Marc Seelenfreund
Analyst · Maxim Group. Please go ahead
Thank you, Daniel. Good morning and thank you for joining the call. We are very pleased to report strong year-over-year and sequential top line growth and declining losses for the third quarter of 2022. This improved fundamental performance was driven primarily by a number of customer trials of our SD7 rugged push-to-talk handset device, which began shipping in Q2 2022, many of which then converted into purchase orders with volumes in Q3 that increased over Q2. We hope to deliver continued sales growth from this current quarter, Q4 and onwards. Now I will discuss our financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022, and then we'll conclude my remarks with our outlook. Revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2022, were $2.6 million compared to $1.2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2021. This positive variance of $1.3 million or 111% was due mainly to the new revenue source earned from the SD7 and its related accessories in the quarter of $1.4 million, an increase in revenues from legacy rugged devices, offset by a decrease in sales of cellular boosters in the period. Gross profit for the three months ended September 30, 2022, was $860,000 or 33% of sales compared to $430,000 or 35% of sales in the same period in 2021, a positive variance in gross profit of $430,000. This positive gross profit variance in the quarter was due to the additional sales in the period of SD7 and its related accessories, offset by the decreased sales of higher margin boosters. Adjusted EBITDA was negative $1.6 million versus negative $4.9 million in the same period in the prior year, a positive variance of $3.3 million. This positive variance was due to increased revenue, increased gross profit and a decrease in operating expenses. Turning over to significant business highlights. We are pleased to report that Siyata has delivered on its plan to build and expand its potential customers for the SD7. We have previously announced the SD7 has certified and approved for use with many North American carrier customers, including FirstNet and AT&T, Verizon Communications, U.S. Cellular and international channel customers, including Logic Wireless Europe, a leading distributor of business critical communication solutions across the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and TASSTA, a global mission-critical push-to-talk software provider and ESChat, a leading U.S.-based push-to-talk software provider. This foundation of increased distribution is directly leading to many potential significant volume opportunities, of which we have begun shipping products in an increasing number of verticals beyond our primary focus on first responders, including government, schools, utilities, security companies, defense contractors, amusement parks and hotel resorts to name but a few. I’m pleased to report that the increase in number and signs of our aforementioned customer base translated into our much anticipated volume growth for our SD7, which was the primary growth driver of our rugged devices and related accessories which increased 588% year-over-year to $1.9 million in the third quarter. Having said that, let me be clear that this is a process, interest is very strong and demand is growing, but we believe that we are just hitting the tip of the iceberg in a multibillion dollar industry and larger volume should follow as end customers grow to appreciate our unique offering in this new product category. Subsequent to the end of the third quarter, we announced that we successfully closed a registered direct offering with certain institutional investors to purchase approximately $4 million of our common shares or prefunded warrants and move thereof together with concurrent and private-placed warrants to purchase our common shares. The combined effective purchase price for one common share or one prefunded warrant in the private place warrant was $0.23. We also announced an exciting new product, the SD7+, which features a wide-angle camera, coupled with 4G connectivity that will have traditional body camera functionality as well as real-time situational and traditional tracking capabilities. The SD7+ will be powered book with Visual Labs innovative body camera software. Visual Labs is a highly respected software company and developer of Android-based body cam and Dash cam software. The company provides that software to public safety, private security and other customers throughout the United States and internationally. It's public safety customers include Town Marshalls, City Police departments, county sheriff's officers and live like other state agencies and federal customers. And finally, we recently announced the addition of telecom industry Veteran, Dan Leech, our sales team. Dan brings more than a decade of senior sales experience to his role at Siyata. Most recently, Dan, serves senior Account Manager for Motorola Solutions, the global leader of public safety and enterprise security solutions. Previously, Dan was in senior sales roles at FirstNet as well as Kyocera Corporation and Sonim Technologies. Now I would like to pass the line back to Daniel, who will discuss some of the industry trends and market dynamics that are benefiting our business.