Royalty Pharma Reports Q4 and Full Year 2025 Results

• Portfolio Receipts of $874 million in Q4 2025 and $3,254 million for FY 2025
• Portfolio Receipts growth of 18% in Q4 2025 and 16% for FY 2025
• Net cash provided by operating activities of $827 million in Q4 2025 and $2,490 million for FY 2025
• Full year 2026 guidance: Portfolio Receipts expected to be $3,275 million to $3,425 million
  
  

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Royalty Pharma plc (Nasdaq: RPRX) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2025 and introduced full year 2026 guidance for Portfolio Receipts.

“We had one of the most remarkable years in Royalty Pharma’s history in 2025,” said Pablo Legorreta, Royalty Pharma’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. “We grew Portfolio Receipts by 16%, driven by the strength of our diversified portfolio, we returned a record amount of capital to shareholders and we deployed $2.6 billion on royalty transactions, including our highest year ever for announced synthetic royalty transactions. Further, we achieved an important milestone with the successful internalization of our external manager. Looking ahead, our deal pipeline remains robust and we anticipate multiple events for our development-stage pipeline in 2026 - including pivotal study results for daraxonrasib, pelacarsen and litifilimab - that could unlock additional value. I am confident 2026 will be another year of exciting progress towards strengthening our leadership position in the rapidly growing royalty market and pursuing our goal to be the premier capital allocator in life sciences with consistent, compounding growth.”

Strong double-digit growth in Royalty Receipts and Portfolio Receipts

• Royalty Receipts grew 17% to $856 million in the fourth quarter and 13% to $3,127 million in 2025, primarily driven by Voranigo, Trelegy, Tremfya and the cystic fibrosis franchise.
• Portfolio Receipts increased by 18% to $874 million in the fourth quarter and 16% to $3,254 million in 2025.
  
  

Balanced capital allocation approach drives value creation

• Capital Deployment of $2.6 billion; added royalties on nine⁽⁸⁾ therapies to portfolio in the year, including a ground-breaking partnership with Revolution Medicines for Phase 3 therapy daraxonrasib for pancreatic cancer.
• Repurchased 37 million Class A ordinary shares for $1.2 billion in 2025, including $75 million in the fourth quarter.
• Increased quarterly dividend by 7% in the first quarter of 2026.
  
  

Positive clinical and regulatory updates across royalty portfolio in 2025

• FDA approvals of Cytokinetics' Myqorzo (formerly aficamten) in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Johnson & Johnson's Tremfya in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
• Positive Phase 3 results for Teva's TEV-'749 in schizophrenia, Gilead's Trodelvy in 1L metastatic triple negative breast cancer, Emalex's ecopipam in Tourette's syndrome and Pharvaris' deucrictibant in hereditary angioedema.
  
  

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

• Royalty Pharma expects 2026 Portfolio Receipts to be between $3,275 million and $3,425 million.
• 2026 Portfolio Receipts guidance includes expected growth in Royalty Receipts of 3% to 8%.
  
  

Financial & Liquidity Summary

*See “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section. Adjusted EBITDA and Portfolio Cash Flow are non-GAAP liquidity measures calculated in accordance with the credit agreement.

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 includes expected Royalty Receipts growth of 3% to 8% 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 schedule for the term loan assumed as part of the internalization transaction. In 2026, Royalty Pharma anticipates interest paid to be approximately $350 million to $360 million⁽⁵⁾, with approximately $175 million in each of the first and third quarters of 2026. De minimis amounts are anticipated in the second and fourth quarters of 2026. These projections assume no additional debt financing in 2026, including no drawdown on the revolving credit facility. In 2025, Royalty Pharma collected interest of $34 million on its cash and cash equivalents.

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.

Portfolio Receipts Highlights

*Percentage change is not meaningful.
Amounts shown in the table may not add due to rounding. Results for full year 2025 and 2024 are shown in Table 5.

Royalty Receipts was $856 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 17% compared to $729 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. The increase was primarily driven by Voranigo, Trelegy, Tremfya and the cystic fibrosis franchise, which was partially offset by a decline from Promacta due to U.S. generic competition which launched in May 2025.

Portfolio Receipts was $874 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, an increase of 18% compared to $742 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, primarily driven by the same Royalty Receipts increases noted above.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

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

As of December 31, 2025, Royalty Pharma had cash and cash equivalents of $619 million and total debt with principal value of $9.2 billion.

In 2025, Royalty Pharma paid a quarterly dividend of $0.22 per share, equating to $512 million in dividends and distributions. In the first quarter of 2026, Royalty Pharma increased its quarterly dividend by 7% to $0.235 per share.

In January 2025, Royalty Pharma announced a new share repurchase program under which it may repurchase up to $3.0 billion of its Class A ordinary shares. Royalty Pharma repurchased approximately two million Class A ordinary shares for $75 million in the fourth quarter and 37 million shares for $1.2 billion for the full year of 2025. The weighted-average number of diluted Class A ordinary shares outstanding for the fourth quarter of 2025 was 556 million, a decline of 6% as compared to 589 million for the fourth quarter of 2024. The weighted-average number of diluted Class A ordinary shares outstanding for full year 2025 was 564 million as compared to 594 million for full year 2024.

In January 2025, Royalty Pharma accelerated its return by selling the MorphoSys Development Funding Bonds for $511 million. This payment, combined with quarterly repayments received prior to the sale, resulted in total cash proceeds of $530 million on the $300 million investment that was made in September 2022. The proceeds provided added flexibility to pursue the company's dynamic capital allocation strategy.

Liquidity Summary

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

• Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) was $816 million in the fourth quarter of 2025. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as Portfolio Receipts minus payments for operating and professional costs.
• Portfolio Cash Flow (non-GAAP) was $815 million in the fourth quarter of 2025. 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 $887 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, consisting primarily of upfront payments for the Amvuttra, zidesamtinib and neladalkib royalty transactions and remaining royalties on Evrysdi (see 'Royalty Transactions'), as well as the Cytokinetics Commercial Launch Funding and research and development funding for litifilimab. Capital Deployment for the full year 2025 amounted to $2.6 billion.

The table below details Capital Deployment by category:

Capital Deployment

Amounts may not add due to rounding.

Royalty Transactions

During 2025, Royalty Pharma announced new transactions of up to $4.7 billion which reflects the entire amount of potential capital committed for new transactions, including potential future milestones.

Recent transactions include:

• In January 2026, Royalty Pharma announced a funding agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals for TEV-’408 for up to $500 million. The agreement includes $75 million to co-fund a Phase 2b study for vitiligo targeted for 2026. Based on the future results from the Phase 2b study in vitiligo, Royalty Pharma will have an option to provide an additional $425 million to co-fund the Phase 3 development program.
• In December 2025, Royalty Pharma acquired the remaining royalties on Roche's Evrysdi for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy from PTC Therapeutics for an upfront payment of $240 million and up to $60 million in sales-based milestones.
• In December 2025, Royalty Pharma acquired a pre-existing royalty interest in Nuvalent's neladalkib and zidesamtinib from an undisclosed party for up to $315 million, including an upfront payment of $155 million. Neladalkib and zidesamtinib are next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Neladalkib is in development for patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and zidesamtinib is in development for ROS proto-oncogene 1 (ROS1) mutation-positive NSCLC.
• In December 2025, Royalty Pharma announced a transaction to acquire a royalty interest in Denali Therapeutics’ tividenofusp alfa for up to $275 million. Tividenofusp alfa is Denali’s lead investigational TransportVehicle-enabled enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS II, or Hunter syndrome). Royalty Pharma will make a $200 million payment contingent on U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accelerated approval and a $75 million payment on European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval if achieved by December 31, 2029.
  
  

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 fourth quarter and full year 2025 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 20 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, and excludes the $511 million in 2025 proceeds from the sale of the MorphoSys Development Funding Bonds.

Portfolio Receipts is calculated as the sum of the following line items from Royalty Pharma’s GAAP 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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