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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation
The accompanying interim unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of OraSure Technologies, Inc. (“OraSure”) and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, DNA Genotek Inc. (“DNAG”), Diversigen, Inc. (“Diversigen”), Sherlock Biosciences, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Sense Biodetection Limited (collectively, "Sherlock"), and BioMedomics, Inc. ("BioMedomics"). Novosanis NV ("Novosanis") was a subsidiary of OraSure until it was legally dissolved in June 2025. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated. References herein to “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Company” mean OraSure and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless otherwise indicated. The unaudited financial statements, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments (consisting only of normal and recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of the Company's financial position and results of operations for these interim periods. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. Results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026 are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations expected for the full year.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
There have been no changes to the Company's significant accounting policies described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 that have had a material impact on the consolidated financial statements and related notes except as discussed herein.
Cash Equivalents & Short-Term Investments
The Company considers all its investments in debt securities to be available-for-sale securities. These securities consist of guaranteed investment certificates purchased with maturities greater than ninety days and are considered short-term investments. Securities with maturities ninety days or less are considered cash equivalents. Available-for-sale securities are carried at fair value, based upon quoted market prices, with unrealized gains and losses, if any, reported in stockholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss.
The Company records an allowance for credit loss for the Company's available-for-sale securities when a decline in investment market value is due to credit-related factors. When evaluating an investment for impairment, the Company reviews factors such as the severity of the impairment, changes in underlying credit ratings, forecasted recovery, the Company’s intent to sell or the likelihood that it would be required to sell the investment before its anticipated recovery in market value, and the probability that the scheduled cash payments will continue to be made.
The Company maintains cash balances in the United States in excess of the federally insured limits. The Company periodically evaluates financial institutions and believes the risk of loss to be remote due to this evaluation.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
As of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and accrued expenses approximate their respective fair values based on their short-term nature.
Fair value measurements of all financial assets and liabilities that are being measured and reported on a fair value basis are required to be classified and disclosed in one of the following three categories:
Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities;
Level 2: Quoted prices in markets that are not active, or inputs which are observable, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the asset or liability; and
Level 3: Prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable (i.e., supported by little or no market activity).
To the extent that valuation is based on models or inputs that are unobservable in the market, determining fair value requires more judgment. Because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, estimated values may be materially higher or lower than the values that would have been used had a ready market for the investments existed. Therefore, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for assets or liabilities categorized in Level 3. The following table provides a summary of the recognized assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
June 30,December 31,
Level20262025
Guaranteed investment certificates1$12,796 $13,114 
Trading securities1525 543 
Contingent consideration:3
Current portion$— $18,380 
Long-term portion5,233 9,333 
$5,233 $27,713 
Included in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025 was $12.8 million and $13.1 million, respectively, invested in guaranteed investment certificates.
Included in cash and cash equivalents at June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, was $49.6 million and $68.4 million, respectively, invested in government money market funds. These funds have investments in U.S. government securities and are measured as Level 1 instruments.
The Company offers a nonqualified deferred compensation plan for certain eligible employees and members of the Company's Board of Directors. The assets of the plan are held in the name of the Company at a third-party financial institution. The Company paused the plan in January 2026 and is no longer allowing new participants to enter the plan. Separate accounts are maintained for each participant to reflect the amounts deferred by the participant and all earnings and losses on those deferred amounts. The assets of the plan are held in mutual funds and Company stock. The fair value of the plan assets as of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025 was $0.5 million, and was calculated using the quoted market prices of the assets as of those dates. All investments in the plan are classified as trading securities and measured as Level 1 instruments. The fair value of plan assets is included in both current assets and other noncurrent assets with the same amounts included in accrued expenses and other noncurrent liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
Contingent Consideration

The Company has identified its contingent consideration obligations as Level 3 liabilities due to significant inputs that are required to measure the fair value of these obligations. The contingent consideration is comprised of three different tranches: milestone payments, royalty payments, and earnout payments. The significant quantitative unobservable inputs for the milestone payments are the discount rate and probability of achieving regulatory approval milestones. In December 2025, the Company submitted a premarket notification, or 510(k), to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) for clearance of its rapid molecular self-test for chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (“CT/NG”) on the Sherlock platform. Following constructive interactions with the FDA, the Company is updating its submission plan for the CT/NG test on the Sherlock platform to incorporate feedback received from the agency. As part of this process, in July 2026, the Company elected to withdraw its current submission and plans to pursue a future submission based on a new clinical trial. Due to this withdrawal, the Company has concluded that it will not obtain FDA clearance by December 31, 2026 as outlined in the terms of the merger agreement. Accordingly, the Company will not be obligated to pay the milestone contingent payments and the milestone contingent consideration liability was reduced to zero. Furthermore, as a result in the delay in the commercialization of the CT/NG product, the royalty based contingent consideration liability was reduced to reflect the delay in recognizing revenue from the sale of the CT/NG product and increase in discount rate associated with the cash flows. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2026, to reflect these changes in these liabilities, a decrease in the estimated fair value of acquisition-related contingent consideration of $22.6 million and $22.5 million, respectively, was recorded on the Company's consolidated statement of operations.
The fair value methodology for royalty payments is based on a discounted cash flow model. Significant quantitative unobservable inputs are internally developed future expected cash flows, discount rate and probability achievement of a milestone of a regulatory approval. The royalty payments represent a mid-single digit percentage of the net sales through 2034 associated with the acquired in-process and research and development intangible asset.
The fair value methodology for earnout payments is based on a Monte Carlo model. Significant quantitative unobservable inputs are future expected cash flows, discount rate and volatility rate.
There has been a net decrease of $17.9 million in the fair value of the Company's contingent consideration from date of acquisition to June 30, 2026 primarily due to the release of the milestone liability and a reduction in royalty liability as described above.
Fair Value
Balance at December 31, 2025$27,713 
Additions— 
Change in fair value(22,480)
Balance at June 30, 2026$5,233 
The below table illustrates the discount rate sensitivity to the fair value of the royalty liability when performing the fair value analysis as of June 30, 2026. The fair value analysis as of June 30, 2026, utilized a 20.4% discount rate.
Fair Value of Royalty Payments
Discount Rate
18.4%19.4%20.4%21.4%22.4%
$5,600$5,300$5,000$4,700$4,400
Indefinite-Lived Intangible Asset
Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not amortized but rather tested annually for impairment or more frequently if the Company believes that indicators of impairment exist. Current generally accepted accounting principles permit the Company to make a qualitative evaluation about the likelihood of indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment. If the Company concludes that it is more likely than not that the carrying value of an indefinite-lived intangible asset is greater than its fair value, then the Company would be required to perform a quantitative analysis. The Company would recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value.
In December 2025, the Company submitted a 510(k) to the FDA for clearance of its rapid molecular self-test for CT/NG. Following constructive interactions with the FDA, the Company is updating its submission plan for the CT/NG test on the Sherlock platform to incorporate feedback received from the agency. As part of this process, in July 2026, the Company elected to withdraw its current submission and plans to pursue a future submission. This withdrawal was considered an indicator of impairment, which necessitates review of the facts and circumstances underlying the value of the in-process research and development ("IPR&D") technology intangible asset as of June 30, 2026. The Company performed a quantitative indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment test on the IPR&D technology which concluded that the carrying value of the Company's IPR&D technology was below its fair value indicating there was no impairment as of June 30, 2026. The carrying value was 6% below its fair value.
As of June 30, 2026, the IPR&D technology intangible asset was $17.0 million. The impairment analysis used an income approach. The income approach estimates fair value for an asset based on the present value of cash flows projected to be generated by the asset. Projected cash flows are discounted at a required rate of return that reflects the relative risk of achieving the cash flows and the time value of money. The revenue and cash flows assumes CT/NG receives regulatory authorization and market competition of future products is low. The revenues assume market growth will accelerate each year. If there are delays to attaining regulatory approval or successfully launching CT/NG, this could have a negative outcome on the indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment analysis.
The below table illustrates the discount rate sensitivity to the fair value of the IPR&D technology intangible asset when performing the impairment analysis as of June 30, 2026. In the IPR&D technology intangible asset impairment analysis as of June 30, 2026, the impairment analysis utilized a 40% discount rate.
Discount Rate
38.0%39.0%40.0%41.0%42.0%
$22,000$20,000$18,000$17,000$15,000
Equity Method Investee
In January 2024, the Company led the Series B financing and entered into wide-ranging strategic distribution agreements with KKR Sapphiros L.P. ("Sapphiros"), a privately held consumer diagnostic portfolio company, and certain of its related entities. Through this relationship, the Company expects to be able to offer a more comprehensive range of low-cost diagnostic tests and molecular sample management solutions to the Company's customers globally. As of June 30, 2026, the Company had funded $30.0 million for its interest in Sapphiros. The Company recorded the investment using the equity method in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 323, Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures—Overall. In accordance with the equity method, the Company's equity investment is presented net of its share of any gains or losses of the investee. The Company has elected as its accounting policy to recognize its share of any income or loss in Sapphiros on a three-month lag. The value of the investment in Sapphiros of $24.4 million as of June 30, 2026 is included in the investment in equity method investee line of the Company's balance sheet. The Company has no unconditional obligations or guarantees to, or in support of, its equity method investee and its operations. In conjunction with the preparation of the Company's June 30, 2026 financial statements, the Company evaluated the investment in Sapphiros for impairment and concluded there was no such impairment. The Company's investment in Sapphiros was valued at $26.0 million as of December 31, 2025.
Related Party
The Company loaned Sapphiros $0.3 million during the year ended December 31, 2025. The loan plus interest is due in December 2026. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement with Sapphiros to assist in the development of certain products for Sapphiros. A total of $0.1 million and $0.2 million of products and services revenue was recognized from this agreement for the for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026. No equivalent amounts were recognized for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025.
Uncertain Tax Positions
Assets and liabilities are established for uncertain tax positions taken or positions expected to be taken in income tax returns when such positions fail to meet the "more likely than not" threshold based on the technical merits of the positions. The Company assesses whether previously unrecognized tax benefits may be recognized when tax positions are (1) more likely than not of being sustained based on their technical merits, (2) effectively settled through examination, negotiation or litigation, or (3) settled through actual expiration of the relevant tax statutes. The assessment of an uncertain tax position requires significant judgment.
Foreign Currency Transactions
Net foreign exchange losses resulting from foreign currency transactions that are included in other income in the Company's consolidated statements of operations were $0.1 million and $0.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Net foreign exchange gains (losses) resulting from foreign currency transactions for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and 2025 were $0.1 million and $(1.3) million respectively.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Change in accumulated other comprehensive loss by component is listed below:
Foreign CurrencyTotal
Balance at December 31, 2025$(18,404)$(18,404)
Other comprehensive loss(3,493)(3,493)
Balance at June 30, 2026$(21,897)$(21,897)
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standard Update ("ASU") No. 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40), Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The purpose of this update was to require disclosure, in the notes to financial statements, of specified information about certain costs and expenses on a disaggregated basis. The amendments in the ASU are effective for all public business entities for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The amendments are to be applied either prospectively to financial statements issued for reporting periods after the effective date of the update or retrospectively to any or all prior periods presented in the financial statements. Management is evaluating the impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
In July 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326), Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets. The purpose of this update was to address challenges encountered when applying the guidance in Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses, to current accounts receivable and current contract assets arising from transactions accounted for under Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. For all business entities, the amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025, and interim periods within those fiscal periods. The amendments are applied prospectively, and early adoption is permitted. Management does not expect a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40), Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software. The purpose of this update was to modernize the accounting for software costs. For all business entities, the amendments in this ASU are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, and interim periods within those fiscal periods. The amendments can be applied prospectively, a modified transition or retrospectively. Early adoption is permitted as of the beginning of an annual reporting period. Management does not expect a material impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-10, Government Grants (Topic 832), Accounting for Government Grants Received by Business Entities. The purpose of this update was to improve US GAAP by establishing authoritative guidance on the accounting for government grants received by business entities. For public business entities, the amendments in this ASU are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2028, and interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted in both interim and annual reporting periods in which financial statements have not yet been issued or made available for issuance. The amendments can be applied under a modified prospective approach, a modified retrospective approach, or a retrospective approach. Management is evaluating the impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.
In December 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270), Narrow-Scope Improvements. The purpose of this update was to improve the navigability of the required interim disclosures and clarifying when that guidance is applicable. The update also provides additional guidance on what disclosures should be provided in interim periods and adds a principal that requires entities to disclose events since the end of the last annual reporting period that have a material impact on the entity. For public business entities, the amendments in this ASU are effective for interim reporting periods within annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. The amendments in this update can be applied either prospectively or retrospectively to any or all prior periods presented in the financial statements. Management is evaluating the impact on the Company's consolidated financial statements.