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Proto Labs, Inc. (PRLB)

Q3 2020 Earnings Call· Thu, Oct 29, 2020

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Dan Schumacher

Management

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dan Schumacher, Director of Investor Relations at Proto Labs. Thank you for your patience this morning. We experienced technical difficulties with our conference call service provider. As a result, we have recorded our call today. With me is Vicki Holt, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and John Way, our Chief Financial Officer. This morning, before the market opened, Proto Labs issued a press release announcing its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020. The release is available on the company's website at protolabs.com. In addition, a prepared slide presentation is available online at the web address provided in our press release. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that our discussion will include statements relating to future performance and expectations that are or may be considered forward-looking statements and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to material differently from expectations. Please refer to our earnings press release and recent SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K, for additional certain risks that could cause actual outcomes to differ materially and adversely from any forward-looking statements made today. The results and guidance we will discuss include non-GAAP financial measures consistent with our past practice. Please refer to our press release and the accompanying slide presentation within the Investor Relations section of our company website for a complete reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP results. With that, I will turn the recording over to Vicki Holt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Proto Labs. Vicki?

Vicky Holt

Management

Thanks, Dan. And good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for our third quarter earnings conference call. Our agenda includes a brief overview of our financial and business performance during the third quarter and how we continue to manage through the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an update on our Protolabs 2.0 systems project. I will then turn the call over to John for additional insight into our financial results and our outlook for the fourth quarter. Before I touch on our financials and business performance, I'd like to express how proud I am with how our teams have worked together and continue to perform in a complex and challenging environment. As has been the case throughout 2020, our top priority is to keep our employees, communities and customers safe, while continuing to delight our customers with our market-leading digital manufacturing services. Our organization has continually adapted to near-term changes, guided by our core values of teamwork, trust and achievement. The uncertainty of 2020 has sparked rapid change, and our colleagues have shown extreme dedication and resilience as we continue to focus on what we can control within our business during this global pandemic. I want to thank each and every one of our employees for everything they do to make Proto Labs such a great company. Turning to our financial results for the third quarter. I'm pleased to share that we delivered third quarter revenue and earnings per share above expectations, driven by the compounding impacts of revenue at the high end of our guidance range, improved productivity and lower costs. We reported third quarter revenue of $108 million, representing a year-over-year decline of 8% and a 1% increase over the second quarter of 2020. Our year-over-year revenue decline is a result of the continued global economic…

John Way

Management

Thank you, Vicki. Our third quarter financial results begin on Page 8 of our presentation. We reported third quarter revenue of $107.5 million, a decrease of $10 million or 8.5% over the same quarter in 2019. Our revenue declined 9.2% year-over-year in constant currencies as foreign currency represented an $860,000 benefit in the quarter. We served 18,800 unique product developers in the third quarter, a sequential increase of 10%, but down 12% year-over-year. As Vicki mentioned, though some customers have returned to normal levels of demand and production, many are still seeing continued impacts to their businesses. Turning to Slide 10 and our detailed income statement. Our non-GAAP cost of revenue decreased $1.3 million compared to the second quarter, while our revenue increased $900,000 sequentially. This improvement reflects the focused efforts of our operations teams to align staffing to daily variability in demand across our manufacturing services. Our non-GAAP gross margin in the quarter was 51.7% compared to 50.1% in the second quarter and 51.5% in the third quarter of 2019. I'm very proud of the work our plant managers and operations teams have done to control costs while continuing to delight our customers, maintaining quality and on-time delivery on par with Proto Labs standards. Turning to operating expenses. Our total non-GAAP operating expenses totaled $33.3 million in the quarter, down $1.4 million sequentially. As we described in our first and second quarter calls, we have eliminated essentially all of our discretionary spend and are prudently managing costs given the uncertain nature of the current industrial demand environment. Non-GAAP operating expense as a percent of revenue in the quarter was 30.9%, down from 32.5% last quarter. In sales and marketing, we continue to focus on the marketing activities that are most effective while pulling back on spend that is inefficient…

Vicky Holt

Management

Thank you, John. 2020 has been a difficult year for many of us. For Proto Labs, all of our employees have adapted to new methods of working, while continuing to provide customers with the world-class digital manufacturing services they have come to expect from Proto Labs. We have done a wonderful job adapting to the volatility created in 2020. As future demand remains uncertain, we will continue to adjust our cost structure and prudently manage the business performance in the short term. However, we will continue to drive the business ahead and invest to ensure our position as the digital manufacturing leader. Protolabs 2.0 will build on our 20-year history as the digital manufacturing leader as we revolutionize the industry we created. Along with a new and improved customer-facing e-commerce platform, we are the only prototype and low-volume manufacturing -- manufacturer using truly differentiated digital manufacturing processes, allowing us to separate from the competition with a strong, resilient business model. I want to thank everyone for your time this morning and for you -- and I want to thank the Proto Labs employees for their extraordinary efforts through the first 3 quarters of 2020 and during these uncertain times. I also want to thank our customers for their continued support. We will continue our efforts to improve our offering to customers and our financial performance. Over the long term, we are committed to serving our customers and driving shareholder value. We look forward to reporting to you on our progress during our next call. Thank you very much.