Standard BioTools Inc. (NYSE: LAB) has reported a decline in revenue for the second quarter of 2024 but remains optimistic about its long-term prospects. Despite facing project delays and a weaker-than-expected performance, the company is focused on achieving breakeven adjusted EBITDA by the end of 2026.
With $60 million in cost reductions already realized towards an $80 million goal, Standard BioTools is actively seeking strategic mergers and acquisitions to spur growth and enhance shareholder value. The company is also expanding its SomaScan services and diversifying its customer base to build resilience. A healthy cash balance of over $396 million positions the company to execute its strategic initiatives effectively.
Key Takeaways
- Standard BioTools reported a decline in Q2 revenue, with a 23% drop compared to the previous year.
- The company has achieved $60 million in cost reductions and aims for an $80 million total.
- Strategic mergers and acquisitions are being pursued to drive growth.
- Diversification and expansion of SomaScan services are key strategic initiatives.
- Despite a challenging quarter, the company has a strong cash position of over $396 million.
Company Outlook
- Standard BioTools is confident in its long-term growth, targeting an adjusted EBITDA breakeven by full-year 2026.
- The company expects an improvement in sample delivery from key pharma accounts in Q3.
- Proteomics is anticipated to be the highest growth segment in the long term.
Bearish Highlights
- Revenue from assay services decreased, with overall service revenue down due to a decline in SomaScan-related business.
- Revenue from instruments and consumables was affected by constrained customer funding cycles.
- The share repurchase program of up to $50 million has been suspended.
Bullish Highlights
- Product revenue saw growth driven by SomaScan assay kits and related businesses.
- Operating expenses decreased significantly, with the company ahead of its cost reduction plan.
- The company is well-positioned to fund merger, integration, and restructuring activities.
Misses
- The combined revenue for Q2 was down 23% year-over-year, and the first half revenue was down 11%.
- Non-GAAP gross margin for Q2 was at 45%, affected by lower capacity utilization and strategic instrument upgrades.
Q&A Highlights
- The company is working to diversify its customer base, reducing dependence on a few large pharma accounts.
- Partnerships with Olink and Next Gen Diagnostics are expected to drive positive growth.
- The microfluidics business is seen as a future profitable driver.
- No projects have been lost within the SomaLogic segment, only delayed.
Standard BioTools' second quarter and first half results for 2024 were discussed during an earnings call, which included details about the company's performance since its merger with SomaLogic on January 5th, 2024.
The company's leadership, including Michael Egholm, addressed the decline in revenue and outlined strategies to counteract these challenges. Egholm highlighted the importance of partnerships and the potential of the microfluidics business. The company's participation in upcoming conferences was also mentioned as part of its growth and visibility strategy.
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Full transcript - Standard Biotools Inc (LAB) Q2 2024:
Operator: Good day and welcome to the Standard BioTools Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over David Holmes of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
David Holmes: Thank you, operator and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Standard BioTools' second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. Leading the call today is Michael Egholm, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Jeff Black, Chief Financial Officer. At the close of market today, Standard BioTools released its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. During the call, we will review our results and provide an update on our financial and operational performance, 2024 outlook, market trends, and strategic initiatives. During the call, we will be making forward-looking statements about events and circumstances that have not yet occurred, including plans and projections of our business, our outlook for 2024 and future financial results, market trends and opportunities, our expectations related to the combined operations with SomaLogic, including potential synergies, and our business outlook for the combined company. These statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from current expectations. The forward-looking statements on this call are based on information currently available to us and we disclaim any obligation to update these statements, except as may be required by law. During the call, we will also present some financial information on a non-GAAP basis. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating our core performance and as a baseline for assessing the future earnings potential of the company. We use these non-GAAP measures in our own evaluation of continuing operating performance. We encourage you to carefully consider our results on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. A reconciliation between non-GAAP measures and their GAAP equivalents are provided in the tables accompanying today's press release and as an appendix to today's presentation slides. Please note that management will be referring to a slide presentation, including updated supplemental financial information within the webcast today. Following prepared remarks, we will host a Q&A session. Today's presentation will be available on the website as well as the webcast on the Investor Relations section of the website. I would now like to turn the call over to Michael Egholm, President and CEO of Standard BioTools. Michael?
Michael Egholm: Thank you, David, and good afternoon, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today. Before we discuss our quarterly results, I want first to touch on the leadership news we announced this afternoon. As you saw from our announcement today, Jeff Black has accepted an opportunity in another public company located closer to home and family. Jeff helped us build a strong finance function with talented and capable leaders that position us well for a seamless transition. We appreciate Jeff's contributions, his decision, and wish him all the best. He will remain with SBI through August 31st to ensure a smooth transition of his responsibilities. We have started a search for a permanent successor and we're fortunate to already have a deep bench of talent across our leadership team and throughout our finance and IT organizations. Starting on September 1, Alex Kim, our long-time Chief Operating Officer and a Co-Founder of Standard BioTools will take on the interim CFO role, and will continue to lead strategic planning and integration of acquisitions. We also recently appointed Sean MacKay as our new Chief Business Officer, who now assumes responsibility for strategic business development, product management, marketing, and Investor Relations functions. With that, let's discuss our results. Our team's focus on cost structure and early integration of SomaLogic has accelerated synergy realization in the quarter, and we are now pulling forward the $80 million cost reduction target to the end of 2024, a year ahead of plan, keeping us on the track to achieve breakeven adjusted EBITDA for the full year 2026. A strong operational execution was offset by a weaker-than-anticipated second quarter revenue and SomaScan services experienced contract delays and instrument revenue was down year-over-year. While the latter is largely attributed to headwinds from the ongoing industry-wide restricted capital purchasing environment as peers have reported combined with the service business variability discussed, we are revising our revenue guidance to $170 million to $175 million for the full year 2024. We're confident that industry issues are transitory and some encouraging signs emerge in particular markets. Further, our operating system, SBS, has become deeply embedded in the new businesses focused on delivering improved forecasting, shortened sales cycles and in time, expanded product offerings to enable a more diversified customer base. SomaScan and its proprietary aptamer technology is a leading proteomics platform with tremendous upside. We're excited to be partnering with Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) and their full commercial release in the first half of 2025, enabling the SomaScan assay on Illumina's NovaSeq platform, which has an installed base of around 2,200 instruments. Most importantly, we remain committed to hit breakeven adjusted EBITDA for the full year 2026. We're well capitalized with nearly $400 million in cash to execute on our strategic vision of building a scaled, profitable multi-omic solutions life science business. At Standard BioTools, we're grounded in the reality that the life science technology and service industry is highly fragmented, filled with small enabling solutions, and brilliant technologies, but in desperate need of operational scale and the commercial and manufacturing expertise to achieve that. This is a perfect setup for strategic M&A, which is central to our strategy and an area we continue to be active. In fact, we believe the current market dynamic is creating opportunities for us to accelerate our consolidation thesis to drive additional scale, diversification, and shareholder value. In summary, despite a challenging quarter, we remain confident in our long-term outlook and we will stay the course on our vision to become a leading diversified life science leader with the best-in-class technology platform and several differentiated growth vectors and a team of operators that understand what it takes to execute in any environment. Turning to our quarterly performance and highlights, revenue as on a reported basis grew 57% in the first half of 2024 and 34% in the second quarter. On a performed combined basis, revenue declined 11% in the first half and 23% in the second quarter. Our lower-than-expected revenue results were driven primarily by two factors. First, we experienced project delays for SomaScan assay services, largely by select customers in the EMEA region. We are encouraged, however, by an early third quarter uptick in key pharma account activity provide us an early optimism for potential improvement in this segment as we move through the second half of the year. Instrument revenue was down year-over-year, but we saw a 40% sequential improvement compared to the first quarter of 2024. While we experienced continued economic pressure in the CapEx instrument purchasing cycles in the second quarter, largely consistent with what we saw in the first quarter, we're encouraged by the sequential increase in placements in the second quarter. As stated above, we have seen sales cycle extend across the portfolio. The opportunities remain available just on an elongated timeline. Against this challenging backdrop, we continue to deliver on an operating cost reduction. On a pro forma combined basis in the first half of 2024, we reduced our non-GAAP operating expenses by more than $30 million, or 27% over the first half of 2023 and delivered another reduction in adjusted EBITDA loss for the quarter. And we have already operationalized $60 million of our $80 million target cost synergies, which we expect will be fully reflected in our full year run rate entering 2025. Turning to sales mix in the second quarter, Instruments accounted for 19% of revenue consumables and kits were 40%, instrument support services 17%, and SomaScan services 21%. While our SomaScan service revenues remain concentrated and susceptible to quarterly variability, we are working hard to diversify our customer base, which will help to mitigate this. We are also expanding our near and medium term growth drivers of this business with more distributed solutions to complement our service business, chiefly through our partnership with Illumina. In addition, we are exploring new models to selling SomaScan both with a lower plex more cost-effective model and single SOMAmer reagents. But a single SOMAmer reagents participation is underway with a goal to launch a minimal and viable product this fall. Furthermore, we continue to lean into our strategy to deploy our Multi-omics-as-a-service offering, which will leverage our SomaScan and CYTO combined technology platforms and future platforms developed and acquired offerings to expand our lab services business, providing customers premium data with clinical solution support. This might glove customer experience will further accentuate complementarity of lab technologies and where they can best be applied. It's a natural extension of our existing offerings and provides a quicker path to technology adoption, while avoiding some other capital budget constraints currently phrasing the broader biopharma market. As we look to the next several quarters and beyond, we are incredibly well-equipped to execute. First, we have assembled what we believe to be the most comprehensive proteomics platform in the industry with multiple revenue drivers and a platform to expand and complement those sources of revenue, both organically and inorganically. Second, we have an experienced leadership team committed to our continuous improvement initiative with a track record of driving growth, expanded gross margins and reducing operating costs. And finally, our healthy balance sheet provides both runway and firepower to execute our long-term growth and strategic initiatives. We ended the second quarter with over $396 million in cash, which we see as a significant competitive advantage in a highly constrained capital environment for our sector. And with that, I'll now turn the call over to Jeff.
Jeff Black: Thank you, Michael and thank you all for joining us today. I first want to say a few words about my decision to leave Standard BioTools. Since I started the company almost 15 months ago, we've set an incredibly strong foundation for transformation. We're only just getting started. It's been a tremendous opportunity to be the CFO here working alongside Michael and the rest of our talented ELP team. I remain a steadfast believer in Michael, the team and the SBI Vision. I didn't take the decision lightly, but ultimately decided this new opportunity is the right move for me at this point in my career. It's an industry I know well, located closer to my home, and my family. There's never a great time for a move like this, but I'm firmly committed to making the transition a success. Alex and I have been aligned in lockstep since my first day here at our finance and IT organization is second to none. The leaders are hand selected and the most capable team I know to continue the great work we started together. Now, turning to our results. And as a reminder, our second quarter and first half 2024 results on an as-reported basis include the combined operations of Standard BioTools and SomaLogic since the close of our merger January 5th of this year, while the same periods in 2023 include the financial results of Standard BioTools legacy business only. And so for comparative purposes, we think it's more meaningful to look at the combined operations for both businesses. So, my commentary today will focus on the pro forma combined results of operations for Standard BioTools and SomaLogic for both 2023 and 2024. Please refer to today's press release and the appendix to our investor deck for more information, including a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures I'll be discussing here. So, starting with revenue in the second quarter, pro forma combined revenue was just over $37 million, down 23% and just over $83 million, down 11% for the first half of the year. This is as we continue to navigate lingering headwinds from a challenging macroeconomic environment and timing of orders from large pharma accounts. As Michael mentioned, second quarter revenue was predominantly impacted by our SomaScan assay services, where we saw a number of customer projects extend past the second quarter. Approximately $9 million of the $11 million decrease in our second quarter revenue was attributed to our assay services business. Product revenue was just over $22 million in the second quarter, down 10% compared to 2023 and just under $46 million in the first half, up 6% compared to 2023. This is driven by the traction we're seeing in our SomaScan assay kits and related businesses or business with continued expansion in our authorized sites and related pull-through as well as our Illumina Early Access Program. Instruments and consumables was $16 million in the second quarter, down 27% and $31 million in the first half of 2024, down 20%. We continue to navigate a macro environment that has constrained customer funding cycles and is extended sales cycles. We're seeing this impact on our instrument orders with a correlated impact on consumables, but we're encouraged by the sequential uptick we saw in instrument places and revenue growth compared to the first quarter. Service revenue was down $14 million in the second quarter, 37% down versus 2023 and $36 million in the first half, down about 25%. And as mentioned, the biggest driver of this decline was the SomaScan-related business, contributed about $8 million in revenue for the second quarter, down 50% and just over $23 million in the first half of the year, down about 35%. But as Michael mentioned, we are encouraged by the early Q3 uptick in sample delivery from key pharma accounts. We expect that to continue to improve as we move through the back half of the year. Instrument Support Services contributed over $6 million in revenue in the second quarter, 9% decrease over 2023 and $13 million in the first half of 2024, roughly flat with 2023. And like our consumables, this revenue source is highly correlated with instrument placement and we expect this will continue to expand as we grow the installed base over time. Turning quickly to our segment -- our segment revenue, proteomics business as a whole today represents 75% to 80% of our revenue. This segment includes our flow cytometry, imaging instruments, consumables and instrument support services, as well as our SomaScan assay services and kits business, is more prone to variability from customer purchasing cycles in our genomics segment. It was down 27% for the quarter and 12% for the first half of 2024, but we expect proteomics to be our highest growth segment over the long-term. Genomics was down 6% in the second quarter and in the first half of 2024, that's in line with expectations as we continue to manage the business through its plan transition, focusing on OEM and key strategic customer accounts. We've rightsized the OpEx over the past two years and we're now driving the genomics segment where positive contribution margin targeting mid-single-digits, but profitable revenue growth over the long-term. Moving to our operating performance, starting with gross margin. Our non-GAAP gross margin on a pro forma combined basis was 45% in the second quarter versus 53% in 2023 and 51% for the first half of 2024 compared to 53% in the same period last year. In the second quarter, we did see headwinds of around 250 basis points from lower capacity utilization related to our lower SomaScan assay services volumes and over 300 basis points impact from strategic decisions to replace or upgrade instruments in the field. Excluding the impact of these items, our non-GAAP gross margin would have been 51% and we expect to continue to see improvements as our SomaScan revenue volumes recover, replacement upgrade costs decline with some expected headwinds to continue in the second half of 2024. But encouragingly, we're beginning to see our run rate warranty cost decrease. This is an early indicator that our corrective actions are beginning to have impact on longer term gross margin expansion. So, with all that said, we still remain confident in our ability to drive non-GAAP gross margins into the mid-60s over time, especially as we move past these transitory headwinds, we grow sales, we drive costs, and efficiency improvements across our combined operations. Moving to operating expenses. As Michael mentioned, we're pleased to report that we're ahead of plan on our operating expense reduction initiatives. On a combined pro forma basis, our non-GAAP OpEx of just under $48 million, decreased by about $11 million or 19% in the second quarter, reflecting continued traction on expense reduction that began in the second half of 2023. For the first half of 2024, our non-GAAP OpEx decreased by about $33 million or 27% and as seen by the slight uptick in R&D spend for the second quarter, where we continue to take a thoughtful, strategic approach to our cost reduction actions, preserving core R&D investments as necessary. And these reductions are all before we see the full impact from restructuring initiatives that we implemented earlier this year and before the impact of any future cost reductions we plan to operationalize in the second half. Today, we've operationalized $60 million in annualized operating expense reductions versus our 2023 jumping off point of $250 million. We've now committed to accelerate the remaining $20 million target by the end of the year. So, in total, we expect that over $25 million of these savings will actually show up in the P&L in 2024 with the full P&L impact reflected in 2025. Based on these efforts, we're more enthusiastic than ever about the value we expect to generate under our now combined cost structure, leveraging the scale and reach of our diversified portfolio, where we remain committed to adjusted EBITDA breakeven for the full year 2026. We're prepared to manage costs even more aggressively if needed to get there. At the same time, as I said, we continue to maintain focused investments in commercial and R&D pipeline to support long-term growth. And finally, cash flow and the balance sheet. We ended the quarter, as Michael said, it's about $396 million in cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and short-term investments. As we expected our cash burn, while it sequentially improved over the first quarter, was still a typically high in the second quarter due to several merger-related and other non-operating uses of cash. In the aggregate, during the second quarter, we made about $38 million in cash payments for transaction and merger-related expenses and share repurchases. But excluding the impact of these items, our adjusted operating cash burn was about $28 million, representing about a 7% reduction over our pro forma combined burn a year ago, even at a reduced revenue level. So, while not at the levels we saw in the first and second quarter, we do expect continued cash outlays for merger, integration, and restructuring activities. But we're well-positioned to fund both these non-operating cash needs and to support the combined business to cash flow breakeven. And as we think about any future M&A, we remain very thoughtful and disciplined about additional strategic M&A when such opportunities arise, including the related use of cash. And then one final update on capital structure initiatives. As we previously announced in February, the Board approved a new share repurchase program of up to $50 million. Through the first half of 2024, we purchased approximately 15.4 million shares, about 4% of our common outstanding shares were about $41 million in cash at an average repurchase price of $2.66 per share. As we shared in our first quarter call, where we still have room available under the $50 million authorization, we suspended the buyback plan on May 2nd. And in summary, we remain responsible towards our assets. We committed to create long-term value for our shareholders. And with that, I'll turn the call back to the operator for Q&A.
Operator: We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Matt Stanton with Jefferies. Please go ahead.
Matt Stanton: Thanks. Maybe first one for Jeff, on the guidance cut. So, lower by $30 million at the midpoint, 2Q was about $10 million or so, below expectations. Can you just talk about the remainder of the bridge on the cut in terms of products for service, proteomics versus genomics? What are you assuming for each of those for the year now? And then talk about visibility or clarity around the step-up in the second half, I think even on the new guide, it implies kind of a 10% step-up in the back half versus first half. It sounds like maybe early signs on SomaScan and to encouraging, but anything else to help bridge the back half relative to the first half of the year? Thanks.
Michael Egholm: Hey Matt, I'll let Jeff answer like a little bit more detail, but let me just sort of grab the horn first half. First of all, with Jeff and I in the room, we have Alex Kim, who will step in as interim CFO here in a month when Jeff leaves us. First half, very excited -- I remain very excited about the SomaScan business. When we took it over, we knew it was heavily concentrated. So, what we have seen here is really a year -- or a year tough comp on big customers and then a miss in forecasting, not applying our SBS principles here in the SomaScan business. And we now have addressed that. So, we have a firm grip on the business. We're definitely excited on where the business is going with the papers coming out and showing the superiority of the platform, the growth we're seeing in the broader customer base and with time, the big customers will level out and be a healthy component of the business, but not dominating like this. Jeff, any color you want to add on just the bridge?
Jeff Black: Yes, Matt, we don't -- we've not broken out the components, either by segment or by product line in terms of what the back half looks like. But I think you hit on it as we are seeing encouraging signs of an uptick in some of the large pharma accounts. We're encouraged by the existing pipeline on the instrument side of the business. And so what you'll see is really just a mix of components that will drive that 10% sequential second half versus first half.
Michael Egholm: And maybe just let me pipe in here again. I actually, in earlier investor talks, I pointed out that we're so overly dependent on a few big pharma companies. So, a project, any one quarter, can make us look like heroes or whatever the opposite is -- and indeed, we find ourselves here. So, it was a known risk. The miss on my part was not sooner enough to implement this rigorous SBS forecasting style, which we have now. So, we have very good visibility to the second half, hence, the updated guidance.
Matt Stanton: Okay. And maybe sticking with that lumpiness on the Soma side, I think you expect a kind of high single-digit millions impact in 2Q from that. Just to be clear, that's kind of timing-related revenue and it didn't really go out or do you still expect to kind of recoup that over the coming quarters as those handful of projects start to resume or spend in a more earnest way?
Michael Egholm: Yes. So, maybe sort of back to the -- I'll make sure to answer the question. Yes. So, mostly timing here on the forecasting miss, we are overly reliant on a few big customers. So, we have year-over-year headwinds here. It's the nature of the business. We are working very deliberately at diversifying the mix through our authorized sites where we saw a healthy growth. We have Illumina coming online here the first half of 2025. It's going well. We're excited about them taking over, and then we're also -- as I said here, we are launching a minimum viable product version of individual SOMAmers, all the time will drive to diversify the revenue. But for this quarter, it's really timing, but tough year-over-year comps also on the big service contracts.
Matt Stanton: Okay. And then just maybe one more, if I can. Taking a step back, you reiterated the commitment to adjusted breakeven in 2026 pulled forward the rest of the cost synergies by a year, how should we be thinking about the top line from here? And any additional color you can provide in terms of the revenue base or growth between now and 2026? I think it's probably unlikely the $300 million from prior, but just given you reiterate the adjusted breakeven? Any more color you can talk about on the revenue or growth side as we think about that in 2026? Thanks.
Michael Egholm: Obviously, the 300 seems a bigger stretch given our call back here. We do -- and let me be very clear about this, we do see very healthy growth across our proteomics portfolio, which is about 80% of the revenue. And even in our genomics portfolio, as our biggest OEM vendor have burned down their inventory and now out of Thermo. We also even see an uptick here in the back half and certainly by next year. The way we think of it is that we will be adjusted EBITDA positive no matter the top line. So, irrespective of the top line, we will get to EBITDA breakeven in 2026. And so that's how we think about it. And if we hit the higher end of our revenue outlook, no additional actions acquired that we'll probably go after that if we can. And if we hit the low end, I will have to take up more costs in which I remain committed to.
Matt Stanton: Okay. Thank you.
Operator: The next question comes from Dan Brennan with TD (TSX:TD) Cowen. Please go ahead.
Dan Brennan: Hey guys thanks for the questions. Maybe Jeff, obviously, it's hard to see you leave, excuse me, good luck with the next endeavor. Anything else you can share just about the decision to leave now? I mean, you've been at the helm for 15 months, particularly after kind of a mixed quarter. Just anything else you can kind of share about the decision to part?
Jeff Black: Yes, Dan, it's absolutely a personal decision, right, returning to an industry, I know well with -- working with people that I've worked within the past, much closer to family and home. There's never a great time for these types of decisions. It's just the right decision for me at this point in my career. No disagreements with the management team. I remain a loyal shareholder who believes in the vision. I think it's -- proud of the fact that I was able to come in and really rebuild a finance organization that will now flourish under Alex. We're greatly aligned and our strategic and operational views and we have an incredibly strong team under me that's going to carry it on. So, I wouldn't read into it at all other than just a very personal decision at an opportune time for the company.
Dan Brennan: Got it. No, thank you for that. And then maybe back to the question. I know that was asked just earlier, and Michael, you kind of addressed it a little bit with the rigorous kind of forecasting process is now in place. But stock is going to be down a fair amount. I assume to miss in Jeff's departure. So, you have the opportunity to really reset the guide and get it to a point that people -- investors really feel good that it's pretty much derisked. Can you speak a little bit more to like what the -- any components? I know you guys don't go back on components, any deals you can share about how you guys arrived at the new number and kind of what you've kind of assumed in terms of the spending environment or anything like that, that will give people confidence?
Michael Egholm: No, no. Thanks, Dan. Definitely instituted a tight process now on the SomaScan side, like following the projects from signing of the contract to sample receipt, which is remarkably difficult nontrivial debt piece, but rigorous daily visual management in place. So, the updated guidance is what we have visibility today. To answer your questions, we -- this is done in -- with the backdrop of a contained pharma spending environment, both on projects and on instruments. Should the market recover in the second half, I would be the happiest man on earth, but we're not assuming that for this piece on the instrument side here. We keep building funnel [indiscernible] my team should be equally busy whether people are buying instruments or not. If we're not selling instruments, we are building the funnel. And then maybe just the other growth vectors we are really leaning into now, it's not a big impact in the second half, but next year, we actually expect it to be another growth driver is this Omics as a service where we lean into the fact that SomaLogic built a very, nicely fully end-to-end integrated service organization. We're adding CyTOF with other technologies, we're thinking of adding to what now will be sort of leading not profiling business, where we are going to go and lead with service sales instead of instrument sales, and that's what we're working through now, both selling instruments and service, but really different customers, different solutions. And we expect that, that will lead to higher growth in the future, not a huge impact the second half, but will be a tailwind for sure on second half revenue, but not strong enough, yes.
Dan Brennan: Got it. And maybe one final one. Just like instruments and consumables, obviously, you're in a tough CapEx environment. Anything you could speak to about the relative trends in the quarter and how they came in and kind of how you're thinking about the back half of those?
Michael Egholm: Yes. So, the consumables spend is -- consumer revenue, if you include the authorized side in the way I look at it, we're actually flat year-over-year. We should have been increasing. So, -- but any one contract can push it, so I wouldn't over index on what is a flat number. It's also still very early in the XTi launch, the Hyperion XTi, the imaging platform, which will drive a lot of future consumable revenue because of this much higher throughput. And then all the fixing we had to do on our CyTOF XT flow business, but we really believe we are on the other side of a number of issues we had to work through. And eventually, our customers will step-up the consumable pull-through, but $1 million pharma contract even on consumables can move it from one quarter to another. And you may recall, we actually had a very good Q2 last year. So, it's also a tough year-over-year comp. So, I would not over index on it.
Dan Brennan: Got it. Okay. All right guys. Thank you very much.
Operator: The next question comes from Paul Knight with KeyBanc. Please go ahead.
Paul Knight: Hey Michael, what was the genomics in the quarter in terms of revenue? And I think you're calling out a pickup sequentially in the second half. But is that a growing business in future years? First question.
Michael Egholm: So, we -- last year, when we took over what was Fluidigm (NASDAQ:LAB), we did surgery on the cost structure, changed the strategy ratably and so it's down versus 6% in the first half of the year. And that's -- and it's sort of what we call a managed decline as we're bleeding off people that are moving to NGS, like long-term trend I've been talking about that, I think, the last three or four earnings calls. We are going to be through that 12 or 18 months or so of the headwind. The tailwind here is that our OEM now partners, we have Olink and Next Gen Diagnostics as partners, and are working additional relationship are picking up. Thus, we found a couple of nice niches that are actually experiencing healthy growth. So, second half next year should be flat and then we should see a nice take. And it is as Jeff pointed out, the business is accretive on a contribution basis. And we preserved with that, so a very strong technology basis, like the -- so we still have that core microfluidic technology capability, which we believe will be useful for us in the future, and we have a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Singapore that we actually expect to leverage across the business. So, we're absolutely going to keep the microfluidics business, and we're going to grow it, and it's going to be a nice driver of profit here in the coming years.
Paul Knight: And on the SomaLogic decline year-over-year, is that business that can be recouped or no?
Michael Egholm: Yes. So, it's like -- Paul, you have to remember a handful of customers in any one year makes up the majority of the revenue on the SomaScan service side. And so any one year, it will fluctuate. As I said, we're leaning in to that service, expanding the service, building it and want to expand it to more than a few handful, and then we are moving to distribute a solution for now with our authorized size and then with Illumina and then getting the other revenue driver on. But -- so -- and the particular projects delayed here, yes, they will come later, but all projects are shifted out, hence the takedown of the guide.
Paul Knight: Okay. Thanks.
Michael Egholm: Haven't lost any one project just to be clear.
Operator: This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Michael Egholm for any closing remarks.
Michael Egholm: Yes. Thanks Drew and thank you for the question and thank you for listening. And we thank you all for your continued support. We look forward to seeing many of you at the Canaccord Genuity (TSX:CF) 44th Annual Growth Conference on August 13th in Boston and then at the UBS Genomic Medicine Summit on August 14th in Laguna Beach. So, looking forward to see you all, and back to you, Drew.
Operator: The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.
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