Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (YTEN) Misses Q1 EPS by 5c, Revenues Miss

Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: YTEN) reported Q1 EPS of ($0.60), $0.05 worse than the analyst estimate of ($0.55). Revenue for the quarter came in at $196 thousand versus the consensus estimate of $220 thousand.

"We remain solidly on track for progressing our technical and business plans to support a specialty products business based on our Camelina platform," said Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Yield10 Bioscience. "During 2021, we will scale-up seed production of certain new Camelina varieties as well as evaluate our novel yield traits in multi-site field trials conducted in the U.S. and Canada. We are also creating strong option value for our performance traits discovered using our GRAIN platform by providing access to our novel trait discoveries through research license agreements to leading seed companies by enabling them to evaluate our traits in the major commercial crops.

"We have commenced scale-up of seed production for our new Camelina varieties, a step required for early commercial-scale planting and for producing nutritional oils and meal for sampling to prospective customers. Scale-up of two of our best prototype PHA bioplastic lines is ongoing in parallel with the development of commercial quality PHA bioplastic lines with the goal of increasing PHA content in the seed. We plan to use PHA Camelina seed from this year’s harvest for larger scale field work in 2022 as well as for initial product evaluation. Permitting for field testing of our regulated traits is substantially complete and we expect planting to be completed in the second quarter.

"Under our collaboration with Rothamsted Research, we are well-positioned with an exclusive option to commercialize advanced omega-3 (DHA+EPA) oil technology developed as a sustainable solution for the aquaculture feed market. In the first quarter, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted to Rothamsted the first patent covering the co-production of omega-3 components DHA and EPA in Camelina. We have ramped up our business development efforts on this technology with a focus on the South American market including establishing agreements with a seed service provider for evaluation of multiple Camelina varieties in Argentina. Planning and business development activities are also underway in Chile aimed at establishing relationships with growers and oilseed crushers as part of our regulatory activities working toward the approval of Camelina oil and meal in aquaculture feed. The Chilean salmon feed industry is our initial target market for the Camelina omega-3 (DHA+EPA) oil product. In 2021, as we chart a regulatory path forward for commercialization of omega-3 oil and meal, Rothamsted will conduct additional development and seed scale-up activities with its lead Camelina line, pending the lifting of certain COVID restrictions in the U.K.

"We also strengthened our balance sheet in early 2021 which we anticipate will support the achievement of milestones and other advancements in the coming quarters as we execute against our core business strategy of utilizing Camelina as a platform crop to produce fuel, food and PHA bioplastic,” said Dr. Peoples.

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