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Larry Heaton
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Zomedica

Zomedica Corp. "Fourth Friday at Four" Investor Webinar | March 27, 2026

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About Larry Heaton

Larry Heaton, CEO of Zomedica, has appeared in multiple investor-focused events in mid-2026, including a podcast with Water Tower Research and the company's "Fourth Friday at Four" webinar series. Heaton stated that Zomedica generated $8.8 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, a 35% year-over-year increase, and described it as the company's 21st consecutive quarter of record revenue growth. He noted that the first quarter has historically been the lowest seasonal period for revenue. Heaton said the company's priorities include accelerating global adoption of its portfolio, expanding recurring revenue streams, and progressing toward cash flow break-even and profitability, with a goal of achieving both in 2027. Heaton described Zomedica's "five pillars" as an operational framework that every product must pass before entering the portfolio, rather than a marketing tagline. He said the company has sufficient capital to achieve its objectives and would be "loathed" to add further dilution for shareholders. Heaton stated that the company will not deploy capital for a stock buyback until it is cash flow positive. He also commented that the company's share price is "below cash" despite increasing revenues, efficient manufacturing, and no debt, and he attributed the gap to market conditions and shareholder selling pressure. Heaton said Zomedica is considering options for relisting on a major exchange and is working toward that goal.

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Host3:08
Yes. Thanks for joining. All right. Current and potential investors, we will be making various remarks about future expectations, plans, and prospects that are considered forward-looking statements. There are risks that actual results may differ from these statements. We refer you to the safe harbor statement on screen or to the risk factors sections of our public filings, which can be found on our website under Investor Filings, EDGAR, and SEDAR Plus. The statements are made as of today, March 27, 2026, and reflect our expectations as of today. Thank you for joining us for Zomedica's Investor Webinar Series. We're excited to have you with us as we take a closer look at our company, our innovative product platforms, and the passionate people driving our success. This series is designed to give you a deeper understanding of how we're delivering value to veterinarians and to our shareholders. At Zomedica, our mission is to deliver innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that empower veterinarians to focus on what they love most, enhancing pet care and improving pet parent satisfaction. Equally important, we help vets with what they need most, streamlining workflow, increasing cash flow, and boosting practice profitability. At Zomedica, our mission is guided by what we call our five pillars. These are core objectives that shape every decision we make about products and innovation. First and foremost, we aim to improve the quality of care for the pets. Equally important is enhancing the satisfaction of the pet parent, ensuring they feel confident and comfortable with the care provided. Our solutions also focus heavily on improving the veterinarian's daily workflow, helping veterinary practices operate smoothly and efficiently. Additionally, we are committed to positively impacting veterinarian cash flow, making sure our offerings are financially accessible and beneficial. Finally, our ultimate goal is to increase veterinarian profitability, providing products and solutions that help veterinary clinics grow and thrive financially. Now, let's hear from Larry Heaton, Zomedica's Chief Executive Officer.
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Larry Heaton5:15
Hi everyone and welcome. I'm Larry Heaton, the Chief Executive Officer of Zomedica. Thanks for joining us today for another Fourth Friday at 4 webinar. Whether you're a shareholder, a veterinary professional, a partner, or simply someone who loves animals as we do, we appreciate you spending this time with us. Today we're focused on the equine segment of veterinary medicine, an area that represents both a significant economic opportunity for Zomedica and an opportunity to meaningfully impact the patients, the horses, clinically. Horses occupy a unique place in veterinary care, spanning performance animals, breeding programs, working horses, and companions. Across these segments, expectations for care, performance, and long-term health continue to rise, driving increased demand for advanced veterinary solutions. At the same time, the market is increasingly shaped by a premium segment of high-value horses that require continuous high-intensity care. These animals drive a disproportionate share of veterinary spend and are a key focus for innovation across the industry. That demand is fueling growth across both diagnostics and therapeutics, from faster stall-side testing and reproductive monitoring to advanced imaging and non-invasive treatment options that support recovery and performance. And this is where Zomedica is uniquely positioned. We've built an integrated equine ecosystem that spans both diagnostics and therapeutics, supporting the full continuum of care. Our diagnostic platforms enable faster clinical decisions and improved efficiency, while our therapeutic solutions address critical needs in recovery, pain management, and surgical care. Together, these technologies create multiple revenue touch points per patient and support a model that combines capital equipment with recurring revenue, driving long-term value for both veterinary practices and Zomedica. Importantly, this integrated approach also creates a strong competitive advantage for us, as few companies today offer a unified solution across both diagnostics and therapeutics. Today we'll walk through the market dynamics, our strategy, and how our technologies are positioned to support growth in this segment. Once this segment is complete, we'll turn to our recent fourth quarter earnings release and 10-K filing. As you've had some time to review these in detail since they were published on March 16th, we'll stick to the highlights and then move to your questions. With that, let's get started.
Let's step back and look at the market we're actually playing in. Starting with the horses themselves and then the dollars that follow them. In the United States, there are about 9.2 million horses across all uses. Roughly 3.9 million are recreational, about 2.7 million are show horses, and around 840,000 are racehorses. Another 1.75 million serve in roles like ranch work, rodeo, polo, and police service. Altogether, this population drives over $100 billion in total economic impact, including both direct and indirect effects. Within that, equine healthcare alone already represents more than $1 billion in annual US spending. It's growing at roughly 6 to 7% per year and is projected to reach about $1.6 billion by 2030. Now zooming out globally, the equine healthcare market is about $3.6 billion in 2025 and is expected to roughly double, reaching somewhere between $6.8 and over $10 billion by the early to mid-2030s. That implies strong growth outpacing general GDP. North America leads the market with just over 40% share, with the US as the primary driver. Now let's narrow in on where the real opportunity sits: the premium tier. Out of the 9.2 million horses in the US, about 3.5 million fall into this high-value segment. This includes most of the 2.7 million show horses and the 840,000 racehorses. These animals operate in structured environments: training, competition, and breeding. Many represent six- or even seven-figure assets, and importantly, they drive significantly higher veterinary spend per horse than the average recreational animal. That's why sports and racing dominate equine healthcare revenue. These horses require continuous high-intensity care, frequent diagnostics, reproductive management, advanced imaging, and ongoing musculoskeletal and pain treatment. So where is growth actually coming from? On the diagnostic side, chronic endocrine conditions like PPID and insulin dysregulation, along with reproductive monitoring in broodmares and stallions, are driving recurring testing demand. This makes diagnostics a repeat revenue category. On the therapeutic side, performance horses face high rates of tendon and ligament injuries, osteoarthritis, back pain, and complex wounds. These conditions are both common and economically significant. As a result, demand is growing for non-invasive treatments like focused shockwave, as well as regenerative and biologic therapies. And that is exactly the segment Zomedica is built to serve.
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Paul Thai11:01
So hi everyone. My name is Paul Thai. I have recently joined Zomedica as the Vice President for the International Market. So my responsibilities are going to be pretty exciting, exploring new markets for Zomedica with the existing products, and as we develop more, of course, I continue to include those into the portfolio. My background briefly is about 35 years in the veterinary market, pretty broadly across small animal and equine, and 27 years of those were at IDEXX where I finished there as a Senior Vice President for Europe, running the European markets and well overall EMEA, and then I spent three and a half years at Antech and Mars helping develop their markets again internationally. So a lot of my background, whilst I know the US market pretty well, is fundamentally international markets from Latin America, Europe, across Asia, and I've had a great lot of experience during that time, you know, with the equine market. However, really exciting times ahead with Zomedica. I think that going into the international market from an equine perspective is quite unique, it's very diverse, culturally sensitive, but growing dramatically in multiple regions. Traditionally, some of the big markets, of course, as you well know, will be the UK and Ireland. Going into Europe, one of the biggest markets in Europe is actually Germany, which is a significant market for the equine side. Of course, the Middle East, but what I'm seeing now is actually China is growing dramatically and a lot of keen interest in the equine market from jockey clubs, racing and breeding, stud farms, also into Korea. So this is a very international marketplace. We know Latin America as well, in Brazil and other countries. It's exciting times and I believe that certainly leveraging my experience, knowledge, and my contacts in those fields within the sport community and also within the specialists, we can really develop and grow our business globally. What's great about Zomedica is that where others have failed in the past, and I'm including IDEXX in this particular case and some organizations like Antech and others, is that their products have been pretty much me-too and not specific to the needs of the equine specialists and the equine vets, whereas the products that Zomedica has are niche and very, very unique, supporting exactly what they need for support and treatment of the equine community. So this is a really exciting opportunity for everyone.
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Trudy Gage13:38
Hi, I'm Trudy Gage, the Vice President of Zomedica's Equine Division and Client Education. I'm honored to serve in the role. My passion for all things equine crosses over into my personal life, which has actually helped in my professional life, understanding the needs of the horse owner. As a competitor myself on a national level, an owner of a small farm in Michigan, Gate Show Horses, I think it's easy for me to relate to the end user of all of our products. I became involved in the industry working with equine veterinarians over 25 years ago. I am grateful for the relationships I've made worldwide over all of that time. Starting with PulseVet in 2009 has been an amazing opportunity for me to continue to grow in my professional career. We've worked with all of the associations, the equine associations, giving us access to the end user. It also has elevated the PulseVet brand to the elite brand that is the leader, by far the gold standard when it comes to shockwave therapy. Most universities and any serious equine sports medicine veterinary practice is using and providing the PulseVet shockwave. Being able to talk to horse owners in a way that lends credibility because I'm one of them, and also sharing my experience with the veterinary side, has been helpful for both things. I'm super proud of being named the official shockwave of the AQHA, the USEF, the NCHA, the NRCHA, the World Equestrian Center, all organizations, the largest in the world with the most members. We now have access to them through editorials, our presence at their events, social media. Being the brand that they chose to share with their brand is a very big deal and continues to keep us at the top of the heap. That reputation, that sort of branding lends credibility when we want to bring something new to that same group or into the equine market. We're already considered the gold standard, the elite brand. When we got to come in and I was able to talk to them about the first ever stall-side metabolic panel, being the only company in the world able to now test with quantitative results that they can trust for ACTH, identifying horses with PPID, as well as test their insulin level for all of these insulin-resistant horses, it's a game changer. It's better medicine. We may actually save the life of some of these horses. It will help the veterinarian determine a treatment, when to treat, when not to treat. If we're talking about injecting a steroid, we may not want to do that based on the results of this test, and we can know that in about 20 minutes. Being the only company offering that has been such an amazing opportunity for me. The equine veterinarians that we already work with, that are already our loyal customers, they're open and they were and continue to be excited about what we bring to them. We've earned their trust. We've brought them innovative things that improve the medicine they're providing to their client. The horse owners are looking to us for education and asking their veterinarians for these products. Luckily, we've gained that trust over the decades of work we've done. A lot of that research and science, being able to bring that to the table, has been instrumental in our success moving forward. I believe the sky's the limit. We are only getting better and growing. Being able to move our new products into our very established equine market is a real benefit to us because we're not starting from scratch. We're already here with a great client base and we're just adding to it, improving the life of those horses, improving the return on investment, and saving time for those veterinarians. And at the end of the day, for me, it's all about how are we helping those horses and dogs, and we are absolutely doing that with the products we're bringing to the table.
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Rodrik Richards18:48
Hello, my name is Rodrik Richards, DVM. I studied veterinary medicine and surgery late after a short career in engine development with companies such as Lotus Cars in the UK and the Orbital Engine Company in Perth, Western Australia. I was contacted by the manufacturer HMT in Switzerland who asked if I was interested in the position of Product Manager for the Equitron globally but based in Switzerland. They felt that my German language, experience with the technology, and experience with equine so far was an interesting mix. This was naturally a massive decision for me and my family. But after much discussion with my wife, we decided this could indeed be a great opportunity. Well, that really was the beginning of shockwave as we know it. Not long after arriving in Switzerland, HMT AG unveiled their new desktop shockwave device for the medical field called the Evotron. I immediately went to the sales director and told him that I wanted that device for the veterinary world. Eventually the company agreed and the Versatron was born. Then I was able to convince HMT to work with Professor Mraith and his team to use the arthroscopic chip model they had developed to evaluate the effect of shockwaves on this injury. The results were convincingly positive, which led to the increasing uptake of the technology in the USA and then in other parts of the world.
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TJ Barklay20:30
My name is TJ Barklay. I'm a veterinarian with Zomedica. I have about 20 years of experience in equine practice, and then I've spent the last little bit over two years with Zomedica in the role of Professional Services Veterinarian. So my clinical practice was spent mainly with western performance horses in Texas, and I saw pretty much all of the western disciplines. My practice consisted of a lot of sports medicine and lameness diagnosis and treatment, as well as reproduction, dentistry, internal medicine, and a lot of just general equine practice. I had a lot of experience with the PulseVet product, which is a big part of Zomedica's lineup. So a big part of my role as a Professional Services Veterinarian is assisting the sales team in talking to veterinarians and potential customers. In that role, I serve mainly as an educator, educating potential customers. In those discussions with other veterinarians, we generally wind up talking about cases, different cases that we've seen, how Zomedica's products fit into the diagnostics or treatment of those types of cases. That peer-to-peer discussion is very valuable in instilling confidence in that veterinarian customer that Zomedica's products fit their practice and they're going to be able to utilize them to improve the quality of medicine in their practice. Some of the most exciting discussions that I get to have with veterinarians are surrounding our True Forma platform and the new equine assays that we have developed for that platform that are really revolutionizing the way that equine veterinarians diagnose certain endocrine diseases, especially PPID and equine metabolic syndrome. Having those diagnostics available at the point of care changes the paradigm of the whole process of diagnosing and treating those cases. So that's been a really exciting thing as far as getting to introduce that to other veterinarians. PulseVet shockwave has been around in equine practice for a long time. That was something that I had for a large portion of my practice career. So a lot of our customers are already very familiar with that technology. But one thing that I get to do is introduce new indications with the ongoing research that we've done in using shockwave for pulmonary indications like asthma and exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage, as well as newer research evaluating hoof growth. Those are new and very applicable things to typical equine practice. So getting to share those things and helping customers do those types of treatments is another big part of what I do.
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Kimberly Keaton24:13
Hi, I'm Dr. Kimberly Keaton, Professional Services Vet with Zomedica. I have quite a few certifications in addition to my Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. I've been in clinical practice for 20 years. I also practice acupuncture and I'm a Certified Veterinary Medical Manipulator, which is essentially veterinary chiropractic. In addition, I hold a license in England because I practiced in England for a couple of years. So that essentially describes who I am. I do come from an integrative background, which is a multimodal approach to medicine in managing high-performance sport horses, and PulseVet is actually what brought me into industry and to join Zomedica over a year ago now, because the tech-forward approach of the wide portfolio that Zomedica offers to practitioners helps improve their day-to-day efficiency as well as improving client outcomes and keeping costs to a minimum and clients happiest and their patients performing at their best. Day-to-day interaction with the sales team, sales associates, we are utilized for education and support in the field. So from the initial introduction of the technology to the practitioner, we support the sales team in clinic. When I go in with an account manager, I allow the account manager to drive the business discussion and the accounting discussion, and then I step in and take over the clinical and scientific side of things to help veterinarians understand what our technologies can bring to the table. On the other side of that, the diagnostic platform, the True Forma platform, is a really novel diagnostic device that allows people to make diagnoses in the field. So it takes something that typically we would have to wait, send off a blood sample, wait a couple days, have it come back, that's something we can now do in less than 20 minutes in the field, so that animal can be medicated appropriately sooner, and clients can see appropriate results from that medication sooner and less contraindications from that disease state that we're diagnosing.
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Larry Heaton26:34
At Zomedica, our approach to the equine market isn't built around a single product. It's built around the horse. What you're looking at is the Zomedica Equine Ecosystem, a deliberately integrated portfolio designed to serve veterinarians and their patients across two critical pillars: diagnostics and therapeutics. This model matters because it mirrors how veterinary care actually works. A vet doesn't just treat; they diagnose first, then treat, then monitor. Our product suite supports that entire continuum. On the diagnostic side, True Forma is our flagship platform, delivering point-of-care hormone and biomarker testing using proprietary bulk acoustic wave technology. For the equine practitioner, this means accurate endocrine panel results at the stall side without the delays or added cost of sending samples to an external reference lab. Faster results mean faster clinical decisions and better patient outcomes. We also offer True View AI, a digital microscopy tool that brings AI-assisted analysis to the practice, further expanding the diagnostic toolkit available to equine vets. On the therapeutic side, PulseVet therapy is the cornerstone, the gold standard in equine shockwave therapy, with deep clinical roots and strong brand recognition across the equine veterinary community. Complementing it, the AISI EquiLoop delivers targeted pulsed electromagnetic field therapy specifically designed for the equine patient, and Vetel rounds out the portfolio with a fast-acting plant-based hemostatic solution for wound management in the field. Together, these products are designed to work in concert. Each one reinforces the value of the others. Diagnostics inform treatment decisions, and treatment outcomes reinforce the ongoing value of diagnostics. That's multiple revenue touch points per patient, per visit, per year. This is how Zomedica is building durable recurring revenue in the premium equine segment, not through a single transaction but through a true ecosystem. PulseVet is widely recognized as the gold standard in equine extracorporeal shockwave therapy, and for good reason. Shockwave therapy uses focused acoustic pressure waves to stimulate healing in musculoskeletal tissue. These waves penetrate deep below the surface to promote angiogenesis, reduce inflammation, and trigger the body's natural repair mechanisms, all without surgery, without pharmaceuticals, and without extended recovery downtime. For performance horses where time off equals lost revenue, that distinction matters enormously to owners, trainers, and veterinarians alike. PulseVet systems are engineered specifically for the demands of equine practice. The device is portable, making it well suited for ambulatory vets working across multiple farms and facilities. Treatment protocols are well established and backed by a substantial body of peer-reviewed clinical research, with consistent, reproducible outcomes across a wide range of indications including suspensory ligament injuries, back pain, navicular syndrome, and tendon pathology. PulseVet also works seamlessly alongside True Forma within the Zomedica ecosystem. A veterinarian can use True Forma to identify an underlying hormonal condition contributing to poor musculoskeletal recovery, such as equine metabolic syndrome or PPID, and then deploy PulseVet as part of the treatment plan. Diagnostics and therapeutics working together, driving better outcomes and deeper client relationships. From a business standpoint, PulseVet operates on a recurring revenue model. Practices acquire the capital device and then generate ongoing revenue with every treatment session. Treatment fees in equine practice typically range from $150 to over $300 per session, with horses often receiving multiple treatments per course, creating a strong return on investment for the practice and a dependable recurring revenue stream for Zomedica.
Proven, trusted and clinically differentiated, PulseVet is the foundation of Zomedica's equine therapeutics business. Let's talk about the size of the opportunity. The global equine healthcare market is substantial and structurally attractive. An estimated 60 million horses worldwide require ongoing veterinary care, with the premium performance and sport horse segment representing the highest per-animal spending. These are horses whose owners, trainers, breeders, and competitive riders view veterinary investment not as a discretionary expense but as essential asset protection. The economics of care are straightforward when a horse represents a six- or seven-figure investment. Zomedica's equine segment is targeting a compound annual growth rate in excess of 30%, with a clear pathway to $50 million or more in annual equine revenue. That trajectory is grounded in two things: continued penetration of the installed base and the powerful recurring revenue dynamics built into our model. True Forma generates recurring consumable revenue with every diagnostic test run, creating a dependable annuity tied directly to clinical activity. PulseVet generates recurring revenue with every shockwave treatment session. The AISI EquiLoop and True View AI each add additional per-procedure and per-use revenue layers on top. Every capital placement compounds into a long-term revenue stream, and gross margins across the portfolio are targeted at 65% and above. Critically, no single competitor today offers the combined diagnostic and therapeutic breadth that Zomedica brings to the equine practitioner. The integration of True Forma's hormonal diagnostics with PulseVet's therapeutic capability alone represents a differentiated clinical and commercial proposition that is difficult to replicate. The opportunity is large, the margins are strong, and the competitive moat is growing. The financial case for Zomedica's equine strategy is compelling.
As we step back and look at the full picture, we see a clear opportunity not only in market size, but in how the market is evolving. The equine sector is fragmented yet concentrated in premium segments like performance and racing, where spend per horse is significantly higher. That matters because clinical outcomes, speed of diagnosis, and quality of treatment directly translate into economic value. Zomedica is positioned at that intersection. Our integrated approach connects diagnostics and therapeutics into a single clinical workflow, helping veterinarians move more efficiently from insight to action. That integration drives better patient outcomes, supports utilization, and creates multiple revenue opportunities per patient. Our professional service veterinarian model, unique to Zomedica, also helps ensure adoption continues beyond installation of our equipment through education, training, and real-life clinical use, which is what drives long-term value. The opportunity also extends well beyond the US. With more than 60 million horses globally and strong demand in regions like Europe and the Middle East, we're expanding into markets where equine care is both a priority and a premium investment. This is supported by a business model built for scale: high-value segments, recurring utilization, and a strong margin profile, all contributing to a growth trajectory we believe is sustainable and defendable. When you put it all together, the market dynamics, integrated ecosystem, clinical support model, and financial profile, you get more than a collection of products. You get a platform positioned to capture value across the life cycle of equine care. We believe Zomedica is uniquely positioned to lead in this space and deliver long-term value for veterinarians, the equine industry, and our shareholders.
I'll start with a brief update on the business and then our Senior Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller, Mike Zelki, will walk through the financials. After our prepared remarks, we'll open for questions. On March 16th, we reported our fourth quarter and full year 2025 results. Overall, this was a pivotal year for Zomedica and we delivered strong, consistent, and record performance across the business across the quarters. We generated $32 million in full-year revenue, representing 17% growth year-over-year, and we marked our 20th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth. In the fourth quarter, we also reached an important milestone, surpassing $10 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, with revenue of $10.5 million, up 33% from a year earlier. Crossing $10 million in quarterly sales, up from our prior record of $8 million set in the third quarter, reinforces our belief that our long-term strategy is working. Growth in the quarter and the full year was driven by several key factors: continued strong demand for our PulseVet and ACC therapeutic device platforms, accelerating adoption of our diagnostic offerings, particularly our True Forma platform, early traction in our new Development Services segment, which brought in about $3 million in revenue during the year, and expansion of our international footprint, where sales grew 18%, supported by both organic growth and new distributor relationships. We're encouraged by the momentum in our relatively new Development Services segment, which has opened new revenue opportunities by leveraging our development engineering, contract manufacturing, and order fulfillment expertise and infrastructure. We've entered into agreements with a human health partner to leverage our Georgia electromechanical manufacturing and distribution facility, and we are in early days of working with two entities, one for human health and one for animal health, that leverage our Minnesota biotech manufacturing and distribution facility. Importantly, this is not just a new revenue stream for us. As we have noted our intent to monetize our infrastructure and intellectual property since our acquisition of Corvo Bio Technologies a couple of years ago, it represents a strategic extension of capabilities we've been building for years. We are now able to apply our core strengths to a broader set of partners and related opportunities. What makes this segment particularly compelling is that it diversifies our business model beyond our core products while still leveraging the same underlying infrastructure and expertise. As we scale this segment and engage with additional partners, we expect it to be a contributor not only to revenue growth but also to margin expansion, further aiding our goal to cash flow break-even, GAAP profitability, and long-term value. From an operational perspective, we continued to execute with discipline. Gross margins remained a healthy 68% for the full year. Cost reduction initiatives helped to reduce operating expenses by $3.9 million, or 7%, compared to the prior year. Cash burn, driven by lower OpEx, operating expenses, and reduced capital expense and M&A spend, was $18.1 million for the year, including a significantly reduced $1.1 million cash burn in Q4, both of which represented the lowest in our history since commercialization.
Our disciplined approach to cost management will remain a primary focus across the company. We've also made significant progress in expanding and enhancing our product offerings with several improvements and initiatives that position us well for continued growth. In 2025, we added the Vetel product line and introduced our new Development Services business segment as discussed earlier, both of which expand our reach and open new avenues for innovation and revenue. This led to a contract manufacturing and services agreement with ROM Sensor Development, further expanding our capabilities beyond animal health and highlighting the broader potential of our Development Services segment. We launched our new TrueView Digital Microscopy Platform, now enhanced with AI diagnostic interpretation, and expanded its distribution through an agreement with Moore. This AI enhancement significantly advances the platform by enabling automated interpretation of hematology blood films, delivering faster, more consistent, and more standardized diagnostic results through a more intelligent program. We launched our next-generation VetGuardian Plus monitor along with an onboarding app designed to streamline installation and integration. Together, these enhancements mark an important step in the evolution of our monitoring platform, improving both product usability and workflow efficiency for our customers. We continued to expand our True Forma platform with new and enhanced assays supporting detection, monitoring, and assessment across a range of key areas, including equine ACTH, insulin, and progesterone, and feline testing for cobalamin and folate, further strengthening the clinical value and depth of the platform. We supported the expanded use of our PulseVet system through the launch of a national equine asthma registry, which we believe will generate critical insights, inform clinical practice, guide future research, and ultimately improve outcomes for patients. And we produced research to drive an additional indication for enhancing the sole depth of horses. Internationally, we broadened our footprint through new distribution agreements in the United Kingdom and Turkey, and expanded partnerships in the Netherlands and Canada, continuing to build momentum in key global markets. And we have high expectations for 2026 as we just onboarded a new Vice President of International, very experienced in the animal health market. Taken together, these initiatives reflect our continued commitment to innovation and our ability to build a more comprehensive, differentiated portfolio that delivers increasing value to our customers. With a growing installed base, increasing recurring consumables revenue, and targeted innovation across both diagnostics and therapeutics, we look forward to building on this momentum in the coming year. As we look ahead to 2026, our priorities remain clear: accelerate global adoption of our innovative portfolio, expand recurring revenue streams, and with fiscal discipline, drive toward cash flow break-even and profitability, with a firm goal of achieving both for 2027. With a strong balance sheet, including $53 million in liquidity, we believe we are well positioned to build on this momentum and continue to deliver long-term value. With that, I'll turn the call over to Mike to walk through the financials in further detail.
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Mike Zelki42:06
Thank you, Larry. And hello, everyone. We appreciate your continued support of and interest in Zomedica. The fourth quarter of 2025 was another record-breaking quarter for us and the finalization of a record year which delivered the highest revenue in company history, continued expansion across our portfolio, launches of enhanced products, and continued execution at significantly reduced operating expense levels. I'll walk through the results now. Total revenue for the fourth quarter was a record $10.5 million, an increase of 33% compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. It is the first time the company has eclipsed $10 million in revenue for a quarter. Total revenue for the year was $32 million, an increase of 17% compared to 2024. Full-year growth was driven by performance across our portfolio. Our diagnostic segment was up 17%, driven by continued adoption and utilization of our True Forma point-of-care diagnostic platform and our expanded menu of assays, notably our equine-specific assays. Our therapeutic devices segment was up 5%, driven by continued strong performance by our PulseVet and ACC products. Our Development Services segment, which was introduced in the third quarter, contributed $3.1 million in new revenue, leveraging existing capacity, capability, and intellectual property. We will continue to pursue strategic opportunities that leverage our existing asset base within both the human and animal health sectors. Consumables revenue, which can be thought of as recurring, was up 16%, highlighted by continued growth in the utilization of our True Forma products and sustained demand for our PulseVet products from both new device installations and reorders associated with existing systems. We expect consumables growth to continue as our installed base expands. Lastly, we spoke frequently last year about initiatives to grow internationally. I am pleased to report that international revenue was up 18% year-over-year. Moving on to operating expenses. Total operating expenses excluding non-cash impairment charges for 2025 were $50.2 million, a 7% reduction when compared to the prior year. Operating expenses as a percentage of sales improved 42% versus the prior year. And we anticipate continued operating leverage as we realize a full year of benefit from the cost reduction actions taken in 2025, along with continued sales growth which can be supported by our current structure. Research and development expenses were $7.2 million for the year, slightly down from 2024. We incurred costs in 2025, most notably to support the development of our VetGuardian Plus and True View AI enhanced products, and as you have seen, these were launched in the fourth quarter of 2025 and early in the first quarter of 2026, respectively. We will continue to develop, test, and manufacture our next generation of therapeutic and diagnostic products to meet market demands. Selling and marketing expenses were $18.5 million in 2025 compared to $17.2 million in 2024, an increase of 8% in support of the previously mentioned 17% growth in total revenue. Lastly, general and administrative expenses for the year were $24.5 million compared to $29.7 million in 2024, an 18% decrease, reflecting our commitment to disciplined cost management and our pursuit of sustainable performance that results in cash flow break-even and US GAAP profitability. Turning to the balance sheet, Zomedica ended the quarter with $53.3 million in cash, cash equivalents, and available-for-sale securities. Cash used during the fourth quarter was approximately $1.1 million, our lowest cash burn in four and a half years, and our first sub-2.5 million unadjusted quarterly burn since 2021. The Q4 2025 burn was approximately 83% less than the fourth quarter of 2024 and a 76% reduction from the cash burn in the third quarter of 2025. For the full year, cash burn was $18.1 million compared to $29.1 million in 2024, a 38% reduction year-over-year. The positive impact of topline growth, the maintenance of strong margins, and reduced operating expenses is clear when comparing cash burn to the prior year and provides evidence of meaningful progress toward our goals of cash flow break-even and GAAP profitability. The seasonality of our business is important to note. The fourth quarter is historically our strongest revenue quarter, while the first quarter historically incurs increased cash usage as the company pays for several annual expenses accrued at year-end. With this in mind, we do not anticipate the same quarterly cash performance improvement from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 that we saw from Q3 to Q4 in 2025. We do, however, anticipate continued realization of increased operating leverage throughout the year and further cash performance improvement for the full year of 2026 versus 2025. As I always do, I would like to remind you that we remain essentially debt-free. As our results for the fourth quarter and full year illustrate, your company is in sound financial health. We continue to believe we are well positioned to fund and support our strategy, accelerate the global adoption of our expanding portfolio, and sustainably achieve cash flow break-even and profitability. With that, I'd like to hand the call back to Larry. Larry.
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To reinforce what you just heard from Mike, I'd like to talk just a bit more about revenue and cash. Now, we were pleased with the cash burn from the fourth quarter, $1.1 million from revenue of $10.5 million. And when you think about it, with margins at 68%, an additional $1.6 million in revenue, or a total of $12.1 million for the quarter, assuming we collected the cash, would cover that $1.1 million cash burn. So we're close. Now, as we look to the first quarter of 2026, please remember that our revenue, especially capital revenue, is somewhat seasonal, and the first quarter is always the lowest revenue quarter versus our highest revenue quarter, the fourth quarter. Also keep in mind that cash burn is generally highest in the first quarter as we pay out expenses accrued during the entire previous year. Having said that, we are laser focused on getting to cash flow break-even and GAAP profitability. While we're confident that our current cash is and will be sufficient to see us to cash flow break-even and profitability, we remain focused on reducing our operating expenses both as a percentage of revenue and also in absolute dollar terms. So please view our early 2026 revenue and cash burn metrics as we lay them out as we make progress in this context. Okay, now let's get to questions. The first one, before I even look at yours, I'm going to ask myself: 'Hey, I thought you were going to buy stock for your grandchildren when the window opens.' Good question. My answer is that I am. Unfortunately, while our insider trading window opens two days after the release of earnings, which was on March 18th, it also closes two weeks before the end of a fiscal quarter, or March 17th. So in this case, it closed the day before it opened. While I do still intend to purchase additional shares for my five grandchildren, it has to wait until May 8th, as we currently plan to release earnings for the first quarter of 2026 on May 6th after the market closes. Of course, that can change by a little bit, but whenever that window opens, I'll be in the market. All right. Now let's get to your questions. We'll now move into
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Okay. So, first of all, my apologies for the technical difficulties that we encountered at the first of this webinar. I had to count back to how many we did. I was thinking for a second this must have been our 13th one because we were certainly unlucky today. But in any event, thanks for sticking around. Thanks for rejoining. All right, so let's get to some questions. First one is still no sound. Oh, well, I guess that's a legacy from the last one. We have a question here about the Boehringer Ingelheim collaboration which we announced just a week or so ago. What is the impact and so on and so forth. So I'll talk a little bit about that. So Boehringer Ingelheim is, I think, the second largest animal health company in the world. They're privately owned. They're based in Germany. They have subsidiaries around the world. And here in the United States, Boehringer Ingelheim USA has a program they call PP ID, which basically is a screening. They're promoting the screening of all horses for PPI because while it affects a significant number of horses of a certain age, it also affects younger horses and it affects a lot of donkeys and certain breeds of horses like really small horses, things like that. And so Boehringer Ingelheim has up until recently the only drug that was used to treat this condition. And so it's in their best interest to screen for this condition. And you know since we launched the ACT that's been our goal as well. We've been selling Truforma and EACTH for several years now. We've been gaining traction in the marketplace with equine vets and importantly we've also been gaining traction with the academically oriented equine vets who have studied this particular assay. I think we've told you before that our assay is the only one I should say our set of assays for EAC is the only one that measures not only ACT but also this derivative called clip which may be super important. Time will tell. But we're the only ones that offer that. Up until now you had to send your blood to Cornell and wait and then get the results back and would take days maybe longer to get that. Boehringer Ingelheim based on the academic presentations that were made at AAP based on the fact that we've been working with them over the last year doing combined labs and events with equine vets they satisfied themselves that technologically we had not only equal to Cornell but actually superior when it comes down to being able to measure clip independently. So, their program is every spring and every fall they offer at no charge to have a couple of horses per veterinarian tested and they cover the cost. Up until now, that meant they covered the cost of sending the blood to Cornell and they paid that bill. But now, and it kicks off just in a few days, April 6th, I think is the launch date for BI's program. they're going to offer the vets to be able to do the testing at the point of care with the Truforma device. And so their salespeople have the ability to sign that customer up to their program. That will mean that we place the device as we do anyway at no charge. and that initial set of cartridges which is both EACTH and insulin those cartridges are being paid for by BI. So they do two in the fall and they do two in the spring. We're obviously coming up on the spring one. The beauty of it for us, of course, is that every single equine vet that encounters PPI and treats PPI today uses the BI drug. Now, there's another company that's recently launched a competitive drug. We'll see how that goes in the marketplace, but today all equine vets know BI and they all know when it comes to PPI, BI is the authority because they have the only drug. and so we get that mantle of credibility along with the absolute convenience and all the other advantages that come along with being able to do this testing at the point of care. We are super excited because this allows us to get that initial usage, EAC and insulin and then we can come right behind them with cortisol and progesterone and it's just a great opportunity. Customer acquisition cost for us is essentially nil at that point. And so it's a terrific opportunity and we you can be sure we're going to avail ourselves of it. All right, next one.
Will first quarter earnings surpass 10 million? Well, I suppose that earnings of 10 million will be possible in the first quarter of some year, but that's not anytime in the near term. I think the question really is will first quarter revenues surpass 10 million and the answer is I don't think so. It's not in our plan. As Mike pointed out, first quarter revenue always takes a dip from fourth quarter because that's our strongest capital quarter. And we expect that pattern to continue here in 2026. I noticed you haven't purchased any shares. I think I covered that. Since you stated in the last Q&A that we might break even at the end of 2026, what new or existing revenue will drive the increase in revenues? Cash, I think, would probably be the question. So, we have the products that we're selling now, they will be sufficient for us to achieve the sales objectives that we have set forth. That could get us to cash flow break even certainly by the end of the year. It won't be for the full year of 2026. But certainly by the end of the year there's an opportunity, there's a potential for that to happen. We do firmly believe that we will be both cash flow break even and also GAAP profitable for the full year of 2027. And you'll see progress throughout the year in this area.
Have you noticed a decline in domestic and international sales since the Iran war started and oil prices rising? No, we haven't. And our new VP of international sales and our senior vice president of sales have been in Europe this past week and business is booming there. Our sales are up very nicely in the international market. It's proven to be a very fertile ground for us and that's one of the reasons why we took the step of bringing in a VP of international. And in fact there's a question here: Can I discuss the new VP of international sales? You met him here on the video, super experienced gentleman, 17 years with IDEX, three years with Antech. These are giants in the field. He built their businesses in Europe and other international markets. So we're super happy that he chose to come with us. And we have high expectations of international sales growth as we move forward.
When and which assays are to be launched this year. So we will be launching several assays for the equine market and one assay for the feline market. And I'd actually prefer not to say what those are because in the past we've telegraphed what we were doing and then other companies can come out and try and compete with us before we've even gotten on the market. So let me just say we have three equine assays and one feline assay that will be launched during the course of this year.
Talk about VP of sales or international sales. There are a few questions on here about the development services segment. Can we expect further growth in this segment throughout 2026 and beyond? There's another one here. What constitutes engineering services? I'll take that one now. Let me cover all those questions in one group. Development services is composed of several things. One would be engineering services. This would be assistance that we can provide other companies in the development of specific products that utilize our platform technology. We have an arrangement that's been made public with ROM Services. That is an example of where we can work together to help further develop the technology that they're applying in the human market. Similarly, we could offer that same support for companies that are looking to utilize our Truforma platform. So that's engineering services. Now those things generally have a start to them and they continue until the project is completed, and then engineering services would move to the side. We also do contract manufacturing. So in the case of ROM, for example, we're manufacturing the devices that they're bringing onto the market for the elderly population, the neonatal population, the prison populations. In the case of any company that we work with that would utilize our Truforma platform or our biosensor technology, we would manufacture those products as well. And generally you could expect that engineering services would then lead to contract manufacturing. And so as one part of this segment falls away, then a new part could very well take its place. And then you would have contract manufacturing on an ongoing basis. And then there are other sorts of services that have to do with basically helping a company with inventorying the product, distributing the product, providing technical support. And we have a couple of companies that we have engaged to help with that. One would leverage our Plymouth facility and the biotech capabilities we have there, and the other leveraging the staff we have in the Roswell facility down in Georgia. With respect to what we think is going to happen in the future, we're not going to give any specific guidance on this because this by its very nature can vary. It's not just us that has to do with generating this revenue. There are partners, collaborators, so there are multiple variables. So it wouldn't be prudent for us to try and predict this revenue with any sort of specificity. I will say though that we believe that this has legs. The reason I say that is if you remember back to when we acquired Corvo Biotechnologies, we stated then and we've repeated several times that our strategy was to first build a significant market and a track record with the Truforma platform in the animal health space, and then leverage that technology to enter through partners to monetize that technology with partners in the human health space. We knew when we acquired Orbal Biotechnology that there were several different indications for human health applications for this platform technology. And so to the extent that any single partner we are working with would after initial work decide not to go down that road or for whatever reason not be the appropriate partner for us, there's no shortage of other entities that we would be able to approach and move forward together in some sort of partnership or joint venture. So while I'm not going to give specific guidance, our expectation is that this will be a way for us to generate meaningful revenue as we move forward.
Okay, I hope that satisfies. Let's see. Talked about the assays, talked about VP of sales, talked about development services, talked about Lauringer. Timeline for equine version of VetGuardian. Good question. Trudy asks me that almost every week and I tell her the same thing I'll tell you now, which is that we first wanted to perfect the VetGuardian Plus device. We have that in the marketplace now. We wanted to make sure that we got all of that technology really zeroed in by looking in a small space, a cage, a kennel where there's a dog or a cat or what have you. Now we're at the point where we can apply it to a larger space, which is a stall where the horse is moving around. And so we expect sometime during this year to have some news on that. And Trudy, I'm not going to tell you any more than that. Wish I shared, you can attest to the fact that I shared the same thing I told you. Right. All right. Similar lower cash burn from Q4 and Q1 and throughout 2026.
I think Mike and then I reiterated it. Our cash burn is always higher in the first quarter. It's the highest of the year. This year will be no different. There are expenses that are accrued throughout the year that we need to pay out. But then you see the cash burn going down from there. And this is what we expect. Our operating expenses for 2026 will be less in absolute cash dollar terms than they were in 2025. We are focused on that. You may have seen for those of you who follow our website and our positions, while we did bring on a new VP of international, there are a couple of senior positions that are no longer part of our management team and company. These are all just reflections of the fact that our expenses will go down not just as a percentage of revenue, but actually also in hard dollar terms. Let's see when do we expect to be profitable? 2027.
Will this move the stock you think? So we'll talk a little bit about that. I think later there's another question about stock price and whatnot. So when we think about it in simplest form, more people want to buy the stock than want to sell the stock, stock price goes up. You all know that. So we need more buyers. We appreciate your sticking with the stock, we would encourage you to do that and hold it, but sometimes you just need the cash so we get it. So we need more buyers. And so, how do you get more buyers? Well, why are people not buying today? One reason they might not be buying today is that we're burning cash. And so, what are we doing about that? We're focused like a laser beam on reducing our cash burn and getting to cash flow break even. Somebody else might say, I'm not buying it because even though they're not burning cash, they're not profitable. And so, that's the other major thing that we're doing is we're looking to be profitable. Now, there are other reasons. They might not like the exchange that we're on. Well, we're not on an exchange. They might not like that we're not on an exchange that they recognize. They might not like the share price being where it is. And so, at this point, reducing the number of shares outstanding. We're very well aware that there are multiple ways to do that. One path is not favored by the shareholders and so we're not going down that path. The other path would take longer, but it would be a) get to cash flow break even, b) get to profitability, c) generate some free cash, and then d) start buying shares back. So from an operative sort of plan, these are the kind of things that we look at. And why do we look at it that way? Because we're looking to remove reasons why people are not buying the stock today. And then once we remove those reasons, we have to give them reasons to buy it. So, let's increase revenue, let's keep margins high, let's keep expenses low, let's be profitable, let's show good growth opportunities. This is what we're working on.
Any new indications coming soon for Pulsevet? Are we gaining market share adoption and recently added indications for horses and dogs? So new indications I think the newest indications are treatment of asthma and also there's a new indication for the treatment of sole depth. Apparently the depth of the hoof of a horse, the thickness of it, is a pretty important thing for horses. There's a study that recently was done. The first sharing of that was in December of this past year that says that if you use shockwave on the hoof of a horse, you can enhance the sole depth. So we're early days on that but we're contemplating doing a registry for that as well. Those would be indications that would help. Now the other thing is that by having indications in the small animal companion animal segment, we actually gain the ability to have the product introduced into the mixed animal vet group. So there's about 2400 equine-only vets in the United States. There's another couple thousand mixed practice vets. Up until now, those mixed practice vets basically make their money treating small animals, but they really like to treat horses. They probably own horses themselves. But if they only have a few horse customers and they're not performance and sports horses, then they're sometimes not real eager to make the investment in Pulsevet because it does require an investment and you need to use them to be able to get a return on that investment. But once we introduced it into the small animal market, now we're able to go to those mixed animal vets and say, 'Hey, you can pay for the device by using it in your small animal practice, and now you get to treat the horses that you want to treat.' Because every vet that's treating horses sees lameness, asthma, a number of conditions. There's actually 40 different indications for horses. And now by having it able to treat small animals, that opens it up. We've delighted quite a few of them with that story. And it's actually the fastest growing group of veterinarians, which would be the mixed animal both horses and small animal veterinarians.
Development services, we talked about that. Not seeing any insider buying because it's not possible to buy when your windows closed before it opens. I honestly should have made that connection when I was asked this question last quarter or last month. That's on me. Because at that time we knew when earnings would be released. It just didn't occur to me at the time. Last year we had one day where we could acquire shares and this year we had no days. Talked about cash burns, talked about development services. Any thoughts on trying to be listed back on the NYSE? Let me circle back on that question. I think Mike's got some information that might be helpful. Is Q1 2026 revenue beating Q1 2025 revenue? We've gone 20 quarters in a row of having the revenue for the quarter set a new record for that particular quarter by demonstrating year-over-year growth. We expect 2026 to be the same as it has been in 25, 24, 23, and 22.
Can you talk about rough revenue Cornell market does a PP? I don't know how much of their revenue, I don't know what Cornell's revenue is. They don't disclose it. They're not publicly traded. I would just tell you that the opportunity for us to have Boehringer Ingelheim tell every equine vet that is their customer and every equine vet is a customer of BI that they endorse the Truforma and they will pay for four tests in the spring and four tests in the fall. That's really good for us. Any buyback would not happen till profitability. Can you at least discuss what it would look like if we indeed hit profitability? The stock price extremely undervalued now and a buyback should provide reasonable investor value. Yeah. So I object to the premise. A buyback, a small buyback isn't going to make any difference. We have almost a billion shares outstanding. So until we are cash flow positive and profitable and have plenty of money in the bank, at which point we would consider and lay out a strategy, but that'd be a long strategy frankly.
That's a lot of shares out there. To do one now, I think the chairman of our audit committee uses a phrase: it's a permanent loss of capital for a short-term gain that benefits a few shareholders but it's not for the benefit of all shareholders unless it's a reasonable, prudent, thought-out long-term plan, which we'll get to when we get to that. Let's see. We talked about engineering services. We talked about stock buyback. So for the Boehringer Ingelheim screening program, what milestones should investors watch over the next 6 to 12 months to judge success? For example, number of enrolled veterinarians, device placements. We're not going to disclose any of those metrics. We talk about our segments and we'll continue to report segments. But what I would say is watch out for the diagnostic revenues, watch out for the consumable revenues, and you'll see those grow. We talked about the other two format tests. PIMS integration is on track. We'll have our first of many products integrated with PIMS by June. That's true for, and then the rest of our product line will follow. The timeline is like June to September in that range. By September, all of our products and nearly all of the PIMS integrators. There's a number of them out there. How soon may we expect to go back to being listed on a major exchange? I'm going to defer that to Mike in just a minute.
What caused revenue to be higher in Q4 versus previous quarters? It is our highest capital revenue quarter of the year for a number of reasons. One, equine veterinarians tend to aggregate their purchases at their annual trade show which is always held in December or late November early December of each year. We sell as many Pulsevet units to the equine market in that around that meeting as we sell in each of the previous quarters. And then of course we have the whole quarter leading up to it. The second reason is that the federal tax code allows for investment tax credits. Well, what they do is they allow you to take the cost of the acquisition as an expense in the quarter in which you put it to use and then you have it for the whole year. So if you buy something on January 1, then a year and 3 months later you get the benefit of it. If you buy it on December 31st, you get the benefit of it immediately for the whole previous year. It's just a buying cycle that exists in pretty much all capital sales and it's certainly the case for us here as well. And then there's also a little bit of sales people wanting to make their quotas and bonuses. So all that comes together and makes the fourth quarter. You can look back at 22, 23, 24, 25 and see the same pattern repeat over and over. Am I worried about the stock price? No.
Am I worried about the stock price? No. Am I worried about it? It's a good question. I guess it depends on how you say worried. I think about it a lot. I see my own portfolio just as you all do. I want that stock to appreciate, both for my own personal reasons and my grandchildren, but for each of all of you who have invested your hard-earned money into our shares. Some of you before I got here, but it doesn't matter. I want to see it go up, as you all do. I'm not worried about it because I know that the stock is not the company. The company's not the stock. The underlying foundation of this company is strong and getting stronger. We've made a tremendous amount of progress. We have a lot more to go. We're not sitting here saying, 'Okay, we're all done now.' We got a long way to go. But we're making really good progress and eventually that's going to be rewarded. I think I just knocked on wood.
You said cash flow break even could happen by the end of 26, 27 are the goals. What milestones can we watch for? Just watch for revenue increasing, expenses coming down, margins staying strong, and the cash burn. You'll see the progress being made during the course of the year. If you look back at the last three or four or five years, you'll see the cash burn always highest in the first quarter and so on. And again, I see especially Mr. Anonymous attendee that you are looking for very specific detailed information which we don't disclose. We are in a marketplace where we're surrounded by competitors, many of whom have much higher resources than we do. And so we're not looking to telegraph to them what they might want to do to forestall our progress. And so I hope you would appreciate that.
You said operating expenses should be lower. Yes. Again, these milestones, I know what you're looking for, but I'm not sure that I can help you with these things. If you want milestones to know if we're on track for reducing cash flow, then I would suggest that you look at reducing cash burn. The other metrics are leading or lagging indicators, but the best indicator for cash burn is cash burn. I can see that there are people that want to build models by knowing the installed base and so on. Again, we haven't disclosed it in our history and we don't plan on doing it now. This is competitive intelligence that we don't need to share with the market. I have told you that every equine vet is a customer of BI and there are about 4,400 of them. So we expect to make progress there and you'll see that reflected in our revenues. Do we advertise in big events such as the Kentucky Derby where racing horses are found? We advertise in a lot of events that are equine oriented. As Trudy said, we are the official shockwave of the American Quarter Horse Association, the American Reining Horse Association, the Cutting Horse Association, the Run for the Million, and many others. All of these are associations where Pulsevet is the official shockwave and the vets that take care of those horses know that and utilize our technology. But more to the point, when Trudy says she's in charge of client education, she also reaches out directly to horse owners so that they know to ask their vet for the gold standard in these technologies.
You said your plan is to remove the reasons investors are not buying the stock today by reducing cash, reaching cash flow break even, becoming profitable, keeping margins high and growing revenue. What are the milestones with that you should look for? I think the question answers it. Increasing revenue, strong margins, reducing opex as a percentage of revenue, reducing opex in cash terms. We disclose all those things and I would encourage you to follow along with those. Do I plan on staying with Zomedica for the foreseeable future? Yes, I do. I recruited, with the exception of two people here, and you've met them. You met Evan St. Peter two webinars ago and you met Dr. Ashley Wood last webinar. With the exception of them, I've recruited every single person that's here at Zomedica. I'm here to the point where they can take their stock options and go cash them in and get something nice with them or use them for their children. My children are grown. As I told my wife a while ago, you can retire, but I don't need to. So there's some weeks that I'm a little lonely at home because she's out with the grandkids, but then I head out there on the weekend, so I'm here.
That's a repeat of a question about the milestones. Do you think you'll still see revenue benefit even in the PP off-season for new Truforma placement with Boehringer? Yeah, I think so. The screening season for PPI is in the spring and the fall. The treatment: BI wants to screen so they can get new patients. The drug they are prescribed, they take it all year long. The process is you do the analysis, do the assessment, okay they have PPI, now you put them on the drug. As you titrate that drug to reach the correct level for that particular horse, you do multiple tests. So you're getting tests every month or so for a while, maybe three or four or five months. Then you say, okay, the horse is on a good dose, but every 6 months or a year, depending on the vet, they have to come back and test again to make sure the dose is still correct. Some people need to take a thyroid medication; they have to get their blood drawn periodically to check the dose. So this is a test that continues all year long. Even if it's not PPI season, it could be breeding season where progesterone comes in on the same platform, or foaling season where foals are born and sometimes they need to be tested with cortisol. So it's a good thing that it's going to last the whole year.
I'm going to address that about the NYSE. I'm going to actually let Mike do that. Okay. Now there's some questions about acquisitions. Congratulations to whoever on the team that worked on the BI deal. It sounds stellar. Yeah, for sure. I of course helped, but not really. This was the culmination of our PSV team working with the PSVs at BI, our VP for corporate accounts and strategic collaborations who we hired just about a year ago, and Trudy and all her contacts at BI. So kudos to the team across the board. I got to be the one to sign the agreement, but the real work was done by the folks that have been doing this for a while. All right, so now there's a couple questions about Oxford Science. So first of all, per SEC regulations and just good common sense, anything that is material we disclose and we disclose it timely. If we have a material event, due to Canadian regulations, we have like a day to get the word out in the form of an AK. Actually it's a different kind of filing in Canada, and we have two or three or four days to disclose it via an AK in the United States. If it's material, it will make a difference. Then we also do a press release about it. We aren't stingy with press releases. So if we have not disclosed something, it's because it's not material. If it's not material, why spend your time on it? If we had something material, why wouldn't we tell the whole world? Because it might be part of a bigger strategy that we're not ready to share. So I would ask that you take with a grain of salt anything you might have heard. Wonder about the motivation for that. That's for you to figure out. In our case, we're going to be close to the vest on things that we think should be close to the vest, and we have that latitude if it's not a material event. Any acquisitions looking forward, clearly we're looking to reduce and eliminate cash burn as quickly as we can. So spending a bunch of cash somewhere else is against that concept. Any future potential acquisitions, it would be crazy to talk about those. That wouldn't be smart. So let me leave it at that. Okay. All right. So now let me go to Mike and ask you to comment on what it would take to get to an exchange.
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Mike Zelki1:30:31
I'll ask if everyone can see. Um or Larry, I'll ask if you can see. On the heels of being asked the question last time and building questions around regaining compliance for a major exchange, I begin by prefacing and saying our ambitions are the same as our shareholders. We would love to see the stock traded on a major exchange. Have it be broadly available for trading, easily tradable, so on and so forth. That said, we've looked at the different exchanges that are available and I've laid out some of the criteria required for listing. The first one is the NASDAQ capital market. You can look at the red X's as criteria we don't meet. Green X is good news. NASDAQ says we have to meet one of these three criteria in totality to be listed. We have sufficient stockholders equity across the board. Market value of shares, we have operating history to go that route. Market value of listed securities, check. We're not profitable yet, but we would balance the net income standard. Number of shares, round lots, etc. And then the opening bid price on the low end of two bucks. There's some qualification there. We feel strongly we would probably qualify for the criteria two bucks, but keep in mind at current levels between 12 and 13 cents that's roughly a 16x multiple on current stock price. So NASDAQ isn't our only option. People have asked about the NYSE. They publish their initial listing criteria. You have to meet one of two financial standards: an earnings test where you have profitability, so we're out on that one, or their global market capitalization test of 200 million. We're out on that one. If we were to get to market cap of 200 million, then we have other criteria in terms of distribution standards, which again we'd cover on round lot holders, publicly held shares, market value of shares. Their opening bid price is $4, which would be a 32x multiple of current stock prices. What if we go back to where we were a little over a year ago? The NYSE American Exchange presents multiple standards. One standard requires pre-tax income. We're currently out on that one. The rest of the standards include total assets and total revenue, which we're close on. But then you get to minimum price. The cleanest path is a market cap, value of the float, equity, and opening bid price of $2. We check the boxes on additional criteria. Lastly, our shareholders have asked about the new Texas stock exchange, TXSE. Their listing standards are very similar to the NYSE and NASDAQ. You have to pass one of two tests: an earnings test, which we fail on as a result of not yet being profitable, or a market capitalization test with a market cap in excess of $2 million and a share price of $4 maintained for 90 consecutive trading days. We check the box on other criteria. The point of laying all this out is that management has an eye on it, and to lay out the magnitude at which the stock price needs to move for these to become viable options. A stock buyback of that magnitude is very significant. We don't talk about other options as they've been voted down resoundingly by our shareholders before. As Larry's laid out, we remain focused on the levers we can pull: increasing our revenues, reducing our operating expenses, generating cash. That's where the focus of the company remains.
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Larry Heaton1:35:13
Today, you're breaking up. I'm not sure what's happening, but you're breaking.
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Mike Zelki1:35:16
Oh, I'm sorry. Can you hear me? Is that any better? I'll stop here. Any better, Larry?
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Larry Heaton1:35:25
Not sure. What's? Yeah, I think people got the gist of it. Okay.
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Mike Zelki1:35:31
Um, internet's being a little funky here. Um, I think the only other question really that's out here is there's a few questions on acquisitions. You know, one is are we more likely to scale through partnerships and the human side or could a small acquisition also make sense? So, we're definitely on the human side looking for partnerships, joint ventures, things like that. The reason for that is it's not just the acquisition, it's also the expense of the regulatory pathway navigating the FDA, which a number of us here have experience with. But you have to go down that road with the FDA, with payers, with coding, and then deploy a salesforce in the human market. So partnership is better for us. There are other questions about are there any acquisitions coming soon? Are we looking to make additional acquisitions or primarily focused on organic growth? Let me be very clear. We are focused primarily on organic growth within our current segments. Are there little things we can tuck in that won't cost us anything from a cash standpoint? Sure. We'd be crazy not to take advantage of those. But any substantial acquisition, you're not going to see that until after we are cash flow break even and profitable. Right now, we don't think potential shareholders are not buying our stock because we're not making acquisitions. But we believe there are potential investors not buying the stock because we're not yet cash flow break even or profitable. So we are conserving our capital. We have confidence that we have sufficient capital to get to our objectives, but we're not cavalier about it at all.
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Larry Heaton1:37:47
So, Trudy, I when I told you no, we weren't going to spend it on that, I wasn't kidding. Right, everybody. All right. Well, with that, I think that pretty much wraps up the questions here. Um, and Mike, everyone could hear you. It just was me and it wasn't able to hear you well. So, sorry about that.
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Mike Zelki1:38:07
Okay. Um, No, I think the point that you were driving home at the end there, Larry, in the bow I was trying to put on the stock price is, ultimately the equation we're solving for here is creating demand. Creating more buyers of our stock so that you all can see appreciation in the stock price. Demand will lead to increased price. We view the best path forward on that front to be continuing to do what we're doing, which is driving topline growth at healthy margins, reducing cash. Taking away reasons why someone wouldn't buy our stock should lead to increase in demand. But we leave that to the market to determine.
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Larry Heaton1:38:58
Yeah. And we won't be passive about it. I mean once we remove those first two barriers, then I'll go back to talking to potential investors in group settings. It won't be the same settings as when we were listed on a major exchange, but there are groups of potential investors that get together that will purchase on over-the-counter stock or that will take a little more risk in terms of penny stock. I haven't been doing those because it takes away from focusing on our primary objectives. But once we get to cash flow break even and profitable, then we'll do more outreach to reach these potential investors. Okay. Uh Trudy, anything else?
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Trudy Gage1:39:51
No, sir.
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Larry Heaton1:39:54
All right. I didn't see. I guess there was one question you could have answered. I should have let you.
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Trudy Gage1:40:00
I will next time. All right. Thanks everyone. Appreciate your support. We will continue keeping you up to date on what we do with press releases as material events occur and we look forward to seeing you next month on our fourth for Idea4 webinar where we'll be talking about our manufacturing capabilities and so on. Thanks very much.