Shares in Viveve (NSDQ:VIVE) have stayed steady today after the company announced a new exclusive distribution deal with InControl Medical and released 2nd quarter earnings that missed expectations on Wall Street.
Under the agreement, Englewood, Colo.-based Viveve said it will be granted exclusive rights to distribute all of InControl Medical’s products to healthcare providers in the US.
“We are pleased with the opportunity to partner with Viveve to enable wider distribution of our clinically proven devices to U.S. medical professionals who can help the millions of patients suffering from pelvic floor and related incontinence conditions. Our hope is that these products will allow more women to have better control and an improved quality of life. Viveve and InControl share a dedicated commitment to advancing solutions for women’s health,” InControl Medical CEO Herschel Peddicord said in prepared remarks.
Viveve said it will be making a $2.5 million equity investment in InControl as part of the distribution agreement, as well.
“Completing an agreement with InControl Medical represents a significant opportunity for Viveve in the U.S. professional healthcare market. The addition of InControl Medical’s FDA cleared medical devices for stress, urge, and mixed incontinence as well as their products to improve pelvic floor strength enhances our portfolio with a range of high quality products that are used by healthcare professionals within Viveve’s currently targeted specialties. In addition to InControl Medical’s innovative devices to treat incontinence, their products aimed at improving patients’ pelvic floor strength and health complement the effectiveness of Viveve’s Geneveve treatment, that currently has regulatory clearance or approval in over 50 countries for the treatment of vaginal laxity and/or the improvement of sexual function. In the United States, the Viveve System is cleared by the FDA for general surgical procedures for electrocoagulation and hemostasis,” Viveve CEO Patricia Scheller said in a prepared statement.
In its earnings report, Viveve posted losses of $10.4 million, or 54¢ per share, on sales of $3.1 million for the 3 months ended June 30, seeing losses grow 96.1% while sales grew 97.7% compared to the same period during the previous year.
Losses per share came in ahead of the 43¢ consensus on Wall Street, where analysts were expecting to see sales of $3.2 million for the quarter.
“During the 2nd quarter, we continued to achieve our commercial objectives and experienced growing demand for our innovative technology in the U.S. We also reached a number of important milestones that support our global commercialization strategy,” CEO Scheller said in a press release.
