GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR, the “Company” or “Burning Rock”), a company focused on the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in the field of precision oncology, today reported financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2025.

Recent Business Updates

• Therapy Selection
  • Presented study results at the Cell Reports Medicine on esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in September 2025. “Integrating ctDNA with clinical response evaluation improves residual disease detection post-neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy to support organsparing strategies and that postoperative ctDNA stratifies recurrence risk beyond pathological response to inform adjuvant immunotherapy decisions”.
• Early Detection
  • PROMISE study test results presented at The Innovation in September 2025. “The PROMISE study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of a multi-omics integration strategy in multi-cancer detection blood tests across nine types of cancers in head and neck (excluding nasopharynx), esophagus, lung, stomach, liver, biliary tract, pancreas, colorectum, and ovary……Compared to the methylation-based classifier, the multimodal classifier combining methylation and protein features, exhibited an improved sensitivity of 75.1% (95% 75 confidence interval [CI], 69.3%–80.3%) at the same specificity of 98.8% with the accuracy of top predicted origin (TPO1) of 73.1% (95% CI, 66.2%–79.2%)”.
• Pharma Services
  • The OncoGuide™ OncoScreen™ Plus CDx System based on OncoScreen™ Plus to be used as a companion diagnostic for AstraZeneca’s capivasertib has received Manufacturing and Marketing Approval from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in September, 2025.
    

Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results

Total revenues were RMB131.6 million (US$18.5 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 2.3% increase from RMB128.6 million for the same period in 2024.

• Revenue generated from in-hospital business was RMB52.8 million (US$7.4 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 17.1% decrease from RMB63.8 million for the same period in 2024, driven by a decrease in sales volume.

• Revenue generated from central laboratory business was RMB36.8 million (US$5.2 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 7.9% decrease from RMB40.0 million for the same period in 2024, primarily attributable to a decrease in the number of tests, as we continued our transition towards in-hospital testing.
• Revenue generated from pharma research and development services was RMB42.0 million (US$5.9 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 68.6% increase from RMB24.9 million for the same period in 2024, primarily attributable to an increased development and testing services performed for our pharma customers.
  

Cost of revenues was RMB32.8 million (US$4.6 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing an 10.9% decrease from RMB36.8 million for the same period in 2024.

Gross profit was RMB98.8 million (US$13.9 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 7.6% increase from RMB91.8 million for the same period in 2024. Gross margin was 75.1% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 71.4% for the same period in 2024. By channel, gross margin of central laboratory business and in-hospital business were 81.8% and 71.8% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 83.2% and 73.0% during the same period in 2024, primarily due to the cost reduction caused by the rent subsidy for the headquarter building in the third quarter of 2024; gross margin of pharma research and development services was 73.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 48.2% during the same period of 2024, primarily due to the significant increase in revenue from high-margin companion diagnostic (CDx) projects.

Non-GAAP gross profit, which excludes depreciation and amortization expenses, was RMB100.9 million (US$14.2million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 3.2% increase from RMB97.8 million for the same period in 2024. Non-GAAP gross margin was 76.7% for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to 76.0% for the same period in 2024.

Operating expenses were RMB115.0 million (US$16.2 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 11.9% decrease from RMB130.4 million for the same period in 2024. The decrease was primarily driven by decreases in amortized expense on share-based compensation, budget control measures and headcount reduction to improve the Company’s operating efficiency.

• Research and development expenses were RMB41.5 million (US$5.8 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 15.6% decrease from RMB49.2 million for the same period in 2024, primarily due to (i) a decrease in the expenditure for research projects; (iii) a decrease in amortized expense on share-based compensation; and (iv) a decrease in amortized expenses for office building decoration.
• Selling and marketing expenses were RMB41.8 million (US$5.9 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 13.6% decrease from RMB48.4 million for the same period in 2024, primarily due to (i) a decrease in staff cost resulted from the reorganization of the sales department and improvement in operating efficiency; (ii) a decrease in amortized expense on share-based compensation; and (iii) a decrease in amortized expenses for office building decoration.
• General and administrative expenses were RMB31.7 million (US$4.5 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, representing a 3.6% decrease from RMB32.9 million for the same period in 2024, primarily due to (i) a decrease in the general and administrative personnel’s staff cost; (ii) a decrease in amortized expense on share-based compensation; and partially offset by (i) an increase in impairment expenses for accounts receivables and contract assets; (iii) an increase in operating lease.
  

Net loss was RMB16.8 million (US$2.4 million) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to RMB35.7 million for the same period in 2024.

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash were RMB467.0 million (US$65.6 million) as of September 30, 2025.

About Burning Rock

Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR), whose mission is to guard life via science, focuses on the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in the field of precision oncology. Its business consists of i) NGS-based therapy selection testing for late-stage cancer patients, and ii) cancer early detection, which has moved beyond proof-of-concept R&D into the clinical validation stage.

For more information about Burning Rock, please visit: ir.brbiotech.com.

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Contact: IR@brbiotech.com