Sight Sciences, Inc.
Q4 2021 Earnings Call Transcript
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- Operator:
- Good day, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Sight Sciences Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results Conference Call. As a reminder, this call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference, Philip Taylor. You may begin.
- Philip Taylor:
- Thank you for participating in today’s call. Presenting today are Sight Sciences Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Paul Badawi; Chief Financial Officer, Jesse Selnick; and Chief Commercial Officer, Shawn O’Neil. Earlier today, Sight Sciences released financial results for the 3 months and 12 months ended December 31, 2021. A copy of the press release is available on the company’s website at investors.sightsciences.com. I would like to remind everyone that comments made by management today and answers to questions will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Those include statements related to Sight Sciences’ anticipated financial performance and operating results; market opportunity; the future impact of COVID-19 on operations, business strategy; and plans for developing and marketing new products. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions as of today and are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these statements. A description of some of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements on this call can be found in the Risk Factors section of the annual report on Form 10-K filed today and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by law. For more information, please refer to the forward-looking statement notices and risk factors in the recent SEC filings. I will now turn the call over to Paul.
- Paul Badawi:
- Thanks, Trip, and thank you all for joining us today. I’m very excited to provide an update on our business and the progress we have made delivering the power of sight. I will touch on the accomplishments that made 2021 a huge success and how we are positioning Sight Sciences for continued success going forward, including an introduction to some of the exciting new products we are developing. OMNI and TearCare are well on their way to becoming breakthrough products, yet we have never stopped innovating. We are employing our rigorous product development process to develop a portfolio of new products that will enable us to serve an even broader array of patients suffering from glaucoma and dry eye disease. These programs which we anticipate will include controlled product releases and launches this year will help us drive organic growth for the next decade and beyond. But first, I’d like to start by reviewing our strong performance in the fourth quarter. Our total revenue increased to $14.7 million, representing growth of 63% compared to the fourth quarter of 2020 and 12% growth compared to the third quarter of 2021. Despite headwinds from resurgent COVID disruptions and shifting reimbursement dynamics, we delivered meaningful sequential growth in the fourth quarter, driven by continued new customer wins and higher utilization in our surgical glaucoma segment which grew 12% sequentially and 60% year-over-year to $13.9 million. As others across our industry have discussed, we experienced a similar slowdown in activity in mid-December due to Omicron and the holidays that dampened what could have been an even more exceptional quarter. Fundamentally, our core principles position us to succeed and underpin the growth of our business. Our efforts are always focused on the needs of patients and protecting and enhancing mankind’s most precious sense sight. We have continued to propel our three strategic initiatives that we believe will unlock the full potential of OMNI and TearCare and drive our growth over the near and medium term. Number one, our first initiative aims to increase the number of surgeons using OMNI. MIGS-trained surgeons who are already performing combination cataract procedures comprise our most fertile target segment. The bulk of our surgical glaucoma sales team consists of territory-based reps who sell OMNI to facilities and train surgeons. We also have a strategic accounts team that focuses on selling to and training surgeons to teaching institutions and government hospitals. These teams have delivered exceptional results converting surgeons to OMNI, and we are modestly increasing our investments in these groups in 2022. We believe OMNI’S strong safety profile, intuitive usability and demonstrated efficacy in reducing IOP and medication usage have helped us penetrate the combination cataract segment and gain share despite intense competition from legacy implant-based procedures. Only OMNI allows surgeons to treat all three points of resistance within the conventional outflow pathway using a single device to perform two sequential procedures in a single surgical setting. According to Market Scope, there are over 5,600 surgeons performing MIGS procedures in the U.S. We’ve trained approximately 1,500 of these surgeons. So we still have a lot of work to reach our full potential. In the fourth quarter of 2021, over 750 facilities ordered OMNI surgical systems, with over one-third of these representing new OMNI facilities. We continue to see increased utilization as our facilities-based tenure increases. Based on the increasing number of ordering facilities and their utilization, we believe we are continuing to take share in combination cataract procedures. Our reps typically train surgeons in combination cataract cases because they already have cataract patients who also have primary open-angle glaucoma on their operating room schedules. Once a surgeon is proficient with OMNI in the combination cataract setting, they are positioned to perform standalone OMNI cases as well. These surgeons have built their practices around a robust practitioner network for cataract patients. To expand their practices to include interventions in the $5 billion U.S. standalone glaucoma segment, our customers will require a similar practitioner network for POAG patients. Number two, our second initiative focuses on educating these POAG practitioner networks to better understand when glaucoma patients may benefit from standalone procedures performed by OMNI-trained surgeons. We are in the early stages of educating the broader POAG community, including primary eye care professionals and patients regarding the possibility and potential benefits of early intervention with OMNI. We believe OMNI due to its indication for use, safety, high degree of efficacy and high consistency of efficacy has the ideal product market fit for standalone interventions. Our clinical trials have demonstrated that OMNI can safely and reliably reduce IOP and medication burden. Primary eye care professionals are the first to diagnose and treat POAG patients. Currently, if a POAG patient does not require cataract surgery, the treatment algorithm relies on increasing use of topical eye drop medication to slow the progression of the disease, with the goal of staving off conventional surgical procedures for as long as possible. These highly invasive surgeries are effective at reducing IOP, but carry a high risk of complication to side effects and are typically only attempted by glaucoma specialists. Our mission is to let the glaucoma community know that an earlier intervention performed by a local OMNI-trained surgeon could be a better alternative than prescribing a second or third eye drop. To this end, we’re fielding a dedicated team of glaucoma clinical consultants that will deliver our message to the tens of thousands of office-based primary care optometrists and ophthalmologists who treat POAG patients with medications. We have strategically placed our GCCs in territories that have multiple qualified OMNI-trained surgeons with strong comprehensive practices or established practitioner networks. Our market research indicates that 85% of glaucoma patients would likely choose an intervention using OMNI if it was recommended by their doctor. We expanded our GCC field team from a beta launch of 4 last year to 20 in the first quarter of 2022. Eventually, we believe each of our traditional territories could benefit from one or more GCCs, building relationships in the broader glaucoma and provider community. We are supplementing these field efforts with our Don’t Wait for Too Late educational campaign that emphasizes the value of early MIGS intervention and with patient education and outreach materials available in doctors’ offices and online. We believe the commercial impact from our standalone market development efforts will be evident in the back half of this year. Number three, our third key strategic initiative involves developing the market for effective dry eye treatment procedures. We achieved a major milestone in December when TearCare received FDA clearance for an expanded label for the application of localized heat therapy in adult patients with evaporative dry eye disease due to Meibomian Gland dysfunction when used in conjunction with manual expression of the Meibomian Glands. MGD is the leading cause of dry eye disease. This clearance was supported by data from our OLYMPIA RCT, which demonstrated clinically significant improvements in all signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. This expanded label allows our commercial team to communicate the benefits of TearCare more completely. Our reps have already reported increased customer receptivity in the field. Improving reimbursed patient access to TearCare is our ultimate goal. Our SAHARA clinical trial was developed with input from 8 payer medical directors from 8 different major insurance companies to provide the specific data they would require to reimburse TearCare procedures. We expect to complete enrollment in SAHARA later this year. As a reminder, SAHARA aims to demonstrate the superiority of TearCare treatments compared to the market-leading prescription eye drop, Restasis at 6 months. We hope to be able to report back on this key superiority endpoint by the middle of next year. We are very pleased with the progress we have made advancing these initiatives, which we believe will create tremendous value. We are also making investments in other areas that will contribute to our growth in the coming years. Outside the U.S. we have established a direct selling effort in the UK and have seen substantial traction in Germany. Both of these markets are progressing nicely. We plan to expand our presence in Europe and other geographies. We spent a lot of time discussing changes to reimbursement over the past 9 months, so I’ll be very brief in my remarks now. In summary, surgeon and ASC reimbursement for OMNI are both in better positions relative to implantable procedures in 2022 than 2021. With our professional and facility reimbursement levels recently revalued and fully stabilized under broad and dependable category 1 CPT coding, we look forward to devoting more time discussing fundamental patient-focused drivers of our business going forward. We know the investor in glaucoma communities also have questions regarding some of the newer entrants to canal surgery. Our recently published March 2022 investor presentation includes a comparison of the clinical history of canaloplasty, trabeculotomy, or goniotomy and the newer, less understood procedures enabled by some of these tools. We continue to make significant investments in our expansive clinical trial program, which includes 10 ongoing and planned trials. We just announced the first patient treatment in our Trident European study and will soon begin enrolling patients in our U.S. PRECISION IDE trial. These twin, 459-patient, 24-month head-to-head RCTs will compare 3 arms
- Jesse Selnick:
- Thank you, Paul. I will start with a discussion of the fourth quarter results and then I will move on to our 2022 guidance, including an update on our year-to-date performance, trends in the operating environment and our outlook. Our total revenue for the 3 months ended December 31, 2021 was $14.7 million, a 63% increase from $9 million in the same period of 2020 and a 12% sequential increase from $13.1 million in the third quarter of 2020. Our combined gross margin for the fourth quarter was 87% compared to 74% in the corresponding prior year period and 84% in the third quarter of 2021. Our surgical glaucoma segment revenues for the fourth quarter were $13.9 million, up 60% from $8.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and a sequential increase of 12% from $12.4 million in the third quarter of 2021. Underlying fundamental business trends, including utilization and ordering facilities were very encouraging until the second half of December as we experienced business disruption similar to our peers due to the surge in the Omicron variant. Sequentially in the quarter, our number of ordinary accounts grew by approximately 5%. The remainder of our sequential growth came from an increase in utilization from ordering accounts, which we achieved despite 3% fewer OR days in the fourth quarter versus the third quarter. So we did a very nice job both adding to our user base and leveraging our existing user base to expand usage. Through the first half of December, we generated extremely strong sales, and we were actually on pace to grow sequentially by between 17% and 19% for the quarter, inclusive of the historical slowdown of bookings around the holiday season, which, in our experience, the first half of December generates approximately 60% of the whole month’s bookings. Over the second half of the month, however, we experienced a significant slowdown, driven by the coinciding increase in Omicron cases which, for the first time since the second quarter of 2020 resulted in significant facility closures and restrictions on elective procedures that impacted our commercial opportunity as opposed to patient-driven deferrals that we saw earlier in 2021. Sales for the first half of December 2021 accounted for 75% of the total month sales versus the rule of thumb I just mentioned of approximately 60% of sales typically occurring in the first half of December. Average daily sales were over 40% lower in the second half of December than they were in the first half of the month. Gross margin in surgical glaucoma was 89% in the fourth quarter compared to 76% in the prior year period and 87% in the third quarter. I would like to salute our operations group for improving our operating efficiency, even exceeding our ambitious internal goals while maintaining uninterrupted supply of finished goods in the face of supply chain challenges throughout the global economy. Our dry eye segment revenue for the fourth quarter were $0.8 million, up 179% from $0.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and a sequential increase of 16% from $0.7 million in the third quarter of 2021. This year-over-year comparison is the first true apples-to-apples comparison we had in 2021 since we implemented specific account targeting guidelines, and pursued a premium pricing strategy versus other procedure-based, MGD-oriented solutions in the fourth quarter of 2020. For the year, we added approximately 240 accounts, and we ended December with over 550 facilities with the TearCare system. We are pleased with the great receptivity and results from our small, focused sales effort in dry eye. Gross margin in dry eye was 52% in the quarter versus negative 1% in the fourth quarter of 2020 and 33% in the third quarter of 2021. As we’ve discussed previously, dry eye gross margins will be noisy until we scale the business and our sales mix matures to a higher proportion of higher-margin SmartLids. Therefore, things like sales mix between new customers and reorders can impact gross margins in any period, even with improvement in contribution margins for each individual component. Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2021 were $27.5 million, an 82% increase from $15 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and a 10% increase from $25.1 million in the third quarter of 2021. Operating expenses include non-cash stock-based compensation of $2 million compared to $1.9 million in the third quarter of 2021 and approximately $200,000 in the prior year period. SG&A expenses for the quarter were $23.1 million compared to $12.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and $20.8 million in the third quarter of 2021. The increase in SG&A was primarily due to our continued investment in and the scaling of operations and corporate headcount to support our growth. At December 31, 2021, we had 212 full-time employees as opposed to 197 as of September 30, 2021, and 140 at year-end 2020. As part of our 2022 plan, we’ve continued to identify opportunities to augment our team in areas to further accelerate our growth, enhance our ability to develop the stand-alone MIGS and MGD markets, and to protect our strengthening competitive position in both segments of our business. I will give some more specifics about those investment areas when I discuss our 2022 outlook. R&D expenses for the quarter were $4.4 million compared to $2.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 and $4.3 million in the third quarter of 2021. The majority of the increase in R&D expense from ‘20 to ‘21 was attributable to three factors
- Operator:
- Thank you. Our first question comes from the line of Joanne Wuensch with Citibank. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
- Joanne Wuensch:
- Hi, can you hear me, okay?
- Paul Badawi:
- Yes. We can. Hey, Joanne.
- Joanne Wuensch:
- Hi, how are you doing? I just want to make sure I caught a couple of the numbers that you were talking about. I got the number of active accounts, 750 in the quarter for MIGS. I got that there are roughly 550 facilities doing dry eye. But I’m looking for a couple of other pieces of information, particularly and I apologize if I missed this. Of those 750 active accounts, can you back us into either the number of physicians and/or the percentage of procedures that are stand-alone versus concomitant?
- Jesse Selnick:
- So I’ll take the first. We can’t track – we track trained surgeons, Joanne, but we can’t track utilizing surgeons, right? So we’ve trained, we ended – we’re currently around 1,500 trained surgeons. And there is actually recently some research that came out that estimated the total number of MIGS-trained surgeons to be 5,000. So still a lot of runway there. And then there is – we kind of estimate about 1.3 to 1.5 surgeons per utilizing surgeons per facility at this point in time, but that’s just an estimate. And then Paul, standalone combination?
- Paul Badawi:
- Yes. It’s hard for us to track with any specificity right now, stand-alone penetration. We obviously have a number of investments we talked about that we’re making part of those in parallel with those investments were – we continue to explore ways to track our progress both internally for ourselves and also to report publicly to you all, Joanne, especially around the GCC, the team of 20 that we’ve hired. They are fully trained now. We hired them in this quarter, and we’ve been training them over the past several months. We’d expect for their contributions to start showing up meaningfully later this year, and Shawn can talk about that and Shawn, the metrics we will use to track the progress there?
- Shawn O’Neil:
- Yes, Joanne, as we’ve mentioned before, the CPT codes do not differentiate between a combination cataract or a stand-alone case. So we’re still looking at that data at a high level to try and gain insights, but it’s not obvious. One thing that we are doing with our GCC team is they do have a finite target list that they are going to be focusing on. And obviously, we know what the baseline sales and activity are in those facilities and we will be able to track that over time and identify incremental growth, which is obviously one of the KPIs that we’re going to be focused on. So we believe we will be able to take several of these data sets and then be able to crystallize them into a better answer.
- Joanne Wuensch:
- Okay. I’ll leave it there. Thank you.
- Paul Badawi:
- Thank you, Joanne.
- Operator:
- Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Cecilia Furlong with Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
- Cecilia Furlong:
- Hi, good afternoon and thank you for taking the questions. I wanted to ask on ‘22 guidance. one, how you’re thinking about continued expansion in your established accounts into stand-alone, how that contributes to your outlook as well as your expectation for new center adds throughout the year?
- Jesse Selnick:
- So gave you in my comments, probably it was a mouthful, Cecilia. But we added 98 new facilities, brand-new facilities, first-time orders in the fourth quarter. That kind of pace is a pace that I think we expect to continue at a baseline minimum, right? So that should give you some color on that. And as Shawn alluded to and Paul, like the way we build our model is we look at utilization overall, Stand-alone is obviously a really important driver. And yes, I mean everything, all of our trends point very positively towards that. We decompartmentalize our growth in terms of customer acquisition growth and use case growth. And we feel – honestly, we feel like with these investments that we’re making and the growing market presence that sort of natural organic growth in use case is going to see tailwind actually as we continue to progress through the year and see the results of the GCC and a lot of the really focused marketing that we’re doing around the opportunity.
- Cecilia Furlong:
- Great. Thank you. And if I could follow-up as well, just on R&D, both near-term but more so as you think over the next several years with the pipeline updates you provided today, how you’re thinking about just the level of R&D investment incremental to what we were previously contemplating with the aforementioned product portfolio and clinical trials that you had previously planned?
- Jesse Selnick:
- Yes. So low double-digit millions in terms of pipeline investment, that’s both headcount and project investment this year. So it’s fair to look at how we were trending in that area and add that to it as a good proxy for that line item. The reality is our development process itself is very efficient and practical kind of similar to – we were very capital efficient in getting OMNI into market. I’m proud of that fact. And I think we’re working on these projects with a real similar mentality. So I think there is a lot of opportunity for a very reasonable amount of spend there.
- Cecilia Furlong:
- Thank you for taking the questions.
- Paul Badawi:
- Thanks, Cecilia.
- Operator:
- Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Andrew Brackmann with William Blair. Please go ahead.
- Andrew Brackmann:
- Yes. Hi guys, good afternoon and thank you for taking the question. Maybe just start there on the competitive front and the trialing you expected. Jesse, I didn’t hear sort of a specific number that you are sort of anticipating in your guidance for the year, so maybe just a housekeeping around that if you have a specific number. But I guess then bigger picture, I guess from your perspective, how do you see all of these sort of newer non-implantable devices or tools sort of impacting the market broadly. Anything that you can sort of share from a surgeon sort of perspective that you are hearing given those announcements over the last 10 months, 12 months? Thanks.
- Jesse Selnick:
- Yes. I will go to the specific question, and then I will let Paul and Shawn take the bigger picture question. And on the specific – Andrew, like it’s a factor in how we look at our model, right. Like I do think that what it does is it creates an adoption lag. What we haven’t seen is we haven’t seen share loss because of it. But what we have seen is it’s harder – there are cases where it’s harder to get on the calendar to move people along the trialing curve. So, when you look at our range, that reflects a range of thinking about what our trial period might be. And as you kind of know from our model, that’s just a really key driver given how high growth it is in terms of when we get people to move along to that sort of steady ordering cadence. And so I wanted to kind of flag what the impact of that is in our model just as sort of an order of magnitude, but it doesn’t – it’s not like there is a bridge that says competitive products and competitive trialing has had x dollars of impact on us.
- Paul Badawi:
- Yes. I will add a couple of comments. Shawn has other comments to add as well. But we are seeing it, first of all, these new entrants primarily in combination with cataract surgery and primarily being bundled or used in combination with stents. I believe that’s all we are seeing to-date. And so for us, in response to that, as we always do, we highlight the benefits of OMNI, right. And that’s usually enough. The comprehensive ophthalmic procedure that addresses uniquely all three points of resistance, the usability and procedural predictability based on many, many years of design iterations, a best-in-class indication for use based on highly compelling clinical data in all adult patients with POAG, combo cataract standalone, mild, moderate, advance. So, all-in-all, for us, as we look at these things, we think it’s hard to compete with what we offer, and our commercial team does a really, really excellent job of developing unshakable relationships with our customers. They are always doing the right things, highlighting the right things, the clinical value of OMNI always first and foremost and frankly, the lack of clinical evidence with some of these new entrants. Shawn, I don’t know if you have got anything else to add.
- Shawn O’Neil:
- From a commercial standpoint, obviously, focusing on our execution from the sales, marketing and training standpoint, we are definitely continuing to focus on the value of OMNI. I think the thing that’s important in the trial setting for your question is these being new products, they do not have clinical data nor do they have a track record of a reimbursement pathway. So, we continue to focus on the value of OMNI, the ability to lower IOP in adult patients with primary open-angle glaucoma, also the additional benefit of the medication, potential medication reduction, all within that stable, clear reimbursement pathway with 66174. So, our team is focused on mitigating any of that trial activity and then quickly pivoting back over to demand creation for OMNI and ultimately keeping the patient at the center of the conversation and providing the best option for the patient.
- Andrew Brackmann:
- That’s great. Thank you all for that. And then maybe just sort of pivoting here to the pipeline. Obviously, a lot of new things sort of being unveiled here today and definitely warrant an Investor Day later this year, so excited about that. But I guess maybe from your perspective, sort of on those non-implantable newer devices, those seem to be the ones that are probably closest to market. How should we be thinking about sort of the differentiation of those devices versus the sort of aforementioned newer entrants in the canal based sort of surgery that we have been talking about here. Thanks guys.
- Jesse Selnick:
- Andrew, sorry, are you referring to our pipeline versus some of the new entrants or something else? I didn’t follow that exactly?
- Andrew Brackmann:
- Yes. So, your pipeline exactly, so the new goniotomy device and then also the second-generation or third-generation OMNI device, how are those expected to sort of compete with those newer pipeline products from competitors? Thank you.
- Paul Badawi:
- Yes, well, I will say that. We don’t enter any category without a whole lot of thought. We don’t enter any category without the expectation to be best-in-class. That is the expectation that’s from – before we even file a patent. These are the things going through our minds. So, we are not disclosing details, Andrew, on this call of that product or some of the other products in detail. We did want to preview it with you and everybody because we have been thinking about these things for several years. Some of them, we filed IP on them. We are now beginning to invest in them. We have recently hired a very talented head of pipeline strategy and development. And so we wanted to preview with you, we will be speaking in detail later this year either at an Analyst Day or Investor Day or both about those details that you are asking about, but just expect whatever we are going to disclose will be compelling. We have done it twice with OMNI and TearCare. We have a history of internally developing breakthrough products, the pipeline that we are talking about here has all been internally developed. Obviously, in the future, we will look externally. But for now, what we are talking about is internal development. We will share details, Andrew, on it in due course.
- Andrew Brackmann:
- Okay. Thanks guys and thanks for the color today.
- Paul Badawi:
- Sure. Thanks.
- Operator:
- Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Matt O’Brien with Piper Sandler. Your line is open.
- Unidentified Analyst:
- Hi guys. Good afternoon. This is Drew on for Matt. Thanks for taking the questions. I do just want to follow-up a little bit on the comments on the commercial delays related to the competitors. I guess just to be clear, I mean what’s informing your view that gives you confidence that those delays are temporary? And then I guess two, have you made any tweaks at all to the commercial strategy until you have the canaloplasty label or on label for OMNI, or is it just about whether in this period till things get back to normal?
- Shawn O’Neil:
- So, from a commercial, - sorry, go ahead, Jesse.
- Jesse Selnick:
- Go ahead, Shawn.
- Shawn O’Neil:
- So, from a commercial strategy standpoint, we consider, we continue to stand behind the value of OMNI addressing all three points of resistance as a key differentiator addressing the conventional offload pathway in that manner. So, what we are doing is really being focused on continue to drive demand and focusing our strategy, especially with our investments in GCC is to expand use our SSRs to mitigate trial and continue to create demand and train new surgeons and then utilize our investment in GCC is to expand use case by educating the broader medical ECP community on making sure that patients are aware that there is another alternative for their earlier surgical intervention for their mild-to-moderate glaucoma needs. So, from that standpoint, we are being consistent and continue to drive value with that strategy.
- Paul Badawi:
- And as for the canaloplasty alone indication and the studies, the Trident, Precision trials, let’s see what the clinical data looks like. We are excited about them. And we think that it – as you can tell from at least the high-level description of the portfolio that we are building out here, we want to offer the broadest, deepest, most rich portfolio of solutions for every doctor. And different doctors have different preferences. Some may prefer to do canaloplasty alone. Some may prefer to do canaloplasty with trabeculotomy. Some may prefer to do either of those procedures in combination with an implant. We have seen everything in the market. And we have a very, very good R&D team and manufacturing and operations team here. I can tell you that the Menlo Park office is buzzing with pipeline development right now, a ton of good energy here. And we want and can or capitalize to bring this portfolio to market, again, addressing all of these different use cases.
- Jesse Selnick:
- And you asked a question about why we are confident. We are using our eyes and ears to be confident. It was very noisy to try to assess January given the variants. But we have a really high touch sales model. We get great field intelligence about what’s out there, and I think we pretty have a conviction that in terms of what we are seeing and seeing order patterns through three quarters, March as well that kind of that characterization is accurate.
- Unidentified Analyst:
- Okay. That’s very helpful. Thank you for that. And then I understand your comments on how it’s difficult to bifurcate the guidance as the standalone and combo cataract. But I guess to maybe just ask it simply, does standalone need to post similar growth last year? Does it need to accelerate from some of those investments you are making? What’s needed to get to the midpoint of the guidance range?
- Shawn O’Neil:
- We do believe – I mean we are confident that it will accelerate. It’s been part of our objectives as we brought OMNI out with, especially when we received its broadest label and we are confident that as we execute correctly, that is what will occur.
- Jesse Selnick:
- Yes. I mean, Shawn, the answer is the right one. We are confident that’s what we are making that investment but there is not a – there is a lot of – one of the great things about this product is there is a lot of different drivers of growth, and it’s still at even with a $14 million-ish fourth quarter, there is so much room to grow in terms of like the low amount of market penetration in standalone and combination cataract. And so there is a ton of conviction and a ton of investment in belief, but there OMNI’s ability to do sort of help to achieve this guidance. There is multiple ways to get there.
- Unidentified Analyst:
- Okay. Thank you.
- Operator:
- Thank you. And I am showing no further questions at this time. And I would like to turn the conference back over to Paul Badawi for any further remarks.
- Paul Badawi:
- I just want to thank everyone for their time and questions and attention and interest in Sight Sciences and thank our team for a stellar year in 2021, and what’s looking like a really amazing year ahead with everything that we discussed today. So, thank you all.
- Operator:
- This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect. Everyone, have a great day.
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