Royalty Pharma reports second quarter 2026 results

• Portfolio Receipts growth of 6% to $773 million; Royalty Receipts growth of 14%
• Net cash provided by operating activities of $728 million
• Raised full year 2026 guidance: Portfolio Receipts expected to be $3,400 million to $3,500 million

NEW YORK, Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2026 and raised full year 2026 guidance for Portfolio Receipts.

“Royalty Pharma delivered strong second quarter results with Royalty Receipts growth of 14%,” said Pablo Legorreta, Royalty Pharma’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. “Our transaction pipeline remains exciting and we continued to bolster our development-stage pipeline in recent months, bringing total Capital Deployment to over $1 billion so far in 2026. Following our acquisition of a royalty on AstraZeneca’s cliramitug, our development-stage pipeline now totals 19 potential therapies. Lastly, our strong financial performance has allowed us to raise our top-line guidance for the second time this year, driven by the strength of our diversified portfolio. The fundamental tailwinds supporting our business are compelling and we remain well positioned as a premier capital allocator in life sciences to deliver consistent, compounding growth.”

Double-digit growth in Royalty Receipts in the second quarter of 2026

• Royalty Receipts grew 14% to $768 million, driven by Tremfya, Voranigo, Imdelltra and Evrysdi.
• Portfolio Receipts increased by 6% to $773 million, reflecting lower milestones and other contractual receipts.

Strong transaction activity

• Acquired royalty on AstraZeneca’s cliramitug for transthyretin amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy in July 2026.
• Announced value of transactions of $1.7 billion and Capital Deployment of $1.1 billion as of August 4, 2026.

Positive portfolio updates

• Revolution Medicines’ NDA for daraxonrasib in pancreatic cancer accepted for review by FDA and the EMA has started its accelerated review; Gilead’s Trodelvy received FDA and EC approval for first-line metastatic triple-negative breast cancer; GSK’s Jideytro received FDA approval for ROS1+ non-small cell lung cancer; Amgen’s Imdelltra received EC approval for small cell lung cancer.
• GSK completed the acquisition of Nuvalent (Jideytro and neladalkib for lung cancer); Teva completed the acquisition of Emalex Biosciences (ecopipam for Tourette syndrome).

Raising financial guidance for full year 2026 (excludes contribution from future transactions)

• Royalty Pharma now expects 2026 Portfolio Receipts to be between $3,400 million and $3,500 million (previously $3,325 million to $3,450 million), representing expected Royalty Receipts growth of 7% to 10%.

Financial & Liquidity Summary

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2026 Financial Outlook

Royalty Pharma has provided guidance for full year 2026, excluding new transactions and borrowings announced after the date of this release, as follows:

Portfolio Receipts is defined as the sum of Royalty Receipts and Milestones and other contractual receipts. The above Portfolio Receipts guidance provided on August 5, 2026 includes expected Royalty Receipts growth of 7% to 10% in 2026.

Royalty Pharma’s full year 2026 guidance reflects an estimated foreign exchange impact of approximately +1% to Portfolio Receipts, assuming current foreign exchange rates prevail for the rest of 2026.

Payments for operating and professional costs in 2026 are expected to decrease as a percentage of Portfolio Receipts, compared to 8.9% in 2025, primarily due to extinguishment of the management fee following the completion of the internalization transaction on May 16, 2025.

Total interest paid is based on the semi-annual interest payment schedule of Royalty Pharma’s existing notes and the quarterly interest payment schedules for the term loan assumed as part of the internalization transaction and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. In 2026, Royalty Pharma anticipates interest paid to be approximately $350 million to $360 million. Interest paid in the third quarter of 2026 is anticipated to be approximately $175 million, with a de minimis amount anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2026. These projections reflect repayment of the $380 million term loan in July 2026 and assume no additional debt financing in 2026. In the second quarter of 2026, Royalty Pharma collected interest of $5 million on its cash and cash equivalents, which partially offset interest paid.

Royalty Pharma today provides this guidance based on its most up-to-date view of its prospects. This guidance assumes no major unforeseen adverse events or changes in foreign exchange rates and excludes the contributions from transactions announced subsequent to the date of this press release.

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Royalty Receipts was $768 million in the second quarter of 2026, an increase of 14% compared to $672 million in the second quarter of 2025. The increase was primarily driven by Tremfya, Voranigo, Imdelltra and Evrysdi, partially offset by declines from Promacta due to U.S. generic competition and from Imbruvica. Royalty Receipts from Evrysdi included the benefit of the additional royalties acquired in December 2025.

Portfolio Receipts was $773 million in the second quarter of 2026, an increase of 6% compared to $727 million in the second quarter of 2025, primarily driven by the same Royalty Receipts increases noted above, partially offset by lower Milestones and other contractual receipts due to a one-time distribution received in the prior year period.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Royalty Pharma’s liquidity and capital resources are summarized below:

As of June 30, 2026, Royalty Pharma had cash and cash equivalents of $812 million and total debt with principal value of $9.2 billion. In July 2026, Royalty Pharma repaid the $380 million term loan upon maturity.

In the second quarter of 2026, Royalty Pharma paid a quarterly dividend of $0.235 per share, equating to $135 million in dividends and distributions.

Royalty Pharma repurchased approximately 0.9 million Class A ordinary shares for $45 million in the second quarter and two million Class A ordinary shares for $96 million for the first six months of 2026. The weighted-average number of diluted Class A ordinary shares outstanding for the second quarter of 2026 was 557 million, a decline of 1% as compared to 562 million for the second quarter of 2025.

Liquidity Summary

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• Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) was $736 million in the second quarter of 2026. Payments for operating and professional costs were 4.8% of Portfolio Receipts. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as Portfolio Receipts minus payments for operating and professional costs.
• Portfolio Cash Flow (non-GAAP) was $736 million in the second quarter of 2026. Portfolio Cash Flow is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA minus interest paid or received, net. This measure reflects the cash generated by Royalty Pharma’s business that can be redeployed into value-enhancing royalty acquisitions, used to repay debt, returned to shareholders through dividends or share purchases, or utilized for other discretionary investments.

Refer to Table 4 for Royalty Pharma’s reconciliation of each non-GAAP measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, net cash provided by operating activities.

Capital Deployment reflects cash payments during the period for new and previously announced transactions. Capital Deployment was $349 million in the second quarter of 2026, consisting primarily of royalty funding for daraxonrasib and R&D funding for JNJ‑4804 and litifilimab.

The table below details Capital Deployment by category:

Capital Deployment

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Royalty Transactions

As of August 4, 2026, Royalty Pharma has announced new transactions of up to $1.7 billion, which reflects the entire amount of potential capital committed for new transactions, including potential future milestones.

• In July 2026, Royalty Pharma acquired a portion of Neurimmune AG’s royalty interest in AstraZeneca’s cliramitug for up to $425 million, including $125 million upfront. Cliramitug is a Phase 3 first-in-class transthyretin (TTR)-fibril-depleting antibody designed to remove amyloid deposits in patients with TTR amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy, a progressive, degenerative and fatal disease caused by misfolded proteins that accumulate in the heart.

The information in this section should be read together with Royalty Pharma’s reports and documents filed with the SEC at www.sec.gov and the reader is also encouraged to review all other press releases and information available in the Investors section of Royalty Pharma’s website at www.royaltypharma.com.

Key Developments Relating to the Portfolio

The key developments related to Royalty Pharma’s royalty interests are discussed below based on disclosures from the marketers of the products.

Financial Results Call

Royalty Pharma will host a conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss its second quarter of 2026 results today at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time. Please visit the “Investors” page of the company’s website at https://www.royaltypharma.com/investors/events to obtain conference call information and to view the live webcast. A replay of the conference call and webcast will be archived on the company’s website for at least 30 days.

About Royalty Pharma plc

Founded in 1996, Royalty Pharma is the largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties and a leading funder of innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry, collaborating with innovators from academic institutions, research hospitals and non-profits through small and mid-cap biotechnology companies to leading global pharmaceutical companies. Royalty Pharma has assembled a portfolio of royalties which entitles it to payments based directly on the top-line sales of many of the industry’s leading therapies. Royalty Pharma’s current portfolio includes royalties on more than 35 commercial products, including Vertex’s Trikafta and Alyftrek, GSK’s Trelegy, Biogen’s Tysabri and Spinraza, Roche’s Evrysdi, Astellas and Pfizer’s Xtandi, Johnson & Johnson’s Tremfya, AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson’s Imbruvica, Servier’s Voranigo, Gilead’s Trodelvy, Amgen’s Imdelltra and Alnylam’s Amvuttra, among others, and 19 development-stage product candidates.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Certain information contained in this document relates to or is based on studies, publications, surveys and other data obtained from third-party sources and the company’s own internal estimates and research. While the company believes these third-party sources to be reliable as of the date of this document, it has not independently verified, and makes no representation as to the adequacy, fairness, accuracy or completeness of, any information obtained from third-party sources. In addition, all of the market data included in this document involves a number of assumptions and limitations, and there can be no guarantee as to the accuracy or reliability of such assumptions. Finally, while the company believes its own internal research is reliable, such research has not been verified by any independent source.

For further information, please reference Royalty Pharma’s reports and documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Portfolio Receipts

Portfolio Receipts is a key performance metric that represents Royalty Pharma’s ability to generate cash from Royalty Pharma’s portfolio investments, the primary source of capital that is deployed to make new portfolio investments. Portfolio Receipts is defined as the sum of Royalty Receipts and Milestones and other contractual receipts. Royalty Receipts includes variable payments based on sales of products, net of contractual payments to the legacy non-controlling interests, that are attributed to Royalty Pharma.

Milestones and other contractual receipts include sales-based or regulatory milestone payments and other fixed contractual receipts, net of contractual payments to legacy non-controlling interests, that are attributed to Royalty Pharma. Portfolio Receipts does not include royalty receipts and milestones and other contractual receipts that were received on an accelerated basis under the terms of the agreement governing the receipt or payment. Portfolio Receipts also does not include proceeds from equity securities or proceeds from purchases and sales of marketable securities, both of which are not central to Royalty Pharma’s fundamental business strategy. 2025 Portfolio Receipts does not include the $511 million of proceeds from the sale of the MorphoSys Development Funding Bonds, as the transaction was treated as an asset sale.

Portfolio Receipts is calculated as the sum of the following line items from Royalty Pharma’s GAAP condensed consolidated statements of cash flows: Cash collections from financial royalty assets, Cash collections from intangible royalty assets, Other royalty cash collections, Proceeds from available for sale debt securities and Distributions from equity method investees less Distributions to legacy non-controlling interests - Portfolio Receipts, which represent contractual distributions of Royalty Receipts, milestones and other contractual receipts to the Legacy Investors Partnerships.

Use of Non-GAAP Measures

Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are non-GAAP liquidity measures that exclude the impact of certain items and therefore have not been calculated in accordance with GAAP. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are important non-GAAP measures used to analyze liquidity because they are key components of certain material covenants contained within Royalty Pharma’s credit agreement. Royalty Pharma cautions readers that amounts presented in accordance with the definitions of Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow may not be the same as similar measures used by other companies or analysts. These non-GAAP liquidity measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as a substitute for the analysis of Royalty Pharma’s results as reported under GAAP.

The definitions of Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow used by Royalty Pharma are the same as the definitions in the credit agreement. Noncompliance with the interest coverage ratio, leverage ratio and Portfolio Cash Flow ratio covenants under the credit agreement could result in lenders requiring the company to immediately repay all amounts borrowed. If Royalty Pharma cannot satisfy these covenants, it would be prohibited under the credit agreement from engaging in certain activities, such as incurring additional indebtedness, paying dividends, making certain payments, and acquiring and disposing of assets. Consequently, Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are critical to the assessment of Royalty Pharma’s liquidity.

Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are used by management as key liquidity measures in the evaluation of the company’s ability to generate cash from operations. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow when considering available cash, including for decision-making purposes related to funding of acquisitions, debt repayments, dividends and other discretionary investments. Further, these non-GAAP liquidity measures help management, the audit committee and investors evaluate the company’s ability to generate liquidity from operating activities.

The company has provided reconciliations of these non-GAAP liquidity measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, being net cash provided by operating activities in Table 4.

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Notes

(1)  Portfolio Receipts is defined above in the section entitled “Portfolio Receipts.”

(2)  Adjusted EBITDA is defined under the credit agreement as Portfolio Receipts minus payments for operating and professional costs. Operating and professional costs reflect Payments for operating and professional costs from the GAAP condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. See GAAP to Non-GAAP reconciliation in Table 4.

(3)  Portfolio Cash Flow is defined under the credit agreement as Adjusted EBITDA minus interest paid or received, net. See GAAP to Non-GAAP reconciliation in Table 4. Portfolio Cash Flow reflects the cash generated by Royalty Pharma’s business that can be redeployed into value-enhancing royalty acquisitions, used to repay debt, returned to shareholders through dividends or share purchases or utilized for other discretionary investments.

(4)  Capital Deployment is calculated as the summation of the following line items from Royalty Pharma’s GAAP condensed consolidated statements of cash flows: Investments in equity method investees, Purchases of available for sale debt securities, Acquisitions of financial royalty assets, Acquisitions of other financial assets, Milestone payments, Development-stage funding payments less Contributions from legacy non-controlling interests - R&D.

(5)  Other products primarily include Royalty Receipts on the following products: Crysvita, Erleada, Farxiga/Onglyza, Nesina, Niktimvo, Nurtec ODT, Orladeyo, Prevymis and distributions from the Legacy SLP Interest, which is presented as Distributions from equity method investees on the GAAP condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.

(6)  The table below shows the line item for each adjustment and the direct location for such line item on the GAAP condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.

(7)  The condensed consolidated statement of operations for 2025 has been recast to reflect the adoption of ASU 2025-07 by removing the losses previously recognized on derivative.