Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. Revenue Disclosure
NOTE 3. Revenue
The Company has entered into license agreements and collaborative research and development arrangements with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as consulting, related technology transfer and product revenue agreements. Under these arrangements, the Company is entitled to receive license fees, consulting fees, product fees, technological transfer fees, upfront payments, milestone payments if and when certain research and development milestones, technology transfer milestones or success-based milestones are achieved, royalties on approved product sales and reimbursement for research and development activities. The Company’s costs of performing these services are included within research and development expenses. The Company’s milestone payments are typically defined by achievement of certain preclinical, clinical, and commercial success criteria. Preclinical milestones may include in vivo proof of concept in disease animal models, lead candidate identification, and completion of IND-enabling toxicology studies. Clinical milestones may, for example, include successful enrollment of the first patient in or completion of Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials, and commercial milestones are often tiered based on net or aggregate sale amounts. The Company cannot guarantee the achievement of these milestones due to risks associated with preclinical and clinical activities required for development of nucleic acid medicine-based therapeutics and vaccines.
The following table presents changes in the balances of receivables and contract liabilities related to revenue generating agreements during the year ended December 31, 2024:
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December 31, 2023 |
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Additions |
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Deductions |
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December 31, 2024 |
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Contract Assets: |
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Accounts receivable |
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$ |
32,064 |
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$ |
98,430 |
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$ |
(126,520 |
) |
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$ |
3,974 |
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Contract Liabilities: |
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Deferred revenue |
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$ |
87,325 |
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$ |
97,599 |
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$ |
(152,806 |
) |
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$ |
32,118 |
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During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company recognized $62.6 million in revenue from the deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2023.
The following table summarizes the Company’s revenue for the periods indicated. Approximately $138.4 million, $154.9 million and $192.7 million of total revenue represents revenue derived from foreign countries for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
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For the Year Ended December 31, |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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2022 |
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Collaboration revenue: |
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CSL Seqirus |
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$ |
138,389 |
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$ |
154,264 |
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$ |
154,425 |
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Vinbiocare |
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— |
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— |
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24,571 |
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Janssen |
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— |
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660 |
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9,201 |
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Ultragenyx |
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— |
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1,837 |
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3,739 |
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Israel Ministry of Health |
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— |
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— |
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12,500 |
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Other |
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— |
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987 |
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1,319 |
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Total collaboration revenue |
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$ |
138,389 |
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$ |
157,748 |
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$ |
205,755 |
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Grant revenue: |
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BARDA |
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$ |
13,921 |
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$ |
9,051 |
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$ |
244 |
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Total grant revenue |
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$ |
13,921 |
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$ |
9,051 |
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$ |
244 |
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The following paragraphs provide information regarding the nature and purpose of the Company’s most significant revenue arrangements.
CSL Seqirus
On November 1, 2022, the Company entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement (as amended, the “CSL Collaboration Agreement”) with Seqirus, Inc., a part of CSL Limited (“CSL Seqirus”), for the global exclusive rights to research, develop, manufacture, and commercialize vaccines. Under the terms of the CSL Collaboration Agreement, the Company provides CSL Seqirus with an exclusive global license to its mRNA technology (including STARR®) and LUNAR® lipid-mediated delivery, along with mRNA drug substance and drug product manufacturing process. CSL Seqirus will lead development and commercialization of vaccines under the collaboration. The collaboration plans to advance vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), influenza, pandemic preparedness as well as three other infectious diseases.
The Company received a $200.0 million upfront payment and is eligible to receive over $1.3 billion in development milestones if all products are registered in the licensed fields and entitled to potentially receive up to $3.0 billion in commercial milestones based on “net sales” of vaccines in the various fields. In addition, the Company is eligible to receive a 40% net profit share for COVID-19 vaccine products and up to low double-digit royalties for vaccines against flu, pandemic preparedness and three other pathogens. During 2024, the Company achieved $72.2 million of development and regulatory milestones related to the CSL Collaboration Agreement, of which none was included in accounts receivable as of December 31, 2024.
In evaluating the CSL Collaboration Agreement in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, the Company concluded that CSL Seqirus is a customer. The Company identified all promised goods/services within the CSL Collaboration Agreement, and when combining certain promised goods/services, the Company concluded that there are five distinct performance obligations. The nature of the performance obligations consists of delivery of the vaccine license, research and development services for COVID and non-COVID vaccines
and regulatory activities for COVID vaccines. For each performance obligation, the Company estimated the standalone selling price based on 1) in the case of the license, the fair value using costs to recreate plus margin method and 2) in the case of research and development services and regulatory activities, cost plus margin for estimated full-time equivalent (“FTE”) costs, direct costs including laboratory supplies, contractors, and other out-of-pocket expenses for research and development services and regulatory activities.
As of December 31, 2024, the transaction price primarily consisted of upfront consideration received and milestones achieved as of December 31, 2024. Additional variable consideration was not included in the transaction price at December 31, 2024 because the Company could not conclude that it is probable that including the variable consideration will not result in a significant revenue reversal.
The Company allocated the transaction price to the performance obligations in proportion to their standalone selling price. The portion of the upfront payment that was allocated to the vaccine license was recognized at the point in time it was transferred in 2022. The research and development and regulatory activities performance obligations are recognized over a period of time based on the percentage of services rendered using the input method, meaning actual costs incurred divided by total costs budgeted to satisfy the performance obligation. Any consideration related to sales-based royalties will be recognized when the amounts are probable of non-reversal, provided that the reported sales are reliably measurable and the Company has no remaining promised goods/services, as they are constrained and therefore have also been excluded from the transaction price. The revenue recognized in 2024 reflects variable consideration added to the transaction price upon the achievement of milestones, attributable to the license granted in 2022 and research and development services provided through December 31, 2024.
Total deferred revenue as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 for the CSL Collaboration Agreement was $30.7 million and $87.1 million, respectively.
During 2023, the Company also received an advance payment of $23.6 million for the manufacturing and supply of ARCT-154 drug product. The advance payment was for specified manufacturing runs of ARCT-154 which include the drug substance utilized, as well as the reservation fees and related manufacturing requirements. The Company concluded that the promise to manufacture and supply ARCT-154 drug product is a customer option as part of the CSL Collaboration Agreement and is accounted for as a separate contract. The Company recognized $18.0 million in revenue related to this customer option during the second quarter of 2024. No amount related to this customer option remained in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2024.
During 2023, the Company entered into an amendment to the CSL Collaboration Agreement, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sponsor and conduct a Phase 1 clinical study in the influenza field. As part of the amendment, the Company received $17.5 million from CSL Seqirus. The amendment also provides for up to $1.5 million in additional payments which are achievable upon meeting certain clinical milestones relating to the Phase 1 clinical study in the influenza field. The Company previously concluded that the expansion of research and development support services under the CSL Collaboration Agreement represented an option that was not a material right. Therefore the Company concluded the promise to sponsor and conduct the Phase 1 clinical study is a separate contract and the sole performance obligation under the new arrangement. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company recognized revenue of $12.0 million related to the performance obligation compared to $2.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2023. The remaining amount of $3.1 million is included in deferred revenue.
During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company received an advance payment of $5.3 million from CSL Seqirus for manufacturing activities related to COVID-19 vaccine product. During the first quarter of 2024, the Company received an additional advance payment of $5.1 million from CSL Seqirus for manufacturing activities related to COVID-19 vaccine product. The Company concluded that the promise to perform manufacturing activities is a customer option as part of the CSL Collaboration Agreement and is accounted for as a separate contract. The Company recognized $5.3 million in revenue related to this customer option during the third quarter of 2024 upon the transfer of vaccine product to CSL Seqirus. The remaining $5.1 million is included in deferred revenue as of December 31, 2024 and will be recognized as revenue when the remaining vaccine product is transferred to CSL Seqirus.
In March 2024, the Company entered into an amendment to the CSL Collaboration Agreement, pursuant to which the parties agreed to, among other things, adjust (i) the development plans for certain product candidates, (ii) various development milestones related to such product candidates, (iii) provisions of the CSL Collaboration
Agreement related to specific royalty payments, (iii) provisions of the CSL Collaboration Agreement related to distributors, and (iv) proprietary payment calculations related to the foregoing.
Vinbiocare
During 2021 the Company entered into certain agreements with Vinbiocare, a member of Vingroup Joint Stock Company, whereby the Company would provide technical expertise and support services to Vinbiocare to assist in the build out of a mRNA drug product manufacturing facility in Vietnam. The Company received an upfront payment in aggregate of $40.0 million as part of the Vinbiocare Agreement. In October 2022, the Company and Vinbiocare executed a letter agreement terminating the Technology License and Technical Support Agreement and the Framework Drug Substance Supply Agreement (collectively, the “License & Supply Agreements”). The Company incurred no financial penalties in connection with the termination of the License & Supply Agreements and has no further financial obligations to Vinbiocare under these terminated agreements.
In October 2022, in association with the termination of the License & Supply Agreements, the Company signed the Study Support Agreement with Vinbiocare which provides that Vinbiocare shall continue to serve as the regulatory and financial sponsor of clinical studies conducted in Vietnam of ARCT-154 pursuant to the Company’s arrangements with Vinbiocare (the “Study Support Agreement”). To support the continuing activities of these studies, the Study Support Agreement further provides for the Company to conduct certain services and to compensate Vinbiocare to help achieve the objectives of these studies. In February 2023, the Company agreed to provide additional financial support in the amount of approximately $2.1 million to allow Vinbiocare to provide additional study support duties related to the ARCT-154 clinical study. As a result, the Company reserved $11.8 million of the original upfront payment to be paid to Vinbiocare over the future periods pursuant to the Study Support Agreement by reclassifying a portion of the upfront payment received from Vinbiocare pursuant to the License & Supply Agreements, from deferred revenue to short-term and long-term liabilities, based on the anticipated timing of the payments to Vinbiocare, and removed that portion of the upfront payment from the transaction price of the modified arrangement. The transaction price was not adjusted for payments that are contingent upon the occurrence of future regulatory or sales-related events based on the information currently available to the Company.
The Company has concluded that it has no remaining performance obligations under its prior arrangements with Vinbiocare as summarized above as of December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2024, the Company has accrued liabilities related to this arrangement of $2.4 million in current liabilities that will be paid upon the occurrence of specified events through the end of 2025. Vinbiocare is also eligible to receive a single digit percentage of amounts from net sales, if any, of ARCT-154 (or next-generation COVID vaccine) up to a capped amount of low single digit millions. The Company had no remaining deferred revenue as of December 31, 2024 or 2023.
BARDA Grant
In August 2022, the Company entered into a cost reimbursement contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority ("BARDA"), a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for an award of up to $63.2 million for the development of a pandemic influenza vaccine using the Company's STARR® self-amplifying mRNA vaccine platform technology. The Company earns grant revenue for performing tasks under the agreement.
The Company determined that the agreement with BARDA is not in the scope of ASC 808 or ASC 606. Applying International Accounting Standards No. 20 ("IAS 20"), Accounting for Government Grants and Disclosure of Government Assistance, by analogy, the Company recognizes grant revenue from the reimbursement of direct out-of-pocket expenses, overhead allocations and fringe benefits for research costs associated with the grant. The costs associated with these reimbursements are reflected as a component of research and development expense in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss).
The Company recognized $13.9 million and $9.1 million of grant revenue during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which is included in revenue on the Company's consolidated statements of operations. As of December 31, 2024, the remaining available funding net of revenue earned was $40.0 million.
About Revenue Disclosures
Revenue disclosures under ASC 606 explain how a company identifies performance obligations, allocates transaction prices, and determines when revenue is recognized. This section is essential for understanding whether reported revenue reflects genuine economic activity or aggressive accounting choices. Analysts examine the mix of point-in-time versus over-time recognition, which directly affects revenue timing and comparability.
Key signals: rising contract liabilities (deferred revenue) suggest strong future revenue visibility, while declining contract assets may indicate slowing project milestones. Watch for variable consideration estimates — rebates, returns, and performance bonuses that require management judgment. Significant changes in disaggregated revenue by geography or product line can reveal shifting business mix before it appears in headline numbers. Compare revenue growth against contract liability growth to assess sustainability, and scrutinize any changes in the timing of recognition that coincide with earnings pressure.