk about full year.

Deborah Honig: Okay. Great. So the question is, which KPIs should we keep an eye on in Q1, fiscal 2026? I think I'd like to expand that just beyond KPIs, also catalysts, and maybe we can talk about full year.

Speaker #2: Also, catalysts. And maybe we can talk about full year.

Speaker #1: Well , you know , we we have a . Budgeting cycle going into early fall sort of August , September and into October time frame .

Cameron L. Groome: Well, we have a budgeting cycle going into early fall, sort of August, September, into October timeframe. Then we have an annual board offsite meeting in November to review, critique, and improve those budget objectives. We're being fully informed of what's happening and what we propose and plan for. Then there is the approval of that, and then our KPIs get reconfirmed based on that. What we're, again, really looking to achieve is to bring the capabilities and capacity we've built to bear. Grabbing hold of new programs with major multinational diagnostics companies is something that's key for us, continuing to build our presence with the PT and EQA provider companies, continuing to grow that piece of our business, continuing our, again, the B2B theme to engage with more major international and multinational diagnostics companies on programs particularly oriented in caps.

Cameron Groome: Well, we have a budgeting cycle going into early fall, sort of August, September, into October timeframe. Then we have an annual board offsite meeting in November to review, critique, and improve those budget objectives. We're being fully informed of what's happening and what we propose and plan for. Then there is the approval of that, and then our KPIs get reconfirmed based on that. What we're, again, really looking to achieve is to bring the capabilities and capacity we've built to bear. Grabbing hold of new programs with major multinational diagnostics companies is something that's key for us, continuing to build our presence with the PT and EQA provider companies, continuing to grow that piece of our business, continuing our, again, the B2B theme to engage with more major international and multinational diagnostics companies on programs particularly oriented in caps.

Speaker #1: And then we have a board off-site, an annual board off-site meeting in November to review, critique, and approve those budget objectives.

Speaker #1: We're fully informing the board of what's happening and what we propose and plan for. And then there is the approval of that.

Speaker #1: And then our KPIs get reconfirmed based on that. What we're, you know, to achieve is to bring those—bring the capabilities and capacity we've built to bear.

Speaker #1: And, you know, grabbing hold of new programs with major multinational diagnostics companies is something that's key for us continuing to build our presence with the.

Speaker #1: PT and EQA provider companies growing , continuing to grow that piece of our business , continuing our again the B2B theme . To engage with more major international and multinational diagnostics companies on on programs particularly oriented in Caps .

Speaker #1: I think that will be something we'll at . look And then we're broadening out the tail , you know , as well , you know , a lot our sort of of B2C , you know , sales to end user clinical laboratories , you know , we're we're not that you know , we're not decades into this business .

Cameron L. Groome: I think that'll be something we'll look at. And then we're broadening out the tail as well. A lot of our sort of B2C sales to end user clinical laboratories; we're not decades into this business. So the awareness of our company amongst end users has been more limited than amongst businesses. But we're starting to see those more retail-level sales to labs become a significant portion of our business as well. Whereas a major international company might order hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of product from us, a lab might order hundreds or thousands, or maybe tens of thousands, of dollars from us for one lab in one site in one city. But we're starting to see much more of that regular inflow of orders. And that has a strategic value in diversifying our client base as well.

I think that'll be something we'll look at. And then we're broadening out the tail as well. A lot of our sort of B2C sales to end user clinical laboratories; we're not decades into this business. So the awareness of our company amongst end users has been more limited than amongst businesses. But we're starting to see those more retail-level sales to labs become a significant portion of our business as well. Whereas a major international company might order hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of product from us, a lab might order hundreds or thousands, or maybe tens of thousands, of dollars from us for one lab in one site in one city. But we're starting to see much more of that regular inflow of orders. And that has a strategic value in diversifying our client base as well.

Speaker #1: Awareness of our company amongst end users has been more limited than amongst businesses. But we're starting to see those more level retail sales to labs become a significant portion of our business as well.

Speaker #1: You know , whereas , you know , a major company might order international hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars of product from a lab , might order hundreds or maybe tens of thousands thousands or of dollars from us for one lab in one site , in one city .

Speaker #1: But we're starting to see much more of that regular inflow of orders. And that has a strategic value. And diversifying our client base as well.

Speaker #1: think So I we'll see . We'll see a progression of announcements with should we succeed with our in landing objectives new business with major clients , and then we'll see a more regular flow of of business from from end users as well .

Cameron L. Groome: So I think we'll see a progression of announcements, with should we succeed with our objectives in landing new business with major clients. Then we'll see a more regular flow of business from end users as well. Ken, what would you want to highlight as some of the deliverables in 2026?

So I think we'll see a progression of announcements, with should we succeed with our objectives in landing new business with major clients. Then we'll see a more regular flow of business from end users as well. Ken, what would you want to highlight as some of the deliverables in 2026?

Speaker #1: Ken, what would you want to highlight as the deliverables, some of them in 2026?

Speaker #3: I talked about, well, the capacity and capabilities of the business, and I expect to be able to support all of that.

Kenneth Hughes: Well, I talked about the capacity and capabilities of the business, and I expect to be able to support all of those trajectories that are necessary. We've added the recombinant capabilities now further to our synthetic biology capabilities, which obviously synergizes with our native antigens and natural virology and bacteriology expertise. So that's going to continue on from there. We're going to see progress in the Kinlytic file, and I expect to see much progress in 2026 and lots to be happy about. And of course, 2027, hopefully, will be even better. And so those are natural KPIs. But in terms of supporting the core business, I think we're in really good shape. And to Cameron's point, we're going to be building that business. And really, the operational excellence here is going to maintain the necessary margins to drive the profitability.

Ken Hughes: Well, I talked about the capacity and capabilities of the business, and I expect to be able to support all of those trajectories that are necessary. We've added the recombinant capabilities now further to our synthetic biology capabilities, which obviously synergizes with our native antigens and natural virology and bacteriology expertise. So that's going to continue on from there. We're going to see progress in the Kinlytic file, and I expect to see much progress in 2026 and lots to be happy about. And of course, 2027, hopefully, will be even better. And so those are natural KPIs. But in terms of supporting the core business, I think we're in really good shape. And to Cameron's point, we're going to be building that business. And really, the operational excellence here is going to maintain the necessary margins to drive the profitability.

Speaker #3: Those trajectories that are that are necessary . We've added the recombinant capabilities now to add in further to our synthetic biology capabilities , which obviously synergizes with our native antigens and and natural virology and bacteriology So that's expertise .

Speaker #3: On from there. Continue going to—we're going to see progress in the Kinlytic file. And I expect to see much progress in 2026.

Speaker #3: And lots, lots to be happy about. And 2027, hopefully, will be, of course, even better. And so are those natural KPIs.

Speaker #3: But in terms of supporting the core business , I think we're in shape . really good And to Cameron's point , we're going to be building that business .

Speaker #3: And really the operational excellence here is going to maintain the necessary margins to drive the drive to profitability . We're also see going to some reduction , reduction in costs , I think , or at least in proportion to sales , because of the efficiencies were brought , we've brought to bear the electronic quality management system and ERP .

Kenneth Hughes: We're also going to see some reduction in costs, I think, or at least in proportion to sales because of the efficiencies we've brought to bear. The electronic quality management system, ERP integrations, and the role of quality assurance in that is going to really increase efficiencies as well. So these are all the operational side in support of business development. And it shouldn't be understated. I mean, we have really excellent people doing good work to make sure that we maximize every dollar that we are taking in.

We're also going to see some reduction in costs, I think, or at least in proportion to sales because of the efficiencies we've brought to bear. The electronic quality management system, ERP integrations, and the role of quality assurance in that is going to really increase efficiencies as well. So these are all the operational side in support of business development. And it shouldn't be understated. I mean, we have really excellent people doing good work to make sure that we maximize every dollar that we are taking in.

Speaker #3: And integrations, the role of quality assurance in that is going to really increase as efficiencies—so these are all the operational side in support of business development.

Speaker #3: there shouldn't And be understated . I mean , you know , we have we have you know really excellent people doing good work to make sure that we maximize every dollar that we are taking in .

Speaker #1: Jim, what would you want to highlight?

Speaker #4: Well, I think for us, it is one of the key ones—seeing the bounce back in revenues, in terms of seeing the revenues and the fruits of our labor over the last number of years in both businesses, and seeing that revenues get back up to where we believe that they should be.

Cameron L. Groome: Jim, what would you want to highlight?

Cameron Groome: Jim, what would you want to highlight?

Kenneth Hughes: I think one of the key ones for us is the bounce back in revenues in terms of seeing the revenues and the fruits of our labor over the last number of years in both businesses, and seeing that revenues get back up to where we believe that they should be. I think Ken's identified the costing side of things is that we need to continue to be more efficient and effective, and maintain the levels of yields that we have seen in fiscal 2025. They are biological, so it's sometimes difficult to predict. But I think we're getting, from a research and manufacturing perspective, a little bit more stable in terms of our yields and our efficiencies.

Jim Currie: I think one of the key ones for us is the bounce back in revenues in terms of seeing the revenues and the fruits of our labor over the last number of years in both businesses, and seeing that revenues get back up to where we believe that they should be. I think Ken's identified the costing side of things is that we need to continue to be more efficient and effective, and maintain the levels of yields that we have seen in fiscal 2025. They are biological, so it's sometimes difficult to predict. But I think we're getting, from a research and manufacturing perspective, a little bit more stable in terms of our yields and our efficiencies.

Speaker #4: And I think, on the costing side of things, Ken's identified that we need to continue to be more efficient and effective, and maintain the levels of yields that we have seen in fiscal 2025.

Speaker #4: They are biological, so it's sometimes difficult to predict, but I think we're getting, from a research and a manufacturing perspective, a little bit more stable in terms of our yields and our efficiencies.

Speaker #1: So that's great . Great point , Jim , and you know , I'll all emphasize well as the . You know , the capabilities and the capacity that we brought to bear , you know , all these these matters efficiency really drive that ability to scale and credibility to scale , to to land business with with major customers .

Cameron L. Groome: No, that's a great point, Jim. And I'll emphasize as well the capabilities and the capacity that we've brought to bear. All these efficiency matters really drive that ability to scale and credibility to scale to land business with major customers. And one of the things I'll mention as well is the Quantibix product line. This is the reference materials, higher price point, earlier engagement with assay development with counterparties when they're developing assays and determining limits of detection and doing that development work. This has been an excellent initiative. You'll see some good description of that in our MD&A and in our AIF that'll be filed shortly. And that's already broken into six-figure revenue category. It won't be yet separated out from the QAPs business from reporting.

Cameron Groome: No, that's a great point, Jim. And I'll emphasize as well the capabilities and the capacity that we've brought to bear. All these efficiency matters really drive that ability to scale and credibility to scale to land business with major customers. And one of the things I'll mention as well is the Quantibix product line. This is the reference materials, higher price point, earlier engagement with assay development with counterparties when they're developing assays and determining limits of detection and doing that development work. This has been an excellent initiative. You'll see some good description of that in our MD&A and in our AIF that'll be filed shortly. And that's already broken into six-figure revenue category. It won't be yet separated out from the QAPs business from reporting.

Speaker #1: And one of the things I'll mention as well is the quant , X product line . This is the reference materials , you know , higher price point earlier , earlier engagement with assay development with counterparties when they're developing assays and determining limits of detection and doing that development work .

Speaker #1: This has been an excellent initiative. You'll see some good description of that in our MD&A and in our AIF. That will be filed shortly.

Speaker #1: And that's broken into the six-figure revenue category. It won't be yet separated out from the CAPS business for reporting, but I think we're very satisfied with the engagement level on that new product line already.

Speaker #1: That is generating material revenues for us, and just yet another touchpoint of technical excellence with customers, showing real value added for them.

Cameron L. Groome: But I think we're very satisfied with the engagement level on that new product line already that is generating material revenues for us, and just yet another touchpoint of technical excellence with customers, and showing real value added for them. And just reflective of the scientific and strategic excellence of our team, which we can't speak highly enough about.

But I think we're very satisfied with the engagement level on that new product line already that is generating material revenues for us, and just yet another touchpoint of technical excellence with customers, and showing real value added for them. And just reflective of the scientific and strategic excellence of our team, which we can't speak highly enough about.

Speaker #1: And just reflective of the scientific and strategic excellence of our teams, which we can't speak highly enough about.

Speaker #2: I think that gives us a good outlook for next year. I don't see any other audience questions. I, myself, have run out of questions.

Deborah Honig: I think that gives us a good outlook for next year. I don't see any other audience questions. I have run out of my own questions. Was there anything you guys wanted to discuss today that we didn't get a chance to cover? Any last thoughts for the audience?

Deborah Honig: I think that gives us a good outlook for next year. I don't see any other audience questions. I have run out of my own questions. Was there anything you guys wanted to discuss today that we didn't get a chance to cover? Any last thoughts for the audience?

Speaker #2: Was there anything you guys wanted to discuss today that we didn't get a chance to cover? Any last thoughts for the audience?

Speaker #1: You know , I would just thank everybody for for your support of our of our management team and the commitment of your capital .

Cameron L. Groome: I would just thank everybody for your support of our management team and the commitment of your capital. We're building our business for real. We've built real substantial value. And I think we've talked about just how great that value is. And now it's on us to drive the revenue growth to substantiate that thesis. And that's what we're doing and what we're dedicated to doing. So whether it's our diagnostics operations, antigens as ingredients, quality control materials in our quality assessment products and Quantibix lines, and Kinlytic. So these are all real tangible value that we're building. And we look forward to seeing that more fully reflected in our stock price across 2026. And thank everybody again.

Cameron Groome: I would just thank everybody for your support of our management team and the commitment of your capital. We're building our business for real. We've built real substantial value. And I think we've talked about just how great that value is. And now it's on us to drive the revenue growth to substantiate that thesis. And that's what we're doing and what we're dedicated to doing. So whether it's our diagnostics operations, antigens as ingredients, quality control materials in our quality assessment products and Quantibix lines, and Kinlytic. So these are all real tangible value that we're building. And we look forward to seeing that more fully reflected in our stock price across 2026. And thank everybody again.

Speaker #1: know , we're You building building our business for real . built We've real , substantial value . And I think we , we've we've talked about , you know , just how great that value is .

Speaker #1: And now it's , it's on us to drive the revenue growth to , to substantiate that thesis . And that's what we're doing and what we're dedicated to doing .

Speaker #1: So , you know , whether it's our diagnostics operations , you know , antigens as ingredients , quality control materials in our quality assessment products .

Speaker #1: And quantity X lines and , and , and and kinlytic . So these these are all real tangible value that we're building . And we look forward to seeing that more fully reflected in our stock price across 2026 .

Speaker #1: And thank everybody again .

Speaker #2: thank you , Well , , Ken and Cameron Jim . Appreciate your time . Thank you to the audience members for your time and your questions .

Deborah Honig: Well, thank you, Cameron, Ken, and Jim. Appreciate your time. Thank you to the audience members for your time and your questions. And yeah, I guess we can leave it there. I hope you all have a very nice Christmas, New Year's, Hanukkah, whatever you celebrate. Happy holidays. And thanks again for supporting the Food Bank Drive.

Deborah Honig: Well, thank you, Cameron, Ken, and Jim. Appreciate your time. Thank you to the audience members for your time and your questions. And yeah, I guess we can leave it there. I hope you all have a very nice Christmas, New Year's, Hanukkah, whatever you celebrate. Happy holidays. And thanks again for supporting the Food Bank Drive.

Speaker #2: And yeah , I guess we can leave it there . Hope you all have a very nice Christmas . New whatever Year's , Hanukkah , you celebrate .

Speaker #2: Happy holidays, and thanks for supporting the food bank drive again.

Speaker #1: Thank you. Great initiative. Delighted to do.

Speaker #3: So . Take care .

Speaker #1: Thanks everyone . Take care .

Cameron L. Groome: No, thank you, Deb. Great initiative. Delighted to do so.

Cameron Groome: No, thank you, Deb. Great initiative. Delighted to do so.

Kenneth Hughes: Thanks, Deb. Take care.

Ken Hughes: Thanks, Deb. Take care.

Cameron L. Groome: Thanks, everyone. Take care. Bye.

Cameron Groome: Thanks, everyone. Take care. Bye.

Kenneth Hughes: Bye-bye.

Ken Hughes: Bye-bye.

Deborah Honig: Goodbye.

Deborah Honig: Goodbye.

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