Jamie Loch
Analyst · Craig-Hallum. Your line is open
Thanks, Ron, and good afternoon, everyone. Starting with some of the key financial highlights that contributed to the financial results of our fiscal first quarter. Quarter revenue performance was $62.3 million, with adjusted EBITDA performance of $6.4 million, which is 7.3% of revenue. Both of those items are better than the top end range from the last guidance that we provided you. On a per diluted share basis, our adjusted EPS was $0.15 per diluted share, also exceeding our quarterly guidance range, while our GAAP EPS was $0.01 per diluted share compared to our guidance range of a loss of $0.02 to $0.02 gain per diluted share. Finally, we put our cash to work during our first fiscal quarter with the successful closing of the Opengear acquisition. We funded this acquisition through approximately $38 million of domestic cash on hand, combined with an additional $110 million in proceeds from our credit facility through our lending partners. While we now have net debt position on our balance sheet for the first time in company history, we do expect to generate significant cash during fiscal year 2020. Breaking down the results by Business segment, I'll start with our Products & Services business. The financial impact of Opengear was not material to the overall performance of the business in the first fiscal quarter. Integration efforts are quickly embedding Opengear into the IoT Products & Services business. Standalone Opengear results will not be presented, and we will stay consistent with segment reporting requirements. IoT Products & Services revenue increased year-over-year 2.5% in the first fiscal quarter of 2020 to $54.6 million. There are several factors that contributed to the growth. While not material, incremental revenue associated with the Opengear acquisition, higher sales from our cellular products and increased services revenue. These increases were partially offset by lower sales of other product offerings compared to the fiscal first quarter of 2019. Our IoT Products & Services gross margins were 48.8% compared to 47.6% in fiscal Q1 of 2019, an increase of 120 basis points. This increase was driven primarily by incremental margin performance associated with the Opengear contribution, increased margins in our services category, product mix and lower manufacturing costs. Shifting to our IoT Solutions segment. As Ron mentioned, IoT Solutions is now servicing nearly 67,000 sites. That really continues to be the main focus area for us in that business. Depending on which model customers utilize at the time of purchase, either a capital purchase or an OpEx purchase, one-time revenue experiences variability. And that can make year-over-year or even a sequential comparison a bit less intuitive than just looking at revenue, so we continue to focus on adding those sites into the business and growing annualized recurring revenue. With that site done, our ARR finished at approximately 50% of total solutions revenue for the quarter. We finished the quarter with revenue of $7.7 million, down from the prior year of $9.0 million. The decrease was attributed to less one-time revenue recognized by our site additions than prior year, which was partially offset by the growth in our recurring subscription revenue. During the quarter, our IoT Solutions gross margin was 49.5%, up 50 basis compared to the fiscal first quarter of 2019, which was at 49.0%. The main driver is the larger percentage of revenue from occurring compared to 1x, and this continues to demonstrate the leverage in our business models as recurring revenues grow in the business segment. To wrap up, I want to touch on a few additional balance sheet items. Our fiscal first quarter cash position ended at $49 million. Our ending AR position landed at $81 million, which is up from approximately $56 million at the end of our fiscal year on September 30, 2019. We had a handful of collections that billed over into the first part of January. We believe this is the result of customers managing their year-end cash positions, combined with the holidays, and we already now have cash in hand on those collections. Our inventory position, which includes the incremental addition of Opengear, has increased to $47.3 million, up from our year-end position of approximately $40 million. And finally, our ending debt position as of the fiscal first quarter 2020, is at approximately $107 million. That puts us at a total debt leverage position of approximately 2.5 and a net consolidated leverage position of under 2.0, both well within our internal targets. Let's now discuss the upcoming quarter. We expect revenue of $72 million to $78 million, with adjusted EBITDA of $11 million to $13 million. We expect GAAP EPS to be $0.007 to $0.11 per diluted share, while our adjusted non-GAAP EPS to be $0.29 to $0.33 per diluted share. That quarterly guidance supports no update to our full-year guidance that we have previously provided of revenues between $310 million and $325 million, and adjusted EBITDA of $45 million to $50 million. That guidance includes our previous guidance for Opengear of $45 million in revenue and $15 million in adjusted EBITDA. We recognize that the guidance above does have a heavier weight on the back part of the year, which is not unexpected. Our newly acquired Opengear business has historically had a seasonality that is more weighted to the back half of the calendar year. We also expect similar seasonality in the IoT Products & Services business. And if you combine that with our continued focus from our sales teams on more project-based revenue, our year becomes more back-end loaded. We are maintaining our non-GAAP EPS guidance of $1.14 to $1.27 per diluted share. However, we are updating our GAAP EPS targets. As we now work through our purchase accounting and our debt position, we now see the impacts on the new amortization associated with the intangible assets created, combined with the interest expense from the credit facility, neither of which were included in our previous guidance. As such, we are moving our EPS guidance to $0.31 to $0.41 per diluted share. That completes our prepared remarks. At this time, Ron and I are pleased to take your questions. Latif, could you please provide instructions to our callers?