James Loch
Analyst · Canaccord
Thanks, Ron, and good afternoon, everyone. Today, I'll start with the key financial highlights that contributed to the results of our third fiscal quarter. Digi continues to set records, and this quarter was no exception, record revenue, record ARR. Digi was able to deliver to our customer at record levels in the face of extremely dynamic global macroeconomic conditions, such as the global supply chain and freight challenges being felt by so many companies as well as the global spread of the Delta variant causing disruption to the path of normalcy. We delivered a record $79.1 million of revenue, which represents 12.4% organic growth over prior year. Gross margins were 53.8% led to an adjusted EBITDA of $11.6 million or 14.6% of revenue. Gross margins, excluding amortization, were 55.2% for the quarter. On a per diluted share basis, our GAAP EPS was $0.09, and our non-GAAP EPS for the quarter was $0.25 per diluted share. Revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS all beat consensus estimates for the quarter, and all were on the high end of the ranges we provided in our guidance. We have reached record highs in overall recurring revenue. Total annual recurring revenue is now $36 million, up nearly 28% from prior year and 6.5% from the prior quarter. Recurring revenue in our Solutions business increased nearly 37% year-over-year and 7% from prior quarter. Recurring revenue in our IoT products and services business increased nearly 13% year-over-year and 4% from prior quarter. Among some of the other financial highlights, Digi continues to generate strong cash flows, an indicator of the value our customers receive from Digi's services and products. We've generated $20.8 million in the third fiscal quarter of 2021 and $40.1 million in operating cash flow year-to-date in fiscal year '21. We maintain our expectation that we will continue to generate positive operating cash for the foreseeable future. We have the - fiscal quarter with $146.9 million in cash, which works out to a net cash positive position of $98.8 million. Our ending debt now stands at $48.1 million. These figures do not consider the treatment of leases, which based on the new accounting standards, will add $19.1 million of what is now classified as debt on the books. We are in compliance with our bank's facilities covenants and expect to remain in compliance. Other balance sheet items of note, our NER position is $41.3 million, down $3.1 million sequentially from our last fiscal quarter with no material changes to reserves. Our ending inventory balance is $47.3 million, down $4.1 million sequentially from our last fiscal quarter end with no material used to our E&O reserves. Current inventory in the channel is $26.4 million, down $1.4 million sequentially. We monitored those levels closely and regularly. If we look into segment performance, IoT products and services revenue increased 5.3% year-over-year in the third fiscal quarter of 2021 to $66.8 million. Gross margins increased 170 basis points to 55.1%. Gross margins, excluding amortization, were 56.1% for the quarter. The year-over-year impact was driven primarily by sales in our console server and embedded product portfolios. That growth was significantly tempered by supply chain and freight challenges as booking for the quarter out for revenue. The increase in margin rate is driven by favorable mix within and among our console server, cellular router, embedded and XP product portfolios, partially offset by increased production and distribution costs due to the global supply chain and freight challenges. Annual recurring revenue increased 13% from prior year to $12.5 million. Operating income decreased $400,000 year-over-year to $6.1 million for the third fiscal quarter, driven partially by increased operating expenses, including items that are added back for adjusted EBITDA purposes but not for segment operating margin. IoT Solutions had another quarter for the record books. The key measurements of the health and performance of our solutions business are sites and ARR. Our site count grew by approximately 3,000 gross site apps, pushing our total site count close to over 79,000. Recurring revenue increased 7.3% sequentially and nearly 37% year-over-year to an annual recurring revenue number of $23.4 million. That's a key contributor to overall revenue growth of 78.6% year-over-year in the third fiscal quarter of 2021 to a record $12.3 million in revenue, delivering a 50.2% gross margin. Gross margins, excluding amortization, were 57.7% for the quarter. We continue to invest to support the growth objectives of IoT solutions. The operating performance for solutions for the quarter improved $1.5 million year-over-year, resulting in a $2.1 million loss compared to the prior year loss of $3.6 million. Now as it relates to forward-looking guidance. As we noted last quarter, we have confidence in our execution and our performance even in the midst of growing supply chain and freight challenges and the ongoing global pandemic. We're providing guidance for our fiscal fourth quarter as follows. The current supply challenges have the potential to impact results, not indicative of customer demand. allocation of certain materials could potentially lead to revenue having a upper limit that is independent of orders. We expect revenue of $75 million to $79 million, providing growth year-over-year of 2.5%. Using our Q3 fiscal '21 diluted share count of approximately 35 million shares, we expect our GAAP EPS to be between $0.07 and $0.09 per diluted share. We expect our adjusted EPS to be between $0.23 and $0.25 per diluted share with adjusted EBITDA to be between $10.9 million and $11.9 million. We believe that our strong balance sheet position combined with the performance we see in our pipeline are leading indicators of the value Digi provides to our customers in helping them to run their missions, particularly during the time of global capital and liquidity concerns. That concludes our prepared remarks. We're now available to take your questions. Joelle, please provide the instructions to our callers.