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Thoughts on the last $ raise at $3.66 per share and currently a strong balance sheet of over 60 million in cash on hand… are we a good buy today under $1.50 per share? MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN and YOKNEAM ILIT, Israel, Feb. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”) today announced the closing of its previously announced private placement of 10,921,502 ordinary shares and warrants to purchase up to 5,460,751 ordinary shares, at a purchase price of $3.6625 per share and associated warrant, that was priced “at-the-market” under Nasdaq rules and resulted in gross proceeds of approximately $40.0 million before the deduction of placement agent fees and expenses and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The warrants have a term of five and one-half years, are exercisable immediately and have an exercise price of $3.60 per ordinary share. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rewalk-robotics-announces-closing-40-174100142.html
65 mill market cap with 65 mill in cash.. the PPS should be double (over $3) from where we are today. IMO
ReWalK Q2 2021 Earnings Preview
Aug. 08, 2021 9:39 PM ETReWalk Robotics Ltd. (RWLK)
By: Gaurav Batavia, SA News Editor
ReWalK (NASDAQ:RWLK) is scheduled to announce Q2 earnings results on Monday, August 9th, before market open.
The consensus EPS Estimate is -$0.06 (+72.7% Y/Y) and the consensus Revenue Estimate is $1.41M (-15.6% Y/Y).
Over the last 3 months, EPS estimates have seen 1 upward revision and 0 downward. Revenue estimates have seen 1 upward revision and 0 downward.
I have been researching MNMD as they just announced Phase 1 trials in Switzerland and seem to be the real deal to help people...
Amen. This fraud of company only sells stock, not product. If RWLK products performed anything close to as advertised, they'd be profitable. Rich and middle class people get disabled too. Don't need insurance approval to sell to rich and middle class disabled people. What would you pay for ease of mobility if disabled? Rich could pay cash and middle class could lease finance. So gotta go with Occam on this one and conclude the products don't perform as advertised. That said, I've traded this many times, and that's all RWLK is: a trade, not a real company to buy and hold.
Too late for me. The Insiders here at RWLK have used this as personal ATM too many times now like George Economou did to DRYS then after 10 years took that private and shareholders lost everything there...
People are just growing in NUmbers in anger to all this shit going on everywhere for too long destroying hard working citizens' monies while corrupted CEO's and their Friends make off like bandits...
Consider this at the current PPS? Thoughts on the last $ raise at $3.66 per share and currently a strong balance sheet of over 60 million in cash on hand… are we a good buy today under $1.50 per share? MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN and YOKNEAM ILIT, Israel, Feb. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”) today announced the closing of its previously announced private placement of 10,921,502 ordinary shares and warrants to purchase up to 5,460,751 ordinary shares, at a purchase price of $3.6625 per share and associated warrant, that was priced “at-the-market” under Nasdaq rules and resulted in gross proceeds of approximately $40.0 million before the deduction of placement agent fees and expenses and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The warrants have a term of five and one-half years, are exercisable immediately and have an exercise price of $3.60 per ordinary share. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rewalk-robotics-announces-closing-40-174100142.html
No, none to date. I took all my monies out of this after several years invested, and placed elsewhere sadly..
IMO. This baby wants to pop and run!!
Thoughts on the last $ raise at $3.66 per share and currently a strong balance sheet of over 60 million in cash on hand… are we a good buy today under $1.50 per share? MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN and YOKNEAM ILIT, Israel, Feb. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”) today announced the closing of its previously announced private placement of 10,921,502 ordinary shares and warrants to purchase up to 5,460,751 ordinary shares, at a purchase price of $3.6625 per share and associated warrant, that was priced “at-the-market” under Nasdaq rules and resulted in gross proceeds of approximately $40.0 million before the deduction of placement agent fees and expenses and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The warrants have a term of five and one-half years, are exercisable immediately and have an exercise price of $3.60 per ordinary share. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rewalk-robotics-announces-closing-40-174100142.html
So sad, but I am now down to only 1000 shares of this stock- sold rest to invest into Lithium stocks, Opioid Psych Cures and space travel...
I thought so loooong ago..
Is ee CEO just sold some for tax purposes..???
Is RWLK Stock A Buy?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rwlk-stock-buy-143712589.html
North America: The leading region in the global exoskeleton market .
North America is expected to hold the largest share of the global exoskeleton market during 2021-2026.The growing demand for assistive technology, especially in the healthcare sector for orthopedic rehabilitation, increasing prevalence of strokes, and growing investment in exoskeletons by the defense sector of various countries are promoting the growth of this market.
Especially in the US, the demand for exoskeletons is increasing remarkably in the defense sector. The US army has been exploring commercial exoskeleton technologies for potential military applications, which can be used to support strength and endurance and protect soldiers from strain injuries.
The study contains insights from various industry experts, ranging from component suppliers to Tier 1 companies and OEMs. The break-up of the primaries is as follows:
? By Company Type: Tier 1 - 40%, Tier 2 - 25%, and Tier 3 - 35%
? By Designation: C-level Executives - 35%, Directors - 28%, and Others - 37%
? By Region: APAC - 40%, North America - 28%, Europe - 22%, RoW - 10%
Ottobock (Germany), DIH Medical (China), CYBERDYNE (Japan), Ekso Bionics. (US), Lockheed Martin Corporation (US), ATOUN. (Japan), BIONIK (Canada), B-Temia (Canada), MediTouch (Israel), ReWalk Robotics (US), Daiya Industry (Japan), Europe Technologies (France), Exhauss (France), Focal Meditech BV (Netherlands), Fourier Intelligence (China), Gogoa Mobility (Spain), Honda Motor Co (Japan), Hyundai Motors (South Korea), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan), Myomo (US), Parker Hannifin (US), P&S Mechanics (South Korea), Rex Bionics (UK), suitX (US) and Wandercraft (France) are some of the key players in the exoskeleton market.
ReWalk Robotics: Plenty Of Runway To Re-Establish Growth
Jun. 15, 2021 8:53 AM ETReWalk Robotics Ltd. (RWLK)
Summary
ReWalk has started 2021 on track to grow sales again, with $6 million in view for 2021.
In the short term, there is uncertainty over the outcome of a major court case in Germany regarding insurance coverage there; Germany is ReWalk's largest and best-covered market.
With no debt, 75% of the share value currently comes from the cash position on the balance sheet.
The true launch of sales efforts of the ReStore soft suit will start to provide clarity on the market potential for this new product.
Since I last took up a review of the Israeli med tech company ReWalk Robotics (RWLK), the company behind the exoskeleton system that helps some patients with spinal cord injury gain mobility, there has been a significant development announced in the broader exoskeleton industry. In April, the private company Sarcos Robotics announced that it would turn public via a SPAC transaction with Rotor Acquisition Corp (ROT). Sarcos focuses only on industrial use cases for outfitting workers in physically demanding jobs, but I find it an important and interesting development; in a very broad sense it is positive for bringing market attention to the exoskeleton space generally. This deal is sizable one within the space; at an enterprise value of $1.3 billion for Sarcos / Rotor, it dwarfs not only ReWalk at $18 million, but others like Ekso Bionics (EKSO) at $24 million, who competes in both the rehab space as well as offering a vest product for industrial workers. Even though the Sarcos product line is compared to the Marvel comic book character Iron Man (only somewhat tongue in cheek), the opening up to public markets and the scrutiny it will entail will hopefully shed ever more light to the general public on the potential benefits of an array of exoskeleton uses. I do not claim there is any direct connection between how Sarcos is valued and a specific investment thesis for ReWalk, but rather I find it one more data point to keep in the background as I try and breakdown where ReWalk is heading now.
ReWalk: On Track In Q1
Q1 2021 revenue came in at a reasonably healthy $1.3 million. With my previous estimate for full year 2021 sales at $6.0 million, this appears to be potentially on track for now, although my assumptions for the geographic breakdown are looking off-base. I was expecting up to $5 million from German placements alone for the year, but Q1 resulted in a more diversified regional breakdown than I anticipated. Specifically, the first quarter sales derived $837,000 from Europe (presumably 100%, or nearly 100%, in Germany) and $476,000 from the United States.
While I still hope to see a major uptick in German sales, management is guiding conservatively in terms of signing on additional insurers for now. A major German Federal Court case has been working its way through the legal system, and is creating some uncertainty until a ruling is issued, which ReWalk expects sometime in the middle of the year. The case, brought to court by an insurer apparently to clarify whether providing a ReWalk exoskeleton constitutes direct or indirect compensation to the patient, and it only directly impacts some 30 individual German cases. In the 2020 4th quarter earnings call, CEO Larry Jasinski described the case this way:
This case was advanced by one of the larger insurers in Germany. . . ruling as a direct compensation basically would eliminate any of the other challenges to the use of this product. Direct compensation is meaning does a ReWalk or an exoskeleton in general provide an ability to walk that you cannot otherwise get. If it were considered indirect compensation, it would suggest you could go back to a wheelchair.
He followed up with additional color in the Q1 call for 2021, rounding out what is at stake for ReWalk and its patients:
a ruling is expected to decide if an exoskeleton, which is an orthopedic aid that replaces the function of legs, enables independent walking and standing, whether it serves to directly compensate for disability. . . the court does not provide a specific guideline on timing for a ruling, but our best estimate is mid-2021. A positive ruling would have a significant impact on the landscape by all payers in Germany.
Expenses continue to be kept in check through the quarter, as gross margins have held fairly steady over 50% even though turning down somewhat at the end of 2020. SG&A expenses did grow again over Q4 coming out of the Covid-19 restrictions. At $2.9 million for the first quarter, is just enough to be back in line with Q1 of 2020, and to be expected as sales efforts resume again in earnest. Over a longer historical trend, both gross margins and SG&A have been moving in positive directions, and I am optimistic that the gross margins will steadily approximate 55% in the near-term, even if SG&A has some pressures assuming continue re-opening and sales growth opportunities.
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This generally accounts for the reversal in trendline in cash burn from operations, which had been clearly getting narrower through 2020. Last quarter, it expanded from $2.5 million in Q4 2020 back to $3.2 million, but still well under any operational use of cash throughout all of 2019 and the first half of 2020.
In fact, cash is the biggest change in the narrative for ReWalk going into the middle of 2021. The company has a cash balance of $67 million after a capital raise in shares and warrants of $50 million; the 10.9 million new shares were priced "at the market" in late February 2021, about $3.66 at the time. The timing brilliantly took advantage of a frothy run-up, and a per share valuation double that of the current share price. The result, besides the dilutive effect, is a company with far more runway than it has had to work with in years, the flexibility to be patient, and in the event a suitor would come calling with an acquisition offer, several million shareholder votes with reasons not to sell for a lowball offer.
In the short to medium term, the dilution risk that has been so destructive of value in the past, is at least temporarily shelved. At a steady-state use of cash between $3 to $4 million per quarter, or up to $12 million per year, ReWalk would still have basically 5 years of cash on hand to navigate through that period and make adjustments. With that particular risk moved to the back, other risks move more front and center in the near term. Specifically, at this juncture, I believe there is a short-term risk over the next 6 months that the German court case goes against ReWalk's interests, which could be a noticeable weight on building long-term sales growth, but the opposite is equally true - if the case goes in their favor, it could well act as catalyst. While I still think that $6 million in full-year 2021 sales is on target, if the case goes in favor of ReWalk, the revenue could grow substantially into 2022 on German contracts alone.
Concluding Thoughts
I said in the previous article that the shares were inexpensive enough to be thought of as options with no specific expiration to them. That was in August of 2020, and they have returned just over 60% since that time, but the relative amount of cash backing each share has generally been trending up, from representing about half of each share's value to now around three quarters.
Rewalk cash per share(image source: author's spreadsheet; weekly price data sourced from MarketWatch.com; Q2 2021 cash balance is author's estimate)
Other the rather extreme anomalies of Q1 2020 when the pandemic fear rattled markets severely pushing the average price down, and Q1 2021, when ReWalk's market cap briefly more than doubled, the trend has clearly been that each share's value represents more and more underlying cash as a percent of the average market value; in fact the cash per share and book value per share are even closer, as the book equity is nearly equal to the cash balance. At the end of Q1, the firm's book equity value was $1.46 per share, basically identical to the cash on hand. As the cash balance is chipped away by a slow cash burn, the market value may or may not align itself to reflect those changes. However, on the basis of the current market price, the implication from this is that the other underlying business assets (inventories, intellectual property, equipment and plant, etc.) and operations of ReWalk are worth in neighborhood of $23.5 million. Whether these other assets and operations have any value is the crux of the question.
In my view, the value here is in the growth. While I have mostly focused on the impact of the German court case on sales, that will only apply to the ReWalk exoskeleton device. What is largely missing in the growth story is the ReStore soft suit, ReWalk's second product, a device used in clinics for rehabilitation with stroke victims. Though it was brought to market in late 2019, last year was supposed to the year to start seeing a real impact from the device on sales. Clearly Covid-19 interrupted those goals, but 2021 should start to provide a much clearer picture of the potential for this product to convert to sales; it has the dual advantages of being less expensive than the rigid exoskeleton, and not needing to go through insurance approvals for use, but relies on direct sales to facilities conducting the rehabilitation services. Nobody outside of the company likely has much data to go from in predicting how sales will develop, but broadly I think the market is ascribing little to no present value to the ReStore for the moment. Understandably, the market is known to prefer certainty, but I anticipate that there is more top line growth on tap in the back half of 2021 and lining up for 2022 than the market realizes. If 2021 sees $6 to $7 million, it could easily bump to $8.5 million in 2022 as ReStore really delivers strong sales and if the German court case goes in ReWalk's favor.
What I am driving at is that ReWalk does not yet need to rely on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ("CMS") in the United States to grant approval for exoskeleton coverage. CMS approved the HCPC coding last year needed for making medical claims submissions more straight forward, and the impact of broad American insurance coverage would lead to sizable growth if it ever comes. Eventually, that risk overhang will need to be resolved, but ReWalk is wisely pursuing other opportunities for growth at the same time.
With ReStore, the risk is that it ends up not being adopted very widely; I am reminded slightly of the worker vest from Ekso Bionics. For context, Ekso Bionics makes an exoskeleton device for assisting stroke patient as well, used in rehab centers, but Ekso also attempted to create a product to be used in labor-intensive settings to help workers and prevent injury. While the vest they created seems to be a perfectly fine bit of engineering, it has not sold well for a couple of years, although the company is attempting to revive its sales with more of a subscription model.
Until more data comes in, adoption of ReStore will be an open question, but all told, I believe that the company's assets and operations other than their cash are worth more than $23 million, so I personally continue to build up a modest position and wait patiently.
Disclosure: I am/we are long RWLK. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
German Government Approval Boosts ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (NASDAQ:RWLK)
https://www.twst.com/news/german-government-approval-boosts-rewalk/
June 11, 2021
German government approval suuports Larry Jasinski, the CEO of ReWalk, the robot walker company
Larry, Jasinski, CEO, ReWalk Robotics
German government approval for his products has boosted Larry Jasinski who has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the ReWalk Robotics Ltd. board since February 2012.
From 2005 until 2012, Mr. Jasinski served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Soteira, Inc., a company engaged in development and commercialization of products used to treat individuals with vertebral compression fractures, which was acquired by Globus Medical in 2012.
From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Jasinski was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cortek, Inc., a company that developed next-generation treatments for degenerative disc disease, which was acquired by Alphatec in 2005.
From 1985 until 2001, Mr. Jasinski served in multiple sales, research and development, and general management roles at Boston Scientific Corporation. Mr. Jasinski holds a B.S. in marketing from Providence College and an MBA from the University of Bridgeport.
In this 2,582 word interview, exclusively in the Wall Street Transcript, Larry Jasinski explains how German government approval will get critically injured patients back on their feet:
“Our main product, which we’re well-known for, is called the ReWalk 6.0. We will create additional generations of that as a product made for personal use in everyday life, whether it be at work, in the community, in your home, or people that do special events.
In the other three product lines we have, the largest one is a soft exosuit, a very small, lightweight system that is driven by cables. We did this in a collaboration agreement with Harvard University and brought it to market just before COVID hit.
It is a device for treating those who have had a stroke, and it helps them relearn the proper gait pathways. It works in terms of being able to walk in a traditional gait pattern, to walk faster, to walk further, and to be healthier.
Those soft exosuits will eventually be a formula for us to provide these wearable robotics for multiple sclerosis, and we hope, for Parkinson’s. We still have to build their data for more applications.
For stroke, we’ve already brought it to market for use in the clinic.
Our next version of the product is a product you’d use at home.
You could use it for a period of therapy, and perhaps longer term for patients who need it for a long cycle of use.”
The robotics products are developing widespread reimbursement and was recently awarded German government approval.
“There’s been extensive effort to develop a reimbursement pathway and positive results.
Our work to build the database — the supporting clinical data, economic data, and quality of life data has grown dramatically along with the user base.
When we first gained FDA clearance, we had a limited number of patients from safety-based studies.
The real-world data from selling and from additional research allowed us to achieve coverage in some major markets, such Germany.
The government issued coverage codes and have since established six full-coverage contracts. So if you’re a German citizen, injured at work through workers’ comp, or injured where you have one of the private payers that have signed contracts, you now can get one of these systems, take it home and live your daily life with it.
For the last year, COVID has slowed training and studies and as we regain access in the future, we’ll become more active.
In the United States, we will use the database that drove VA and German coverage and we have additional data that’s developing.
We applied in late 2019 for a coverage code to be created by the U.S. Centers for Medicare Services — CMS — and code K1007 was issued last summer after the public hearings and it took effect last October.
And we’re now moving towards establishing pricing, the product category and contracts in the United States.
Beyond that, we’re pursuing case by case, which tends to discriminate towards those with the ability to appeal or be most vocal rather than reaching those that can most benefit.
That’s a slow and harder process.
And that’s why these contracts, and the long-term success of them, are so important.”
The German government approval will support 2021 growth.
“Our second half of this year is looking at how much COVID allows us back into the market, which we expect, at the current rate of vaccination that our employees and our customers and our clinics are having, is going to be pretty good.
We’ve done a few things. In the early part of this year and late last year, we did a lot of work to solidify our balance sheet. We’ve done some additional capital raises. We’ve reduced our burn.
We’ve eliminated all of our long-term debt. So we believe we have enough of a runway now to take us to breakeven operations.
We have important milestones that will affect us, including a German Federal Court decision, which may even broaden coverage in Germany if it’s positive. That will occur probably sometime this year.
We need to show year-over-year growth basically, so the market can realize that this insurance is working.
Well, there’s an advantage and a disadvantage to being the first one in an industry, and ReWalk was the first and only company to bring a product to market originally for personal use.
It didn’t have any competitors at that point. We’ve had one other enter the U.S. market, but we are several generations ahead. However, we do see more and more activity.
In the stroke market, we see some fairly good efforts, and one particularly good design with one of our competitors, Ekso Bionics.
I think more competitors actually would help this industry develop. So we would encourage that.
But our expectation is that we’ve been able to lead. We were the first ones to bring the ReWalk, we’re the first ones to develop a soft exosuit, and we’re the really the first group to focus heavily on MS and Parkinson’s.
So I believe we’re going to get to lead it. I hope others join, because that will help push the industry forward in a positive way.
The thing we did most of last year was to build pipeline. We made contact with a lot of veterans who completely qualified for the product, and we got them ready. Despite COVID, we kept our team in place, so we could build a pipeline.
We’ve done that in Germany, we’ve done it in the U.S. with the VA and with workers’ comp patients in particular. So we’re reasonably set up, as COVID opens, to help many of these patients.”
Read the entire interview, including all the details on reimbursement approval by the German government, in this 2,582 word interview, exclusively in the Wall Street Transcript.
Larry Jasinski, CEO, ReWalk Robotics Ltd.
(508) 251-1154
www.rewalk.com
email: contact@rewalk.com
I sent message via LinkedIn this morning to the President of RWLK... See what he replies??
If the products performed as advertised, RWLK would be profitable and have sales guidance. This "company" only sells dilution stock. It's a channel trade stock, nothing more.
This needs a REDDITT done to it like what happened over at AMC yesterday by a spited ex-hedge fund manager fired who knows every short position in US securities right now! LOL
At least this company and its products are worthwhile and save & enhance lives. Going to over priced movie theaters today does nothing at all for Humanity...
(7) Insider buys according to SEC filings yesterday here mainly for compensatory reasons...
Sold 1/2 what I held for years and placed that into Lithium stocks... Sick of what I have seen here too long...
There is no dillution! Share count has not changed !
46.1 million shares outstanding still according to TD...
Report sucked. With Covid-19 excuse gone, a real company with goods that perform as advertised would be profitable by now. Larry continuing to say they're working towards break even with no timeline is wishful thinking, not guidance, hence the sp. While I obviously consider this a fraud dilution scheme, not a real company, it remains a good channel trade, and that's how I'll continue to play it.
Excellent earnings see SEC filing ! Best To Date.
Highlights of and subsequent to the first quarter of 2021 include:
-- The Company's total revenue in the first quarter of 2021 was $1.3 million,
compared to $0.8 million in the prior year's first quarter;
-- The Company's gross margin was 54% in Q1 of 2021, compared to 49% in Q1
of 2020;
-- The Company's operating expenses were $3.7 million in Q1 of 2021,
compared to $4 million in Q1 2020;
-- The Company entered into a contract with BKK Mobile Oil health insurance
to supply ReWalk's Personal 6.0 System to eligible persons in Germany;
and
-- The Company has a strong balance sheet with $67.4 million in cash as of
March 31, 2021.
“We are encouraged by the results shown in the first quarter of 2021,” said Larry Jasinski, ReWalk’s Chief Executive Officer. “We see areas of our direct markets gradually reopening, which allows us to increase trials of ReWalk’s new Personal 6.0 System with patients and return to in-clinic demonstrations of our rehab products for new potential users. As we look forward into 2021, we remain focused on progressing our CMS coverage and broadening our German market access. We believe we remain on track to achieve our 2021 objectives and we have a strong cash position that allows us to explore further opportunities for growth.”
ReWalk Robotics Reports First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rewalk-robotics-reports-first-quarter-112300986.html
— First Quarter 2021 Total Revenue of $1.3 million —
— Strong balance sheet with $ 67.4 million in cash, as of March 31, 2021—
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN and YOKNEAM ILIT, Israel, May 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”) today announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Highlights of and subsequent to the first quarter of 2021 include:
The Company’s total revenue in the first quarter of 2021 was $1.3 million, compared to $0.8 million in the prior year’s first quarter;
The Company’s gross margin was 54% in Q1 of 2021, compared to 49% in Q1 of 2020;
The Company’s operating expenses were $3.7 million in Q1 of 2021, compared to $4 million in Q1 2020;
The Company entered into a contract with BKK Mobile Oil health insurance to supply ReWalk’s Personal 6.0 System to eligible persons in Germany; and
The Company has a strong balance sheet with $67.4 million in cash as of March 31, 2021.
“We are encouraged by the results shown in the first quarter of 2021,” said Larry Jasinski, ReWalk’s Chief Executive Officer. “We see areas of our direct markets gradually reopening, which allows us to increase trials of ReWalk’s new Personal 6.0 System with patients and return to in-clinic demonstrations of our rehab products for new potential users. As we look forward into 2021, we remain focused on progressing our CMS coverage and broadening our German market access. We believe we remain on track to achieve our 2021 objectives and we have a strong cash position that allows us to explore further opportunities for growth.”
First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Total revenue was $1.3 million the first quarter of 2021, compared to $0.8 million during first quarter of the prior year. The increase is due to additional ReWalk Personal 6.0 units sold in Germany and the United States.
Gross margin was 54% during the first quarter of 2021, compared to 49% in the first quarter of 2020. The increase is due primarily to the higher number of units sold during the quarter as compared to the same period in the previous year.
Total operating expenses in the first quarter of 2021 were $3.7 million, compared to $4 million in the first quarter of the prior year.
Net loss was $3.1 million for the first quarter of 2021, compared to a net loss of $3.8 million in the first quarter of the prior year.
Non-GAAP net loss was $2.8 million in the first quarter of 2021, compared to $3.6 million during the first quarter of the prior year. Reconciliation of net loss to non-GAAP net loss is included at the end of this press release.
Liquidity
As of March 31, 2021, ReWalk had $67.4 million in cash on its balance sheet.
Conference Call
ReWalk management will host its first quarter 2021 conference call as follows:
Date
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Time
8:30 AM EDT
Telephone
U.S:
(844) 423-9889
International:
(716) 247-5804
Israel:
18 09 31 53 62
Germany:
08 00 18 15 287
Access code
5966026
Webcast (live, listen-only and archive)
www.rewalk.com under the “Investors” section.
The archived webcast will be available via the following URL
https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/dkwioh4r or through the 'Investors' section' on www.rewalk.com.
Company isn't profitable and continues to dilute. There's no sales guidance showing path to profitability. Covid 19 excuse gone. Safe to conclude devices don't perform as advertised, aren't salable and continued dilution with no viable path to profitability means this company is committing investment fraud? Or alternatively, management is utterly incompetent? Take your pick. Either way sp reflects current reality.
With recent US Patent given on top everything else, nothing makes sense about this company here or this low stock price IMHO ???
ReWalk Robotics to Report First Quarter 2021 Financial Results on May 11, 2021
May 07 2021 - 04:58PM
GlobeNewswire Inc.
ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) (“ReWalk” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company will release its first quarter 2021 financial results on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, before the U.S. financial markets open.
Larry Jasinski, Chief Executive Officer, and Ori Gon, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call to discuss the results as follows:
Time 8:30 A.M EST
Toll free (U.S.) (844) 423-9889
International (U.S) (716) 247-5804
Germany 08 00 18 15 287
Israel 18 09 31 53 62
Access Code 5966026
Webcast (live and replay) https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/dkwioh4r
under the ‘Investors’ section'.
The archived webcast will be available via the following link
https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/dkwioh4r or through the 'Investors' section' on www.rewalk.com.
They just received a US patent now ! What's wrong with this stock???
Here's another massive update today:
ReWalk Granted U.S. Patent Titled 'Apparatus and systems for controlled collapse of an exoskeleton'
12:59 pm ET April 21, 2021
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&S1=rewalk&OS=rewalk&RS=rewalk
Right, they have the approvals and potential customers who's lives would be greatly improved if the devices perform as advertised. There are plenty of disabled customers who could afford these devices via lease finance, even if their insurance doesn't cover any of it. Covid excuse is now gone too, and yet there's no sales guidance, only continued dilution? I go with Occam on this one and say scam that will go belly up when they can no longer peddle more shares. If I'm wrong, then the management should be fired for incompetence.
So SC8, you don't think all of the positive developments & strides they have made the last few years means anything??? This is in a medical type industry, where certain approvals (FDA) and hosts of other events must transpire which they have for this company.. Others out there too.
ReWalk Robotics: Riding The Frenzy
Mar. 16, 2021 10:57 AM ETReWalk Robotics Ltd. (RWLK)
Summary
ReWalk Robotics' value has more than doubled since December on higher trading volumes.
The progress of new German insurance contracts has been steady, and revenue should rebound substantially in 2021.
The value has outpaced any reasonable justification on fundamentals, yet the overall risk / reward potential remains favorable.
This week marks my fifth anniversary of writing at Seeking Alpha, and it seems history has a way of looping around to visit. My very first piece came out on 14 March 2016, and considered the implications for competition from Parker-Hannifin's (NYSE:PH) creation of a medical exoskeleton on this little company, ReWalk Robotics (RWLK), that was trying to make a go of it with similar technology and much smaller scale. Five years later, ReWalk is still standing, has grown its product offerings, and appears to be laying the necessary groundwork for long-term viability.
ReWalk family of products
(image source: provided by ReWalk)
Interestingly, in some ways there has been more change for ReWalk compressed into the last three months than in the few years I have been covering it. While the basic story has not yet fully changed - I'll get to that soon enough - the market's willingness to bid up its valuation has brought significant volatility since my last article in December 2020; my title referring to a turbulent journey in the right direction actually unfolded much faster than I anticipated, even relative to its industry peers.
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Shares have more than doubled over the last 90 days, running temporarily to over $5 per share, but fallen back significantly, accompanied by a higher daily average volume. Since 2020 full year results were released in February, I am going to try cutting through the noise of market swings and update what is going on internally.
A Status Update and Thoughts on 2021
With another full year on the books, it worth taking stock of the results of 2020 and give some consideration to how things might look for 2021 and beyond, primarily at top line results. For 2020, total sales clocked in at $4.4 million, a decrease of only $0.5 million over 2019, not bad considering Covid-19 interruptions. Fourth quarter sales included no material contribution from the ReStore product line, which is a soft suit used in rehab settings rather than individual at-home use, nor any commissions from MYOLYN or MediTouch. Most the of the year was a lost cause for these ancillary products, and will basically be starting from scratch in 2021. In other words, sales throughout 2020 were essentially dependent on the signature ReWalk 6.0 product, the rigid exoskeleton that can help certain people with spinal cord injuries to walk again.
In December, I wrote that I expected cash at the end of 2020 to be around $20 million, and that was spot on, as cash as of December 31 was $20.3 million. The final portion of the outstanding debt owed to Kreos Capital was paid off, so coming into 2021 the company was already in a better net cash position than it has seen in some time. In the first few weeks of Q1, an additional $13.2 million in cash came on the exercise of warrants, so we'll call cash on hand about $33.5 million in cash on hand to start out the new year, and if the average cash burn of $2.5 million from the last two quarters holds, then I expect the company to have around $31.0 million at the close of Q1 2021.
Estimating sales for 2021 might be a fool's errand, but I am encouraged that 2020 sales held up; I expect to see revenue growth in 2021 off a low baseline. In my December article, I wrote that I anticipated something like $6 million in sales for 2021, with as much as $5 million coming from German coverage of claims. Nothing has really changed since then based on the company's guidance, and I feel that this is reasonable, even conservative.
ReWalk's major accomplishment in 2020 was getting multiple German insurance contacts in force for coverage of the ReWalk exoskeleton, ending the year with 6 such contracts covering some 25 million people, and more discussions ongoing. Heading into 2021, there were a total of 84 cases pending in Germany, and many of those cases are with contracted insurers. Based on management's comments, there are currently in the range of 35 to 45 cases with contracted German insurance. If only 30 of the current cases convert to sales, that would come out to about $2.5 million (per unit cost of $80,000 on average). Between three other factors, German sales in 2021 could double that figure:
More claims being submitted through the course of the year
A higher rate of approved claims with contracted payers, and
Payments from non-contracted payers or new contracts coming into effect are possible; 2 additional contracts are being worked on.
This is considering only the cases that have to be approved by insurance at all; individual sales, ReStore and other products, spare parts and warranties are not factored into this.
The US revenue picture seems cloudier. On the one hand, ReStore, MYOLYN and MediTouch, while individually likely to remain to small, taken as a whole should well be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars (every 5 units of the ReStore should work out to around $100,000 in sales). I do not know about the actual per unit pricing on the MediTouch products or MyoCycle product lines, or ReWalk's terms for distributing them; these products are from separate companies for which ReWalk has some distribution rights in the United States. The mere existence of the HCPC coding for exoskeletons approved last year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will make American insurance claims easier to submit to all variety of payers, even if not easier to get payment for. If claims are easier to submit, then I hope to see the volume of submissions increase, leading to perhaps marginal sales as ReWalk still pursues denied claims on a case-by-case basis. The bulk of 2021 US sales for the ReWalk exoskeleton, per management guidance at least, will be in relation to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has offered coverage for qualified patients going back to 2015, with expansion into the Veterans Choice program in 2018. The VA is currently the only available insurance in the United States to cover the ReWalk, and it does not appear that there is strong momentum to add more coverage in 2021. Rather, the company is taking concrete steps to try and get closer to that goal.
On an interesting side note that could prove to be significant, ReWalk is exploring ways to possibly tap into the Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology executive order issued in January. This order arranges for Medicare coverage to begin swiftly on FDA approved devices that meet certain criteria; this coverage would last for four years from the time of FDA approval. From the summary of the rule, it states:
The breakthrough device designation is only given to devices that meet specific criteria from the 21st Century Cures Act. A breakthrough device must provide for more effective treatment or diagnosis of a life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating human disease or condition and must also meet at least one part of a second criterion, such as by being a “breakthrough technology” or offering a treatment option when no other cleared or approved alternatives exist. For beneficiaries impacted by these diseases, MCIT will provide assurance that they will have access to the latest breakthrough medical devices to treat their condition, provided the devices have a Medicare benefit category.
The consideration for this designation on select technologies will be pursued simultaneously with seeking normal CMS coverage determination for its original exoskeleton. The potential here for impacts on 2021 revenue is minimal, but is continuing to push ahead on as many fronts as possible for growth further out.
One aspect that appeared new to me was the involvement of England's National Health Service in evaluating the ReStore soft suit. England has not been a significant market for the exoskeleton for individual use, but the rehab application for stroke victims looks like it could be shaping up differently. CEO Larry Jasinski made brief reference to it on the Q4 earnings call in February, and then ReWalk issued a small update on March 3, pointing back to a generally positive assessment written in December 2020. From this review, I learned the ReStore is being used in 2 private practices in England, and ReWalk was working to have the ReStore trialed at 1 NHS facility. I am not familiar enough with the British NHS to have a sense for how long it might take for the proposed trial to be set up, much less the timing of any decisions down the road for possible approval as a standard of care, but is one more positive development.
Evaluating Valuation After Taking Off
For all the time have spent following and thinking about ReWalk's development, it was not until last December that I really started to consider the question of valuation. At the time, shares were trading between $1.25 and $1.50, and I felt they were slightly undervalued on conventional metrics, which in my view would have supported a value around $1.85. However the risk in the name would not necessarily justify getting in back then unless you really believed the company could deliver much greater returns, which I expected would require all or most of 2021 to establish. Instead, valuation took off separately from any fundamental reasons.
Value is in the eye of the beholder to a degree, so I confess to struggling with evaluating ReWalk as suddenly a $140 million market cap company with what I think are rational assumptions. My brain looks at what is going on and concludes that the party has started early, and the company remains overvalued by 50% or more, even as the air has come out of the shares from the $5 trading level back closer to $3. Since the recent moving averages are close enough to that threshold (10 day moving average of $2.99, 50 day average of $2.69), I am taking $3.00 as my reference point (although it made a move up to $3.40 as I am writing on Monday 3/15).
At this price range, the P/S ratio is sitting at 24 on a forward sales assumption of $6.0 million. Whether or not that is too much depends, of course, on whether not the sales assumption is close to accurate. Consider for comparison its most accessible peers, Myomo (MYO), a company serving those with robotic limbs for the upper body, and Ekso Bionics (EKSO), who focuses mostly on walking therapy for stroke and brain injury patients. ReWalk's valuation certainly is either out whack, or the other two are ridiculously undervalued.
comparison chart(image source: author's spreadsheet; ReWalk 2021 sales is author's estimate; other data calculated from Seeking Alpha).
It is possible that both conditions would be true, but what I see is paying relatively more for the company expected to see the lowest sales growth in 2021. Is there any appeal left? And why has ReWalk, the smallest of these three companies in revenue terms, moved ahead of Ekso and Myomo in market capitalization?
About 5 or 6 weeks ago, I ran a search for ReWalk on Reddit, and relatively little came back that had been active recently. If I recall correctly, at the time there was one active thread that was bullish due to a perception of the company having the support of the Biden administration in terms of supporting American veterans, a reasonably fair point of view to consider regardless of anyone's political persuasion. Today, if you search Reddit, you'll find about 10 mostly bullish threads active in the last 60 days, including boards with themes like "If you knew Elon Musk was about to buy ReWalk Robotics would you buy ReWalk shares?" I wish this was an exaggeration, and it is not to my personal taste, but for some reason ReWalk seems to have been discovered by this sort of investor to larger degree than Ekso Bionics or Myomo (based on a non-scientific search on Reddit for these other two companies). They each have noticeably less activity at Reddit than ReWalk, and today's investors need to account for this variable. This is not necessarily a major factor contributing to ReWalk's chart - 10 threads with only dozens of comments does not support that argument very strongly, but for me is more just a sign of the type of broader changes afoot in how individual investors, or traders, engage with markets. Given the increase in ReWalk's trading volumes, I have to think it at least offers a clue.
Conclusion
Beyond the financial fundamentals of the present moment, past the potential for higher than normal volatility, and even looking further ahead than the end of 2021, I think there is another simple factor at work. The market is starting to give credence to the potential ReWalk has. Growth investors may now be recognizing that the potential is nearer to fruition than ever before, and determining that the risk/reward profile is still in favor of ReWalk being able to outperform.
I am switching from bullish to neutral for the near term, on account that I do not expect the sort of frenetic price action of the last 3 months to be sustained for the next three, six or nine months. However, even at the current valuation, I am bullish for the long-term, solely because of steady fundamental progress within the business that has already been years in the making. I am long a half-sized position, and now that things appear to have modestly settled, I intend to slowly add to my position.
He's both CEO and a director. Per filing, no shares were purchased. It was a vesting of prior restricted shares he was given as part of his compensation. In other words, he received free shares. I've been in and out of this stock several times, but in no way do I view them as a sustainable real company because they'd have achieved profitability long ago given demand for such products.
Director purchased 300,000 shares RWLK yesterday according to SEC filing out...
Check out this: ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (RWLK) could be on the verge of a big rally
https://newsrts.com/2021/03/15/check-out-this-rewalk-robotics-ltd-rwlk-could-be-on-the-verge-of-a-big-rally/
By Richard Addington -March 15, 2021
ReWalk Robotics Ltd. (NASDAQ: RWLK) is 137.12% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $0.41 and a high of $6.00 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market.
Sorry, but this secondary offering confirms RWLK is a fraud that only sells shares rather than product. Think of all the disabled people in rehab or long term care facilities who could use these devices to have some kind of life again. All those people and their care givers have now been vaccinated against Covid-19, so that is no longer an excuse hampering sales. Obviously for reasons RWLK won't disclose, these products either don't work as advertised or cannot be sold at a profit. For them to continue operations via offerings with no reasonable path to profits is fraud.
Now shes going up.. LIke all the times before.. sad thing.. Really thought this was going to blow $10.00 a week ago or so...
ReWalk Robitics trades down on secondary stock offering
Mar. 12, 2021 8:28 AM ETReWalk Robotics Ltd. (RWLK)By: Khyathi Dalal,
SA News Editor
ReWalk Robotics (NASDAQ:RWLK) trades 3.5% down premarket after announcing its plan to offer 10.9M shares (par value NIS 0.25 per share) and 6.1M shares issuable on exercise of outstanding warrants by selling shareholders.
The company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of securities; it will receive proceeds of any warrants exercised for cash in the future, which will total up to ~$22.7M.
No, no... I know of many companies including oils/energy areas who have, or are, doing them regularly... ONE Big reason is the damn shortsellign of the Shares by hedge fund types who do not care about supporting industrial growth- ONLY proffitting as fast as possible in any manner, even if to drive a company into bankruptcy like they did to JCP, Foresight Energy, and many others last year...
No, RWLK has more Private Placements than I Love Lucy reruns. They do it at least every quarter to fund their lifestyle.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Publishes Briefing on ReStore Soft Exo-Suit in the UK
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/national-institute-health-care-excellence-133000690.html
Experts outline potential for improved stroke patient outcomes, cost effectiveness through use of the ReStore device in the rehabilitation setting
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ReWalk Robotics, Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) ("ReWalk" or the "Company"), a manufacturer of robotic medical devices for individuals with lower limb disabilities, today announced its ReStore Soft Exo-Suit was the subject of a recent Medtech Innovation Briefing (MIB) by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). These briefings are designed to support National Health Services (NHS) and social care commissioners and staff who are considering using new medical devices and other medical or diagnostic technologies.
The briefing, titled "ReStore Soft Exo-Suit for gait rehabilitation" includes a description of the ReStore device, how it's used and why the technology is innovative for the treatment of patients during post-stroke gait training. The MIB also outlines a pathway to care using the technology and how much it costs.
"Publication of the NICE briefing is a critical step in achieving broad adoption of the ReStore Soft Exo-Suit for use in rehabilitation clinics throughout the United Kingdom," said ReWalk CEO Larry Jasinski. "These briefings are vital in informing the clinical teams who rely on NICE to make sure they are aware of the latest technologies that can help patients and deliver quality care. We are confident the support of NICE will help us to bring the ReStore to more patients in need across the UK."
Notably, the MIBs include expert commentary, to help inform NHS on the use of the device in the care setting. In the ReStore briefing, experts agreed that ReStore could improve outcomes by reducing falls and improving a user's balance and confidence. Experts also suggested that ReStore could reduce the number of staff needed in therapy sessions because fewer people would be needed to assist patients.
"Our initial impression is that the ReStore has the potential to influence neuro-plasticity, 're-wiring' of the nervous system, for a range of patients and presentations," said Tom McGregor, clinical lead for Hull and East Yorkshire at MOTIONrehab. "By using the ReStore patients have better gait biomechanics, which in turn is resulting in increased walking distances, faster walking speeds and greater confidence to walk. We're using ReStore as a therapy tool in clinic to optimize our treatment sessions. The clients that have tried it so far have reacted really well, so the plan is to utilize it on successive sessions over the coming weeks and months," he added.
While the experts agreed that the ReStore is likely to cost more than the current standard of care, one of the commentators noted the case for cost effectiveness could be proven with evidence the ReStore improved neuromuscular recovery more than standard care, and lowered resource impact.
The ReStore system is comprised of a soft, garment-like design which connects to a lightweight waist pack and mechanical cables that help lift the patient's affected leg in synchronized timing with their natural walking pattern. The system provides targeted assistance to the patient during forward propulsion (plantarflexion) and ground clearance (dorsiflexion), two key phases of the gait cycle. Real-time data from sensors in the shoes and on the affected leg are used to adjust the mechanical assistance to match the user's natural gait and to enhance propulsion symmetry. This provides the physical therapists with extensive data to inform strategies to optimize a patient's treatment and progress using real-time analytics.
For more information, please visit rewalk.com.
There you go again ! Yet the stock gets shortsold repeatedly.
This is another major Insurer behind these products... BKK Mobil Oil is one of the largest of a total of 72 corporate health insurance funds in Germany.
ReWalk Enters Contract with BKK Mobil Oil health insurance fund for the supply of ReWalk exoskeleton to eligible persons with spinal cord injury in Germany
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rewalk-enters-contract-bkk-mobil-133000559.html
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and BERLIN, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ReWalk Robotics, Ltd. (Nasdaq: RWLK) ("ReWalk" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of robotic medical devices for people with lower extremity disabilities, today announced it has entered into a contract with BKK Mobil Oil Insurance to provide ReWalk Personal Exoskeleton devices to its eligible beneficiaries with spinal cord injury.
The contractual arrangement is the first with a company health insurance fund and follows a series of agreements with several health insurance providers in Germany, which ReWalk has signed since the beginning 2020. With over one million beneficiaries, BKK Mobil Oil is one of the largest of a total of 72 corporate health insurance funds in Germany. Under the terms of this contract, eligible individuals can receive a ReWalk Personal 6.0 exoskeleton, which enables them to stand and walk in their homes and communities, after completing the training program.
"BKK Mobil Oil has taken the lead within corporate health insurers in Germany by entering into this contract," said ReWalk CEO Larry Jasinski. "We hope that more corporate health insurances will join this contract to ensure quality care with ReWalk exoskeletons for their insureds."
"In addition to the innovative exoskeleton aid, which gives new hope to many paralyzed people, we were particularly impressed by the well thought-out and detailed care concept of ReWalk Robotics GmbH. Everyone involved is aware of the current status of the supply at all times, and can plan the next treatment steps, so that our insured receive high-quality care and are efficiently guided through the procedure," says Tanja Euhus, Head of the Contracts Department at BKK Mobil Oil.
In 2018, the ReWalk 6.0 personal exoskeleton system was listed in the Medical Device Directory (MDD) of the Head Association of Statutory Health Insurances (SHI), which includes all approved devices for insurance procurement. That addition was a critical turning point, enabling any of Germany's 103 statutory health insurance companies to pursue standards of care for ReWalk. After being listed in the MDD directory, ReWalk began to enter into supply contracts with a number of German insurers.
Wainwright out early am maintaining strong BUY on RWLK after raising $40M + in Private Placement. So coincidental dont you think ??
SEC did nothing for over 10 years regarding Dry Ships, Inc. either...
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