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Boxlight Corporation (BOXL)

Q2 2022 Earnings Call· Thu, Aug 11, 2022

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Operator

Operator

Thank you, and welcome to the Boxlight Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. This call is being webcast and is available for replay. The remarks today will include statements that are considered forward-looking within the meaning of securities laws, including forward-looking statements about future results of operations, business strategies and plans, customer relationships, market trends and potential growth opportunities. In addition, management may make additional forward-looking statements in response to your questions. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current knowledge and expectations as of today and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and may cause the actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. A detailed discussion of such risks and uncertainties are contained in the company's most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and other reports filed with the SEC. The company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. On this call, management will refer to non-GAAP measures that, when used in combination with GAAP results, provide additional analytical tools to understand the company's operations. The company has provided reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures in the earnings press release, which will be posted on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at boxlight.com. And with that, I will hand the call over to Boxlight's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Pope.

Michael Pope

Analyst

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining today. I'm happy to report our Q2 financial performance of $81 million in customer orders, $60 million in revenue and $5.2 million in adjusted EBITDA, exceeding our guidance for the quarter. We also ended Q2 with $56 million in back orders, the strongest order pipeline in our history and a healthy balance sheet, including $12 million in cash, $45 million in inventory, $54 million in working capital and $44 million in net assets. We further supplemented our working capital position subsequent to quarter end through a $5 million equity offering, as was required by our senior lender. On a go-forward basis, we expect to generate positive cash flows from operations and currently have no plans for additional fundraising. We are experiencing strong demand for our solutions globally, particularly in the United States, Puerto Rico, Western Europe and Australia, and we expect to continue to deliver double-digit revenue growth over the next several quarters. Internationally, we recently opened 2 new sales offices in Ontario, Canada and Queensland, Australia, and welcome to significant new partner, Avion Interactive in Finland. The most significant improvement during the second quarter was our increase in gross profit margin from 25% in Q1 and 28% in Q2. This improvement was in part due to an easing of supply chain and logistics challenges. For the second half of 2022, we expect further gross profit margin improvement to approximately 30%. Key orders for the second quarter in the U.S. included $14.1 million from Bluum, $7.4 million from D&H Distributing, $6.1 million from ELB, $3.1 million from Visual Techniques, $2.7 million from Data Projections, $2.3 million from Central Technologies, $2.1 million from Advanced Classroom Technologies and $1.4 million from Digital Age Technologies. Internationally, we received significant order intake of $7.1 million from Camera…

Gregory Wiggins

Analyst

Thanks, Michael, and good afternoon, everyone. I will now review our second quarter results. Revenues for the 3 months ended June 30, 2022, were $59.6 million as compared to $46.8 million for the 3 months ended June 30, 2021, resulting in a 27.5% increase, primarily due to the inclusion of FrontRow and increased demand for our solutions across all markets. FrontRow revenues for the 3 months ended June 30, 2022, totaled $6.8 million or approximately 11% of our total revenues. Taking a closer look at Q2 2022 revenues, EMEA revenues totaled $20 million or 34% of our total revenues. Americas revenues totaled $37.3 million or 62% of our total revenues, while revenues from all other markets totaled $2.3 million or 4% of our total revenues. Our top 10 customers represented approximately 54% of total sales in Q2 with the single largest customer at approximately 16% and are based across a number of markets, namely the U.S., Puerto Rico, Australia and the U.K. Approximately 68% of total sales are covered by the top 20 customers, which is comparable to Q1 2022. In Q2 2022, hardware comprised the largest proportion of total revenues at approximately 93% of which approximately 79% related to our flat panel displays with the balance related to classroom audio solutions and interactive flat panel device accessories. The balance of our total revenues are comprised of software, services and STEM solutions. Gross profit for the 3 months ended June 30, 2022, was $16.8 million as compared to $12.8 million for the 3 months ended June 30, 2021. Gross profit margin for the 3 months ended June 30, 2022, was 28.2%, which is an increase of 80 basis points over the comparable 3 months in 2021. Gross profit margin adjusted for the net effect of acquisition-related purchase accounting was 30.2%…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. Your first question for today is coming from Jack Aarde.

Jack Aarde

Analyst

Can you hear me okay?

Michael Pope

Analyst

Yes, we can hear you great, Jack.

Jack Aarde

Analyst

Okay. Great. Jack Aarde is here, analyst at Maxim Group. Congrats on the solid results guys and welcome aboard to Greg Wiggins, CFO. Congrats on that. A couple of questions for me. I'll start with a question on guidance. So the third quarter guidance greater than $70 million of revenue, and you maintained the '22 revenue guide is strong growth. This seems to imply a stronger than typical seasonality in the fourth quarter. Perhaps it's due to FrontRow or maybe something else. Can you just speak to how much variability maybe your upside is in that $70 million-plus revenue target for the third quarter? And then also if there's any shifting seasonality dynamics in the fourth quarter?

Gregory Wiggins

Analyst

Yes. So thanks, Jack. Pleasure the introduction as well. So you're right, it does from our forecast to project a strong Q4 with a little bit of stronger Q4 then probably under -- in the past. However, as we guide forecast for Q3 as we're guiding north of $70 million and $10 million in adjusted EBITDA. You note that the strength of Q3 will somewhat depend on the level we need in Q4 as well. I think where we kind of look at this is, the pipeline is very strong. We've got a strong amount of back orders currently in play. So while there could be potential timing between Q3 and Q4, I think we could potentially see a little bit stronger Q3, which may impact what we ultimately need to do in Q4. But I think for the second half of the year, we're certainly seeing strong pipeline such that we would meet our full year guidance of $250 million.

Jack Aarde

Analyst

Okay. Understood. And then maybe a follow-up. We see the gross margin rebound and recover, best than I was expecting. And given your -- I think I heard your targets for the back half of the year is 30% or so, just wondering how much of that is due to supply chain costs and the disruption kind of improving versus expected. Maybe first expected change or shift in revenue mix of higher-margin revenue streams. We have FrontRow added to the mix here as well as we've got higher margin, but maybe just talk about maybe the revenue mix shift going forward between interactive displays and then some of your higher-margin services and software, and how that's contributing to the gross margin upside?

Gregory Wiggins

Analyst

Yes. So I think we've seen a lot of the recent growth in the gross profit margin really due to the effect of some of the lower manufacturing costs starting to take hold as well as some of our improved pricing measures that we've started to implement in the first half of the year. Certainly, we do want to continue to grow some of our non-panel display products as well that are higher margin as well. We kind of see that more as future growth in the profit margin, whereas some of the short-term increases that we're seeing are really more tied to the improved pricing and the lower manufacturing costs that we're starting to take hold in Q2 that we foresee continuing on through the second half of the year.

Jack Aarde

Analyst

Great. And then maybe 1 more follow-up question for Michael. Sounds like you guys are having some great new, I guess, traction with classrooms in school districts. Can you just give us an update kind of on the refresh cycle opportunity again of the customer demand from the school districts. Are you seeing increased traction or increased demand from new districts, or is it expansion and takeout opportunities of prior districts? Just any comments there would be helpful.

Michael Pope

Analyst

Yes. No, thanks, Jack. So most of the opportunities we're seeing are refresh opportunities. So these are school districts that are replacing old technology, often its old interactive whiteboards they're replacing. And in some cases interactive flat panels -- first-gen interactive flat panels. So largely refresh. Now when they're refreshing, they're taking out competitors' products and then in generally, the contracts we're winning at putting in our solutions are replacing competitor. But it's an interesting time for the industry, largely because there's a lot of money in the industry. And that's really driven by the fact that school districts already had relatively robust budgets. But those budgets were augmented with federal funds. And as we've talked about in the past, we have these ESSER funds, about $191 billion that was allocated to education. Most of that $191 (sic) hasn't been spent. So that's being spent now. The bulk of that expires in 2024, if it's not extended -- if it's not expended. And so we're seeing the school districts looking at ways to utilize that money, and we're benefitting as well as the industry is benefiting from this additional money within the system. And so as we're looking out, we're expecting more and more of these large refreshes. And I would add as well that we're seeing some really big districts right now where there's opportunities for us to compete. There's various RFPs out there with some of the largest school districts in the country, and we're hoping we win some of those, which will further expand our opportunities going forward.

Jack Aarde

Analyst

And that's great. And actually, just I'll sneak 1 more question in there. Given the strong customer orders of like over $81 million received in the quarter. And inventory is nice to me. It looks like it's building over $45 million. Can you just talk about your inventory levels on hand, and how you expect that to build or to shift going forward? Just giving you such strong customer orders and it seems like you have a pretty loaded back half of this year, how are you planning the inventory?

Michael Pope

Analyst

Yes. So I would say, first from an inventory standpoint, we're in a better position now than we've been in the last couple of years in that we have inventory in-house where we have it on the way or being manufactured now to hit our targets for Q3, and we're already scheduling that for Q4. And that was not the case, even a quarter ago we were having more struggles of getting deposits down and getting inventory planning in place. So we're in a really good place as far as dollars, we're going to see that inventory balance start to decline a little bit through the slower part of the year and then it ramps up again in Q1 preparing for the strong season in Q2, Q3. So you'll see that kind of come down a little bit and then ramp back up. Of course based on our projected growth, those inventory levels should be a lot higher come this time next year. But we're really kind of out of the -- we're out of the crunch that we run into seasonally to where there's higher demands on having inventory production in place.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. There appear to be no further questions in queue. I would like to turn the floor back over to Michael for any closing comments.

Michael Pope

Analyst

Great. Well, thank you, everyone, for your support and joining us today on our second quarter 2022 conference call, and we look forward to speaking with you again in November when we report our Q3 2022 results. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This does conclude today's conference call. You may disconnect your phone lines at this time, and have a wonderful day. Thank you for your participation.