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Daniel
Operator
Good morning and welcome to the Liquidia Corporation second quarter 2026 financial results and corporate update conference call. My name is Daniel and I will be your operator today. All participants are currently in listen only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. Instructions for joining the queue will be provided at that time. Please note that today's call is being recorded. I'll now turn the call over to Jason Adair, Liquidia's chief business officer.
Jason Adair
Chief Business Officer
Thank you and good morning, everyone. It's my pleasure to welcome you to our second quarter 2026 financial result and corporate update call. Joining me today are Dr. Roger Jeffs, Chief Executive Officer, Michael Kaseta, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Rajeev Saggar, Chief Medical Officer, Scott Moomaw, Chief Commercial Officer, and Rusty Schundler, General Counsel. Before we begin, please note that today's discussion will include forward-looking statements, including statements regarding future results, product performance, and ongoing clinical or commercial activities. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. For further information, please refer to our filings with the SEC, which are available on our website. Please also note that our earnings release and our commentary include non-gap financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-gap financial measures to the most comparable gap measures can be found in our earnings press release. With that, I'll turn the call over to Roger.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Jason, and good morning, everyone. We're delighted to share our business results and clinical progress with you today. One year ago, we launched Utrepia and believed the medical community would find value in our differentiated approach to inhaled tryprosinil. One year later, we have the answer. Physicians are prescribing it, patients are starting to switch to it, and referrals and starts continue to accrue at a robust and sustained pace. As you saw in our numbers this morning, as of July 31st, we have received approximately 5,900 unique patient prescriptions, started more than 5,000 patients on therapy, and had more than 1,100 physicians write for the product. 30% of those physicians have prescribed to five or more patients. What's especially notable is where that growth is coming from. The overall inhaled prostacyclin market grew again this quarter from 573 million in Q1 to 607 million in Q2, or approximately 6%. And Utrepri's growth alone was larger than the growth of the entire category. Even as we saw flat to declining use of oral, infused, and competing inhaled formulations. That tells us something important. Not only are the numbers of new starts for inhaled troposinil growing, Eutrepia is taking an ever-growing share of the total market for inhaled troposinil. On a net revenue basis, Eutrepia is approaching 30% of the entire inhaled market, a tremendous result just over a year into launch, especially as the market is growing in concert with Eutrepia's growth. This implies the majority of new patient starts are coming to Utrepia. What matters more than the numbers is the impact we're seeing in patient lives. I spent my career in this field and I've watched the delivery of prostacyclines move from complex IV and subcutaneous infusion to cumbersome nebulized therapy to intolerable oral formulations and now to inhaled dry powder delivery. Across that history, one simplistic but guiding principle has remained constant. Better tolerability enables higher dosing. higher dosing can drive a greater efficacy and greater efficacy can support durable clinical benefit. The linchpin in this therapeutic chain is solving first and foremost for tolerability as the ability to drive dose and improve symptoms while minimizing both off and on target adverse events is the holy grail. That's the lesson I've learned from my 30 plus years in the field and to me explains why eutropia has had such broad adoption and early commercial success to date as it offers all of these attributes. This critical link between tolerability, dose, and efficacy was beautifully demonstrated in our 24-week assent study in PHLD patients. Specifically, progressively higher median doses of eutropia at weeks eight, 16, and 24 was accompanied by progressive improvements in six-minute walk distance of 21.5, 31.5, and 41 meters, respectively, without worsening cough scores. The only caveat is that eutropia requires a four times daily dose regimen which is why we are going from strength to strength and aggressively building on these same principles with twice daily L606, which we believe has the potential to raise the tolerability bar even further. As we've previously shown in our 48 week open label study, L606 patients titrated across a broad range while incurring a low burden of adverse events. Most notably, the lowest incidence of cough we are aware of in any study of an inhaled prostatinal formulation. and we were able to observe enduring clinical benefit as peak six minute walk improvements were preserved at trough or said another way throughout the dosing interval. These results are especially impressive when you consider that patients enrolled reflected the prevalent population in the US and were on complementary background standard of care. We are not aware of any other product in clinical development that has matched the dose range, tolerability and durability that we have already seen with L606. We believe Eutrapia and L606 have significantly raised the bar that every current and future product in this space will be measured against. And it is with this confidence that we've stood up a thoughtful R&D plan to best elucidate the current and future uses of inhaled tryprosinol across a wide array of indications. In fact, between Eutrapia and L606, we now have 10 clinical studies either underway or planned to begin over the next 12 months. and as Mike will explain, we can confidently make these investments because of the cash flow that this business now generates. With that, I'll turn it over to Mike.
Michael Kaseta
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Roger, and good morning, everyone. I'm pleased to say the second quarter of financial performance continued to reflect the growth trajectory for Utrepia we've described to date. Quarterly sales of Utrepia have more than tripled over the last three quarters. and we've gone from reporting a net loss in Q2 2025 to four consecutive quarters of increasing profitability. Looking specifically at the second quarter of 2026, net product sales of Utrepia were $170.4 million, up over $40 million or 31% quarter over quarter. Net income increased to approximately $74.7 million and non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA increased to approximately $96.3 million. Turning to cash, we entered the quarter with approximately $284.2 million in cash and cash equivalents, up $61.4 million from the first quarter, and nearly $93.5 million since the start of the year, a clear sign how we are seeing the operating leverage inherent in our business flow through to the balance sheet. I'd also like to note a few other financial metrics. As we had previously forecasted to you, R&D and SG&A expenses both increased this quarter to support continued investment in our pipeline and the ongoing commercialization of Utrepia, which includes the expanded sales team that hit the field in June and additional patient support services. Going forward, I note these two lives will behave differently. SG&A will increase as we scale commercially, with certain components moving in proportion to revenue. We also expect R&D to increase in the coming quarters as enrollment ramps up and respire, and we initiate multiple studies to inform the current and future use of Utrepia. More specifically, we expect R&D expense in the second half of 2026 to be double the expense in the first half of the year, and to increase again in 2027 as we build the best inhaled tryprosin products for future and current patients. In closing, we expect to continue to grow Thanks Mike for that summary. These results give us confidence that we're well on our way to more than a billion dollars in net revenue in 2027. And just as importantly,
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, please press star 1-1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster.
Daniel
Operator
and our first question comes from Amy Lee with Jefferies. Your line is open.
Amy Lee
Analyst, Jefferies
Hey, thanks for taking our question and congrats on all the continued momentum. I just wanted to start with two non-launch-related questions. The first one, on your 75-patient REWARM-Reynolds study, what efficacy signal would you need to see to move this directly into a registrational trial, and how should we think about the design in that context? Was the low-dose arm primarily driven by tolerability considerations in this population, or is there a reason to believe that the efficacy threshold in Reynolds may be below the dose needed than PEAH and PHLD. And then finally, on L606, you've suggested that the competitive advantage isn't just the BID dosing, but also the combination of exposure and tolerability. So what evidence have you seen that higher achievable exposure and 24-hour coverage could translate to a clinically meaningful advantage compared to other long-acting inhaled propranol approaches? And what should we look for in the phase three to validate that thesis? Thanks so much.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Hi, Amy. Good morning. Thank you very much for the question. For the REWARM study on efficacy and dose, I'll ask Rajeev to answer that, and then I'll answer the question around L606 and more how we're thinking about that from a dose comparison versus anything else.
Dr. Rajeev Saggar
Chief Medical Officer
So, Rajeev, talk about the REWARM study, please. Sure. Thanks, Roger, and thanks, Amy, for the question. So, maybe just to step back, the REWARM study is going to be evaluating patients with systemic sclerosis associated with Raynaud's phenomenon. Just for many that don't know, systemic sclerosis of course is a very rare autoimmune disease in which Raynaud's phenomenon effectively manifests in around 90% of those patients and consistent with and other conditions that affect arteriopathy and cystosclerosis, such as PAH and PHLD. Raynaud's is also a vasculopathy of the small digits, usually of the bilateral hands in nature. What's really interesting about this condition is that there's no FDA-approved therapies. However, there's plenty, decades of experience with prostacyclin and prostacyclin analogs that have been studied in this condition, including Truprosinol. and many of those are actually used off-label to treat the modern and severe complications of Raynaud's that manifest. So these are life-saving therapies. One of the challenges with studies that have used prostacyclines is the tolerability of those varied medications including parenteral and oral prostacyclines which in those studies have been limited by dose tolerability issues. So the purpose of REWARM first and foremost is to evaluate the typical doses that we use in eutropia in both PAH and in PHLD and to assess the tolerability profile. At the same time, we compare it against the lowest dose versus maximizing the dose titration of eutropia in the study and seeing what is the clinical response to those doses that will inform us of how to appropriately lead into the Phase 3 study, depending on the results that we see. But we have a high, strong clinical suspicion that we anticipate that a very similar dosing profile will be used eventually in the management of system scores associated with Raynaud's phenomenon.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Great. Thank you, Rajeev, on that. So, Amy, maybe what I'll do is kind of go back to the script a little bit when we make comparisons to TFIP. and that it's, again, it's tolerability drives dose, efficacy drives durability and the linchpin being tolerability. And the only way to kind of make comparisons is to sort of match on dose equivalence. And typically that's been done today through labeling with Eutrepia, for example, through breath equivalence to Tyveso and Tyveso DPI. maybe just to clarify because I think there might be some confusion if you look at TPIP if you took the 640 microgram dose Really only 64% of that is tryprosinol mass because the 16-chain palmitoyl lipophilic carbon chain contributes about 35% of the mass. And then there's about an 85% emitted dose from the capsule, so you have to subtract that as well. So when you look at the 640, and we know that one breath of Tyvesa is 6 micrograms, so 15 breaths would be 90 micrograms. the 640 essentially if you do 640 times 0.64 times 0.85 you get to just about 90 echograms or 50 breath equivalents. So that's what they're delivering with the 640 and then the 1280 obviously be twice that or 30 breath equivalents. Now when you look at L6-6, R2 is very similar to 15 breath equivalents and then and above that would be more. So when you then make a comparison for R210, 15 breath equivalents in our open label study, 21% of patients had a I'm sorry, 71% of patients had a 15 breath equivalents or more and 21% of patients had 30 breath equivalents or more. So how does that compare to TPIP? Well, they only had 21% above 640 or 15 breath equivalents and only 8% reached 1280 or 30% equivalent. So significantly lower dose attainment on a percentage basis between the two trials. Now I'm making cross-study comparisons and it's difficult and I think it's probably inappropriate in particular to talk about efficacy comparisons because the efficacy is going to be driven by the sample that you're studying and what the selection bias is and obviously as we said ours was a prevalent population in the U.S. who had transitioned essentially from Tyveso or Tyveso DPI versus theirs which was ex-U.S. studies perhaps not on background therapy and with a lower baseline walk so those comparisons get complicated but I think if you believe the paradigm that tolerability drives dose, then what you can see with L606 is that we've already shown a favorable profile vis-a-vis TPEP and the rest will sort itself out because as you achieve dose you will get effect and as you achieve that effect you will get durability. So we feel very confident that L606 is extremely well positioned in our phase three respire trial to be successful. and actually be incrementally in development. So that's kind of how we look . And certainly I don't want to make any performative statements around kind of how we'll share market or not until we get the phase three results. But I think, again, we feel very confident about what we're building and very happy that the phase three RESPIRE study already enrolling patients in OnTarget to meet its timeline. Next question, please.
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Julian Harrison with BTIG. Your line is open.
Julian Harrison
Analyst, BTIG
Hi, good morning. Congrats on the progress and thanks for taking the questions. I have three and I'll just ask them all at once. First, considering your recently expanded Salesforce, I'm wondering how you're thinking about the balance between deepening relationships with existing prescribers of Utrepia versus expanding your prescriber base going forward. Second, with a little more than a year into Utrepia's launch, can you give us an update on where payer coverage stands? Wondering if you're satisfied where access is today and if there are any remaining gaps or hurdles that when resolved could maybe even accelerate growth further. Third, maybe a refresher type of question, but can you walk us through the range of outcomes you're prepared for in the 327 trial and do you have any updated expectations in the timing of decisions there?
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Great, good to hear from you, Julian. Good morning. So Scott, if you wouldn't mind asking kind of your view on the Salesforce expansion. and where we currently are with payer coverage and then Rusty if you'll update on legal.
Scott Moomaw
Chief Commercial Officer
Yeah, good morning. Hi, Julian. So on the Salesforce expansion, I think the good news is we have a lot of opportunity both on the existing customer front as well as the expanding front as you phrased it, Julian. We will be able to get more visits, more frequency, if you will, on the current customers and we will be able to get deeper in the community, which is sort of our stated intent of doing the expansion. So, you know, when you look at PAH centers, we still feel like we have an amazing amount of opportunity there to get in front of. The oral prostacyclins and the inhaled prostacyclins to be the first PAH prostacyclin of choice. In the PHLD centers, there's both opportunity to get in front of the other inhaled prostacyclins and also patient identification. We still feel like those, even the academic PHLD centers can do a better job of diagnosing the patients. And then finally is the community which was as I mentioned one of the main reasons we did the expansion and this enables us to get further out into the community deeper where we know many of these 60,000 patients are they just need to be identified and usually referred but you know if they will diagnose them and treat them in that venue then that's great as well so I think the answer is nice which is that we have opportunities on both fronts From the payer perspective, I think we feel good where we are. I think we've reached sort of a stasis. We have, I would say, very good availability across the board. I would say we are generally at parity across the board. And therefore, it just comes down to product choice. And as you can see from our numbers and the revenue growth, we feel like folks are taking advantage of that product choice and choosing Utopia. So thanks, Julian.
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Ben Burnett with Wells Fargo. Your line is open.
Tianxi
Analyst, Wells Fargo (for Ben Burnett)
Hi, hello. This is Tianxi calling in for Ben. Congratulations on the quarter. So I have a question regarding the new patient ads. So based on our back of the envelope mass, your new patient's ad during this period is still showing about middle single digit, you know, acceleration versus last period. So just thinking about for the remainder of the year, how should that growth trend for the rest of the year? And where do you see it lands over the long term? Thank you.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Yeah, I appreciate the question. Maybe first, Rusty, if you could answer Julian's question around the 327 update. And then, Mike, if you'll talk about patient numbers going forward.
Rusty Schundler
General Counsel
Sure, happy to. And thanks for the question, Julian. So, that's the two questions you asked me. First is the range of outcomes. No change there. You know, it's the same things we've been talking about for, you know, over a year now. You know, obviously in the upside scenario where we went on all claims, we continue forward as is, unimpeded. If, you know, the ruling goes against us, you know, it's the full range of outcomes we've been talking about in the past. You know, it could be a royalty, could be some form of a jump to relief. So, again, no change on that front. We don't know. We don't have any visibility into what the judge's workload is, where he is in his process. I think looking at past data as to how long it typically has taken Judge Andrews to get to decisions following a bench trial, I'd say our expectation is we could see a decision any day now. but again it's hard for us to provide much more color than that just because we don't have visibility into this process. Thanks.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Yeah and I would add that you know nothing has changed in our confidence based on the probability of success and the arguments that we made in court. So Mike if you want to talk about kind of how we look at patient ads going forward and the implications that may have for down the road.
Michael Kaseta
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah thanks Roger and thanks for the question. What we've seen since launch is really a linear trajectory of referrals and new patient starts really since the beginning of the launch last June. So we're very confident what we're doing, as Scott had spoken earlier, increasing the size of our sales force, looking to increase our patient support services. We feel very confident that we can stay on the same trajectory that we're on right now. Roger has said in the prepared statements that we believe we'll be more than a billion dollars in sales in 2027. And we say that with confidence and believe that we will stay on this same trajectory and see significant increases as we move forward.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Great. Thanks, Mike. Next question, operator?
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Ryan Deschner with Raymond James. Your line is open.
Ryan Deschner
Analyst, Raymond James
Hi, thanks for the question and congrats on the impressive results this quarter. Two for me. Where do you think the biggest areas of script growth in terms of specific patient subpopulations in both PAH and PHLB at this point? And then also, in one of your PHA posters this year, you cite the diverse responsibilities of pharmacists. the diverse responsibilities that they have in supporting PH patients including assistance with transitioning patients across different process cyclines how those findings change your commercial strategy with respect to pharmacist interactions. Thanks.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Yeah great so Scott I think both of those are directed in your field.
Scott Moomaw
Chief Commercial Officer
Yeah so in terms of the growth you know I think there's kind of a short and long term aspect to this. The short term is we still have Loads of opportunity in the centers where these patients are coming in today and tomorrow. And I think the flywheel of Eutrepia is turning only more strongly as time goes along and more prescribers get a chance to try it. And so we have many examples of when one prescriber who's tried it and really found it to be satisfying has talked to a better has talked to another prescriber and said, look, it's not the same. You really need to try this. And so as that flywheel turns more in the short term, those physicians who are using prostacyclins and treating pH, whether that's PAH or PHLD, there's a lot of opportunity there. And of course, those patients, as I said, are coming in right now. And so therefore, the prescriber has the opportunity to make that decision today or tomorrow. Longer term, is what I referenced earlier, which is the patients out in the community. And that tide will raise as the education around that takes place. And as we get deeper out, it is rising right now. I mean, a lot of the PHLD academic centers are being overwhelmed by the number of patients that are coming in from the community because it's becoming more, there's more awareness around this. So it's starting, it's happening right now, but it's going to continue to happen. On the pharmacist question, Ryan, I wasn't quite sure I understood it. I mean, we have a very expansive care model. We work with especially pharmacies who are high touch with the patients and in touch with the patients all the time. One of the things we found is early on, I think they were almost, despite our trying to convince them, I think they were almost sort of stuck in the old paradigm of tolerability and dosing and as those folks have experienced the new paradigm where the dosing and the tolerability are better, leading to, as Roger mentioned, the efficacy. I think the lights have gone on there a little bit as well, and so they've become believers as well. But feel free to elaborate, Ryan, on the question if I didn't get it.
Dr. Rajeev Saggar
Chief Medical Officer
It's gone, Rajeev. Maybe I can just add in something. Ryan, on that particular poster, so first of all, what we recognize in the market is the care team that provides care to patients with group one PH and PHLD as multifactorial from the physician to the nurse practitioner and to the pharmacist and the PH coordinators. So I think one of the key things that we're doing on the ground is heavy education about the benefits of eutropia, the ease of prescribability and the titratability of the drug respective to both conditions. So the pharmacist, are, I think, critical in many of the larger programs. They help coordinate the care of the patient, they manage the side effect profile, and they also support how to titrate those patients. So it's a key target for us, and I think the results have spoken. is what you see here today at the Earnings School.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Thanks. Yeah, I think maybe I'll just add to both of the comments. So again, I think we're taking a fulsome approach to the centers, not just the physicians, the pharmacists, but also the nurse practitioners who are critical to the therapeutic success in this category. I think one thing on the numbers, we're starting to see a shift. If you just look, and we said a little bit about this in the prepared remarks. So The inhaled category is now on a run rate of 600 million. The total prostacyclin pathway is about 1.2 billion in the quarter in total. So you're getting into a $5 billion market, and half of that is in the inhaled segment, which is growing. So the inhale is starting to infringe on the oral and parenteral categories. So if you look at the oral categories between Upravi and Arenatram, that's about 500 million and if you look at Remodulin it's about 100 million so and those are shrinking or flat so what the only growth that you're seeing is in the inhaled category and the only reason for that growth is eutrophia launched so what we're starting to do is broadly take share not only from the competitive inhaled brand but also from oral and parenteral as people figure out that again this paradigm of tolerability is key and the linchpin to success for these patients is This is where the field's moving. So, you know, a very attractive opportunity in PAH and PHILD, as Scott said, which is virtual white space still. So lots of upside. And I think just in the current indications that are approved, you know, there's opportunity to grow beyond the $5 billion that's here today. So, you know, a very attractive market, especially when you have a very attractive molecule like eutropia. Next question, please.
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Serge Bellinger with Needham. Your line is open.
Jason Adair
Chief Business Officer
Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I guess just one probably for Rajeev. What is the current thinking for the development and regulatory path to potentially expand utopia usage to PPF and IPF?
Dr. Rajeev Saggar
Chief Medical Officer
Yes, thanks for the question. So obviously, just to remember, the safety profile of eutropia has been studied in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with a broad range of underlying interstitial lung disease, inclusive of IPF, autoimmune disease, and most likely progressive pulmonary fibrosis as well, given the definition of that condition. I think there's a lot of confidence in the safety profile of eutropia in these patients. I think as you see in the slides, we are going to be advancing a study in the first half of 2027, evaluating the safety efficacy and dose titratability of eutropia. I think this is really critical to really highlight the fact that Every study that's been done to date with inhalatory prostatol continues to highlight that dose absolutely matters. And if you extrapolate what we saw in the INCREASE study, as well as in the TETON study, there is at least a minimally acceptable dose, and anything above that still needs to be studied. This is where we believe we can shine. So evaluating how high of a dose that we should use to treat those patients is going to be critical in that assessment. Also, we do acknowledge that the antifibrotic world with oral therapies has advanced with the new therapy in the mix. And we do want to see how eUTREPA will respond on top of some of these therapies so that we can adequately power future studies as well and modify inclusion-exclusion criteria. So we're taking it, I think, in a very sophisticated approach. and we have a lot of support through KOLs throughout the United States and the rest of the world to help guide us to the best trial design.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Great. Operators, next question.
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Jason Gerberry with Bank of America. Your line is open.
Jason Gerberry
Analyst, Bank of America
Hey, guys. Congrats on the quarter. Got a few. So just thinking about the growth here, Is it fair to say that most of the growth is coming from category expansion and limited more on the switch from inhaled competitor agents? And then as we think about the expanded pool of patients, do you have any anecdotes, any commentary to what extent patients with comorbid IPF are seeking treatment with inhaled options and that might be expanding the pie? and then lastly, just a question around thinking about drug adherence. You have 5,000 patients treated roughly since the launch. If we think about 10% free drug, about maybe 10% drop off, it gets you into that sort of patient number that could support the sales number for the quarter. So are those the right ways to maybe think about patient adherence for some of those early patients who started drug at the early point of the launch? Thanks.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Yes. I'll take on the adherence, and then maybe Scott and Mike, you guys can talk about the growth and the pool of patients. I will say, though, Jason, that I don't think IPS is yet sort of expanding the market. I think what we're seeing is on-label expansion, so nothing there from an IPS standpoint, although certainly in the future I think there'll be more interest in seeing what the value of eutropia could be in that indication by physicians. in terms of drug adherence really don't aren't talking about it much obviously we've said it over and over again that the tolerability to our therapy is best in class and I think because of that that the adherence to the drug will be best in class so we would expect that would be underneath sort of the typical discontinuation rate of competitive inhaled agents for sure but we need more time to think about it. What we do know is that you know the AEs they manifest at first exposure and if somebody's going to be intolerant to the drug it's usually somewhat in the first one to three months that they become intolerant and will move off of the therapy if it's because of intolerance. you know again let's remind ourselves this is a life-threatening disease these patients are severely ill and with ILD they have comorbid disease so you know patients do die and clip off at a pace just due to other comorbidities so you know we're still looking at that and I don't think you can do the kind of parallel match that you're trying to assign here in terms of what you were doing so you know again as we get more and more information we'll get a little bit more granular about that as we move forward but nothing's concerning in terms of our DC rate and again it all because of our print enabled formulation you know we're not getting discontinuation because of AEs at the rate that the competitive agents are. So again, all good news there. And I think one way that we can grow the revenues is to stack on patients quarter over quarter and that's what you're seeing. So that's why it looks to be quite linear. And then maybe Scott, if you wanna talk about the growth specifically that Jason was asking about.
Scott Moomaw
Chief Commercial Officer
Yeah, hi Jason. So I'll handle the switch part of that question first, and then I'll come back to the market expansion, although obviously they're related. I mean, I think we absolutely are still seeing switches. We're seeing switches from other inhaled therapies for the reasons we've been outlining since before launch. We are seeing switches from the oral prostacyclines as well. I think generally because of the rough tolerability of those drugs and the inability to titrate to effect, but also with the decreased promotion in that sector coming from J&J backing away as well, I think that's kind of propelling that. In terms of market expansion, I think if you walk through the math that Roger walked through earlier, I think you have to say that we are expanding the market just globally from a revenue standpoint. However, when I'm in the market, when I'm talking to folks, I think the dynamic is, yes, there are some switches when patients, for the reasons I mentioned earlier, but more often than not, what happens is it's a prescriber who used to use one of the other inhaled first or an oral prostacyclin first. and they've come around to the fact that, you know, this is a better therapy to use first. And so now they are putting us ahead of those therapies and that's how we are gaining shares. So, you know, the good news is both are happening and as sort of a student of the market, having been in it 16 years, I'm fascinated to watch it happen. But I think the answer is both are happening. You can't argue with the math that the market is expanding and I'm seeing it every day in terms of us gaining share within the market.
Dr. Rajeev Saggar
Chief Medical Officer
Maybe I can just step in, just last comment. I think it's important, Jason, to recognize that the hemodynamic definition has just changed and it's been slightly under two years since the hemodynamic profile of the definition of pulmonary hypertension has been modified. So that education, I think, is starting to become a lot more universal across both the centers and the community itself. and I think we can learn a lot from that by a study designed by another company called Finder which essentially was looking at what is actually the prevalence of pulmonary hypertension in the setting of ILD just highlighting the market growth potential here and these proactively performed right heart catheterization suggesting that actually the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was on the order of over 70% of which pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension, using the new definition, was around 55%. I think that just highlights that the demand and the amount of pulmonary hypertension, especially in group three, is actually acutely being understood by the market. And because of the safety profile of eutropia and the ability to titrate higher tater doses and modify this condition, I think it's being well received in the marketplace and we continue to focus on that.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Thanks for that addition, Rajeev. Operator, next question.
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. Our next question comes from Gaurav Mini with LifeSci Capital. Your line is open.
Julian Harrison
Analyst, BTIG
Hey, good morning, Perez, and another great quarter, guys.
Michael Kaseta
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
So just a quick one from me here. As we think about eutropia growth moving forward, can you just give us a refresher on sort of the patient setting plan as we think about targets, right? So Do you see the community setting as still relatively under penetrated and is this going to be a key area of growth moving forward? And then put another way, could we potentially see acceleration in patient ads as community penetration increases, especially with the recent Salesforce expansion?
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Thanks. Yeah, Scott, if you wouldn't mind talking about that.
Scott Moomaw
Chief Commercial Officer
Yeah, there is absolutely a lot of room for growth in the community. I mean, We know those patients are out there. Rajeev talks about the prevalence of PHLD being whatever it is, 30 to 60% in ILD patients. And so clearly in all of those patients that are out there, there's an opportunity to better identify, diagnose, and refer or treat those patients. And so it's a little bit of a, I don't want to say a slow burn because it's going to happen this year and next year. but there's definitely some work there to penetrate which we're doing with the expansion. In terms of patient numbers, I don't think we're ready to say that the pace is gonna increase as a result of that but clearly there is a lot of room in that 60,000 patients that a lot of those are out there in the community and just haven't been identified yet.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Great, thank you, Scott. Operator, next question.
Daniel
Operator
Thank you. I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn it back to Dr. Roger Jeffs for closing remarks.
Dr. Roger Jeffs
Chief Executive Officer
Great. Thank you everyone for joining the call. We're very excited about the results and clinical update that we could provide today and look forward to updating you again in the near future. Bye bye.
Daniel
Operator
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.