Cardiome Reports First Quarter 2017 Financial Results

NASDAQ: CRME   TSX: COM

Cardiome to conduct conference call and webcast today,
May 15, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern (1:30 p.m. Pacific)

VANCOUVER, May 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ - Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CRME / TSX: COM) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017. Amounts, unless specified otherwise, are expressed in U.S. dollars and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles used in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP). 

Q1 2017 Highlights:

• Cardiome received a Notice of Compliance from Health Canada for its BRINAVESS New Drug Submission ("NDS") and has begun training its Canadian sales force in preparation for a Canadian BRINAVESS launch.
• Cardiome's partner SteadyMed announced the successful completion of its TREVYENT^® clinical validation study.
• Cardiome launched XYDALBA™ in France, ahead of schedule, continuing Q4 2016's trend that saw similar earlier-than-expected launches in the UK and Germany.

Commenting on Cardiome's achievements during the quarter, William Hunter, MD, CEO and President of Cardiome, said "The first quarter of 2017 was a quarter of achievement for Cardiome on many important fronts: we are very proud to now have BRINAVESS approved for sale in Canada and, as a result, we have built a new commercial footprint in Canada with an initial focus on selling BRINAVESS and AGGRASTAT. We expect that additional products will be made available to our Canadian sales force over time as we anticipate to file NDS's for both TREVYENT and XYDALBA in 2017 and we are currently negotiating for compelling new medicines for all of our territories, including Canada. We continue to be pleased with our XYDALBA launch across major European markets, with the most recent being our commercial launch in France, and look forward to seeing the uptake of XYDALBA sales in the latter half of 2017.   The first quarter of 2017 unfolded as we expected and we are guiding to meet our annual revenue target of approximately $28 to $30 million.  We believe that 2017 will be a pivotal year for Cardiome."

Summary Results

Cardiome recorded a net loss of $6.3 million (basic loss per share of $0.20) for the three months ended March 31, 2017, compared to a net loss of $1.2 million (basic loss per share of $0.06) for the three months ended March 31, 2016. The increase in net loss was primarily due to a decrease in revenue and an increase in selling, general and administration ("SG&A") expense.

Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2017 was $5.2 million compared to revenue of $7.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016. The decrease was due to the timing of distributor sales.  During the three months ended March 31, 2016, Cardiome recorded revenue of $1.7 million from an annual order to a distributor.  The annual order for 2017 from that distributor will be split into two orders and the Company expects both to be shipped and recorded by the third quarter of this year.

Gross margin for the three months ended March 31, 2017 was 68.5% compared to 79.9% for the three months ended March 31, 2016. The change in gross margin was due to changes in customer mix. A significant portion of the Company's sales during the three months ended March 31, 2017 was to a distributor with lower margins.

SG&A expense for the three months ended March 31, 2017 was $8.2 million compared to $6.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016. The increase in SG&A expense was due to expansion of the Company's direct sales force in Europe related to the launch of XYDALBA^TM and to the initiation of a Canadian sales force.  Additionally, during the three months ended March 31, 2016, there was a decrease to the Company's stock-based compensation expense as a result of market fluctuations in Cardiome's share price resulting in a recovery of $0.7 million.  Cardiome expects SG&A to show marginal increases on a quarter over quarter basis for the remainder of 2017 as the Company continues to build the commercial support and regulatory functions required for the advancement of current and pipeline products. 

Interest expense was $0.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017, compared to $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2016.  The increase was due to the term loan agreement which we entered into in the second quarter of 2016.  Interest expense was accrued on a long-term debt principal amount of $20.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2017 compared to a long-term debt principal amount of $10.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2016.

Liquidity and Outstanding Share Capital

At March 31, 2017, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $19.4 million. As of May 12, 2017, there were 31,927,294 common shares issued and outstanding, and 2,844,557 common shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stock options (of which 1,464,083 were exercisable) at a weighted average exercise price of CAD $5.32 per share, and 98,288 restricted share units outstanding.

Cardiome today announced that it has amended its term loan agreement with CRG-managed funds.  Under the terms of the original term loan agreement, CRG provided $20.0 million to the Company.  The Amended Agreement provides Cardiome with up to $50.0 million of available borrowing capacity.  Under the terms of the Amended Agreement, CRG will provide an additional $10.0 million to the Company on the effective date of the Amended Agreement.  Two additional tranches of $10.0 million each are available to the Company subject to certain conditions. The loan matures on March 31, 2022. Cardiome plans to use these proceeds for business development purposes.

Conference Call
Cardiome will hold a teleconference and webcast on May 15, 2017 at 4:30pm Eastern (1:30pm Pacific). To access the conference call, please dial 416-764-8688 or 888-390-0546 and use conference ID 43344320. The webcast can be accessed through Cardiome's website at www.cardiome.com or through the following link:

http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=1406993&s=1&k=FF64CDC3C5683806208282926DAB0CD1

Webcast and telephone replays of the conference call will be available approximately two hours after the completion of the call through June 5, 2017. Please dial 416-764-8677 or 888-390-0541 and enter code 344320 # to access the replay.

About Cardiome Pharma Corp.
Cardiome Pharma Corp. is a specialty pharmaceutical company dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative therapies that will improve the quality of life and health of patients suffering from disease. Cardiome has two marketed, in-hospital, cardiology products, BRINAVESS^® (vernakalant IV), approved in Europe, Canada, and other territories for the rapid conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm in adults, and AGGRASTAT^® (tirofiban HCl) a reversible GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor indicated for use in patients with acute coronary syndrome. Cardiome also commercializes ESMOCARD^® and ESMOCARD LYO^® (esmolol hydrochloride), a short-acting beta-blocker used to control rapid heart rate in a number of cardiovascular indications, on behalf of their partner Amomed in select European markets. Cardiome has also licensed: XYDALBA™ (dalbavancin hydrochloride), a second generation, semi-synthetic lipoglycopeptide approved in the EU for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in adults for select European and Middle Eastern nations and Canada from Allergan; and TREVYENT^®, a development stage drug device combination that is under development for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension for Europe, the Middle East and for Canadian markets from SteadyMed Therapeutics.

Cardiome is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market (CRME) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (COM). For more information, please visit our web site at www.cardiome.com.

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