GRAL 10-K & 10-Q changes, risk factors and insider trading
GRAIL, Inc. · Nasdaq · Services-Medical Laboratories · CIK 1699031 · All filings on SEC.gov
At a glance
What changed in the latest 10-K
Risk Factors
New heading “Our NHS-Galleri Trial did not meet its stated primary endpoint, which may adversely affect our business, stock price, and ability to obtain regulatory approvals, coverage and reimbursement, or achieve commercial adoption.”
New heading “The Samsung Investment is subject to closing conditions, including conditions beyond our control, and no assurance can be given that closing will take place on the timeline currently anticipated, or at all, or that we will achieve our goals under the collaboration agreements to be entered into with Samsung C&T and/or Samsung Electronics. Any failure to close the Samsung Investment or achieve such goals could adversely impact our business, financial conditions, results of operations and liquidity.”
New heading “Our business may be affected by the evolving regulatory framework for AI Technologies.”
Largest changes
Despite the implementation of security and back-up measures, our information technology systems as well as those of our third-party collaborators, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and service providers, may be vulnerable to attack, damage, or interruption from physical or electronic break-ins, computer viruses, malware, malicious code, ransomware, misconfigurations, “bugs” or other vulnerabilities, denial or degradation ofsee in full comparisonservice,service attacks, hacking, phishing attacks, and other cyber-attacks, natural disasters, terrorism, war, telecommunication and electrical failures, instructions and attacks from sophisticated nation-state and nation-state-supported actors (including advanced persistent threat intrusions), or other disruptive incidents that could result in unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of, corruption of, or loss of sensitive, and/ or proprietary data, including personal information, protected health information, and other sensitive information, and could subject us to significant liabilities and regulatory and enforcement actions, and reputational damage.TheWeriskhave also outsourced elements ofa cybersecurity incident or disruption, particularly through cyberattacks or cyber intrusion, including by computer hackers, foreign governments, and cyber terrorists, has generally increased as the number, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks and intrusions from around the world have increased and evolved. If we orourthird-party vendors were to experience a significant cybersecurity incident affecting our or theirinformation technologysystems or data, the costs associated with the investigation, remediation,infrastructure, andpotential notification of the incident to counterparties and data subjects could be material, in addition to any money required to resolve a ransomware attack. For example, laws in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom, and all 50 U.S. states may require businesses to notify regulators within specific timeframes that an incident affecting personal information has occurred and/or to provide notice to individuals whose personal information has been impactedas a result a number ofsuchthird-partyincident.vendors may or could have access to our confidential information. As we increasingly leverage third-party digital health platforms and service providers to support our operations and patient-facing capabilities, we may become subject to cybersecurity risks outside of our direct control. As a part ofourthesegrowthrelationships,strategy,thesewethirdhavepartiesexpandedmayintostoremultipleorjurisdictionsprocessoutsidecertain types oftheconfidentialUnitedorStates,patientincludingdata.theTheseUnitedthirdKingdompartiesandmayIsrael,notandmaintainintendcybersecurity practices, expertise, certifications, or controls that are equivalent tocontinueourexpansionsown,inwhich2025 and beyond. This growth will subject us to additional regulatory regimes andcould increase theamountrisk ofcybersecuritysecurityrequirementsincidents,fordatacompliancebreaches,inormultipleservicegeographies.disruptionsComplying with such numerous and complex regulations in the event of a cybersecurity breach would be expensive and difficult, and failure to complythat couldsubjectadverselyus to regulatory scrutiny and additional liability. In addition,affect ourremediationbusiness,efforts may not be successful. Data protection laws and regulations often require appropriate, reasonableoperations, oradequate technical and organizational security measures, and the interpretation and application of those laws and regulations are often uncertain and evolving. There can be no assurance that our security measures will be deemed adequate, appropriate or reasonable by a regulator or court. Moreover, even security measures that are deemed appropriate, reasonable, or otherwise in accordance with applicable legal requirements may not be able to protect the information we maintain.reputation.
“The risk of a cybersecurity incident or disruption, particularly through cyberattacks or cyber intrusion, including by computer hackers, foreign governments, and cyber terrorists, has generally increased as the number, intensity and sophistication of attempted attacks and intrusions from around the world have increased and evolved. …”see in full comparison
“The Samsung Investment is subject to closing conditions, including conditions beyond our control, and no assurance can be given that closing will take place on the timeline currently anticipated, or at all, or that we will achieve our goals under the collaboration agreements to be entered into with Samsung C&T and/or Samsung Electronics. Any failure to close the Samsung Investment or achieve such goals could adversely impact our business, financial conditions, results of operations and liquidity.”see in full comparison
“It is possible that new laws and regulations will be adopted in the United States and in other non-U.S. jurisdictions, or that existing laws and regulations, including competition and antitrust laws, may be interpreted in ways that would limit our ability to use AI Technologies for our business, or require us to change the way we use AI Technologies in a manner that negatively affects the performance of our products, services, and business and the way in which we use AI Technologies. …”see in full comparison
Penalties and fines for failure to comply with the GDPR are significant, including fines of up to €20 million/ £17.5 million or 4% of a noncompliant company’s global turnover for the preceding year, whichever is higher. Since we are subject to the supervision of relevant data protection authorities under both the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR, we could be fined undersee in full comparisoneach ofthose regimes independently and in respect of the same non-compliance. As we continue to expand into other foreign countries and jurisdictions, we may be subject to additional laws and regulations that may affect how we conduct business.NoncomplianceIn addition to potential fines, noncompliance with applicable foreign privacy laws, such as the GDPR,wouldmayalsoresultadverselyinaffectregulatory investigations, orders to cease/ change our data processing activities, enforcement notices, assessment notices (for a compulsory audit), civil claims (including class actions) and/or damage to the public perception of GRAIL’s data stewardship practices and policies, which could impair our business and prospects with other foreign health systems and governments.
We, along with companies with whom we engage in data sharing, including our service providers, are from time to time subject to cyberattacks and other cybersecurity incidents. While we do not believe that we have experienced any significant system failure, or cybersecurity incident to date, we may nonetheless be a target of such an attack, and if such an event were to occur and cause interruptions in our operations, or any of our third-party collaborators’ operations, it could result in a material disruption of our development programs, reputation, and business operations whether due to a loss, corruption, or unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets, personal information, financial information, health information, or other proprietary or sensitive information, or other similar disruptions. For example, the loss of clinical study data from completed or ongoing clinical studies could result in delays in any regulatory clearance, approval, or certification efforts and significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data, and subsequently commercialize our products. If we or our third-party collaborators, consultants, contractors, suppliers, or service providers were to suffer a cybersecurity incident or attack, for example, that resulted in the unauthorized access to or use or disclosure of personal or health information, we may have to notify physicians, patients, partners, collaborators, government authorities, and the media, and may be subject to investigations, civil penalties, administrative and enforcement actions, and litigation, any of which could harm our business and reputation. Likewise, we rely on our third-party research institution collaborators and other third parties to conduct clinical studies, and similar events relating to their computer systems could also have a material adverse effect on our business. It could also expose us to risks, including an inability to provide our services and fulfill contractual demands, and could cause management distraction and the obligation to devote significant financial and other resources to mitigate such problems, which would increase our future information security costs, including through organizational changes, deploying additional personnel, reinforcing administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, further training of employees, changing third-party vendor control practices, and engaging third-party subject matter experts and consultants and reduce the demand for our technology and services. Further, there can also be no assurance that our and our third-party service providers’, strategic partners’, contractors’, consultants’, CROs’ and collaborators’ cybersecurity risk management program and processes, including policies, controls or procedures, will be fully implemented, complied with or effective in protecting our systems, networks and Confidential Information. To the extent that any disruption or cybersecurity incident were to result in a loss of, or damage to, our data or systems, or inappropriate or unauthorized access to or disclosure or use of confidential, proprietary, or other sensitive, personal, or health information, we could incur liability, we could be exposed to the risk of litigation, our market position could be harmed, we could suffer reputational harm, and the development and commercialization of our products could be delayed. Furthermore, federal, state, and international laws and regulations can expose us to enforcement actions and investigations by regulatory authorities, and potentially result in regulatory penalties, fines, and significant legal liability, if our information technology security efforts fail or if there are material findings regarding data security or data integrity deficiencies by us or our critical partners, vendors, or suppliers. While we may be entitled to damages if our third-party partners, vendors, or suppliers fail to satisfy their security-related obligations, any award may be insufficient to cover our damages, or we may be unable to recover such award. Attacks on information technology systems are increasing in their frequency, levels of persistence, sophistication, and intensity, and are being conducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives and expertise. Furthermore, because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to, or to sabotage, systems change frequently and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative measures. In particular, developments in artificial intelligence tools and computing power are likely to increase the frequency and effectiveness of attacks. We may also experience cybersecurity incidents that may remain undetected for an extended period. Even if identified, we may be unable to adequately investigate or remediate cybersecurity incidents due to attackers increasingly using tools and techniques – including artificial intelligence – that are designed to circumvent controls, to avoid detection, and to remove or obfuscate forensic evidence.see in full comparison
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We operate in a rapidly evolving field and have a limited operating history, which makesmake it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future performance.
We operate in a rapidly evolving field and, having commenced operations in January 2016, have a limited operating history. We completed our first sale of our multi-cancer early detection test, Galleri, in mid-2021 and our other products and products in development have an even more limited history, with most still not in commercial distribution. We have funded our operations to date primarily with the proceeds from the sale of equity securities and capital contributions from Illumina and, to a lesser extent, revenue derived from sales of Galleri and biopharmaceutical business revenue. Our short operating history as a company, evolving business strategies, rapid growth and significant events such as our separation from Illumina and the restructuring plan (“Restructuring Plan”) approved by our Board of Directors (the “Board”) designed to reprioritize our resources to focus on our core MCED business and reduce overall spend as we pursue a PMA approval from the FDA for Galleri and broad reimbursement, may make it difficult to evaluate our current business or our future success and the risks and challenges we may encounter, and may increase the risk that we will not continue to grow at or near historical rates. See Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for more information about the Restructuring Plan.
If we fail to address the risks and difficulties that we face, including those described elsewhere in this Item 1A. “Risk Factors” section, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects could be materially adversely affected. We have encountered in the past, and expect to encounter in the future, risks and difficulties frequently experienced by companies with limited operating histories in new and rapidly evolving fields. If our assumptions regarding these risks and difficulties, which we use to plan and operate our business, are incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks and difficulties, our results of operations could differ materially from our expectations and our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects could be adversely affected.
Since our inception, we have incurred significant net losses. Our net loss was $408.4 million for 2025, $2.0 billion for fiscal2024, year 2024,and $1.5 billion for fiscal year 2023, and $5.4 billion for fiscal year 2022.2023. Substantially all of our net losses since inception have resulted from our research and development programs, commercialization efforts, investments in our facilities, payments to licensors, and general and administrative costs associated with our operations, as well as intangible asset amortization and the impairments of $28.0 million, $1.4 billion,billion and $0.7 billion and $4.7 billion for fiscal2025, year 2024, fiscal year 20232024 and fiscal year 2022,2023, respectively, related to the intangible assets and goodwill recorded by Illumina upon the Acquisition of GRAIL. As of December 31, 2024,2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $9.8$10.2 billion and intangible assets of $2.0$1.9 billion.
We have invested significant financial resources in research and development activities, including to developdeveloping our methylation platform, and to developdeveloping our products, such as Galleri and our precision oncology portfolio. We have also invested significant resources to conduct large scale clinical studies to evaluate and improve Galleri and current and future products, and to commercialize Galleri and plan for potential commercial launches of our future and current products in other markets. The amount of our future net losses will depend, in part, on the level of our future expenditures and our ability to generate additional revenue. Moreover, our net losses may fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter and year to year, such that a period-to-period comparison of our results of operations may not be a good or reliable indication of our future performance.
•continue to engage the medical community and others to drive awareness and adoption of multi-cancer early detection (“MCED”) testing; and
Our NHS-Galleri Trial did not meet its stated primary endpoint, which may adversely affect our business, stock price, and ability to obtain regulatory approvals, coverage and reimbursement, or achieve commercial adoption.
In February 2026, we announced topline results from our NHS-Galleri Trial, which enrolled approximately 140,000 participants in England between 2021 and 2024, and which did not meet its primary endpoint of statistically significant combined Stage 3 and 4 reduction. Not meeting the stated primary endpoint may negatively impact perceptions of the clinical utility of the Galleri test among healthcare providers, payors, regulators, potential commercial partners, and the investment community. This could adversely affect our ability to obtain coverage and reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial third-party payors, secure implementation of Galleri screening in the NHS in England or other international single-payor healthcare systems, achieve broad commercial adoption of Galleri among healthcare providers and patients in the United States, or enter into partnerships or collaborations on favorable terms. Additionally, although the submission package submitted for our PMA includes only the NHS-Galleri Prevalent Round Results, data from the PATHFINDER 2 Initial Results and the Bridging Analysis, nevertheless it is possible that not meeting the stated primary endpoint in the NHS-Galleri Trial could impact our ability to achieve FDA approval of our pending PMA application, or result in approval with more limited indications or labeling than we seek.
We are undertaking additional analyses and plan to extend the trial's follow-up period by 6-12 months to further understand the data and other endpoints. However, there can be no assurance that such analyses will produce more favorable conclusions or that any additional data will change perceptions of the trial results among the groups identified above. Any adverse impact from the primary endpoint results could materially harm our business, results of operations, financial condition, and stock price.
Our products or future products may not perform as expected, and the results of our clinical studies may not support the launch or use of our products or future products and may not comply with the requirements, or be replicated in later studies or in the post-market or real-world setting, required to support a commercial opportunity or for any necessary or desirable regulatory clearances, approvals, or certifications, or reimbursement or coverage.setting.
Our success depends on our ability to provide reliable, high-quality products that perform as indicated in our product labeling, marketing, and advertising material, as well as our ability to complete clinical studies. Our commercial product, Galleri, which we have launched as a laboratory developed test (“LDT”) in the United States and for which we are pursuing approval of a PMA from the FDA and our precision oncology portfolio, which we currently offer on a research-use-only basis, and any future products in development, may not perform as expected. Results from our ongoing or future studies, or from the post-market or real-world setting, involving current or future products or our methylation platform may be inconsistent with certain results obtained from our previous studies, or from interim results initially reported on those studies.
For example, in February 2026, we announced topline results from the NHS-Galleri Trial, which did not achieve its primary endpoint of statistically significant combined Stage 3 and 4 cancer reduction. Not meeting the stated primary endpoint may lead healthcare providers, payors, regulators, and the investment community to question the clinical utility of Galleri. Any perception that our products do not perform as expected, even if clinically meaningful benefits were demonstrated, could materially harm our ability to obtain regulatory approvals, secure reimbursement, achieve commercial adoption, and maintain the market price of our common stock.
Our products require a number of complex and sophisticated biochemical and bioinformatics processes, which could be adversely impacted by a number of different factors. An operational or technological failure in one of these complex processes or fluctuations in external variables may result in performance characteristics, such as sensitivity or specificity rates, that are lower than we anticipate or that vary between test runs or in a higher than anticipated number of tests that fail to produce results.
Our clinical trials to date have been conducted on an earlier version of Galleri. We have in the past improved, and intend in the future to improve, our products to enhance performance, offerings, scalability, and/or cost of sales, including through the launches of new versions. However, we may not be successful in transitioning our products to a new or enhanced version or iteration. These improvements may be made through evaluation, refinement or enhancement of our laboratory process or our algorithms and other processes. Before implementing a new version, we conduct a non-inferiority or bridging study (for example, using clinical data and/or real-world evidence data obtained through Galleri’s commercial use as an LDT) to establish performance, safety and concordance between the new version and the existing version. Even if determined to be non-inferior or concordant, these refinements and improvements may inadvertently result in unanticipated issues that may reduce our performance characteristics, such as sensitivity or specificity rates, increase our turnaround time or failure rate or otherwise adversely affect the performance of our tests and their results. For example, in late 2024, we began use of an updated commercial version of Galleri in commercial channels. This version incorporates an industrial scale platform with significant automation and is intended to enable us to scale more efficiently with future demand. In connection with implementation of this new version of Galleri, we initially experienced and may continue to experience increased turnaround times, re-processing costs and sample failures. We continually monitor and evaluate laboratory operations and performance in an effort to achieve our intended sample processing metrics and costs; however from time to time, processing issues may arise that could impact our operations.
If we are unable to adequately prevent these issues from occurring, or to adequately identify and remedy these issues, we may experience reputational harm, lose customers and revenue, need to offer discounts, require additional expenditures, delay or prevent PMA approval, or suffer other negative consequences. Our failure to successfully develop new and/or improved products (including new versions of existing products) on a timely basis could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and business.
Our success depends on our ability to provide reliable, high-quality products that perform as indicated in our product labeling, marketing, and advertising material, as well as our ability to complete clinical studies and comply with applicable regulatory requirements that enable us to commercialize our products and future products. Our commercial product, Galleri, which we have launched as a laboratory developed test (“LDT”) in the United States and for which we are pursuing a premarket approval application (“PMA”) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) and our precision oncology portfolio, which we currently offer on a research-use-only basis, and any future products in development, may not perform as expected. Results from our ongoing or future studies, or from the post-market or real-world setting, involving current or future products or our methylation platform may be inconsistent with certain results obtained from our previous studies, or from interim results initially reported on those studies. In addition, results from our ongoing or future studies may not support certain product launch opportunities. For example, the NHS evaluated results of an early analysis from the first screening test (the prevalent screening round) in the NHS-Galleri Trial to determine whether the results were compelling enough to commence an implementation pilot in England prior to the final trial results. The results of this early analysis represented limited information from only one year of results out of the three-year trial period, and final results from the full three-year period may differ from the early analysis for a variety of reasons. In May 2024, the NHS determined not to initiate the pilot on the basis of those available data and will evaluate the final results from the NHS-Galleri Trial, which are expected to be available in 2026, before determining whether to implement the Galleri test in the NHS. We believe the decision will include considerations such as NHS budget, political priorities, cost-effectiveness and implementation constraints in addition to an evaluation of the final results. It is possible that the final results will be unsuitable or unavailable, which could have a significant adverse impact on the success of our commercial efforts for Galleri, our ability to achieve FDA authorization at all or within our anticipated timelines, our brand and reputation, our business, and our growth prospects. Furthermore, other studies have been or may be conducted in populations (such as our SUMMIT study which was conducted in a population of tobacco users) or under other circumstances which make their results more complicated to interpret or result in data that is more difficult to compare. In addition, as Galleri and our research-use-only offering are currently available to customers and others, any studies, including those conducted by third parties, that use our current or future products, or that examine elements of our methylation platform, may produce results that are inconsistent to evaluate independently or comparatively from our own studies. If any such inconsistent results were to be produced, either before or after launch of a product or future product, our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects would suffer.
Our products require a number of complex and sophisticated biochemical and bioinformatics processes, which could be adversely impacted by a number of different factors. An operational or technological failure in one of these complex processes or fluctuations in external variables may result in performance characteristics, such as sensitivity or specificity rates, that are lower than we anticipate or that vary between test runs or in a higher than anticipated number of tests that fail to produce results. In addition, we continue to evaluate and refine our algorithms and other processes under development. These refinements may inadvertently result in unanticipated issues that may reduce our performance characteristics, such as sensitivity or specificity rates, or otherwise adversely affect the performance of our tests and their results. Galleri was launched in the United States as an LDT in mid-2021 and an updated version was launched in December 2024. The FDA has granted breakthrough device designation for Galleri. We plan to complete a PMA submission for a further updated version of our Galleri test. We may also be required or decide voluntarily to seek clearance or approval from the FDA for future products. However, the FDA recently finalized a regulation pursuant to which it plans to subject LDTs to medical device requirements through a phase-out of its historical policy of enforcement discretion over LDTs over a period of four years. The phase-in of medical device requirements to LDTs, including the potential requirement for FDA marketing authorization, if it imposes new, different or earlier significant obligations, will be costly and time-consuming, and if we fail to comply with such requirements, or if we cannot ultimately obtain marketing authorization for our LDTs where required, our business will be substantially harmed.
Moreover, FDA, other regulators, and notified bodies may require that we generate additional clinical data to support such clearance, approval, or certification, which could result in delays, increased costs, or other limitations or negative impacts on our ability to receive such clearance, approval, or certification, if at all, including narrowed indication or labeling than expected or desired. For additional information, see “—Risks Relating to Regulation and Legal Compliance—The regulatory clearance, approval, or certification processes of the FDA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities are lengthy, time-consuming, and unpredictable. If we are ultimately unable to obtain any necessary or desirable regulatory approvals, clearances, or certifications, or if such approvals, clearances, or certifications are significantly delayed, our business will be substantially harmed.”
Further, we plan to improve our products to enhance performance, offerings, scalability, and/or cost of goods. However, we may not be successful in transitioning our products to a new or enhanced version or iteration. Product development involves a lengthy and complex process and we may be unable to commercialize, validate, or improve performance of any of our products on a timely basis, or at all. For example, to the extent an enhanced version of an existing product is developed, we may be required to conduct a non-inferiority study involving such enhanced version as compared to the relevant then-current version of the test using data (for example, clinical data and/or real world evidence data obtained through Galleri’s commercial use as an LDT), or could be required to undertake other regulatory requirements if the enhanced version is not considered similar enough to the then-current version to conduct a non-inferiority study. With respect to Galleri, we intend to conduct one or more bridging studies to measure and evaluate concordance, performance and safety of the subsequent, updated version of Galleri (for which we are submitting our PMA) using previously collected clinical study data and other samples. Any such bridging study will need to be agreed upon with regulatory authorities and may be unsuccessful or insufficient to support approval. If unsuccessful or insufficient, we would be required to revert to the existing version of the test and forego, or be delayed in, implementing any perceived or potential updates, including enhancements. Reverting to the existing version of the test may cause delays in our PMA submission timeline. Additionally, planned improvements to our products may cause unintentional technical, logistical or other issues. For example, in late 2024, we began use of a new version of Galleri in commercial channels which incorporates significant automation and is intended to enable us to scale more efficiently with future demand. In connection with implementation of this new version of Galleri, we have experienced increased turnaround times and order cancellations. If we are unable to adequately prevent these issues from occurring, or to adequately identify and remedy these issues, we may experience reputational harm, lose customers, need to offer discounts, or suffer other negative consequences. Our failure to successfully develop new and/ or improved products (including new versions of existing products) on a timely basis could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and business.
The clinical study process is lengthy and expensive with uncertain outcomes. We have encountered delays and may encounter future delays in, or unexpectedunexpected, uncertain or negative data from, our clinical studies, and may therefore be unable to complete our clinical studies on the timelines we expect, if at all, which could materially and adversely impact our ability to launch our products and seek regulatory clearance or approval, or coverage and reimbursement.
The results of our development efforts and clinical studies of our products conducted to date and ongoing or future studies of our current or future products may not be predictive of the results of later clinical studies, and interim results of a clinical study do not necessarily predict final results. Our interpretation of data and results from our clinical studies do not ensure that we will achieve similar or favorable results in future clinical studies. In addition, clinical data are often susceptible to various interpretations, analyses, and methodological limitations, and many companies that have believed their products performed satisfactorily in earlier clinical studies have nonetheless failed to replicate results in later clinical studies. Products in later future clinical studies may fail to show the desired safety and efficacy despite having success in previous clinical studies. For example, in May 2025 we disclosed positive top-line results from the NHS-Galleri Trial prevalent screening round (the first round of blood draws from a total of three blood draws with one year follow up each), which is included in our PMA submission to the FDA. The NHS will evaluate the final results from the NHS-Galleri Trial before determining whether to implement the Galleri test in the NHS. Under our agreement with the NHS, these results have met certain success criteria and missed others. As a result, we and NHS England will convene meetings of our joint steering committee to discuss how best to proceed with deployment to the UK population, if at all, considering deployment approaches and which population groups would most benefit. We believe the decision will include considerations such as NHS budget, political priorities, cost-effectiveness and implementation constraints in addition to an evaluation of the final results. Various factors are likely to cause the final results to differ from a review of the first round results only. For example, cancer screening trials designed to show clinical utility are commonly conducted over three years with an annual screening period, because data from the first screening round only can be influenced by the fact that screening detects many prevalent late-stage asymptomatic cancers that have not yet been diagnosed. It is possible that the final results will be unsuitable or unavailable, which could have a significant adverse impact on the success of our commercial efforts for Galleri, our ability to achieve FDA authorization at all or within our anticipated timelines, our brand and reputation, our business, and our growth prospects. Furthermore, other studies have been or may be conducted in populations (such as our SUMMIT study which was conducted in a population of tobacco users) or under other circumstances which make their results more complicated to interpret or result in data that is more difficult to compare. In addition, as Galleri and our research-use-only offering are currently available to customers and others, any analyses or studies, including those conducted by third parties, that use our current or future products, or that examine elements of our methylation platform, may produce results that are inconsistent to evaluate independently or comparatively from our own studies. If any such inconsistent results were to be produced, either before or after launch of a product or future product, our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects would suffer.
The results of our development efforts and clinical studies of our products conducted to date and ongoing or future studies of our current or future products may not be predictive of the results of later clinical studies, and interim results of a clinical study do not necessarily predict final results. Our interpretation of data and results from our clinical studies do not ensure that we will achieve similar or favorable results in future clinical studies. In addition, clinical data are often susceptible to various interpretations, analyses, and methodological limitations, and many companies that have believed their products performed satisfactorily in earlier clinical studies have nonetheless failed to replicate results in later clinical studies. Products in later future clinical studies may fail to show the desired safety and efficacy despite having success in previous clinical studies.
For example, our PMA submission for Galleri requires clinical data, including certain data from our ongoing PATHFINDER 2 study, which we are conducting under an FDA-approved Investigational Device Exemption (“IDE”) application and our NHS-Galleri Trial. We may encounter difficulties enrolling or maintaining a sufficient number of participants in our current or future studies. Delays in our studies would cause us to delay completion of our PMA submission for Galleri, which would negatively impact our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.
Further, the FDA may require that we conduct additional studies or expand the enrollment or follow-up of completed or ongoing studies to support our PMA, which would add significant time delay topotential approval of our PMA submission, which would negatively impact our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects, The initiation and completion of clinical studies may be prevented, delayed, or halted for numerous reasons, including as a result of the following:prospects.
The initiation and completion of clinical studies may be prevented, delayed, or halted for numerous reasons, including as a result of the following:
•the requirement to submit an Investigational Device Exemption (“IDE”) or comparable foreign application to the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities, which must become effective prior to commencing certain human clinical studies of medical devices, and which the FDA or comparable foreign regulatory authorities may disapprove;
•failure to perform in accordance with good clinical practice (“GCP”) and good laboratory practice (“GLP”) requirements, and/or other applicable regulations and requirements of the FDA or other applicable governmental authorities; failure to comply with applicable data privacy and security laws, including laws related to processing of special categories of personal data clinical studies such as the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”) or United Kingdom’s General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 (“UK GDPR”) (the UK GDPR and EU GDPR together referred to as the “GDPR”);
Any such delays could adversely affect the costs, timing, or successful completion of our clinical studies. Moreover, we depend on our collaborators and on medical and clinical institutions and CROs to conduct our clinical studies in compliance with applicable GCP and other regulatory requirements, and while we have agreements governing their committed activities, we have limited influence over their actual performance. To the extent we, our collaborators or the CROs fail to enroll participants for our clinical studies, fail to conduct the study according to applicable GCP or other regulatory requirements, or are delayed for a significant time in the execution of studies, including achieving full enrollment, we may be affected by increased costs, program delays, enforcement actions, or a determination that the data are unusable for regulatory or product development purposes. In addition, clinical studies that are conducted in countries outside the United States may subject us to further delays and expenses. In addition, our precision oncology offering is highly dependent on collaborations with select, leading biopharmaceutical companies. For example, in late 2025, one of our pharmaceutical partners terminated its phase 3 trial due to low enrollment, for which our methylation technology was used as a potential companion diagnostic for enrolling participants. To the extent our collaborators experience any of delays, halts, unexpected data or other issues in the trials they collaborate on with us, we may be similarly delayed or halted in validating or generating revenue from our precision oncology offering, and we could experience reputational or other harms.
One of the key elements of our strategy is to expand access to our tests by pursuing coverage and reimbursement from third-party payors, both private and government payors. If our products do not receive adequate coverage and reimbursement, if at all, from third-party payors, our ability to expand access to our products and our overall commercial success beyond our existing sales channels will be limited and our overall commercial success will be limited.
We have established privatecoverage and reimbursement for Galleri from a number of self-insured employers and other third-party payors in the United States, but do not currently have broader coverage and reimbursement by government healthcare programs, such as Medicare. A key element of our strategy is to expand access to our tests by pursuing broad coverage and reimbursement by third-party payors, including government payors. Coverage and reimbursement by third-party payors, including managed care organizations, private health insurers, and government healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid in the United States and similar programs in other countries, for early detection tests we offer or are planning to offer, can be limited and uncertain. Healthcare providers may not order our products unless third-party payors cover and provide adequate reimbursement rates for a substantial portion of the price of our products. If we are not able to obtain adequate coverage and an acceptable level of reimbursement for our products from third-party payors, there could be a greater co-insurance or co-payment obligation for any individual for whom a test is ordered. The individual may be forced to pay the entire cost of a test out-of-pocket, which could dissuade physicians from ordering our products and, if ordered, could result in delay in or decreased likelihood of our collection of payment. We believe our revenue and revenue growth will depend on our success in achieving coverage and adequate reimbursement for our products from third-party payors.
Medicare is the single largest U.S. payor and a particularly important payor for many cancer-related laboratory services given the demographics of the Medicare population. Traditional fee-for-service Medicare generally does not cover screening tests, which are considered preventive services, that are performed in the absence of signs or symptoms of illness or injury, unless there is a statutory provision that explicitly authorizes coverage of the test.
In February 2026, the Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare MCED Coverage Act became law and created a Medicare coverage benefit category for multi-cancer early detection tests. The law included certain standards, including that CMS would establish coverage through a national coverage determination (“NCD”) process under “reasonable and necessary” evidentiary requirements. An NCD typically involves a multi-step review that can include evidence assessment by CMS staff, consultation with external technology assessment organizations, a Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) meeting, and opportunities for public comment. CMS may issue an NCD to provide coverage for MCED tests that are cleared under 510(k), classified under 513(f)(2) or approved by the FDA, with authority to initiate coverage as early as January 1, 2029. Coverage eligibility is phased in, with those aged 50-65 eligible under the law in 2029, expanding by one age-year annually. The payment rate for covered MCED tests would be in alignment with methodologies under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA), which incorporates private market rates. The NCD process can be lengthy and resource-intensive, and its timing, outcome, and scope are inherently uncertain, which may affect the availability, extent, and conditions of Medicare reimbursement for applicable products or services. Because of the novelty of the statutory authority and of MCED technology, it is uncertain what evidence will be required in order to achieve an NCD, or if the evidence we have collected through our completed, ongoing or planned clinical studies and commercial practice will be sufficient to support such determination.
Medicare isAdditionally, the single largest U.S. payor and a particularly important payor for many cancer-related laboratory services given the demographics of the Medicare population. Traditional fee-for-service Medicare generally does not cover screening tests, which are considered preventive services, that are performed in the absence of signs or symptoms of illness or injury, unless there is a statutory provision that explicitly authorizes coverage of the test. The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 authorizes the CMS to cover additional preventive services that are not expressly covered by the statute if the service is (a) reasonable and necessary for the prevention or early detection of an illness or disability, (b) recommended with a grade of A or B by the USPSTF, and (c) appropriate for Medicare beneficiaries under Part A or Part B. CMS establishes coverage through aan national coverage determination (“NCD”) process, which generally requires, or is significantly more likely following, FDA approval.approval of specific screening products. In its discretion, the USPSTF generally waits for FDA authorization before it considers undertaking reviews of novel technology. Galleri and certain other future products could be considered screening tests under Medicare and, accordingly, are and may not be eligible for traditional Medicare fee-for-service coverage and reimbursement unless we pursue substantial additional measures, including, but not limited to, securing FDA authorization of Galleri and other future products, followed by obtaining a grade A or B recommendation from the USPSTF, in an effort to enable CMS to issue an NCD. Historically, USPSTF has only provided grade A or B recommendations on the basis of evidence packages that include mortality data, which would require significant long-term follow up. Medicare coverage can also be changed by statute, and another possible pathway for Medicare reimbursement would be to amend the Medicare statute to cover MCED testing. This process would generally require new legislation to expressly authorize CMS to cover FDA-approved early cancer screening and detection tests. We are working with stakeholders to advance and shape the public reimbursement landscape, including through proposed legislation with bipartisan sponsorship, to reflect that additional scope of coverage. However, even if we are successful in obtaining an NCD on the basis of the new reimbursementMCED landscapebenefit envisionedcategory, bythe thiscoverage legislation,would only apply to a relatively small portion of the overall Medicare population due to the age restriction and annual phase in requirement. Accordingly, we would intend to seek a USPSTF grade for Galleri.Galleri and, potentially, an NCD as additional preventative services. If we receive an NCD for Galleri or our other products and subsequently receive a USPSTF grade lower than A or B, it is possible that CMS would rescind the NCD. Further, the political climate is dynamic, and support for this legislation among legislators and stakeholders may change over time and such legislation may never be enacted, may be significantly delayed in being enacted, or may be enacted in a different form, including narrower or less favorable terms, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects. For example, bipartisan supported legislation backed by stakeholders has been discussed for inclusion in multiple bills but has not yet been included in the final version of any bill put forward for a vote. Any of these efforts, individually and together, require significant investments and resources, and may ultimately be unsuccessful or may take several years, if at all, to achieve.
If eligible for reimbursement, laboratory tests including ours are generally classified for reimbursement purposes under CMS’s Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (“HCPCS”) and the American Medical Association’s (“AMA”) Current Procedural Terminology (“CPT”) coding systems. We and payors must use those coding systems to bill and pay for our diagnostic tests, respectively. These HCPCS and CPT codes are associated with the particular product or service that is provided to the individual. Accordingly, without a HCPCS or CPT code applicable to our products, the submission of claims would be a significant challenge. Once CMS creates an HCPCS code or the AMA establishes a CPT code, CMS establishes payment rates and coverage rules under traditional Medicare, and private payors establish rates and coverage rules independently. Under Medicare, payment for laboratory tests is generally made under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (“CLFS”) with payment amounts assigned to specific HCPCS and CPT codes. In addition, effective January 1, 2018, a new Medicare payment methodology went into effect for clinical laboratory tests, under which laboratory-reported private payor rates are used to establish Medicare payment rates for tests reimbursed via the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule. The new methodology implements Section 216 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (“PAMA”) and requires laboratories that meet certain requirements related to volume and type of Medicare revenues to report to CMS their private payor payment rates for each test they perform, the volume of tests paid at each rate, and the HCPCS code associated with the test. CMS uses the reported information to set the payment rate for each test at the weighted median private payor rate. Most affected tests are revaluedreevaluated every three years. A series of legislative amendments delayed the next PAMA reporting period to JanuaryFebruary 1, 20242026 through MarchApril 31,30, 2024,2026, which will cover the original data collection period of January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019. New CLFS rates for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests (“CDLTs”) will be established based on that datadata, beginningeffective inJanuary 2025,1, 2027, subject to phase-in limits. As a result, Medicare payment rates determined by data reported in 2017 continued through December 31, 2024. In addition, under PAMA, as amended, the payment reduction cap will beis 15% per test per year infrom eachJanuary of31, the years 20242026 through 2026.2028. PAMA also authorized the adoption of new, temporary billing codes and unique test identifiers for FDA-cleared or approved tests, as well as advanced diagnostic laboratory tests (“ADLTs”). The AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel approved a proposal to create a new section of billing codes called Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (“PLA”) codes, to facilitate implementation of this section of PAMA. Congress is currently considering additional reforms to the PAMA reporting system. The full impact of the PAMA rate-setting methodology and its applicability to our productsproducts, including interactions with potential establishment of a Medicare MCED benefit category under consideration in Congress, remains uncertain at this time.
In determining whether to provide coverage and reimbursement for Galleri, payors may consider the results of our clinical studies, including the NHS-Galleri Trial. The NHS-Galleri Trial did not meet its primary endpoint of statistically significant combined Stage 3 and 4 reduction. Even though the trial demonstrated a substantial reduction in stage 4 cancer diagnoses, increased stage 1 and 2 detection of deadly cancers, and four-fold higher cancer detection rate when compared to recommended screenings alone, payors may view the overall trial outcome unfavorably, which could adversely impact coverage decisions or reimbursement rates for Galleri. Any inability to secure favorable coverage and reimbursement decisions as a result of the NHS-Galleri Trial results, or otherwise, could materially harm our revenue and growth prospects.
•the belief of providers, patients, CMS and others that the use of Galleri in its intended use population is clinically appropriate, and not restricting its use to a narrower intended population;
•our ability to fulfill test orders in a timely manner; and
•the strength of our marketing and distribution support and patient-facing service providers.providers;
•the perception among healthcare providers, payors, regulators, and the investment community regarding the clinical significance of clinical trial results, including instances where a trial does not meet its primary endpoint, even if clinically meaningful secondary endpoints are achieved, as occurred in our NHS-Galleri Trial; and
•the willingness of healthcare providers and payors to prescribe or cover Galleri in light of the NHS-Galleri Trial not meeting its primary endpoint of statistically significant combined Stage 3 and 4 reduction, notwithstanding favorable secondary endpoint data.
The failure of our products, once introduced, to be listed in physician guidelines or of our studies to produce favorable and consistent results or to be published in peer-reviewed journals could limit the adoption of our products. In addition, healthcare providers and third-party payors, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), may rely on physician guidelines issued by industry groups, medical societies, and other key organizations, such as the United States Preventive Services Task Force (“USPSTF”), an independent, volunteer panel of experts in the field of prevention, evidence-based medicine and primary care, before utilizing or reimbursing the cost of any diagnostic or screening test. Although we have completed our PATHFINDER study, PATHFINDER 2 study and NHS-Galleri Trial, and have a number of aadditional clinical studies underway designed to evaluate the clinical validity of Galleri, our product is not yet, and may never be, listed in any such guidelines, even if approved by the FDA.
Additionally, we believe that FDA approval for Galleri may provide clinical and regulatory credibility and validation in the view of providers, third-party payors, and others, and our failure to achieve FDA approval, at all or within our anticipated timelines or with an adequate approved label, could limit adoption of Galleri, even if we continue to publish data on its clinical validity and utility in peer-reviewed journals. Our PMA submission and a potential subsequentPotential rejection or material delay,delay of our PMA submission, including a requirement by the FDA to conduct additional studies or expand the enrollment of completed or ongoing studies, may reflect negatively on Galleri and the ongoing and planned clinical studies used to support our PMA submission, which could lead healthcare providers, payors, and others to lose confidence in the utility or benefit of Galleri and our other products and future products.
Although we reduced investment in the development of products beyond Galleri as part of the Restructuring Plan, including in a diagnostic aid product for cancer and our precision oncology portfolio, we are continuing research and development of our proprietary methylation platform and our large clinical and genomic datasets to develop enhanced versions of Galleri. In the future, we may determine to invest further in new product development. The commercialization of any new products, including enhanced versions of current products, will require the completion of certain clinical development activities, regulatory activities, and the expenditure of additional cash resources. We cannot assure you thatHowever, we canmay successfullynot completebe thesesuccessful activitiesin fortransitioning our products to a new or enhanced version or iteration, or achieving the required characteristics in a new product. Product development involves a lengthy and complex process and we may be unable to commercialize, validate, or improve performance of any suchof products.our products on a timely basis, or at all. For example, to the extent an enhanced version of an existing product is developed, we intend to undertake one or more bridging studies to measure and evaluate concordance, performance and safety of the subsequent, enhanced version of our product versus the existing product, using previously collected clinical study data and other samples. Any such bridging study will need to be agreed upon with the FDA or other regulatory authoritiesauthorities, in particular where we are modifying an FDA approved product or seeking FDA approval of a new product, and may be unsuccessful or insufficient to support approval of any such subsequent, enhanced version of our products.
If unsuccessful or insufficient, we would be required to revert to a prior version of the test and forgo, or be delayed in, implementing any perceived or potential updates, including enhancements, or further enhance, modify or update to a new version of the test and run additional bridging studies. Reverting to a prior version of the test or running additional bridging studies may cause delays in our efforts to obtain PMA approval for Galleri or any new product. Additionally, planned improvements to our products may cause unintentional technical, logistical or other issues. In late 2024, we began use of an updated commercial version of Galleri in commercial channels. This version incorporates an industrial scale platform with significant automation and is intended to enable us to scale more efficiently with future demand. In connection with implementation of this new version of Galleri, we initially experienced and may continue to experience increased turnaround times, re-processing costs and sample failures. We continually monitor and evaluate laboratory operations and performance in an effort to achieve our intended sample processing metrics and costs; however from time to time, processing issues may arise that could impact our operations. If we are unable to adequately prevent these issues from occurring, or to adequately identify and remedy these issues, we may experience reputational harm, lose customers and revenue, need to offer discounts, require additional expenditures, delay or prevent PMA approval, or suffer other negative consequences.
We are pursuing a PMA with the FDA for a further updated version of Galleri, and, in January 2026, we submitted a PMA to the FDA including the full prevalent screening round analysis from the NHS-Galleri Trial, together with performance and safety data focused on the first approximately 25,000 participants in the PATHFINDER 2 study. While we have announced positive topline NHS-Galleri Prevalent Round Results and presented positive results from our PATHFINDER 2 study at ESMO in October 2025, each of these studies was conducted on an earlier version of Galleri. Our PMA submission to the FDA also includes a bridging analysis comparing and measuring concordance of the version of Galleri used in the NHS-Galleri Trial and PATHFINDER 2 study with the updated version of the Galleri test submitted to the FDA for premarket approval. The version that has been submitted to the FDA for approval may have different performance, safety, operational or other characteristics, and the FDA’s approval, if at all, will depend on the results of the bridging study, which could result in different labelling than our commercially available product.
Many companies have recently launched or are attempting to develop competing cancer detection tests and technologies focused on improving cancer care with early cancer detection tests and post-diagnostic products. If any of these tests do not perform to expectations or cause harm or injury to patients, it may result in lower clinical and consumer confidence in early cancer detection and precision medicine in general, which could potentially adversely affect confidence in our products. In particular, to-date other MCED tests on the market have been launched based on case-controlled data only, and have not been tested in an intended use population or in an interventional trial. Case controlled studies do not always translate into an intended use population, for example because case controlled studies often have a higher number of cancer cases, a different mix of types of cancer and stronger cancer signal in the cancer samples as compared to a prospective study in an intended use population. As a result, the failure of any competing products to perform as expected could significantly adversely affect public perception about cancer detection tests generally, including our products, and could significantly impair our reputation and operating results.
If we fail to obtain additional financing, we may be unable to expand our commercialization efforts with respect to Galleri and any other products that we successfully develop and commercialize, or to develop and commercialize additional products.
Our operations have required substantial amounts of cash since inception. To date, we have financed our operations primarily through the sale of equity securitiessecurities, including in our recent private placement transaction and at-the-market sales, and capital contributions from Illumina and, to a lesser extent, revenue derived from Galleri sales and precision oncology portfolio revenue. Our product developmentdevelopment, commercialization and clinical study activities are expensive, and we expect to continue to spend substantial amounts as we expand our commercialization efforts with respect to Galleri, including pursuing broader coverage and reimbursement, continue to enhance our core technology platform, broaden the applications of our technology platform, and develop new products in the future. In addition, obtaining any necessary or desirable regulatory approvals, clearances, or certifications, as well as coverage and reimbursement, for our products will require substantial additional funding.
•costs associated with extending the NHS-Galleri Trial follow-up period by 6-12 months, and any additional clinical studies or analyses that may be required to further demonstrate clinical utility following the trial’s failure to meet its primary endpoint;
•potential increased costs of development and commercialization activities if the NHS-Galleri Trial results adversely impact our ability to obtain regulatory approval, coverage and reimbursement, or commercial partnerships on favorable terms; and
As a result of the Spin-Off, we are subject to a number of limitations and risks that may impact our ability to obtain additional financing. For example, certain restrictions under the Tax Matters Agreement limit our ability to obtain additional financing, including offerings of common stock, or otherwise require that we undertake certain procedures with Illumina. In addition, certain terms of the Spin-Off may impact our ability to successfully obtain financing on favorable terms or at all. These restrictions under these agreements may impact our ability to obtain additional financing when needed, if at all, and, if we are required to repay any disposal funds to Illumina under the clawback provision, our cash balance will be reduced and we may have greater need for additional financing.
The Samsung Investment is subject to closing conditions, including conditions beyond our control, and no assurance can be given that closing will take place on the timeline currently anticipated, or at all, or that we will achieve our goals under the collaboration agreements to be entered into with Samsung C&T and/or Samsung Electronics. Any failure to close the Samsung Investment or achieve such goals could adversely impact our business, financial conditions, results of operations and liquidity.
On October 16, 2025, we entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement”) with Samsung C&T Corporation (“Samsung C&T”), Samsung Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd. (together with Samsung C&T, the “Samsung Investors”) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung Electronics”), providing for the issuance and sale by us to the Samsung Investors in a private placement of an aggregate of 1,570,308 shares of our common stock, at a purchase price of $70.05 per share, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Samsung Investment”). The Samsung Investment is subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions set forth in the Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement, including, but not limited to the satisfaction of certain regulatory approvals or clearances, including with respect to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). Additionally, we have entered into a Business Collaboration Agreement with Samsung C&T and a Strategic Opportunities Collaboration Agreement with Samsung Electronics in satisfaction of certain closing conditions under the Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement, which will become automatically effective upon the closing of the Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement.
We have experienced delays, and may experience further delays and difficulties in satisfying the conditions for closing of the Samsung Investment, and no assurance can be given that closing will take place on the timeline currently anticipated or at all. Some of the closing conditions are outside of our control and it is possible that not all of the closing conditions for the Samsung Investment will be satisfied or that we will not receive the expected proceeds on the timeline currently anticipated or at all. For example, the Samsung Investment is subject to, among others, certain regulatory approvals and clearances, including with respect to CFIUS. In October 2025, we and the Samsung Investors filed a declaration for CFIUS clearance of the Samsung Investment. In January 2026, CFIUS requested that we and the Samsung Investors file a joint voluntary notice, which provides CFIUS up to an additional 90 days to review the Samsung Investment. Government funding shortfalls may delay this timing. While we remain confident that we can obtain CFIUS clearance for the Samsung Investment, there can be no assurance of this, nor that we will receive clearance within the 90-day review and investigation periods.
In addition, even though we have executed the Business Collaboration Agreement with Samsung C&T and the Strategic Opportunities Collaboration Agreement with Samsung Electronics, there is no assurance that these agreements or the collaborations they govern will achieve our goals or be on terms that prove to be economically or strategically beneficial to us. For example, we may not recognize or accomplish our strategic objectives under the Business Collaboration Agreement or Strategic Opportunities Collaboration Agreement and we may ultimately find ourselves restricted by the terms that we have negotiated under such agreements.
Any such adverse developments, including any failure to close the Samsung Investment, could adversely impact our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity.
As a result of the Spin-Off, we are subject to a number of limitations and risks that may impact our ability to obtain additional financing. For example, certain restrictions under the Tax Matters Agreement limit our ability to obtain additional financing, including offerings of common stock, or otherwise require that we undertake certain procedures with Illumina. In addition, certain terms of the Spin-Off may impact our ability to successfully obtain financing on favorable terms or at all. For example, in connection with the Spin-Off, Illumina provided us with disposal funding in the amount of $932.3 million in accordance of the Separation and Distribution Agreement, subject to a clawback feature in the event that the Company (i) consummates a GRAIL Change of Control, or (ii) (1) pays any dividend on, or makes any other distribution in respect of, any shares of its capital stock or other equity or voting interests (other than a stock dividend or a stock split), or otherwise consummates a return of capital from GRAIL to any of its equity holders or (2) redeems, purchases or otherwise acquires any of its outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity or voting interests, in each case prior to the 15-month anniversary of the Distribution Date. If the Company consummates a transaction described in the foregoing clause (i) prior to the 15-month anniversary of the Distribution Date, the Company must return to Illumina a cash amount calculated by reference to the number of months which have elapsed since June 24, 2024 at the time of the public announcement of the event giving rise to such transaction. If the Company consummates a transaction described in the foregoing clause (ii) prior to the 15-month anniversary of the Distribution Date, the Company must return to Illumina a cash amount equal to the payments made by the Company in connection with such transaction up to an aggregate maximum amount equal to the amount of the initial disposal funding subject to a clawback feature in the event of a change in control, or the Company (1) pays any dividend on, or makes any other distribution in respect of, any shares of its capital stock or other equity or voting interests (other than a stock dividend or a stock split), or otherwise consummates a return of capital from GRAIL to any of its equity holders or (2) redeems, purchases or otherwise acquires any of its outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity or voting interests, prior to September 24, 2025. If these clawback features are triggered, we must return to Illumina the aggregate amount of payments to equity holders as a result of or in connection with such a transaction. Additionally, in connection with certain change of control transactions prior to September 24, 2025, we must return to Illumina a cash amount decreasing over time calculated by reference to the number of months which have elapsed since June 24, 2024 at the time of the public announcement of the event giving rise to the change of control. These restrictions under these agreements may impact our ability to obtain additional financing when needed, if at all, and, if we are required to repay any disposal funds to Illumina under the clawback provision, our cash balance will be reduced and we may have greater need for additional financing.
Our success will depend on the market’s confidence that our products, including Galleri and, if successfully developed and launched, further enhanced versions of Galleri, and our precision oncology portfolio can provide reliable, high-quality results. We believe that participants, patients, customers, physicians, and regulators are likely to be sensitive to errors in the use of our products or failure of our products to perform as described, and there can be no guarantee that our products will meet expectations. Galleri is intended to be used to detect a cancer signal in individuals, but its results are not intended to be diagnostic. If a cancer signal is detected, the product is used to localize the origin of the cancer signal; a “cancer signal detected” test result must be followed up by appropriate diagnostic workup. Because the product cannot detect all cancer signals, and may not detect signals for all cancer types, a negative test does not rule out the presence of cancer. Additionally, an individual undergoing unnecessary diagnostic tests on the basis of a false positive result or an erroneous cancer signal originCSO result could expose us to reputational risks and potential liability. Similarly, an individual who receives a cancer diagnosis shortly following a “no cancer signal detected” test result may create negative publicity about our product, which would discourage adoption. Performance failures could establish a negative perception of our products among physicians, patients, customers, and regulators, jeopardize our ability to successfully commercialize our products, impair our ability to obtain marketing authorizations or secure favorable coverage and reimbursement, or otherwise result in reputational harm or enforcement action or inquiry by a regulatory body. These risks may be more pronounced for certain applications in our precision oncology portfolio, such as companion diagnostic development, as our products would be directly involved with the choice to use certain treatments in a particular case. In addition, we may be subject to legal claims arising from any errors in the use, manufacture, design, labeling, marketing, or performance of our products, including false positive or false negative results. If our products result in direct or indirect participant or patient harm or injury, we could be subject to significant reputational and liability risks, and our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects could be materially adversely affected.
We rely on Illumina as a sole supplier for our next-generation sequencers and associated reagents, Madison Industries (“Madison”) (who acquired our blood collection tube manufacturer, Streck, Inc., in 2023) as a sole supplier of our blood collection tubes, and Twist Bioscience Corporation (“Twist”) as a sole supplier of our DNA panels. Additionally, we rely on a limited number of suppliers for some of our laboratory instruments and reagents, and we may not be able to immediately find replacements if necessary.
Further, we arehave in the process of submittingsubmitted a PMA for Galleri to the FDA.FDA, Weand we may similarly seek FDA authorization for future products. For RUO products or components supplied to us by any supplier, including Illumina, we havewould notbe negotiatedrequired theto usevalidate for IVD purposes and submit to FDA as part of all of their products in any product we intend to submit for an FDAour marketing authorization. We are cooperating with Madison to obtain FDA clearanceauthorization oras approvalpart of our PMA application for their blood collection tubes forto usebe used with our products.Galleri test. In some cases, use of these third-party products in any FDA-cleared or approved product we may seek to commercialize will be conditioned on these suppliers having obtained FDA clearance or approval for their products for the uses of those third-party products as intended with ours. Before we pursue approval for our products that incorporate or use materials supplied to us by these suppliers, we will need to negotiate and execute agreements with these parties and in some cases may need to ensure these products have obtained the requisite clearances or approvals for the intended uses with our products. Any failures or delays in negotiating agreements with our suppliers on reasonable terms, or their inability to obtain any required clearances or approvals, may increase our costs or delay or prevent us from obtaining approval of, and thus successfully commercializing, our products. For example, any changes to the material used in our laboratory workflow may require us to supplement or revise the information contained in any PMA or other application, which could increase our costs and delay our efforts to obtain approval for Galleri, and could delay our implementation of the material into our workflow.
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You should read the following discussion of our results of operations and financial condition together with our accompanying consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included under Item 8. “Financial Statements”. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on current expectations, estimates, assumptions and projections about our industry and our business and financial results. Our actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and the section titled “Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our fiscal year end is December 31. References to 2025, 2024, and 2023 refer to the fiscal years ended December 31, 2025, December 31, 2024, and December 31, 2023. This section of this report generally discusses 2025 and 2024 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2025 and 2024. A detailed discussion comparing our results of operations for 2024 and 2023 can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2024.
A detailed discussion comparing our results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and January 2, 2022 can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of our final Information Statement filed with our Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended, as filed with the SEC.
We are an innovative commercial-stage healthcare company focused on saving lives and shifting the paradigm in early cancer detection.detection at population scale. We believe screening individuals for many types of cancer with a single test represents a significant opportunity to reduce the global burden of cancer. Our Galleri test is a commercially available screening test for early detection of multiple types of cancer, which we termed multi-cancer early detection (“MCED”). We believe Galleri is clinically validated based on the results of its clinical studies completed to date, including the results of its foundational case-control Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlastest (“CCGAGalleri”) studycan andscreen interventionalfor PATHFINDER study which together enrolled more than 21,000 participants. In these studies, Galleri demonstrated an ability to detect a shared cancer signal across more than 50many types of cancer, accurately predictpredicting the specific organ or tissue type where the cancer signal originated,originated and(the yield“Cancer Signal of Origin”, or “CSO”), with high positive predictive values (“PPV”) and low false positive rates, all from a simple blood draw. Galleri results can help guide next steps for diagnosis of cancer by healthcare providers in required follow-up diagnostic testing. We launched Galleri in the United States in mid-2021. We have sold more than 290,000 commercial tests which havehas detected some of the most aggressive cancers in early stages including, among others, endometrial, esophageal, gastric,gastrointestinal, head and neck, liver, pancreatic, and rectal cancers. We have conducted what we believe is the largest clinical program in genomic medicine to date with data from over 385,000 participants that we believe demonstrate the clinical validation and clinical utility of Galleri in its intended use population. We have deep operational experience with over 800,000 tests processed across this clinical program and from our commercial experience, including through partnerships with leading healthcare systems, employers, digital health platforms, payors, and life insurance providers.
Recently we announced results from two of our large clinical trials, PATHFINDER 2 and NHS-Galleri Trial, and included certain results from those studies in our pre-market approval application (“PMA”) to the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the last module of which we submitted in January 2026. Performance and safety data focused on the first approximately 25,000 participants of our approximately 35,000 participant PATHFINDER 2 study were presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (“ESMO”) in October 2025 (the “PATHFINDER 2 Initial Results”) and demonstrated that adding Galleri to recommended (breast, cervical, colorectal and lung) screenings led to a cancer detection rate more than seven-fold increase in the number of cancers found within a year, and an approximately three-fold increase when prostate screening was included. Results from the full approximately 35,000 participants in the PATHFINDER 2 study were generally consistent with the results presented at ESMO. We also announced topline results from our three year, randomized control NHS-Galleri Trial which demonstrated a substantial reduction in stage 4 cancer diagnoses, increased stage 1 and 2 detection of deadly cancers, and four-fold higher cancer detection rate when compared to recommended screenings alone, although the primary endpoint of statistically significant combined stage 3 and 4 reduction was not observed. However, there was a favorable trend toward fewer combined stage 3 and 4 cancers in a pre-specified group of 12 deadly cancers in the intervention arm after the prevalent screening round. The PATHFINDER 2 Initial Results and the performance and safety metrics from the first year (prevalent screening round) of our NHS-Galleri Trial (“NHS-Galleri Prevalent Screening Round Results”) were included in our PMA submission, along with results of a bridging study.
We designed Galleri to detect cancer early, when it is more amenable to curative treatment, and we launched Galleri in the United States in mid-2021. Galleri works by detecting DNA fragments shed into the bloodstream by tumor cells and analyzing specific methylation patterns that can be used to both identify a general cancer signal and localize that signal to a specific organ or tissue type. We have sold approximately 475,000 commercial Galleri tests through December 31, 2025, including more than 185,000 in 2025, which have detected some of the most aggressive cancers in early stages including, among others, endometrial, esophageal, gastrointestinal, head and neck, liver, pancreatic, and rectal cancers.
As an early pioneer of MCED testing, we have established strong relationships within the cancer and primary care community, including through partnerships with academic and community medical centers, key opinion leaders, and governmental policy and advocacy partners. We have shared evidence supporting our MCED testing at renowned medical conferences, such as the American Association of Cancer Research (“AACR”), American Society of Clinical Oncology (“ASCO”), ESMO, and American Academy of Family Physicians (“AAFP”). We have also published results from our studies in leading scientific and medical journals, including The Lancet, Nature, Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, and The Lancet Oncology.
Since our inception, we have incurred net losses each year. Our net losses were $408.4 million, $2.0 billion for fiscal year 2024 (which includes $1.4 billion of goodwill and intangible assets impairment), $1.5 billion for fiscal2025, year 2023 (which includes $718.5 million of goodwill2024 and intangible assets impairment), and $5.4 billion for fiscal year 2022 (which includes $4.7 billion in goodwill impairment), (see “Basis of Presentation” below for a description of applicable fiscal periods).2023. Adjusted EBITDA was $(320.6) million, $(483.5) million for fiscal year 2024,and $(523.9) million for fiscal2025, year 2023,2024 and $(500.1) million for fiscal year 2022.2023. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. For a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable U.S. generally accepted accounting principle (“GAAP”) financial measure, information about why we consider Adjusted EBITDA useful and a discussion of the material risks and limitations of these measures, please see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below. Substantially all of our net losses resulted from the application of pushdown accounting, including goodwill and intangible assets impairment,impairments, amortization of intangible assets, as well as our research and development programs, general and administrative (“G&A”) costs associated with our operationsoperations, and sales and marketing costs associated with commercializing our products. Additionally, due to the application of pushdown accounting, our balance sheet includes intangible assets recognized by Illumina in connection with their acquisition of us that may be subject to additional impairment over time. We expect to continue to incur operating losses over at least the next several years as we continue to invest in research and development and commercialization of existing products.
$325 million Private Investment of Public Equity (the “PIPE”)
On October 18, 2025, we entered into a securities purchase agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with certain investors for the private placement of (i) 2,640,970 shares of GRAIL's common stock at a price of $70.05 per share and (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,998,573 shares of GRAIL’s common stock (the "Pre-Funded Warrants") at a purchase price of $70.049 per Pre-Funded Warrant, which represents the per share price for the common stock less the $0.001 exercise price. The PIPE closed on October 21, 2025, at which time we received aggregate net proceeds of $311.3 million, after deducting issuance costs of $13.7 million.
In addition, in connection with the Purchase Agreement, we entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with all of the investors (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, we filed a registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC on November 13, 2025 for purposes of registering the resale of the shares and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants purchased in the private placement.
ATM Program
On November 14, 2025, we entered into an equity distribution agreement (“Equity Distribution Agreement”), with certain sales agents, establishing an At the Market Equity Distribution Program, under which we may offer and sell shares of our common stock, having an aggregate offering price of $300.0 million or up to 6,900,000 of common stock shares (the “ATM Program”).
During the year ended December 31, 2025, we issued 1,169,218 shares of our common stock pursuant to the ATM Program and we received aggregate net proceeds of $107.5 million, after deducting issuance costs of $3.2 million. As of December 31, 2025, $189.3 million worth of shares of common stock remained available for sale pursuant to the ATM Program.
Strategic Collaboration with Samsung and $110 million Equity Investment
In October 2025, we announced a strategic collaboration with Samsung C&T Corporation (“Samsung C&T”), Samsung Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd. (together with Samsung C&T, the “Samsung Investors”) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung Electronics”). As part of this strategic collaboration, we and Samsung C&T intend to work as exclusive partners to commercialize Galleri in Korea and, potentially, other key Asian markets, including Japan and Singapore. In addition, we and Samsung Electronics intend to explore potential additional strategic and operational collaborations, such as supporting longitudinal genomic-lifestyle clinical research and the integration of Samsung Electronics’ health data platform with our technologies and data.
In connection with this strategic collaboration, we entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement”), with the Samsung Investors and Samsung Electronics, providing for the issuance and sale by us to the Samsung Investors in a private placement of 1,570,308 shares of our common stock, at a purchase price of $70.05 per share, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $110.0 million (the “Samsung Investment”). The Samsung Investment is subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions set forth in the Samsung Stock Purchase Agreement, including, but not limited to the satisfaction of certain regulatory approvals or clearances, including with respect to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
We intend to use the net proceeds from all our equity offerings to fund our commercial activities and reimbursement efforts, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
On June 21, 2024, Illumina completed the previously announced spin-off of GRAIL (the “Spin-Off”). The Spin-Off was completed through a distribution of approximately 85.5% of our outstanding common stock to the holders of record of Illumina’s common stock as of the close of business on June 13, 2024 (the “Distribution”), which resulted in the issuance of 31,049,148 shares of common stock. As a result of this Distribution, GRAIL became an independent public entity. GRAIL’s common stock is listed under the ticker symbol “GRAL” on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
We entered into or adopted agreements that provide a framework for the relationship between us and Illumina in connection with the Spin-Off. Refer to Note 1 — Organization And Description Of Business in Item 8 in this Annual Report on Form 10K.
On June 24, 2024, Illumina completed the Spin-Off, as described above. See Note 1 — Organization And Description Of Business for details. In connection with the Spin-Off, certain equity and liability classified awards were converted in accordance with the employee matters agreement, as further described in Note 7 — Stock-Based Compensation. As a result of the separation, our member’s equity balance was reclassified to additional paid-in capital.
On June 21, 2024, in connection with the Spin-Off, we received a cash contribution of $932.3 million from Illumina. In connection with the Spin-Off, we incurred $22.2 million of legal and professional fees in the year ended December 31, 2024 related to the 2021 acquisition of GRAIL by Illumina, and corresponding antitrust litigation, including compliance with the hold separate arrangements imposed by the European Commission, and divestiture of GRAIL from Illumina through the Spin-Off. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures — Adjusted EBITDA” for further details. In addition, from 2021 to 2024, we spent $143.8 million on legal and professional service fees related to the antitrust litigation and compliance with the hold separate order and transaction costs related to Illumina’s acquisition of GRAIL and the Spin-Off.
As of December 31, 2025, Illumina held 2,502,126 shares of common stock representing a less than 10% stake in the Company. On February 17, 2026, Illumina filed a Schedule 13G reporting beneficial ownership of 1,302,126 shares of our common stock.
On August 9, 2024, following a portfolio review, our Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved a restructuring plan (“Restructuring Plan”) designed to reprioritize our resources to focus on our core MCED business and reduce overall spend as we progressprogressed towards completion of registrational studies and premarket approval application (“PMA”) submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for Galleri.
As a result, we have taken actions to streamlinestreamlined our commercial sales forces andto focus their field-based activities on the currentproductive customers expected to be more productive and high priority opportunities.opportunities, Wewhile maintainedmaintaining sales force coverage for the majority of our current Galleri volume and active prescribers. As part of this approach, weWe also streamlined our current and plannedthe investment in our enterprise business, which includedincluding our employer and life insurance businesses. ReductionsThese inchanges theinvolved commercial organization includedsimplifying management layers and commercial roles without sales responsibilities.responsibilities, Inalong addition to reductions in the commercial organization, we madewith reductions in medical affairs teams involved with U.S. Galleri provider engagement.
We also substantially decreased investment and planned investment in research and development activities related to our product programs beyond Galleri, including our diagnostic aid for cancer (“DAC”) and minimal residual disease programs. In addition, we made reductions in general and administrative expenses to reflect the focus on the MCED opportunity. We plan to continue to invest in our biopharmaceutical partnerships and work with our partners to leverage our proprietary methylation technology in precision oncology applications.
The Restructuring Plan was substantially completed in the fourth quarter of 2024, and we incurred approximately $18.3 million of total charges forthrough the yearfourth endedquarter December 31,of 2024, consisting primarily of employee severance, benefits, payroll taxes, and other associated costs. We expectFor the headcountyear reductionsended toDecember enable31, future2025, costwe savingsincurred an immaterial amount of approximatelyrestructuring $120 million on an annual basis. We estimate that the Restructuring Plan extends our anticipated cash runway from the second half of 2026 into 2028.charges.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a standalone basis using the consolidated financial statements and accounting records of Illumina prior to the Spin-Off, and the accounting records of GRAIL, Inc. subsequent to the Spin-Off. These consolidated financial statements reflect GRAIL’sour consolidated historical financial position, results of operations and cash flows as historically managed, in accordance with GAAP. The Consolidatedconsolidated Financialfinancial Statementsstatements may not be indicative of GRAIL’sour future performance and do not necessarily reflect what the financial position, results of operations and cash flows would have been, and may not include all expenses that would have been incurred, had GRAIL been operated as an independent, publicly traded company during the periods presented.presented prior to the Spin-Off. Certain situations require management to make estimates based on judgments and assumptions, which may affect the reported amounts of assets and respective disclosures at the date of the financial statements. Management’s judgments and assumptions may also affect the reported amounts of net sales and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from these management estimates.
While GRAIL was a subsidiary of Illumina, GRAIL’s fiscal year was the 52 or 53 weeks ending the Sunday closest to December 31, with quarters of 13 or 14 weeks ending the Sunday closest to March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31. References to “fiscal year 2023” refer to the period from January 2, 2023 to December 31, 2023, and “fiscal year 2024” refer to the period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Upon the closing of the Spin-Off, GRAIL adopted a fiscal year end of December 31.
Illumina’s acquisition of GRAIL on August 18, 2021 (“the Acquisition”) represented a change of control with respect to GRAIL. Given GRAIL, Inc. merged with SDG Ops, Inc., which then merged with SDG Ops LLC, authoritative guidance (ASC 805-50-30) required pushdown accounting to be applied for the Second Merger amongst entities under common control. As a result of the application of pushdown accounting, the separately issued financial statements of GRAIL reflect Illumina’s basis in the assets and liabilities of GRAIL which were remeasured to fair value as of the Closing Date. Intangible assets included developed technology, in-process research and development, and trade names, as well as goodwill.
We have incurred and expect to incur additional costs as a separate public company.company, and particularly as we transition to a large accelerated filer as of December 31, 2026 and are subject to enhanced reporting and internal control requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. These additional costs are primarily related to certain supporting functions that may differ from and be higher than the costs historically incurred or allocated to us.
In addition, we have entered into a supply and commercialization agreement with Illumina.Illumina (the “Illumina Supply Agreement”). Under the terms of the agreement,Illumina Supply Agreement, regardless of whether our products incorporate any Illumina technology, we havewill agreedbe obligated to pay to Illumina a high single-digit9% royalty, subject to certain reductions,reductions and floors, in perpetuity on net sales generated by our products or revenues otherwise generated or received by us, subject to certain exceptions, in the field of oncology. PerThe royalty is subject to anti-stacking provisions that allow royalty payments we make to other third parties to be deducted from the terms9% royalty rate, to a floor of 7%. We expect that the Separationthird andparty Distributionroyalty Agreementpayments withwe Illumina,will make in the foreseeable future will result in a 7% royalty rate. After we have cumulatively paid Illumina royalties totaling $1 billion, the royalty arrangementrate will be reduced to 5%, without further adjustment. Pursuant to the fourth amendment to the Illumina Supply Agreement, the perpetual royalty payment obligation to Illumina is suspended until the earlier of December 24, 2026 or any earlier GRAIL Changechange of Controlcontrol (asof defined in that agreement),GRAIL, at which time theroyalty high-singlepayments digitto Illumina will resume, without retroactive effect. Any royalty willpayments becomethat payable.we would have made under the Illumina Supply Agreement during the suspension period are deemed to have been paid for purposes of the cumulative $1 billion in royalty payments required to reduce the royalty rate to 5%.
•FDA and other regulatory approval and reimbursement. Our performance will be impacted by the extent to which we can secure reimbursement and coverage for Galleri. Prior to broader coverage and reimbursement in the United States, we will continue our work with clinics and health systems to accelerate utilization, and with self-insured employers and health insurers to offer and cover Galleri. Galleri is currently available as a laboratory developed test (“LDT”) in the United States and we have established privatecoverage and reimbursement from a number of self-insured employers and health plans, including coverage from TRICARE, but we do not currently have broader coverage and reimbursement by governmentMedicare healthcareor programs,large suchcommercial as Medicare.insurers. While Galleri has not been approved or cleared by the FDA, FDA approval is currently not required to market our test in the United States. We planare to pursuepursuing FDA approval to help support broad access for Galleri in the United States.States Weand planwe to completesubmitted a PMA submissionfor withGalleri to the FDA in the first half ofJanuary 2026. The timing of this submission is subject to various risks and other factors, including the completion of clinical studies and our ongoing discussions with the FDA. Obtaining PMA approval can take several months or years from the time an application is submitted, if at all. Moreover, the FDAregulatory requirements that will govern MCED tests, as well assurrounding the breadthpathway to PMA for laboratory tests has in the recent past, and naturemay of data we must providein the FDA to support the proposed intended use, mayfuture, be subject to change, and as such it is difficult to predict what information we will need to submit to obtain approval of a PMA from the FDA for a proposed intended use. We continue to interact with the FDA regarding the data we must provide the FDA to support our PMA submission for the proposed intended use.change. We believe that FDA approval, if obtained, could unlock coverage from large commercial payors in the United StatesStates. andIn weFebruary are2026, supportinga proposednew legislationlaw increated thea Unitedcoverage Statesbenefit category to enable coverage of FDA-approved MCED tests by Medicare.Medicare, with authority for CMS to initiate coverage as early as January 1, 2029 for the aged 50-65 Medicare population and expanding one age-year at a time annually. If we obtain FDA approval, we expect to pursue coverage through this new law and, subsequently, inclusion of Galleri in the USPSTF’s guideline recommendation, although such inclusion may take years and is not certain even with FDA approval. Should USPSTF recommend Galleri with an A or B recommendation, CMS would then have the authority to expand coverage beyond what is covered under the MCED benefit category. We believe suchFDA approval and, to a greater extent, inclusion in USPSTF guideline recommendations would further increase adoption and market acceptance of our tests. Over time, to the extent Galleri becomes more accessible in the United States, we have and may continue to opt to provide rebates or discounts to certain customers, or reduce pricing in order to access a broader population base and accelerate adoption. In the United Kingdom, we are working with NHS England to(which completeis ourbeing NHS-Gallerimerged Trial.with Thethe Department of Health and Social Care) (the “NHS”) will evaluate the final results from the NHS-Galleri Trial, which are expected to be available in 2026,Trial before determining whether to implement the Galleri test in the NHS. Under our agreement with the NHS, these results have met certain success criteria and missed others. As a result, we and NHS England will convene meetings of our joint steering committee to discuss how best to proceed with deployment to the UK population, if at all, considering deployment approaches and which population groups would most benefit. We believe the decision will include considerations such as NHS budget, political priorities, cost-effectiveness and implementation constraints in addition to an evaluation of the final results. We also believe our work with the NHS and the data generated from our NHS-Galleri Trial, if favorable,Trial could help facilitate adoption in other single-payor systems around the world and support evidence of clinical utility worldwide. Although the primary endpoint of statistically significant combined stage 3 and 4 reduction was not observed in the NHS-Galleri Trial, we believe other results from the trial could be compelling to these systems.
•International expansion. A component of our long-term growth strategy is to expand our commercial reach internationally. We have expanded our research internationally into the United Kingdom through our partnership with NHS England in the NHS-Galleri Trial, and we expect to launch Galleri in the United KingdomKingdom, subjectfollowing toany positive NHS evaluation of the final results offrom ourthe NHS-Galleri Trial. We continue to evaluate international expansion opportunities and we have begun expansion in select additional geographies through distributors.distributors, including Israel and Canada, and proposed expansion in South Korea through our partnership with Samsung. We expect to continue selectively engaging with international opportunities over time. Our ability to expand into new regions and jurisdictions, drive commercial sales and growth within those regions and jurisdictions and navigate economic, political, regulatory, and other risks, including geopolitical conflict, associated with international operations will be an important driver of our performance.
•Continued development ofof, and competition within, the market for MCED testing. Multi-cancer early detection is a relatively novel technology and the market for MCED tests is evolving. We continue to drive MCED as a solution to one of healthcare’s most important challenges. Our performance depends on the extent to which key stakeholders, including current and potential commercial partners, payors and health systems, regulators, policy makers, academic and community medical centers, and key opinion leaders and advocates, understand and support MCED testing as an effective solution for cancer screening. We make significant efforts to educate these key stakeholders regarding the benefits of MCED and the clinical and economic value of our products, which we believe will continue to drive awareness of MCED and expand the commercial opportunity for our products. Additionally, new MCED products from new market entrants launched commercially in the second half of 2025. We believe that the addition of new market entrants will help develop the market for MCED testing. However, these competitors will also be targeting similar markets as us and may compete with us for customers on characteristics of their tests, such as test performance, ease of use and cost. These companies may also present clinical or other information, such as test performance information, that differs from our own presentation of similar information. Our ability to differentiate Galleri from other MCED products and any such presented data will be a key factor in our success. We believe we are differentiated by our extensive and robust datasets generated from our clinical studies, our rigorous and objective approach to test development and research, our multidisciplinary capabilities leveraging the power of next-generation sequencing and advanced and trained machine learning algorithms and data science, our robust intellectual property portfolio, and our investment in our facilities and operational workflows. However, certain new market entrants may have greater financial resources, quicker reimbursement timelines, larger sales forces, more successful marketing campaigns, more experience in screening or international commercialization, lower prices or other advantages. Our ability to succeed will depend on our market success. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors”.
•Demand for our products and customer mix. A key factor to our future success is and will be our ability to increase demand for, and sales of, Galleri from new and existing customers. Our commercial strategy is focused on innovative value-oriented partnerships and targets primary care physicians, health systems, employers, digital health platforms, payors, and life insurance providers. As Galleri is not currently broadly reimbursed, our ability to drive demand from these customers is directly linked to our ability to demonstrate the clinical and economic value of our test through clinical validation and real-world experience. As of December 31, 2024,2025, we have entered into commercial partnerships, including with leading healthcare systems, digital health platforms, employers, payors, and life insurance providers, and have established a network of over 13,00017,000 prescribers across the United States in a pre-reimbursement setting. We believe this commercial network represents a significant opportunity to drive further demand for Galleri. The mix of customers from which we generate revenue from period to period has an impact on our revenue and gross margin. Galleri test pricing is generally based on our list priceprice, with discounts in certain channels, or, for certain customers, such as larger, higher-volume customers,customers or international distributors, negotiated contractual rates. For certain customers, we also offer rebates or discounts from time to time.rebates. Revenue generated from customers with negotiated contractual rates, or with rebates or discounts, is generally lower margin as compared to revenue generated based on list pricing. We expect the number or magnitude of these rates, discounts and rebates to reduce our average selling price (“ASP”) over time. In addition, we have entered into a number of biopharmaceutical research partnerships for our research-use-only (“RUO”) offering under our precision oncology portfolio. Large customers, such as healthcare systems, employers, and biopharmaceutical partners, generally begin using our products by initiating pilots involving a limited number of tests. We believe that our ability to convert these initial pilots into long-term customer relationships has the potential to drive substantial long-term revenue. Termination of these pilots or clinical trials can have a significant impact on our revenue and results of operations. For example, in late 2025, one of our pharmaceutical partners terminated its phase 3 trial due to low enrollment, for which our methylation technology was used as a potential companion diagnostic for enrolling participants. We also expect to increase demand from new customers through our efforts to further develop the market for MCED testing.
•Investment in clinical studies and innovation to support our strategy and growth. A significant aspect of our business is our investment in research and development and the ongoing evidence generation supporting the clinical performance and utility of Galleri. In particular, we have invested heavily in clinical studies and designed and executed what we believe is the largest clinical program in genomic medicine to date. These studies include: CCGA, NHS-Galleri, PATHFINDER, PATHFINDER 2, CCGA, REACH/Galleri-Medicare, REFLECTION, STRIVE, SUMMIT, and SYMPLIFY. We have established and maintained a leading voice in conversations regarding the early detection of multiple cancer types in the peer-reviewed literature. We have published data from these studies in high-profile journals and have presented such data at renowned medical conferences. We believe these studies are critical to driving adoption of our tests, as well as favorable coverage decisions, and expect to continue investment in data generation. In addition, we have invested heavily in the development of our methylation platform and extensive technological infrastructure. We expect our research and development expenses to decrease over the next three years as, in conjunction with our portfolio review, we determined to decrease investment in product programs beyond Galleri. Additionally, somewe expect to see a relative decrease in research and development expenses as we complete key milestones, such as the progress of most of our large clinical trials areinto movingthe intodata follow-up phase and thesubstantial completion of development of enhanced versions of our automatedGalleri platformtest, isincluding expectedthe toversion substantiallythat concludewe use in 2025.commercial channels and the updated version that was submitted with our PMA. We will continue to prioritize key objectives for Galleri, including completiongenerating and reporting clinical utility evidence to support broad adoption of our registrational studiesGalleri and progressing our premarketPMA approvaltowards application.potential approval.
•Leverage our operational infrastructure. We have made significant investments to build a scalable infrastructure capable of meeting significant demand of up to one million tests per year while satisfying applicable certification requirements.and licensing requirements and accreditation standards. Our Durham, North Carolina facility is able to process a substantial number of tests annually and is CAP-accredited and CLIA-certified. In addition, we engineered custom technology infrastructure and cloud-based tools to enable scalable data collection and analysis capabilities. With this foundational infrastructure in place, we have been able to generate scale efficiencies as the volume of tests sold has increased. As demand for our products increases, we expect to further leverage the scale efficiencies of our infrastructure and platform technology, which we believe will positively impact margins over time. In late 2024, we began using an updated version of Galleri in commercial channels. This version incorporates a highly-automated industrial scale platform and is intended to enable us to scale more efficiently with future demand. In connection with implementation of this new version of Galleri, we have experienced and may continue to experience increased turnaround times, re-processing costs and sample failures. We continually monitor and evaluate laboratory operations and performance in an effort to achieve our intended sample processing metrics and costs; however from time to time, processing issues may arise that could impact our operations. In the future, it is possible that we may invest significant amounts in infrastructure to support new products or existing products in new markets.
Seasonal fluctuations and underlying business trends have also affected, and are likely to continue to affect, our business. We may experience this seasonality, in particular in the third quarter due to primary care physician and patient summer vacation periods, with relatively lower volume in the first and third quarters, and relatively higher volume in the second and fourth quarters. These seasonal trends have caused, and will likely continue to cause, fluctuations in our quarterly results, including fluctuations in sequential revenue growth rates.
While each of these areas presents significant opportunities for us, they also pose significant risks and challenges that we must address. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors” for more information.
We currently derive screening revenue through the sale of Galleri primarily within the United States and primarily through primary care physicians, health systems, employers, digital health platforms, payors, and life insurance providers. Galleri is not currently broadly reimbursed. TheGalleri test pricepricing is generally based on theour list price, with discounts in certain channels, or, for certain customers, such as larger, higher-volume customers or international distributors, negotiated contractual raterates. withFor certain customers, we also offer rebates. We expect the number or magnitude of these rates, discounts and rebates to reduce our contractedASP customers,over otherwise our standard list price applies.time. We identify each sale of our test to our customer as a single performance obligation; therefore, revenue is recognized at the point of time when the test result report is delivered. For self-pay patients, we have concluded that an implied contract exists, however the transaction price for the implied contract represents variable consideration as there are situations in which we do not expect to collect the full invoiced amounts from self-pay patients due to price concessions. We utilize the expected value approach to estimate the transaction price and apply a constraint for such variable consideration, on a portfolio basis. We monitor the estimated amounts to be collected at each reporting period based on actual cash collections in order to assess whether a revision to the estimate is required.
Development Services Revenue
We also derive revenue through our development services, which consist of research services we provide to biopharmaceutical and clinical customers including support of ongoing clinical studies, pilot testing, research, and therapy development. We evaluate the terms and conditions included within our development services contracts with biopharmaceutical customers to ensure appropriate revenue recognition, including whether services are considered distinct performance obligations that should be accounted for separately versus together. Revenue from pilot and research services performed is recognized as performance obligations are achieved. We recognize revenue from development service agreements related to regulatory filingfilings to support clinical study and companion diagnostic device development and regulatory submissions for the developed product(s) using an input method based on costs incurred to measure its progress toward the completion and satisfaction of the performance obligations.
Cost of revenue represents expenses that are incurred to produce and sell our products and services. For screening revenue, these costs consist of materials, labor including salaries and wages, bonus, benefits and stock-based compensation, blood collection kits and shipping, phlebotomy, royalties, electronic medical records, equipment depreciation, and allocations of overhead expenses such as facilities and information technology costs. For development services, these costs consist of materials and patient sample acquisition, labor including salaries and wages, bonus, benefits and stock-based compensation, royalties, equipment depreciation, and allocations of overhead expenses such as facilities and information technology costs. As demand for our products increases, we expect to further leverage the scale efficiencies of our infrastructure and platform technology, which we believe will positively impact margins over time. These margin improvements from scale efficiencies will at least be partially offset when we commence recognition of royalties owing under the terms of the Illumina Supply Agreement on December 24, 2026.
As a result of the application of pushdown accounting, intangible assets recognized in our standalone financial statements relate to our own technology, and consist of developed technologies and in-process research and development that were measured at fair value upon the Acquisition. Our developed technology includes intangible assets related to Galleri, designed as a cancer screening test for asymptomatic individuals over 50 years of age, as well as our diagnosticDAC aid for cancer (“DAC”)product that is being designed to accelerate diagnostic resolution for patients for whom there is a clinical suspicion of cancer. As part of our Restructuring Plan, we have reduced, and are further reducing,reduced investment in the development of products beyond Galleri, including DAC. The cost of identifiable intangible assets with finite lives, such as developed technology assets, are amortized on a straight-line basis over the assets’ respective estimated useful lives of 18 years.
Research and development expenses include costs incurred to develop our technology (prior to establishing technological feasibility), collect clinical samples, and conduct clinical studies to develop and support our products. These costs consist of personnel costs, including salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation expense associated with our research and development personnel, costs associated with setting up and conducting clinical studies at domestic and international sites, laboratory supplies, consulting costs, depreciation, and allocated overhead including facilities and information technology expenses, which we do not allocate by product. We expense both internal and external research and development costs in the periods in which they are incurred. Nonrefundable advance payments for goods and services that will be used or rendered in future research and development activities are deferred and recognized as expenseexpenses in the period in which the related goods are delivered or services are performed. We expect our research and development expenses to decrease over the next three years as, in conjunction with our portfolio review, we determined to decrease investment in product programs beyond Galleri. Additionally, some of our large clinical studies and development of our automated platform are expected tohave substantially conclude in this period.concluded.
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, including salaries, benefits and stock- based compensation expense, consulting costs, allocated overhead including facilities and information technology expenses, and travel associated with our commercial organization. Also included are costs associated with advertising programs that consist of brand and product awareness activities and trade events and conferences. Sales and marketing expense also includes amortization of the trade name intangible asset that was recognized upon the Acquisition, which has been recorded in our financial statements as a result of the application of pushdown accounting. The cost of identifiable intangible assets with finite lives, such as trade names, are amortized on a straight-line basis over the assets’ respective estimated useful lives of 9 years. We expect our sales and marketing expenses to decreaseincrease following the release of positive study results as we invest in theinitiatives nearto termdrive followingawareness implementationand demand generation of the Restructuring Plan in the thirdGalleri and fourth quarter 2024, and then to remain flat-to-increasing and continue to decrease as a percentage of revenue over the next three years and long term.
G&A expenses consist of personnel expenses, including salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense,expenses, for executive, finance and accounting, legal, human resources, business development, corporate communications, portfolio management, medical affairsaffairs, and management information systems personnel. Also included are professional fees, legal costs, including patent and trademark-related expenses and educational activities. The related party amount in the prior year periods represents allocated stock administration expenses from Illumina. We have incurred and will incur additional expenses as a result of operating as a public company, including expenses related to compliance with the rules and regulations of the SEC, director and officer insurance premiums, investor relations activities, and other expenses related to administrative and professional services. We expect our G&A expenses to decreaseincrease as we continue to invest in corporate infrastructure to support public company operations and the near term following implementationcommercialization of the Restructuring Plan in the thirdGalleri and fourth quarter 2024, and then remain flat-to-increasing andto continue to decrease as a percentage of revenue over the next three years and long term.
Upon the Acquisition, excess consideration over the aggregate fair value of tangible and intangible assets, net of liabilities assumed, was recognized by Illumina as goodwill. As a result of the application of pushdown accounting, the separately issued financial statements of GRAIL reflectreflected the goodwill recorded by Illumina upon the Acquisition.
On July 13, 2022, the European General Court ruled that the European Commission had jurisdiction under the European Union Merger Regulation to review the Acquisition. Additionally, on September 6, 2022, the European Commission issued a decision prohibiting the Acquisition. These decisions constituted substantive changes in circumstances that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of goodwill. We recognized a goodwill impairment for $4.7 billion in 2022. In the third quarter of 2023, we concluded the sustained decrease in Illumina’s stock price and overall market capitalization during the quarter was a triggering event indicating the fair value of GRAIL might be less than its carrying amount that led us to test goodwill for impairment. We recognized an additional goodwill impairment of $608.5 million in 2023 primarily due to changes to expected timing of revenue and a higher discount rate. In the second quarter of 2024, prior to the Spin-Off, the approval of the Spin-Off by Illumina’s board of directors represented a potential indicator of impairment which also aligned with the timing of Illumina’s annual goodwill impairment test date for 2024. We recognized a goodwill impairment of $888.9 million as a result of the impairment assessment, primarily due to changes to the forecast of GRAIL’s value and the method for valuing GRAIL.
In conjunction with the third quarter of 2023 goodwill impairment assessment described above, the Company also evaluated the IPR&D intangible asset for potential impairment. Based on the impairment test performed, the Company recognized an impairment of $110.0 million, primarily due to a decrease in projected cash flows and a higher discount rate selected for the fair value calculation. In conjunction with Illumina’s second quarter of 2024 goodwill impairment assessment, the IPR&D intangible asset of the GRAIL reporting unit was evaluated for potential impairment by Illumina prior to the Spin-Off. Based on the impairment test performed, the Company recognized an impairment of $420.0 million primarily due to changes to revenue projections and the discount rate utilized. Subsequent to the Spin-Off, the Company performed a portfolio review and determined to decrease investment in the development of the IPR&D asset, which impacted the amount and timing of expected future cash flows attributable to IPR&D which represented a potential impairment indicator. Based on the impairment test performed, the Company recognized an additional impairment of $112.0 million, primarily due to a decrease in projected cash flows.
We evaluate goodwill and intangible assets for impairment annually or more frequently if an event occurs or circumstances change in the interim that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of the asset below its carrying amount. SeeRefer “to Note 2 — Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies—Goodwill and Intangible Assets” toin ourItem Consolidated8 Financialin Statements.this Annual Report on Form 10K for more information.
Interest income consists primarily of interest income earned on our cash, cash equivalents, and short termshort-term marketable securities.
Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the future tax consequences of events that have been included in the consolidated financial statements. Deferred tax assets are recognized for deductible temporary differences and tax credit carryforwards, and deferred tax liabilities are recognized for taxable temporary differences. Temporary differences are the differences between the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and their tax bases. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance when, in the opinion of management, it is more likely than not that some portions or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted for the effects of changes in tax laws and rates on the date of enactment.
Upon closing of the Acquisition, as a wholly owned subsidiary of Illumina, we were no longer subject to U.S. income tax on a standalone basis and U.S. income tax was combined into Illumina’s consolidated income tax return as a subsidiary of Illumina. However, for financial statement purposes, we have elected to compute our income tax provision, including current and deferred taxes, as if we filed a separate income tax return and were not included in Illumina’s consolidated return for the period GRAIL was owned by Illumina. Including the provision for income taxes in our standalone financials is more representative of our financial position as a standalone company. As such, the income tax provisions and related deferred tax assets and liabilities reflected in our financial statements for the periods ending December 31, 2023 and January 1, 2023 have been estimated as if we were a separate taxpayer.
Under this method, various tax attributes, such as net operating losses and tax credits, are also presented on a separate return basis. For income tax purposes, since we were not a separate taxpayer and merely a subsidiary of Illumina, these tax attributes, including net operating losses and tax credits, are the property of Illumina and have either already been utilized by Illumina in its consolidated or combined income tax returns or will be utilized by Illumina in its returns in the future. Accordingly, such tax attributes will not be available to us as a standalone entity on our income tax returns in the future; therefore, in connection with the Spin-off, we recorded an entry to additional paid in capital in order to remove the tax-effected deferred tax assets, net of any valuation allowance, for the tax attributes that remained the property of Illumina. Following the Spin-off, as a standalone entity, GRAIL files tax returns on its own behalf and its deferred taxes and actual income tax rate may differ from those in historical periods.
Comparisons of Fiscal Year 20242025 to Fiscal Year 20232024
The following table summarizes our results of operations for fiscal year 20242025 and fiscal year 2023.2024:
Comparison of Fiscal Year 2024 to Fiscal Year 2023:
The increase in screening revenue of $33.6$30.0 million or 28% was primarily driven by a 46%36% increase in Galleri sales volume, partially offset by a 1%6% decrease in average selling price (“ASP”). TheASP. Galleri sales volume increased in 20242025 as a result of the continued ramp in our commercial activity andfollowing partnerships,the release of positive study results, implementation of new pricing strategies, enhanced ordering pathways via new integrations, expansion of our networkpartnerships ofwith orderingdigital providers,health platforms, and increased ordersenrollment fromin existingour providersREACH/Galleri-Medicare andclinical new promotional campaigns.study.
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Our business, financial condition and operating results are affected by a number of factors, whether currently known or unknown, including risks specific to us or the healthcare industry as well as risks that affect businesses in general. In addition to the information set forth in this Form 10-Q, you should consider carefully the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in our 2025 Form 10-K (filed with the SEC on March 12, 2026). The risks and uncertainties disclosed in such Annual Report and in this Form 10-Q could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows or results of operations and thus our stock price.see in full comparisonDuring the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, there were no material changes to our previously disclosed risk factors.
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Our business, financial condition and operating results are affected by a number of factors, whether currently known or unknown, including risks specific to us or the healthcare industry as well as risks that affect businesses in general. In addition to the information set forth in this Form 10-Q, you should consider carefully the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in our 2025 Form 10-K (filed with the SEC on March 12, 2026). The risks and uncertainties disclosed in such Annual Report and in this Form 10-Q could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows or results of operations and thus our stock price. During the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, there were no material changes to our previously disclosed risk factors.
We could be subject to additional securities class action litigation.
Securities class action litigation is often brought against a company following a decline in the market price of its securities. Our stock price may be volatile and may decline significantly in response to the announcement of clinical trial results, including results that do not meet their primary endpoints or that are perceived unfavorably by the investment community. For example, in February 2026, we announced that the NHS-Galleri Trial did not meet its primary endpoint of statistically significant combined Stage 3 and 4 reduction and experienced a decline in our stock price on the following day. The announcement of these results, or any future announcements of clinical trial results that do not meet expectations, could cause significant volatility or decline in the market price of our common stock. On November 11, 2023, the first of three securities class action complaints was filed against Illumina and certain of its current and former executive officers. The complaints generally allege, among other things, that defendants made materially false and misleading statements and omitted material facts relating to Illumina’s acquisition of GRAIL. In June 2026, a putative securities class action captioned Robbins v. GRAIL, Inc. et al. was filed against the Company and certain of its executive officers, alleging that defendants violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b‑5 by making materially false and misleading statements regarding the NHS‑Galleri trial. Additionally, in June 2026, a shareholder derivative action captioned Augitto v. Ragusa et al. was filed against the Company’s current Board members and certain officers, alleging that defendants breached their fiduciary duties by causing or permitting the Company to make materially false and misleading statements and omissions concerning the NHS-Galleri trial, tracking the same alleged misstatements, and omissions underlying the Robbins action. If we continue to face litigation arising from the decline of our market price of our common stock, it could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources, which could harm our business.
In addition, any perceived or actual decline in our business prospects or stock price following the NHS-Galleri Trial results or other adverse developments could invite shareholder activism. Responding to shareholder activism can be costly and time-consuming, disrupt our operations, and divert the attention of our management and board of directors. Furthermore, activist shareholders may attempt to influence or change our strategic direction, capital allocation, or governance practices, which could adversely affect our business and stock price.
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GRAIL was previously acquired by Illumina, Inc. (”Illumina”) in August 2021, at which point it became a 100% owned subsidiary of Illumina, and held separate as a part of binding hold separate commitments implemented pursuant to orders issued by the European Commission (the “Acquisition”).
On June 24, 2024, Illumina completed a Spin-Off (the “Spin-Off”) through the distribution of shares of GRAIL’s common stock to Illumina stockholders. In connection with the Spin-Off, the Company entered into several agreements with Illumina that govern the relationship of the parties following the Spin-Off. After the Spin-Off, GRAIL became an independent public entity and GRAIL’s stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “GRAL”.
We are an innovative commercial-stage healthcare company focused on shifting the paradigm in early cancer detection at population scale. We believe screening individuals for many types of cancer with a single test represents a significant opportunity to reduce the global burden of cancer. Our multi-cancer early detection (“MCED”) test (“Galleri”) can screen for many types of cancer, accurately predicting the specific organ or tissue type where the cancer signal originated (the “Cancer Signal of Origin”, or “CSO”), with high positive predictive values (“PPV”) and low false positive rates, all from a simple blood draw. Galleri has detected some of the most aggressive cancers in early stages including, among others, endometrial, esophageal, gastrointestinal, head and neck, liver, pancreatic, and rectal cancers. We have conducted what we believe is the largest clinical program in genomic medicine to date with data from over 385,000 participants that we believe demonstrate the clinical validation and clinical utility of Galleri in its intended use population. We have deep operational experience with over 860,000925,000 tests processed across this clinical program and from our commercial experience, including through partnerships with leading healthcare systems, employers, digital health platforms, payors, international distributors and life insurance providers.
Recently we announcedpresented results from two of our largelarge, interventional clinical trials, PATHFINDER 2 and NHS-Galleri Trial,Trial at the Annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (“ASCO”) meeting in June 2026, and included certain results from those studies in our pre-marketpremarket approval application (“PMA”) to the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the last module of whichthat we submitted to the FDA in January 2026.2026 and which has been accepted by the FDA for review. Performance and safety data focused on the first approximately 25,000 participants of our approximately 35,000 participant PATHFINDER 2 study that were initially presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology (“ESMO”) in October 2025 (the “PATHFINDER 2 Initial Results”) and demonstrated that adding Galleri to recommended (breast, cervical, colorectal and lung) screenings led to a more than seven-fold increase in the number of cancers found within a year, and an approximately three-fold increase when prostate screening was included. Results from the full approximately 35,000 participants in the PATHFINDER 2 study were generally consistent with the results presented at ESMO. We also announced toplinepresented results from our three year,three-year, randomized controlled NHS-Galleri Trial which demonstrated a substantial reduction in stage 4 cancer diagnoses, increased stage 1 and 2 detection of deadly cancers, and four-fold higher cancer detection rate when compared to recommended screenings alone,alone. althoughAlthough the primary endpoint of statistically significant combined stage 3 and 4 reduction in a pre-specified group of 12 deadly cancers was not observed. However,observed; there was a favorable trend toward fewer combined stage 3 and 4 cancers in a pre-specified group of 12 deadly cancers in the intervention arm after the prevalent screening round. TheGalleri PATHFINDERdetected 2366 InitialStage ResultsI and II cancers, more than the performance290 cancers detected at any stage by the entirety of the U.K.’s standard of care screening program in the control arm. Additionally, adding Galleri was associated with a 25% reduction in cancers diagnosed after emergency presentation. Emergency presentations are among the costliest cancer diagnoses and safetyare metricsassociated fromwith the firstpoorest yearpatient (prevalent screening round) of our NHS-Galleri Trial were included in our PMA submission, along with results of a bridging study.outcomes.
The PATHFINDER 2 Initial Results and the performance and safety metrics from the first year (prevalent screening round) of our NHS-Galleri Trial were included in our PMA submission, along with results of a bridging study.
We designed Galleri to detect cancer early, when it is more amenable to curative treatment, and we launched Galleri in the United States in mid-2021. Galleri works by detecting DNA fragments shed into the bloodstream by tumor cells and analyzing specific methylation patterns that can be used to both identify a general cancer signal and localize that signal to a specific organ or tissue type. We have sold over 530,000595,000 commercial Galleri tests through MarchJune 31,30, 2026, with over 56,000117,000 sold during the threesix months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026. These tests have detected some of the most aggressive cancers in early stages including, among others, endometrial, esophageal, gastrointestinal, head and neck, liver, pancreatic, and rectal cancers.
As an early pioneer of MCED testing, we have established strong relationships within the cancer and primary care community, including through partnerships with academic and community medical centers, key opinion leaders, and governmental policy and advocacy partners. We have shared evidence supporting our MCED testing at renowned medical conferences, such as the American Association of Cancer Research (“AACR”), American Society of Clinical Oncology (“ASCO”),ASCO, ESMO, and American Academy of Family Physicians (“AAFP”).Physicians. We have also published results from our studies in leading scientific and medical journals, including The Lancet, Nature, Nature Medicine, Cancer Cell, and The Lancet Oncology.
Since our inception, we have incurred net losses each year. We incurred net losses of $93.2$110.2 million and $106.2$114.0 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and MarchJune 31,30, 2025 and $203.4 million and $220.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2025. Substantially all of our net losses resulted from the application of pushdown accounting, including goodwill and intangible and other asset impairments and the amortization of intangible assets, as well as our research and development programs, general and administrative costs associated with our operations, and sales and marketing costs associated with commercializing our products. As a result of the application of push downpushdown accounting, our balance sheet includes intangible assets, which may be subject to additional impairment over time. We expect to continue to incur operating losses for at least the next several years as we invest in research and development and the commercialization of existing products.
Adjusted EBITDA was $(79.990.3) million and $(98.778.3) million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and MarchJune 31,30, 2025 and $(170.2) million and $(177.1) million for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2025. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. For a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable U.S. generally accepted accounting principle (“GAAP”) financial measure, information about why we consider Adjusted EBITDA useful and a discussion of the material risks and limitations of these measures, please see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.
Strategic Collaboration with Samsung and Closing of $110 million Equity Investment
In June we completed our previously announced issuance and sale of an aggregate of 1,570,308 shares of our common stock to Samsung C&T Corporation (“Samsung C&T”) and Samsung Electronics Singapore Pte. Ltd. in a private placement at a purchase price of $70.05 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $110.0 million. We intend to use the net proceeds to fund our commercial activities and reimbursement efforts, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
In connection with this investment, our strategic collaborations with Samsung C&T and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung Electronics”) became effective. We intend to work with Samsung C&T as exclusive partners to commercialize Galleri in Korea and, potentially, other key Asian markets, including Japan and Singapore. In addition, we and Samsung Electronics intend to explore potential additional strategic and operational collaborations.
•FDA and other regulatory approval and reimbursement. Our performance will be impacted by the extent to which we can secure reimbursement and coverage for Galleri. Prior to broader coverage and reimbursement in the United States, we will continue our work with clinics and health systems to accelerate utilization, and with self-insured employers and health insurers to offer and cover Galleri. Galleri is currently available as a laboratory developed test (“LDT”) in the United States and we have established coverage and reimbursement from a number of self-insured employers and health plans, including coverage from TRICARE, but we do not currently have broader coverage and reimbursement by Medicare or large commercial insurers. While Galleri has not been approved or cleared by the FDA, FDA approval is currently not required to market our test in the United States. We are pursuing FDA approval to help support broad access for Galleri in the United States and we submitted a PMA for Galleri to the FDA in January 2026. The FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee is expected to be scheduled to review the Galleri PMA this fall. Obtaining PMA approval can take several months or years from the time an application is submitted, if at all.all, and any negative advisory committee recommendation could materially impede the chances for approval. Moreover, the regulatory requirements surrounding the pathway to PMA for laboratory tests hashave in the recent past, and may in the future, be subject to change. We believe that FDA approval, if obtained, could unlock coverage from large commercial payors in the United States. In February 2026, a new law created a coverage benefit category to enable coverage of FDA-approved MCED tests by Medicare, with authority for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to initiate coverage as early as January 1, 2029 for the aged 50-65 Medicare population and expanding one age-year at a time annually. If we obtain FDA approval, we expect to pursue coverage through this new law and, subsequently, inclusion of Galleri in the United States Preventive Services Task Force (“USPSTF”) guideline recommendation, although such inclusion may take years and is not certain even with FDA approval. Should USPSTF recommend Galleri with an A or B recommendation, CMS would then have the authority to expand coverage beyond what is covered under the MCED benefit category. We believe FDA approval and, to a greater extent, inclusion in USPSTF guideline recommendations would further increase adoption and market acceptance of our tests. Over time, we have and may continue to opt to provide rebates or discounts to certain customers, or reduce pricing in order to access a broader population base and accelerate adoption. In the United Kingdom, NHS England (which is being merged with the Department of Health and Social Care) (the “NHS”) will evaluate the final results from the NHS-Galleri Trial before determining whether to implement the Galleri test in the NHS. Under our agreement with the NHS, these results have met certain success criteria and missed others. As a result, we and NHS England will convene meetings of our joint steering committee to discuss how best to proceed with deployment to the UK population, if at all, considering deployment approaches and which population groups would most benefit. We believe the decision will include considerations such as NHS budget, political priorities, cost-effectiveness and implementation constraints in addition to an evaluation of the final results. We also believe our work with the NHS and the data generated from our NHS-Galleri Trial could help facilitate adoption in other single-payor systems around the world and support evidence of clinical utility worldwide. Although the primary endpoint of statistically significant combined stage 3 and 4 reduction was not observed in the NHS-Galleri Trial, we believe other results from the trial could be compelling to these systems.
•International expansion. A component of our long-term growth strategy is to expand our commercial reach internationally. We have expanded our research internationally into the United Kingdom through our partnership with NHS England in the NHS-Galleri Trial, and we expect to launch Galleri in the United Kingdom, following any positive NHS evaluation of the final results from the NHS-Galleri Trial. We continue to evaluate international expansion opportunities and we have begun expansion in select additional geographies through distributors, including IsraelIsrael, Canada and Canada,the United Kingdom, and proposedhave further planned expansion through distributors in other international markets, including in South Korea through our partnership with Samsung. We expect to continue selectively engaging with international opportunities over time. Our ability to expand into new regions and jurisdictions, drive commercial sales and growth within those regions and jurisdictions and navigate economic, political, regulatory, and other risks, including geopolitical conflict associated with international operations, will be an important driver of our performance.
•Demand for our products and customer mix. A key factor to our future success is and will be our ability to increase demand for, and sales of, Galleri from new and existing customers. Our commercial strategy is focused on innovative value-oriented partnerships and targets primary care physicians, health systems, employers, digital health platforms, payors, international distributors and life insurance providers. As Galleri is not currently broadly reimbursed, our ability to drive demand from these customers is directly linked to our ability to demonstrate the clinical and economic value of our test through clinical validation and real-world experience. As of MarchJune 31,30, 2026, we have entered into commercial partnerships, including with leading healthcare systems, digital health platforms, employers, payors, and life insurance providers, and have established a network of approximatelymore than 19,000 prescribers across the United States in a pre-reimbursement setting. We believe this commercial network represents a significant opportunity to drive further demand for Galleri. The mix of customers from which we generate revenue from period to period has an impact on our revenue and gross margin. Galleri test pricing is generally based on our list price, with discounts in certain channels, or, for certain customers, such as larger, higher-volume customers or international distributors, negotiated contractual rates. For certain customers, we also offer rebates. Revenue generated from customers with negotiated contractual rates, or with rebates or discounts, is generally lower margin as compared to revenue generated based on list pricing. We expect the number or magnitude of these rates, discounts and rebates to reduce our average selling price (“ASP”) over time. In addition, we have entered into a number of biopharmaceutical research partnerships for our research-use-only (“RUO”) offering under our precision oncology portfolio. Large customers, such as healthcare systems, employers, and biopharmaceutical partners, generally begin using our products by initiating pilots involving a limited number of tests. We believe that our ability to convert these initial pilots into long-term customer relationships has the potential to drive substantial long-term revenue. Termination of these pilots or clinical trials can have a significant impact on our revenue and results of operations. For example, in late 2025, one of our pharmaceutical partners terminated its phase 3 trial due to low enrollment, for which our methylation technology was used as a potential companion diagnostic for enrolling participants. We also expect to increase demand from new customers through our efforts to further develop the market for MCED testing.
•Investment in clinical studies and innovation to support our strategy and growth. A significant aspect of our business is our investment in research and development and the ongoing evidence generation supporting the clinical performance and utility of Galleri. In particular, we have invested heavily in clinical studies and designed and executed what we believe is the largest clinical program in genomic medicine to date. These studies include: NHS-Galleri, PATHFINDER, PATHFINDER 2, CCGA, REACH/Galleri-Medicare, REFLECTION, STRIVE, SUMMIT, and SYMPLIFY. We have established and maintained a leading voice in conversations regarding the early detection of multiple cancer types in the peer-reviewed literature. We have published data from these studies in high-profile journals and have presented such data at renowned medical conferences. We believe these studies are critical to driving adoption of our tests, as well as favorable coverage decisions, and expect to continue investment in data generation. In addition, we have invested heavily in the development of our methylation platform and extensive technological infrastructure. We expect our research and development expenses to decrease over the next three years as, following our Spin-Off, in conjunction with a portfolio review, we determined to decrease investment in product programs beyond Galleri. Additionally, we expect to see a relative decrease in research and development expenses as we have progressed mostseveral of our large clinical trials intotransition theto datalong-term follow-upfollow-up, phase,and development of our automated platform has substantially concludedconcluded. andIn addition, we have substantially completed development of the current enhanced versions of our Galleri test, including the version that we use in commercial channels and the updated version that was submitted with our PMA. We will continue to prioritizeinvest key objectives forin Galleri, including generating and reporting clinical utility evidence to support broad adoption of Galleri andadoption, progressing our PMA towards potential approval.approval, innovating to further improve Galleri’s test performance while reducing cost, and we will evaluate other research and development opportunities from time to time.
As discussed in Note 11 — Segment Information, following the leadership transition, we revised the internal management reporting package provided to the CODM, including changes to the presentation and composition of segment expenses, to align with how the CODM manages operations, assesses performance, allocates resources and develops strategic priorities. We continue to operate and manage our business as one reportable operating segment. The revised presentation conforms prior-period segment information to the current-period presentation and did not change total revenue, total costs and operating expenses, loss from operations or net loss for any period presented.
Research and development expenses include costs incurred to develop our technology (prior to establishing technological feasibility), collect clinical samples, and conduct clinical studies to develop and support our products. These costs consist of personnel costs, including salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation expense associated with our research and development personnel, costs associated with setting up and conducting clinical studies at domestic and international sites, laboratory supplies, consulting costs, depreciation, and allocated overhead including facilities and information technology expenses, which we do not allocate by product. We expense both internal and external research and development costs in the periods in which they are incurred. Nonrefundable advance payments for goods and services that will be used or rendered in future research and development activities are deferred and recognized as expenses in the period in which the related goods are delivered or services are performed. We currently expect our research and development expenses to decrease over the next three years as, following our Spin-Off, in conjunction with a portfolio review, we determined to decrease investment in product programs beyond Galleri. Additionally, we expect to see a relative decrease in research and development expenses as we have progressed mostseveral of our large clinical trials intotransition theto datalong-term follow-upfollow-up, phase,and development of our automated platform has substantially concludedconcluded. andIn addition, we have substantially completed development of the current enhanced versions of our Galleri test, including the version that we use in commercial channels and the updated version that was submitted with our PMA. We will continue to invest in Galleri, including generating and reporting clinical utility evidence to support broad adoption, progressing our PMA towards potential approval, and innovating to further improve Galleri’s test performance while reducing cost, and we will evaluate other research and development opportunities from time to time.
Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel costs, including salaries, benefits and stock- based compensation expense, consulting costs, allocated overhead including facilities and information technology expenses, and travel associated with our commercial organization. Also included are costs associated with advertising programs that consist of brand and product awareness activities and trade events and conferences. Sales and marketing expense also includes amortization of the trade name intangible asset that was recognized upon the Acquisition, which has been recorded in our financial statements as a result of the application of pushdown accounting.accounting, Theand cost of identifiable intangible assets with finite lives, such as trade names, areis amortized on a straight-line basis over the assets’ respective estimated useful lives of 9 years. We expect our sales and marketing expenses to increase following the release of positive study results as we invest in initiatives to drive awareness and demand generation of Galleri and to continue to decrease as a percentage of revenue over the next three years and long term.
Comparisons of the Three and Six Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and MarchJune 31,30, 2025
Comparison of the Three Months Ended June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2025
The increase in screening revenue of $10.7$8.3 million or 37%24% was primarily driven by a 50%35% increase in Galleri sales volume, partially offset by aan 9%8% decrease in ASP. Galleri sales volume increased in the firstsecond three monthsquarter of 2026 as a result of the continued ramp in our commercial activity following the release of theour NHS-Galleri and PATHFINDER 2 and SYMPLIFY positive study results, implementation of new pricing strategies, increased adoption of enhanced ordering pathways enabled by EHR integrations,data, expansion of our partnerships with digital health platforms, employers, and international distributors, continued implementation of new pricing strategies, broader adoption of enhanced ordering pathways enabled by Electronic Health Record (“EHR”) integrations, and increased enrollment in our REACH/Galleri-Medicare clinical study, alongside growth in orders within the employer channel and self-pay patients driven by rising awareness of early cancer detection.study.
Development Services Revenue
The decrease in development services revenue of $1.8 million or 65% was primarily driven by a $1.4 million decrease in revenue from pilots with biopharmaceutical partners and a $0.4 million decrease in revenue from clinical development and research services.
The increase in cost of screening revenue (exclusive of amortization of intangible assets) of $4.1$4.0 million or 24%21% was primarily driven by a 50%35% increase in Galleri sales volume,volume and an increase in allocated overhead costs as a result of the increase in the proportion of commercial samples compared to research samples processed within our laboratory. These increases were partially offset by improved fixed cost leverage due to thean increase in volumes,volumes and a decrease in sample reprocessing costs.
Cost of screening revenue (exclusive of amortization of intangible assets) as a percent of revenue decreased 5%approximately 2 percentage points in the firstsecond three monthsquarter of 20262026, mainly due to improved fixed cost leverage due to the increase in volumes,volumes and a decrease in sample reprocessing costs, partially offset by aan 9%8% decrease in ASP.
Cost of Development Services Revenue
The decrease in cost of development services revenue of $0.8 million or 68% was primarily due to a decrease in pilots with biopharmaceutical partners and a decrease in the number of research samples processed.
The increase in research and development expenses of $0.8 million or 2% was primarily attributable to a $2.9 million increase in compensation expense, reflecting a $2.0 million increase in variable compensation expense, a $0.7 million increase in stock-based compensation expense and, to a lesser extent, a $0.2 million increase in salaries and wages. The increase was partially offset by a $2.1 million reduction in laboratory supplies and research collaboration expenses, primarily due to a reduction in research sample volumes as validation samples were run in the prior year to support our PMA submission.
The decrease in research and development expenses of $5.6 million or 10% was primarily attributable to a $2.8 million reduction in compensation expenses, driven by reduced headcount, a $2.4 million reduction in laboratory supplies and research collaboration expenses primarily due to lower research sample volumes as a result of validation samples run in the prior year to support our Premarket Approval ("PMA") submission, and a $1.0 million decrease in allocated information technology expenses primarily related to ongoing cost reduction efforts and a change in mix between research and development and commercial samples, as well as reduced headcount within the research and development function. These decreases were partially offset by a $0.7 million increase in stock-based compensation expense primarily due to new equity grants.
The increase in sales and marketing expenses of $9.1 million or 32% was primarily attributable to continued ramp in our commercial activity, including a $5.3 million increase in compensation expense reflecting a $3.6 million increase in salaries and wages driven by a greater allocation of labor resources supporting commercial activities and increased headcount, a $1.0 million increase in variable compensation expense, and a $0.7 million increase in stock-based compensation expense. The increase was also attributable to a $3.2 million increase in marketing expenses and professional services, primarily reflecting expanded commercial marketing initiatives and external professional services supporting our commercialization efforts, as well as a $0.6 million increase in software costs utilized to support commercial activities.
The decrease in sales and marketing expenses of $4.3 million or 12% was primarily attributable to a $3.7 million decrease in non-recurring marketing event expenses and a $0.7 million decrease in compensation expenses, driven by reduced headcount.
The increase in general and administrative expenses of $12.8 million or 34% was primarily attributable to an $8.9 million increase in compensation expense, reflecting a $3.8 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, a $2.6 million increase in salaries and wages, primarily due to higher employer payroll taxes associated with stock-based compensation and, to a lesser extent, annual salary increases, and a $2.5 million increase in variable compensation expense. The increase was also attributable to a $2.7 million increase in legal and professional services, primarily related to professional services to support audits related to our FDA approval efforts, $0.7 million of lease-related costs associated with the commencement of our new corporate headquarters lease, and a $0.5 million increase in allocated costs supporting general and administrative activities.
Intangible Impairment
The decrease in intangible and other assets impairment was primarily attributable to an impairment charge related to in-process research and development ("IPR&D") recorded in the prior-year quarter that did not recur in the current quarter, partially offset by a full impairment of the deferred asset recognized in connection with the Samsung SPA.
The decrease in general and administrative expenses of $2.3 million or 5% was primarily attributable to a $3.5 million decrease in legal and professional services expenses and a $1.4 million decrease in costs associated with the use of contractors and temporary labor, both driven by cost optimization efforts. These decreases were partially offset by a $2.3 million increase in compensation expenses, due to annual wage adjustments and non-recurring bonuses.
Interest Income
The increase in interest income of $0.2 million or 3% was primarily due to a $147.7 million increase in average balances in money market funds and short-term marketable securities, partially offset by decreases in average rates of return.
The decreaseincrease in benefit from income taxes was primarily drivenattributable byto a decrease in ourhigher loss before income taxes and a lowerhigher effective tax rate primarily due to feweran increase in discrete tax itemsbenefits, primarily related to stock-based compensation expenses.expense.
Comparison of the Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2025
Revenue
Screening Revenue
The increase in screening revenue of $19.0 million or 30% was primarily driven by a 42% increase in Galleri sales volume, partially offset by an 8% decrease in ASP. Galleri sales volume increased in the first six months of 2026 as a result of the continued ramp in our commercial activity following the release of our NHS-Galleri and PATHFINDER 2 study data, expansion of our partnerships with digital health platforms, employers, and international distributors, continued implementation of new pricing strategies, broader adoption of enhanced ordering pathways enabled by EHR integrations, and increased enrollment in our REACH/Galleri-Medicare clinical study.
Cost of Screening Revenue (Exclusive of Amortization of Intangible Assets)
The increase in cost of screening revenue (exclusive of amortization of intangible assets) of $8.1 million or 22% was primarily driven by a 42% increase in Galleri sales volume and an increase in allocated overhead costs as a result of the increase in the proportion of commercial samples compared to research samples processed within our laboratory. These increases were partially offset by improved fixed cost leverage due to an increase in volumes and a decrease in sample processing costs.
Cost of screening revenue (exclusive of amortization of intangible assets) as a percent of revenue decreased approximately 3 percentage points in the first six months of 2026 mainly due to improved fixed cost leverage due to the increase in volumes and a decrease in sample reprocessing costs, partially offset by an 8% decrease in ASP.
Research and development
The decrease in research and development expenses of $4.8 million or 5% was primarily attributable to a $4.5 million decrease in laboratory supplies and research collaboration expenses, primarily due to a reduction in research sample volumes as validation samples were run in the prior year to support our PMA submission and a $1.7 million decrease in facilities and information technology costs allocated to the research and development function. These decreases were partially offset by a $1.4 million increase in stock-based compensation expense.
Sales and Marketing
The increase in sales and marketing expenses of $4.8 million or 8% was primarily attributable to a $4.6 million increase in compensation expenses, reflecting a $3.2 million increase in salaries and wages driven by a greater allocation of labor resources supporting commercial activities and an increase in headcount, a $0.8 million increase in variable compensation expense, and a $0.6 million increase in stock-based compensation expense. The increase was also attributable to a $0.6 million increase in software costs utilized to support commercial activities. These increases were partially offset by a $0.4 million reduction in non-recurring marketing events expenses.
General and Administrative
The increase in general and administrative expenses of $10.5 million or 13% was primarily attributable to a $11.4 million increase in compensation expense, reflecting a $5.1 million increase in salaries and wages, primarily due to higher annual salaries, employer payroll taxes associated with stock-based compensation, a $3.9 million increase in stock-based compensation expense, and a $2.4 million increase in variable compensation expense. The increase was also attributable to a $1.8 million increase in allocated costs supporting general and administrative activities. These increases were partially offset by $2.7 million decreases related to contractors, legal, professional services and information technology costs driven by cost optimization efforts.
Intangible Impairment
The decrease in intangible and other assets impairment was primarily attributable to an impairment charge related to in-process research and development ("IPR&D") recorded in the prior-year quarter that did not recur in the current quarter, partially offset by a full impairment of the deferred asset recognized in connection with the Samsung SPA.
Benefit from Income Taxes
The increase in benefit from income taxes was primarily attributable to a higher effective tax rate due to an increase in discrete tax benefits, primarily related to stock-based compensation expense.
In addition to theour financial results provided throughout this Form 10-Q that are determined in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”), this Form 10-Q also includes financial measures that are not calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our non-GAAP financial measuresdisclosure forincludes theAdjusted threeGross months ended March 31, 2026Profit and MarchAdjusted 31, 2025.EBITDA. This information should be read in conjunction with our unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q.
(2)Gross loss excludes $2.9$3.1 million and $6.0 million of royalty expense, calculated in accordance with the Illumina Supply Agreement, that would have been incurred if such royalties had been payable during the firstthree quarterand ofsix months ended June 30, 2026.
The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net loss adjusted for amortization of intangible assets, stock-based compensation, depreciation, intangible and other assets impairment, benefit from income taxes, interest income and restructuring expenses. These adjustments include non-cash items, significant non-recurring charges and/or other non-operating expenses that we do not believe are indicative of ongoing or future business operations.
(2)Represents the impairment charge related to the deferred asset recognized in connection with the Samsung SPA in the current period and the in-process research and development ("IPR&D") impairment charge in the prior period.
GRAL insider buying and selling (Form 4)
Since 2026-04-11, insiders reported open-market purchases in 0 Form 4 filings and open-market sales in 7 filings (3 insiders, 4 trade dates, 111,435 shares, about $12.2M; 4 of these filings say the sales were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan). Net open-market shares: -111,435 (purchases minus sales); net value about -$12.2M.Totals add up every open-market (code P and S) line in those filings, using the prices reported in the filings. Awards, option exercises, tax withholding and gifts are listed below but not counted.
| Trade date | Insider | Transaction | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | Partridge Andrew John |
Open-market sale | 7,873 | $146.39 | $1.2M |
| 2026-10-05 | Freidin Aaron |
Open-market sale | 23,619 | $146.39 | $3.5M |
| 2026-09-21 | Freidin Aaron |
Open-market sale |
1,779 | $92.26 | $164.1K |
| 2026-09-21 | Freidin Aaron |
Open-market sale |
521 | $95.00 | $49.5K |
| 2026-09-21 | Freidin Aaron |
Open-market sale |
1,800 | $93.92 | $169.1K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
1,400 | $97.84 | $137.0K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
421 | $99.85 | $42.0K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
2,100 | $100.68 | $211.4K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
10,000 | $110.00 | $1.1M |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
6,200 | $96.43 | $597.9K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
1,454 | $93.61 | $136.1K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
2,125 | $92.32 | $196.2K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Option exercise |
26,452 | $14.00 | $370.3K |
| 2026-09-21 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
37,752 | $94.98 | $3.6M |
| 2026-08-27 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Open-market sale |
5,000 | $85.02 | $425.1K |
| 2026-08-27 | Freidin Aaron |
Open-market sale |
7,900 | $85.01 | $671.6K |
| 2026-07-15 | Chase William J |
Grant/award | 276 | $74.36 | $20.5K |
| 2026-07-15 | Summe Gregory L |
Grant/award | 427 | $74.36 | $31.8K |
| 2026-07-15 | Mizell Steven |
Grant/award | 268 | $74.36 | $19.9K |
| 2026-06-18 | Chase William J |
Grant/award | 5,491 | $63.74 | $350.0K |
| 2026-06-18 | Mizell Steven |
Grant/award | 5,491 | $63.74 | $350.0K |
| 2026-06-18 | Summe Gregory L |
Grant/award | 5,491 | $63.74 | $350.0K |
| 2026-06-18 | Krevans Sarah |
Grant/award | 5,491 | $63.74 | $350.0K |
| 2026-06-04 | Partridge Andrew John |
Open-market sale | 1,491 | $61.08 | $91.1K |
| 2026-06-03 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Grant/award | 3,154 | $61.13 | $192.8K |
| 2026-06-01 | Ofman Joshua J. |
Grant/award | 27,901 | $64.40 | $1.8M |
| 2026-04-15 | Mizell Steven |
Grant/award | 396 | $49.79 | $19.7K |
| 2026-04-15 | Chase William J |
Grant/award | 408 | $49.79 | $20.3K |
| 2026-04-15 | Summe Gregory L |
Grant/award | 631 | $49.79 | $31.4K |
Well-known investors holding GRAL (13F)
| Investor | Quarter | Shares | Reported value | % of their 13F | Change vs prior quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRIMECAP Management | 2026-06-30 | 2,180,106 | $148.8M | 0.09% | Added 18% |
| AQR Capital Management (Cliff Asness) | 2026-06-30 | 211,341 | $14.2M | 0.0% | Reduced 28% |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | 2026-06-30 | 116,102 | $7.9M | 0.0% | Added 42% |
| Two Sigma Investments | 2026-06-30 | 27,425 | $1.9M | 0.0% | Reduced 58% |
| Citadel Advisors (Ken Griffin) | 2026-06-30 | 33,894 | $1.8M | — | Sold out |
| Gotham Asset Management (Joel Greenblatt) | 2026-06-30 | 23,940 | $1.6M | 0.0% | Added 20% |
| Millennium Management (Israel Englander) | 2026-06-30 | 24,840 | $1.3M | — | Sold out |
| Renaissance Technologies | 2026-06-30 | 9,200 | $628.1K | 0.0% | Reduced 83% |