Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K/A)

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May 17, 2010
Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CYCC, Financial) filed Amended Annual Report for the period ended 2009-12-31.

Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc. has a market cap of $77.9 million; its shares were traded at around $2.2 with and P/S ratio of 85.52. CYCC is in the portfolios of Wilbur Ross of Invesco Private Capital, Inc., Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

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The aggregate market value of the registrants voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant (without admitting that any person whose shares are not included in such calculation is an affiliate), as of June 30, 2009 (based upon the closing sale price of $1.13 of such shares on The NASDAQ Global Market on June 30, 2009) was $19,164,232.

Although the Company accrued for the unpaid dividends in its consolidated financial statements, it did not include the accrued amount when calculating basic and diluted loss per share of common stock for year ended December 31, 2009. As a result, the net loss per common share has been revised from $(0.88) per share, as reported in the Original Filing, to $(0.94), as reported in this Amendment. Similar errors occurred in 2007 and 2008 in the net loss per share disclosure.

We have incurred operating losses in each year since beginning operations in 1996 due to costs incurred in connection with our research and development activities and selling, general and administrative costs associated with our operations, and we may never achieve profitability. As of December 31, 2009, our accumulated deficit was $222.3 million. Our net loss for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 was $40.4 million and $19.6 million, respectively. Our net loss attributable to common shareholders from inception through December 31, 2009 was $263.2 million. Our drug candidates are in the mid-stages of clinical testing and we must conduct significant additional clinical trials before we can seek the regulatory approvals necessary to begin commercial sales of our drugs. We expect to incur continued losses for several years, as we continue our research and development of our drug candidates, seek regulatory approvals, commercialize any approved drugs and market and promote the ALIGN products: Xclair® Cream, Numoisyn® Liquid and Numoisyn® Lozenges. If our drug candidates are unsuccessful in clinical trials or we are unable to obtain regulatory approvals, or if our drugs are unsuccessful in the market, we will not be profitable. If we fail to become and remain profitable, or if we are unable to fund our continuing losses, particularly in light of the current economic conditions, you could lose all or part of your investment.

Our common stock is currently listed for trading on the NASDAQ Global Market. We must satisfy NASDAQs continued listing requirements, including among other things, a minimum stockholders equity of $10.0 million and a minimum bid price for our common stock of $1.00 per share, or risk delisting, which would have a material adverse affect on our business. A delisting of our common stock from the NASDAQ Global Market could materially reduce the liquidity of our common stock and result in a corresponding material reduction in the price of our common stock. In addition, delisting could harm our ability to raise capital through alternative financing sources on terms acceptable to us, or at all, and may result in the potential loss of confidence by investors, suppliers, customers and employees and fewer business development opportunities. During 2009, Cyclacel received notification from the NASDAQ Stock Market that the Company was not in compliance with the minimum $10 million stockholders equity requirement for continued listing set forth in NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5450(b)(1)(A). On January 27, 2010, NASDAQ notified the Company that it regained compliance with the minimum $50 million market value of listed securities requirement and that it currently complies with all other applicable standards for continued listing on The NASDAQ Global Market. Accordingly, the Companys shares of common and preferred stock will continue to trade on The NASDAQ Global Market.

On December 10, 2007 and as amended on November 24, 2009, we entered into the committed equity financing facility, or CEFF, with Kingsbridge Capital Limited, or Kingsbridge. The CEFF entitles us to sell and obligates Kingsbridge to purchase from us the lesser of 4,084,590 shares of our common stock or $60 million of our common stock, during the next three years, subject to certain conditions and restrictions. Kingsbridge will not be obligated to purchase shares under the CEFF unless certain conditions are met, which include, among other things, a minimum price for our common stock of $0.40 per share, effectiveness of the registration statement covering the shares subject to the CEFF and the continued listing of our stock on The NASDAQ Global Market.

Should we sell shares to Kingsbridge under the CEFF, or issue shares in lieu of a blackout payment, it will have a dilutive effective on the holdings of our current stockholders, and may result in downward pressure on the price of our common stock. If we draw down under the CEFF, we will issue shares to Kingsbridge at a discount of up to 20% from the volume weighted average price of our common stock. If we draw down amounts under the CEFF when our share price is decreasing, we will need to issue more shares to raise the same amount than if our stock price was higher. Issuances in the face of a declining share price will have an even greater dilutive effect than if our share price were stable or increasing, and may further decrease our share price. During December 2009 and January 2010, we sold an aggregate of 1,583,626 shares of our common stock to Kingsbridge under the terms of the CEFF in consideration of an aggregate of $1.3 million in funds drawn down from the CEFF by us. During March 2010, we sold another 1,234,606 shares of our common stock to Kingsbridge in consideration of an aggregate of $2.8 million in funds drawn down from the CEFF by us. However, because we have not declared dividends on our preferred stock for several quarters during the fiscal year 2009, we will not be able to use our Registration Statement on Form S-3, which covers the shares subject to the CEFF and therefore, we may not be able to access the CEFF until such time as an effective registration statement covering such shares be in place. This may limit our ability to access capital markets on short notice or make the cost of capital more expensive.

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