Jeffrey Benck
Analyst · Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead
Thanks, Jeremy. Now let me provide you with some additional insights into our business. As I mentioned in my opening statement, we grew our IoT product line revenue by 14% as compared to the year-ago period, both wired and Wi-Fi products contributed to that growth. On Wi-Fi, we grew our IoT Wi-Fi product revenue by 35% year-over-year. We also had a solid quarter of design win execution, where we added over a dozen new design wins for our xPico 200 series of embedded IoT Gateways. Furthermore, we closed a number of new project designs using our SGX 5150 IoT Gateway, including net new customers to Lantronix, such as the large food distribution company, Cisco, who is using our SGX wireless gateway in their food distribution and logistics business. Our second initiative continues to be driving share gains for our IT Management product line, which will enable us to grow faster than the out-of-band management market. The revenue for our flagship product in this family, the SLC 8000, grew double digits over the same period last year. The SLC 8000 Advanced Console Manager provides out-of-band management capability to networking equipment and allows IT personnel to maximize the uptime of their IT infrastructure. During the quarter, we continue to roll out SLCs as part of our multi-quarter deployment to UnitedHealthcare, the largest U.S. health insurance provider, and JD.com, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, they both started to deploy in the first quarter. In the second quarter, we also saw a strong demand across Europe for our out-of-band management products from customers such as Vodafone, Inmarsat and the Swedish Defence Administration. We are starting to see the fruits of our efforts over the last year to build out our EMEA IT Management sales team and enhance our channel partnerships in the region. In fact, our overall revenue from the EMEA region was up 29% year-over-year. We are also pleased to sign up Ingram Micro China as the new distributor for the Asia-PAC region in 2Q. This is directly correlated to the strength of our IT Management business across the world that a multinational distributor like Ingram would support expanding and engagement with us by adding the ability to sell our out-of-band management products in China. We have continued to build our opportunity pipeline for our out-of-band management products. And although it can take several quarters to see orders drive from proof-of-concept testing, we are closely tracking those opportunities as a key metric indicating future potential revenue. While the SLB business was softer in 2Q compared to prior quarters, we did start a meaningful new rollout with a solution provider, who has won a contract with the Four Seasons Hotel Group. And this quarter is off to a good start as we recently received orders for continued rollout for a large retail project at a U.S. financial institution. Turning to our software strategy, ConsoleFlow is our newest cloud-based centralized management application build on the MACH10 platform for remote management of Lantronix' out-of-band products and the IT equipment connected to these products. Since the introduction of ConsoleFlow Cloud Edition in late September, we have been very busy in the last quarter with support of our early pilots. I'm happy to report that excitement continues to grow for this product as no one else in the industry today can provide cloud-based centralized management for their out-of-band offerings. That also comes with a native mobile app, allowing access to their IT equipment from anywhere or any device. We see a lot of opportunity with our large installed base of existing SLC and SLB customers. We also intend to be disruptive with this new capability and go after competitive accounts and customers who haven't considered our solutions in the past. Lastly, the completion of our capital raise in the second quarter enabled us to grow our cash position to $19.4 million. This now provides us with the capital to be opportunistic when it comes to potential acquisitions. As a team, we are spending quite a bit of time on this strategy and having discussions with a number of potential targets. Now let me wrap up. I'm pleased with our performance in fiscal Q2. We delivered another quarter of over $12 million in revenue and grew our cash position again. We overcame the tariff headwinds and were able to maintain gross margins in the mid-50s. Also, as we guided at the beginning of the year, we delivered double-digit revenue growth for the first half of the fiscal year. Furthermore, we made great progress on our strategic initiatives in the second quarter and launched a number of new innovative products. The fundamentals of our business remained strong. We have a broad suite of highly competitive IoT products, which we have further enhanced with management software. This has transformed these offerings into turnkey IoT solutions that make it easier to get an IoT project successfully completed. We also continue to enhance our leadership IT Management offerings, and we now have a larger end-user sales team in place to engage with customers and partners around the world. Turning to our forecast. The current macro environment is providing less near term visibility than we would like. On top of this, our new product design wins are going to production slower than anticipated. Despite that, our core business, led by our execution, has performed better-than-expected and is allowing us to continue our growth trajectory even though some of our customer design wins haven't ramped yet. As Jeremy mentioned earlier, we are guiding $12.2 million to $12.8 million in revenue for the third quarter, which represent sequential and year-over-year growth. As our customers' products move into production with our technology in the coming quarters, we believe we can further accelerate our growth. While we have a lot more to accomplish, we are 100% aligned, committed and fully believe that our plan is one that will allow us to win in the marketplace and achieve greater value for our shareholders. I look forward to updating you on our progress at our next earnings call in April. That completes our prepared remarks for today, so I will now turn it over to the operator to conduct our Q&A session.