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Cibus Reports Fourth Quarter Financial Results and Provides Business Update

March 17, 2026 4:05 PM

SAN DIEGO, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cibus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBUS) (the "Company"), a leading agricultural technology company that develops and licenses plant traits to seed companies, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, and provided a business update. Management will host a conference call and webcast today at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Management Commentary

Peter Beetham, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Cibus, commented, "2025 was a landmark year that validated our technology leadership and strategic vision. Our seven Rice partner customers continue to drive our near-term 2027 and 2028 commercial launch targets in our USA and LATAM geographic markets, which have the potential for more than $200 million annual addressable royalties at peak. In our Sustainable Ingredients program, we generated initial customer payments as we ramp up commercialization efforts for 2026. And, most recently, we were selected by the UK Government as a technology partner in its Farming Innovation Programme. Importantly, the regulatory environment we've been helping to shape for over a decade reached a critical inflection point with the EU's political agreement on New Genomic Techniques legislation. This advancement and the recently activated Precision Breeding Act in the United Kingdom have prompted the recent UK investment in precision breeding innovation. Gene editing can no longer be called an experiment—it's the present state of agricultural innovation, and Cibus is positioned ahead of this curve."

Dr. Beetham continued, "What makes 2026 particularly exciting is the continuing convergence of technology leadership and commercial potential. For years, speed and scale were obstacles for seed companies. Our highly efficient single-cell editing system, coupled with our time bound, predictable trait development has fundamentally altered that equation, and we're poised to capitalize on the results. As our Rice program advances toward our targeted 2027 and 2028 initial commercial launches, with our partners committing resources to access technology and accelerate their innovation timelines, we're also beginning to see opportunities beyond traditional trait licensing. This includes the potential for genomic editing for partners in opportunity-rich markets like India, Asia (outside of China), and Latin America and expanding opportunities for sustainable ingredient development primarily for the consumer packaged goods industry and secondarily for other industries looking for better-for-you products. As we explore these opportunities, while maintaining our core trait licensing and royalty model, I am more excited than ever about our ability to build a durable, high value cash flow stream that will underpin long-term shareholder value creation."

Dr. Beetham commented, "Finally, our recent successful public offering and continued streamlined focus and operational efficiency gains are providing a solid foundation for Cibus as we lead gene editing technologies in changing the scale and speed of plant breeding and advance toward near-term revenue catalysts."

Company Highlights

2025 and 2026 Year-to-Date Business Update

Commercial Progress for Priority Programs and Global Regulatory Developments

Priority Pipeline Traits and Programs

Global Regulatory Development

2025 and 2026 Year-to-Date Progress within Opportunity Programs and Other Business Updates

In addition to Cibus' self-funded Rice herbicide tolerance trait program and its actively advancing sustainable ingredients program, which is partially partner-funded and/or supported, the Company's pipeline of developed and advanced traits provides several additional opportunities for partner-funded programs.

Opportunity Pipeline Traits and Programs (Available for Partnership)

Corporate and Industry Progress

Expected Milestones for Priority Pipeline Traits and Programs

Cibus intends to report ordinary course development progress and achievements in connection with its quarterly reporting process. Cibus presents below the most significant development and commercial milestone targets for its priority programs for 2026:

Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results

Conference Call and Webcast Information

Cibus will host a live webcast, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss its fourth quarter 2025 financial results and provide a full year business update for 2025. The conference call can be accessed live over the phone by dialing (800) 343-5172 or for international callers by dialing (203) 518-9856. The conference ID is CIBUS (24287). A replay of the call will be available through April 2, 2026, by dialing (844) 512-2921 or for international callers by dialing (412) 317-6671; the passcode is 11160915.

A live audio webcast of the call will be available under "Events & Presentations" in the Investor section of the Company's website, investor.cibus.com. An archived webcast will be available on the Company's website for 90 days after the event.

About Cibus

Cibus is a leader in developing traits (characteristics) that address critical productivity, yield and sustainability challenges. Cibus' proprietary high-throughput gene editing technologies drive its long-term focus on productivity traits for farmers for the major global row crops. Cibus is not a seed company. It is a technology company that uses its gene editing technologies to develop plant traits at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional breeding and to license them to customers in exchange for royalties.

About the Cibus Trait Machine™ process and Rapid Trait Development System

A key element of Cibus' technology breakthrough is its high-throughput breeding process (referred to as the Trait Machine™ process). The Trait Machine process is a crop specific application of Cibus' patented Rapid Trait Development System™ (RTDS®). The proprietary technologies in RTDS integrate crop specific cell biology platforms with a series of gene editing technologies to enable a system of end-to-end crop specific precision breeding. It is the core technology platform for Cibus' Trait Machine process: the first standardized end-to-end semi-automated crop specific gene editing system that directly edits a seed company's elite germplasm. Each Trait Machine process requires a crop specific cell biology platform that enables Cibus to edit a single cell from a customer's elite germplasm and grow that edited cell into a plant with the Cibus edits.

Cibus believes that RTDS and the Trait Machine process represent the technological breakthrough in plant breeding that is the ultimate promise of plant gene editing: high- throughput gene editing systems operating as an extension of seed company breeding programs. In 2024, the Trait Machine process was cited by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most innovative products in 2024.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included herein, including statements regarding Cibus' operational and financial performance, Cibus' liquidity and capital resources, the implementation and execution of cost savings initiatives, Cibus' strategy, future operations, prospects, and plans, including the anticipated receipt of commercial revenues and additional funding and the achievement of commercial milestone targets, are forward-looking statements. Cibus' assessment of the period of time through which its financial resources will be adequate to support its operations is a forward-looking statement. Because this involves such risks and uncertainties, the Company could use its available capital resources sooner than it currently expects. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "expect," "plan," "scheduled," "could," "would" and "will," or the negative of these and similar expressions.

These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations and assumptions of Cibus' management about future events, which are based on currently available information. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and beyond the control of Cibus. Cibus' actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements could be materially different than those expressed, implied, or anticipated by forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to: Cibus' need for additional near-term funding to finance its activities and challenges in obtaining additional capital on acceptable terms, or at all; changes in expected or existing competition; challenges to Cibus' intellectual property protection and unexpected costs associated with defending intellectual property rights; increased or unanticipated time and resources required for Cibus' platform or trait product development efforts; Cibus' reliance on third parties in connection with its development activities, including reliance on partner-funding and/or support for the advancement of its Sustainable Ingredients program; challenges associated with Cibus' ability to effectively license its productivity traits and sustainable ingredient products; the risk that farmers do not recognize the value in germplasm containing Cibus' traits or that farmers and processors fail to work effectively with crops containing Cibus' traits; delays or disruptions in the Company's platform or trait product development efforts, particularly insofar as they affect the Company's strategic priority programs; challenges that arise in respect of Cibus' production of high-quality plants and seeds cost effectively on a large scale; Cibus' dependence on distributions from Cibus Global, LLC to pay taxes and cover its corporate and overhead expenses; regulatory developments that disfavor or impose significant burdens on gene editing processes or products; Cibus' ability to achieve commercial success; commodity prices and other market risks facing the agricultural sector; technological developments that could render Cibus' technologies obsolete; changes in macroeconomic and market conditions, including inflation, supply chain constraints, and rising interest rates; dislocations in the capital markets and challenges in accessing liquidity and the impact of such liquidity challenges on Cibus' ability to execute on its business plan; the Company's assessment of the period of time through which its financial resources will be adequate to support operations; and other important factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Cibus' Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 17, 2026, as may be updated from time-to-time in Cibus' subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties occur, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results and plans could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements.

In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent Cibus' views as of the date hereof. Cibus specifically disclaims any obligation to update such forward-looking statements in the future, except as required under applicable law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Cibus' views as of any date subsequent to the date hereof.

CIBUS CONTACTS:

INVESTOR RELATIONS
Jeff Sonnek
[email protected]

MEDIA RELATIONS
Colin Sanford
[email protected]
203-918-4347

CIBUS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In Thousands, Except Par Value and Share Amounts)
December 31, 2025 December 31, 2024
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$9,923 $14,433
Accounts receivable 503 1,041
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 1,643 1,472
Total current assets 12,069 16,946
Property, plant, and equipment, net 6,300 11,439
Operating lease right-of-use assets 21,557 33,254
Intangible assets, net 31,679 33,578
Goodwill 232,516 253,466
Other non-current assets 926 1,386
Total assets$305,047 $350,069
Liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interest, and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$8,070 $5,964
Accrued expenses 1,946 2,281
Accrued compensation 3,061 3,309
Deferred revenue 536 932
Current portion of notes payable 435 436
Current portion of financing lease obligations 113
Current portion of operating lease obligations 2,731 4,287
Class A common stock warrants 79 2,268
Other current liabilities 288
Total current liabilities 16,858 19,878
Notes payable, net of current portion 93 226
Operating lease obligations, net of current portion 29,783 31,224
Royalty liability - related parties 234,923 199,442
Other non-current liabilities 1,561 1,468
Total liabilities 283,218 252,238
Redeemable noncontrolling interest 5,674
Stockholders’ equity:
Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value; 210,000,000 shares authorized; 54,604,232 shares issued and 54,325,852 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2025, and 28,258,258 shares issued and 27,939,023 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2024 11 9
Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value; 90,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2025, and 1,720,929 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2024
Additional paid-in capital 882,171 825,298
Class A common stock in treasury, at cost; 193,195 shares as of December 31, 2025, and 45,177 shares as of December 31, 2024 (2,141) (1,999)
Accumulated deficit (858,251) (731,166)
Accumulated other comprehensive income 39 15
Total stockholders’ equity 21,829 92,157
Total liabilities, redeemable noncontrolling interest, and stockholders’ equity$305,047 $350,069


CIBUS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Three Months December 31 Unaudited)
(In Thousands, Except Share and Per Share Amounts)
Three Months Ended December 31, Years Ended December 31,
2025
2024
2025
2024
Revenue:
Revenue$1,057 $1,212 $3,639 $4,262
Total revenue 1,057 1,212 3,639 4,262
Operating expenses:
Research and development 9,387 12,433 44,198 50,429
Selling, general, and administrative 5,129 6,803 26,905 30,797
Goodwill impairment 20,950 181,432
Long-lived assets impairment 9,115 9,115
Total operating expenses 23,631 19,236 101,168 262,658
Loss from operations (22,574) (18,024) (97,529) (258,396)
Royalty liability interest expense - related parties (9,406) (8,237) (35,481) (34,190)
Other interest income, net 55 109 438 631
Non-operating (expense) income, net (17) 354 400 9,271
Loss before income taxes (31,942) (25,798) (132,172) (282,684)
Income tax expense (6) (6) (29) (29)
Net loss$(31,948) $(25,804) $(132,201) $(282,713)
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest and redeemable noncontrolling interest (662) (2,702) (5,116) (31,325)
Net loss attributable to Cibus, Inc. stockholders$(31,286) $(23,102) $(127,085) $(251,388)
Basic and diluted net loss per share of Class A common stock$(0.59) $(0.87) $(2.78) $(10.83)
Weighted average shares of Class A common stock outstanding – basic and diluted 53,154,451 26,546,817 45,757,376 23,222,256


CIBUS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In Thousands)
Years Ended December 31,
2025
2024
Operating activities
Net loss$(132,201) $(282,713)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Royalty liability interest expense - related parties 35,481 34,190
Goodwill impairment 20,950 181,432
Long-lived assets impairment 9,115
Depreciation and amortization 5,923 6,859
Stock-based compensation 8,188 10,750
Loss on disposal of assets, net 41 335
Change in fair value of liability classified Class A common stock warrants (447) (9,301)
Other 38 22
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable 538 (512)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 983 518
Accounts payable 720 (188)
Accrued expenses (367) 608
Accrued compensation (268) (535)
Deferred revenue (403) (285)
Right-of-use assets and lease obligations, net 1,146 990
Other assets and liabilities, net (28) (213)
Net cash used in operating activities (50,591) (58,043)
Investing activities
Purchases of property, plant, and equipment (578) (808)
Net cash used in investing activities (578) (808)
Financing activities
Proceeds from issuances of securities 50,100 43,902
Costs incurred related to issuances of securities (2,202) (2,211)
Payment of taxes related to restricted stock units withheld from employees (142) (214)
Proceeds from issuance of notes payable 204
Repayments of financing lease obligations (113) (171)
Repayments of notes payable (995) (912)
Net cash provided by financing activities 46,648 40,598
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents 11 (13)
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents (4,510) (18,266)
Cash and cash equivalents – beginning of period 14,433 32,699
Cash and cash equivalents – end of period$9,923 $14,433

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