Steven Berrard
Analyst · Maxim Group
Thank you, Marshall. Before I begin I just want to remind everyone that there were no vehicle sales or little other business activity during the first quarter of 2017 so we will not discuss comparisons for that quarter. For the first quarter of 2018 total revenue was $8.1 million, and it was ahead of our expectation. This was primarily result of strong reception to our marketing efforts driving $8 million from the sale of used vehicle to consumers and the others as well as related vehicle financing and service contract. During the first quarter we experienced a significant shift in our sales mix between Harley Davidson and non-Harley Davidson as well the shifted sales channel mix between consumers and dealers. In Q1 we sold 878 unit to consumers and dealers at an average selling price of $9185 and a total average blended gross profit of $788 or 8.6% per unit as compared to $887 or 9.2% a unit in Q4 2017. The change in unit gross profit and margin percentage was a result of the higher margin consumer sales representing a smaller percentage of total sales in Q1 than in Q4 of 2017. In Q1 unit sales profit for consumer sales was $2008 with a 16.4% sales margin and dealer unit sales profit was $1041 with an 11.7% sales margin. In Q1, the average selling price for consumer unit was $12207 with a gross profit of $1677 or 13.7% and the average selling price for dealer units was $8874 with a gross profit of $696 or 7.8%. Regarding sales mix, during the quarter Harley Davidson represented 69% of vehicle sales with an average selling price of $10,759 and a gross margin of 7.5% and non-Harley Davidson had an average selling price of $5622 with a 13.1% gross margin. Other sales and revenue in the first quarter was $52,000 which primarily consisted of $37,000 or $1275 per vehicle on finance and service contracts. Finance and service contracts were sold on 35% of the consumer vehicle transaction. Total cost and expenses for the first quarter was $11.6 million and included the cost of pre-owned vehicle sales to consumers and dealers of $7.5 million. In the quarter the average per vehicle cost of the 878 vehicles sold was $8372 which was comprised of $9921 for Harley Davidson and $4865 for non-Harley Davidson. Included in vehicle cost was straight and reconditioning of $539 per vehicle. Cost of other sales and revenue in the first quarter was $47,500 resulting from the cost of finance and vehicle service contracts associated with vehicle sales. In the first quarter we began to leverage our cost structure as we continued our move towards profitability. In the first quarter selling, general and administrative expenses were $3.9 million or 48% of revenue as compared to 84% of revenue in Q4 of 2017. As our business continues its rapid growth we believe we will experience increases of operating cost and expenses in absolute dollar terms but we will see a significant, sequential quarter to quarter decline in expenses as a percentage of total revenue. Let's walk through the components of our expense for the first quarter and give some broad directional input and how we see expenses trending as we begin to gain scale in the business. Compensation was $1.4 million or 17% of revenue as compared to 34% in Q4 2017. Compensation was driven by the significant growth of business and included $326,000 or share based compensation and amortization. As we execute and aggressively expand our business compensation expense we will continue to increase in future period as we add management and support personnel to ensure we adequately develop and maintain operational, financial and management control as well as our reporting systems and procedures. We believe compensation expense net of share based compensation, amortization as a percentage of revenue will decline to a range of 5% to 7% by Q4. Advertising and marketing expenses were $1.1 million or 13.9% of revenue as compared to 19% in Q4 2017. Marketing and advertising was driven by significant increase in social media and search engine marketing as we began to aggressively build our brand through various channels to efficiently source and scale our addressable market. We believe our strong consumer focus continues to drive high levels of participation in the acquisition process and increasing of referral. In addition to our paid channel in future periods we intend to increase media spending and public relations efforts while we continue investing in our proprietary technology platform. As we continue to store some scale in our addressable market, advertising and marketing spending will continue to increase in absolute dollar terms but we believe as a percentage of revenue will decline to a range of 5% to 8% by Q4. Technology development expense $283,000 or 3.5% of revenue as compared to 5% in Q4 of 2017. Technology development included the development of new and existing products and services and additional technology infrastructure expenses, head count and cost related to software development. During Q1, a 186,000 of technology development cost was capitalized. Looking forward our total technology development cost and expenses will increase in absolute dollar terms while declining as a percentage of revenue as we continue to upgrade and enhance our technology infrastructure further develop our online buying and selling experience for consumers and dealers, expand the overall functionality of our platform and provide additional features. General and administrative expenses were $864,000 or 11% of revenue as compared to 21% in Q4, 2017. The significant G&A expenses in Q1 included [indiscernible] fees and expenses for filing exchange related matters and financing transaction, office supplies and process application software, rent and selling expenses for outbound transportation and auction fees. As our business continues its rapid growth G&A expenses will continue to increase in absolute dollar terms while we expect G&A expense as a percentage of revenue to decline to a range of 2% to 3% by Q4. Professional fees were $209,000 or 2.6% as compared to 5% in Q4 of 2017 and consisted of legal and accounting fees associated with various [indiscernible] resulting from growth and expansion of our business. Depreciation, amortization for the quarter was $206,000 which included a $174,000 of amortization from capitalized technology development. Interest expense for the quarter was $87,000 which included $47,000 in debt discount amortization. A net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2018 was $3.6 million or $0.28 per share which is in the higher end of our outlook due to a greater than expected shift in our sales mix between dealers and consumers resulting in gross profit and higher level of selling expenses than we had anticipated. Looking ahead we expect to continue directly build the RumbleON business which we anticipate will enable us to drive significant growth and shareholder value in the months and years to come. Now I will turn it back to Marshall.