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COMPASS Pathways plc
NASDAQ · HEALTH CARE · PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS
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10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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New in FY2025

  • We incurred total net losses of $287.9 million and $155.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
  • As of December 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $822.6 million.
  • During the term of our pre-funded warrants, or the Pre-Funded Warrants, issued in our registered financing in January 2025, or the January 2025 Financing, and in our underwritten offering in February 2026, or the February 2026 Offering, and our ADS warrants, or the 2025 ADS Warrants, issued the January 2025 Financing, which are classified as liabilities, our net loss can change significantly quarter to quarter due to non-cash increases or decreases in the fair value of these warrants.
  • In February 2026, each of these 2025 ADS Warrants were exercised in full and therefore none of the 2025 ADS Warrants are currently outstanding.
  • We intend to continue to conduct research and development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, market access and commercialization activities that, together with anticipated general and administrative expenses, will result in incurring further significant operating losses for at least the next several years.
  • Our expected operating losses, among other things, may continue to cause our working capital and shareholders’ equity to decrease.
  • We anticipate that our expenses will increase substantially if and as we, among other things: • continue to advance our Phase 3 program for investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD and clinical and preclinical supporting studies and accelerate our plans for NDA submission; • we prepare for commercial launch of COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD, if approved, including establishing a sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure and scaling-up manufacturing capabilities; • advance our commercialization strategy; • initiate and advance our Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in PTSD; • continue the training of qualified healthcare professionals to monitor and safeguard participants in our Phase 3 program and other clinical trials; • service our outstanding indebtedness; • may in the future resume and pursue research and development programs for our other preclinical stage therapeutic candidates and discovery-stage programs and/or develop and seek regulatory approval for any future therapeutic candidates that successfully complete clinical trials; • establish and expand the network of public healthcare institutions and private clinics that could administer our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment if approved; • experience heightened regulatory scrutiny; • pursue necessary scheduling-related decisions by the U.S.
  • This will require us to be successful in a range of challenging activities, including completing our Phase 3 program of COMP360 in TRD and other clinical trials of COMP360 or any future therapeutic candidates, training a sufficient number of qualified healthcare professionals to monitor and safeguard participants in our clinical trials, discovering and developing any future therapeutic candidates, obtaining regulatory approval for COMP360 psilocybin treatment and any future therapeutic candidates that successfully complete clinical trials, and establishing marketing capabilities.
  • Unless and until we generate product revenue and achieve and sustain profitability, we will continue to need additional financing to fund our operations and capital expenditures.
  • Unless and until we generate product revenue and achieve and sustain profitability, we will need additional funding in the future to sufficiently finance our operations.
  • If the outstanding warrants issued during the private placement transaction, or the PIPE, and such warrants, the PIPE Warrants, are exercised in full for cash, we would receive an additional $122.4 million in gross proceeds.
  • We expect that our cash and cash equivalents of $149.6 million as of December 31, 2025, together with the net proceeds from our February 2026 Offering and the net proceeds from the exercise of all of our outstanding 2025 ADS Warrants, will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements into 2028.
  • We have based our estimated cash runway on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could use our capital resources sooner than we currently expect.
  • Our future funding requirements, both short-term and long-term, will depend on many factors, including: • the progress, timing and completion of our Phase 3 program for our current investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment program for TRD and clinical and preclinical supporting studies and related preparatory work for our planned NDA submission and potential commercialization activities, a portion of which are subject to further long-term data from our COMP006 trial; • the progress, timing and completion of our Phase 2b/3 clinical trial in PTSD; • the outcome, timing and cost of seeking and obtaining regulatory approvals from the FDA, the EC, the MHRA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities, including the potential for such authorities to require that we perform more preclinical studies or clinical trials than those that we currently expect or change their requirements on studies that had previously been agreed to; • the outcome and timing of any scheduling-related decisions by the DEA, individual states, and comparable foreign authorities; • the number of potential future therapeutic candidates we may choose to pursue and identify in the future and decide to develop, either internally through our research and development efforts or externally through acquisitions, licensing or other collaboration agreements; • the costs involved in growing our organization in the near term to the size needed to prepare for the potential commercialization of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD and any future therapeutic candidates, including increases to personnel costs; • the costs of developing sales and marketing capabilities to prepare for potential commercial launch of COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD to target public and private healthcare providers and clinic networks in the U.S. and other major markets; • the costs of training qualified healthcare professionals to monitor and safeguard participants in our clinical trials; • the costs of maintaining research collaborations, such as the Center for Mental Health Research, which includes conducting clinical trials, including proof of concept studies, to refine our treatment delivery model; • the time and costs involved in generating and collecting data and advancing and defending our intellectual property portfolio, including the costs involved in filing patent applications and maintaining and enforcing patents or defending against claims of infringements or invalidity raised by third parties; • the costs of developing, testing and deploying digital technology solutions or paying a third-party to provide such technology solutions to improve the patient experience and therapeutic process via third-party service providers or internally; • the time and costs involved in obtaining regulatory approval for COMP360 or any future therapeutic candidates, and any delays we may encounter as a result of evolving regulatory requirements or adverse results with respect to COMP360 or any future therapeutic candidates; • selling and marketing activities undertaken in connection with the potential commercialization of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment or any future therapeutic candidates, if approved, and costs involved in the creation of an effective sales and marketing organization; • the amount of revenue, if any, we may derive either directly or in the form of royalty, milestone or other payments from future sales of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment and any future therapeutic candidates, if approved; • the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical events, including, among others, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, the risk of economic slowdown or recession in the U.S., international tensions, and changes in legislation and governmental policies and resources, including the effects of announced or future tariff increases; and • the costs of operating as a public company.
  • For example, volatility in the capital markets, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, concerns about potential recessionary factors, and macroeconomic and geopolitical events and conditions may affect our ability to raise additional funding, including through the exercise for cash of the PIPE Warrants, sales of our securities or issuance of indebtedness, which may harm our liquidity, force us to delay, limit or terminate certain or all of our product discovery, therapeutic development, research operations, preparation efforts for our NDA submission or commercialization planning efforts or cause us to grant rights to develop and market products or therapeutic candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
  • Market volatility, geopolitical tensions, such as those resulting from the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, conflict in the Middle East, changes in legislation and governmental policies and resources, including the effects of announced or future tariff increases, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, instability in the banking system, and the related impact on U.S. and global economies, the risk of economic slowdown or recession in the U.S., significant changes in U.S. policies or regulatory environment or disruption to U.S. government agencies or other factors could also adversely impact our ability to access capital as and when needed or increase our costs in order to raise capital.
  • For example, our Loan Agreement with Hercules contains financial covenants requiring us to maintain certain minimum cash balances beginning October 1, 2027 and we will need to raise additional financing or significantly reduce our operating expenses to maintain compliance with this financial covenant.
  • In addition, heightened regulatory scrutiny, regulatory delays or uncertainty in the regulatory environment could have a negative impact on our ability to raise capital.
  • Outstanding warrants for our securities may not be exercised and we may not receive any additional funds upon the exercise of outstanding warrants.
  • As of December 31, 2025, we had 12,324,700 outstanding PIPE Warrants and 35,059,448 outstanding 2025 ADS Warrants.
  • In February 2026, the 2025 ADS Warrants were exercised in full for cash generating approximately $203 million in net proceeds.
  • We believe the likelihood that these holders will exercise the PIPE Warrants, and therefore any cash proceeds that we may receive in relation to the exercise of such PIPE Warrants, will be dependent on the trading price of our ADSs relative to the exercise price and the trading price of our ADSs may not exceed the exercise price of the PIPE Warrants prior to their expiration.
  • In addition, the PIPE Warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis if there is no effective registration statement registering the shares underlying the PIPE Warrants, in which case we would not receive any additional proceeds.
  • If the PIPE Warrants are not exercised for cash, or only a portion of the PIPE Warrants are exercised for cash, we would need to obtain additional funding from other sources and may need to raise funds earlier than expected.
  • In our January 2025 Financing, we issued and sold 11,044,720 Pre-funded Warrants, of which 8,700,000 remain outstanding as of December 31, 2025.
  • In February 2026, we issued and sold 1,250,000 Pre-funded Warrants to a certain institutional investor and we issued 19,898,829 Pre-funded Warrants to certain institutional investors upon exercise of their 2025 ADS Warrants.
  • Each Pre-funded Warrant will be exercisable until it is fully exercised by means of either a cash payment of the exercise price of $0.0001 per ADS or by way of a cashless exercise, meaning that the holder may not pay a cash purchase price upon exercise, but instead would receive upon such exercise the net number of ADSs representing ordinary shares determined according to the formula set forth in the Pre-funded Warrant.
  • To the extent such Pre-funded Warrants are exercised, additional ADSs will be issued for nominal or no additional consideration, which will result in dilution to the then existing holders of our ADSs and will increase the number of ADSs and ordinary shares outstanding.
  • Our history as a clinical stage company, with no approved products to date may make it difficult for you to evaluate the success of our business to date and to assess our future viability.
  • We have in the past encountered, and may in the future encounter, unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other known or unknown factors in achieving our business objectives.
  • In addition, during the term of our 2025 ADS Warrants, which are classified as liabilities, our net loss is expected to fluctuate significantly quarter to quarter due to non-cash increases or decreases in the fair value of these 2025 ADS Warrants.
  • To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity, convertible debt securities or other equity-based derivative securities or the exercise of the PIPE Warrants, your ownership interest will be diluted and the terms may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a shareholder.
  • For example, if all of the outstanding PIPE Warrants and the Pre-funded Warrants were exercised, we would issue 42,173,529 ADSs which would result in significant dilution to our shareholders.
  • In addition, we have raised additional funds in the past and may raise additional funds in the future by issuing equity securities under our ATM Facility and, as a result, our stockholders have in the past experienced and may in the future experience dilution.
  • In addition, we have in the past submitted, and may in the future submit, to shareholders a special resolution at our annual meeting to disapply preemptive rights.
  • We may not satisfy the conditions set forth in our Loan Agreement with Hercules in order to draw down additional funding on our term loan facility.
  • We may borrow additional funds of up to $100.0 million in three tranches under the terms of our Loan Agreement.
  • The remaining tranches of term loans under our Loan Agreement with Hercules consist of (i) term loans of up to $30.0 million subject to our achievement of a milestone relating to certain FDA approvals being granted, (ii) term loans of up to $20.0 million subject to our achievement of a specified commercial milestone, and (iii) term loans of up to $20.0 million, plus the $30.0 million that became available to us upon achievement of a specified clinical milestone and any remaining unborrowed amounts from the earlier tranches, subject to the approval of Hercules’ investment committee.
  • If these conditions are met, these remaining tranches may be borrowed in drawings of a minimum of $5.0 million each.
  • Without the achievement of the specified regulatory and commercial milestones and the satisfaction of certain customary conditions, we will not be eligible to draw additional funds under the remaining tranches.

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Gone since FY2024

  • We incurred total net losses of $155.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 and $118.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.
  • As of December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of $534.7 million.
  • In the future, we intend to continue to conduct research and development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, market access and commercialization activities that, together with anticipated general and administrative expenses, will result in incurring further significant losses for at least the next several years.
  • Our expected losses, among other things, may continue to cause our working capital and shareholders’ equity to decrease.
  • We anticipate that our expenses will increase substantially if and as we, among other things: • continue to advance our Phase 3 program for investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment in TRD and clinical and preclinical supporting studies and related preparatory work for the NDA filing; • initiate a late-stage development program in PTSD; • continue the training of qualified healthcare professionals to provide psychological support in our Phase 3 program and other clinical trials; • service our outstanding indebtedness; • may in the future resume and pursue research and development programs for our other preclinical stage therapeutic candidates and discovery-stage programs and/or develop and seek regulatory approval for any future therapeutic candidates that successfully complete clinical trials; • establish a sales, marketing and distribution infrastructure and scale-up manufacturing capabilities to commercialize any therapeutic candidates for which we may obtain regulatory approval, including COMP360; • advance our commercialization strategy; • establish and expand the network of public healthcare institutions and private clinics that administer our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment in conjunction with psychological support if approved; • experience heightened regulatory scrutiny; • pursue necessary scheduling-related decisions by the U.S.
  • This will require us to be successful in a range of challenging activities, including completing our Phase 3 program of COMP360 in TRD and other clinical trials of COMP360 or any future therapeutic candidates, training a sufficient number of qualified healthcare professionals to provide psychological support in our clinical trials, discovering and developing any future therapeutic candidates, obtaining regulatory approval for COMP360 psilocybin treatment and any future therapeutic candidates that successfully complete clinical trials, and establishing marketing capabilities.
  • We will need substantial additional funding to complete the development and commercialization of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment or any future therapeutic candidates.
  • We expect to require substantial additional funding in the future to sufficiently finance our operations and to complete the development and commercialization of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment or any future therapeutic candidates.
  • Under the terms of the 2025 ADS Warrants, following the time when the 2025 ADS Warrants become exercisable and provided the closing price of our ADSs is above the warrant exercise price of $5.796 per ADS for at least three consecutive trading days, we may elect to force the exercise of some or all of the 2025 ADS Warrants.
  • If we force the exercise of all of the 2025 ADS Warrants, we would receive an additional $203.2 million in gross proceeds.
  • However, we cannot predict if we will have the ability to force the exercise of the 2025 ADS Warrants.
  • We are only permitted to force the exercise of the 2025 ADS Warrants following the public release of the 26-week results from our COMP005 clinical study and only if the closing price of our ADSs is greater than the 2025 ADS Warrant exercise price of $5.796 per ADS for each of the three consecutive trading days prior to the delivery of the forced exercise notice.
  • Therefore, we have not included any anticipated proceeds from such exercises of the 2025 ADS Warrants in our estimate of our cash runway.
  • In addition, i f the outstanding PIPE Warrants are exercised in full for cash, we would receive an additional $122.4 million in gross proceeds.
  • We expect that our cash and cash equivalents of $165.1 million as of December 31, 2024, together with the net proceeds raised to date during the first quarter of 2025 of $140.4 million, will enable us to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements at least through the planned 26-week data read-out from our COMP006 study, which is expected in the second half of 2026 .
  • We have experienced delays in our Phase 3 program in the past and if we experience additional delays in the future, we may not have sufficient cash and cash equivalents to fund our operating expenses and capital requirements through completion of the 26-week data read-out from our COMP006 study.
  • We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could use our capital resources sooner than we currently expect.
  • Our future funding requirements, both short-term and long-term, will depend on many factors, including: • the progress, timing and completion of our Phase 3 program for our current investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment program for TRD and clinical and preclinical supporting studies and related preparatory work for the NDA filing; • the design, size and timing of the late-stage development program in PTSD that we plan to initiate; • the outcome, timing and cost of seeking and obtaining regulatory approvals from the FDA, the EMA, the MHRA and comparable foreign regulatory authorities, including the potential for such authorities to require that we perform more preclinical studies or clinical trials than those that we currently expect or change their requirements on studies that had previously been agreed to; • the outcome and timing of any scheduling-related decisions by the DEA, individual states, and comparable foreign authorities; • the number of potential future therapeutic candidates we may choose to pursue and identify in the future and decide to develop, either internally through our research and development efforts or externally through acquisitions, licensing or other collaboration agreements; • the costs involved in growing our organization in the long-term to the size needed to prepare for the potential commercialization of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment and any future therapeutic candidates, including increases to personnel costs; • the costs of developing sales and marketing capabilities in the long-term to target public and private healthcare providers and clinic networks in the U.S. and other major markets; • the costs of training qualified healthcare professionals to provide psychological support in our Phase 3 program and other clinical trials; • the costs of establishing research collaborations, such as our Centers of Excellence and the Center for Mental Health Research, which includes conducting clinical trials, including proof of concept studies, to refine our treatment delivery model; • the time and costs involved in generating and collecting data and advancing and defending our intellectual property portfolio, including the costs involved in filing patent applications and maintaining and enforcing patents or defending against claims of infringements or invalidity raised by third parties; • the costs of developing, testing and deploying digital technology solutions or paying a third-party to provide such technology solutions to improve the patient experience and therapeutic process via third-party service providers or internally; • our ability to realize the anticipated benefits of the strategic reorganization; • the time and costs involved in obtaining regulatory approval for COMP360 or any future therapeutic candidates, and any delays we may encounter as a result of evolving regulatory requirements or adverse results with respect to COMP360 or any future therapeutic candidates; • selling and marketing activities undertaken in connection with the potential commercialization of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment or any future therapeutic candidates, if approved, and costs involved in the creation of an effective sales and marketing organization; • the amount of revenue, if any, we may derive either directly or in the form of royalty, milestone or other payments from future sales of our investigational COMP360 psilocybin treatment and any future therapeutic candidates, if approved; • the impact of macroeconomic events, including, among others, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, and the risk of economic slowdown or recession in the U.S.; and • the costs of operating as a public company.
  • For example, the volatile capital markets environment, lower prices for many securities, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, concerns about potential recessionary factors may affect our ability to raise additional funding, including through the exercise for cash of the 2025 ADS Warrants and/or PIPE Warrants, sales of our securities or issuance of indebtedness, which may harm our liquidity, force us to delay, limit or terminate certain or all of our product discovery, therapeutic development, research operations or commercialization planning efforts or cause us to grant rights to develop and market products or therapeutic candidates that we would otherwise prefer to develop and market ourselves.
  • Market volatility, geopolitical tensions resulting from the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, conflict in the Middle East, fluctuating inflation and interest rates, instability in the banking system, and the related impact on U.S. and global economies, the risk of economic slowdown or recession in the U.S., the potential for significant changes in U.S. policies or regulatory environment or disruption for U.S. government agencies or other factors could also adversely impact our ability to access capital as and when needed or increase our costs in order to raise capital.
  • For example, our Loan Agreement with Hercules contains financial covenants requiring us to maintain a minimum cash balance of $22.5 million and we will need to raise additional financing or significantly reduce our operating expenses to maintain compliance with this financial covenant.
  • In addition, heightened regulatory scrutiny or uncertainty in the regulatory environment could have a negative impact on our ability to raise capital.
  • The outstanding warrants may not be exercised and we may not receive any additional funds upon the exercise of our outstanding warrants.
  • As of December 31, 2024, we had 12,324,700 outstanding PIPE Warrants.
  • We believe the likelihood that these holders will exercise the PIPE Warrants, and therefore any cash proceeds that we may receive in relation to the exercise of such PIPE Warrants, will be dependent on the trading price of our ADSs relative to the exercise price.
  • In our 2025 Financing, we issued and sold an aggregate of 35,059,448 2025 ADS Warrants which have an exercise price of $5.7960 per ADS.
  • The 2025 ADS Warrants are not yet exercisable and will become exercisable following the public release of the 26-week results from our COMP005 clinical study.
  • The 2025 ADS Warrants will expire after three years.
  • Once the 2025 ADS Warrants become exercisable, we may force the exercise of the 2025 ADS Warrants, in whole or in part, by delivering a notice of forced exercise to the holders if our ADS price is above the warrant exercise price, which is $5.7960, for the three prior consecutive trading days prior to the delivery of the forced exercise notice.
  • Even though we have the right to force the exercise of the 2025 ADS Warrants the 2025 ADS Warrants may never become exercisable and even if exercisable, the closing price of our ADSs may never exceed the exercise price of the 2025 ADS Warrant for three consecutive trading days, in which case we would not be able to force the exercise of the 2025 ADS Warrants.
  • In addition, there is no guarantee holders will elect to exercise the 2025 ADS Warrants, in the event we are not able to or choose not to force the exercise of such warrants.
  • Whether the holders elect to exercise the 2025 ADS Warrants is dependent on the trading price of our ADSs relative to the exercise price and the trading price of our ADSs may not exceed the exercise price of the 2025 ADS Warrants prior to their expiration.
  • Thus, the 2025 ADS Warrants may expire unexercised and we may never receive any additional proceeds.
  • In addition, the PIPE Warrants and the 2025 ADS Warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis if there is no effective registration statement registering the shares underlying the PIPE Warrants and 2025 ADS Warrants, respectively, in which case we would not receive any additional proceeds.
  • If the PIPE Warrants and the 2025 ADS Warrants are not exercised for cash, or only a portion of the PIPE Warrants or the 2025 ADS Warrants are exercised for cash, we would need to obtain additional funding from other sources and may need to raise funds earlier than expected.
  • In our 2025 Financing, we issued and sold 11,044,720 pre-funded warrants.
  • Each pre-funded warrant will be exercisable until it is fully exercised and by means of a cash payment of the exercise price of $0.0001 per ADS or by way of a cashless exercise, meaning that the holder may not pay a cash purchase price upon exercise, but instead would receive upon such exercise the net number of ADSs representing ordinary shares determined according to the formula set forth in the pre-funded warrant.
  • To the extent such pre-funded warrants are exercised, additional ADSs will be issued for nominal or no additional consideration, which will result in dilution to the then existing holders of our ADSs and will increase the number of ADSs outstanding.
  • Our limited history as a clinical stage company may make it difficult for you to evaluate the success of our business to date and to assess our future viability.
  • We have in the past and may in the future encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other known or unknown factors in achieving our business objectives.

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