Peter Cannito
Analyst · Jefferies. Please proceed
Thank you, Jeff. During today’s call, we will take you through a discussion of our key accomplishments in the fourth quarter and full year 2022 from me, followed by Jonathan who will present the financial highlights for the same period. We will also provide some insights into how we’re thinking about 2023, after which we will open the floor for Q&A. However, before we get into the details for those that may be new to the call, I’d like to start with an overview of the space industry today and Redwire’s position within it. We are at the early stages of a multi-decade new global space race with space agencies in the U.S., Europe, and around the world increasingly focusing on space as a competitive domain. Additionally, the broader commercial market is demanding space in the present, not just some future promise, and we believe that Redwire is ideally positioned to capitalize on both of these dynamics. Please turn to Slide 5. Please turn to Slide 6. Redwire is the pure-play space infrastructure company with Mission Solutions and payloads for civil, commercial and national security space customers, and our mission is to accelerate humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical, and sustainable infrastructure for future generations. With decades of proven flight heritage combined with innovative products and culture, Redwire is uniquely positioned to assist our customers and solving the complex challenges of future space missions and industries. Redwire has three primary areas of focus that form our business. These include enabling space mission providers such as government agencies and large prime contractors with a broad portfolio of space infrastructure, systems, subsystems and components. Secondly, providing the infrastructure and technology needed for people to permanently live and work in space. And lastly, assisting international spacefaring allies in the development of organic space capabilities. We demonstrated many successes in our three key focus areas throughout 2022, including having Redwire products on nine launches over the course of 2022 with five of those launches occurring in Q4, 15 payloads currently operational on the International Space Station and growing to over 700 employees at 11 facilities in both the United States and Europe. Please turn to Slide 7. Looking back, the fourth quarter of 2022 was the most successful quarter in Redwire’s history. Our revenues of $53.7 million were the highest of any quarter today. We ended the quarter in the full year with the total backlog of $465.1 million. We closed on our acquisition of Space NV, our second global acquisition. And our adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2022 improved by over 47.5% versus the third quarter of 2022. And we launched a 11 products and capabilities on those five Q4 launches I mentioned previously, it was a great quarter. Please turn to Slide 8. Starting with backlog. I am very pleased to report that backlog has grown by 71.2% from the end of 2021 to December 31, 2022. As you can see at the end of 2021, our total backlog was a very respectable $271.6 million based on strong demand for our products and services total backlog grew to $465.1 million at the end of 2022. This was an outstanding achievement on both an absolute and percentage basis and gives – and has given us significant momentum heading into 2023. Please turn to Slide 9. 2022 was a record year for Redwire. For the full year 2022, we grew Redwire’s total revenue by 16.7%. This revenue growth was achieved across a highly diversified base of long-term government contracts and marquee commercial customers with strong financial backing such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and many others. This diversity and resiliency gives Redwire a stable foundation for our future growth. Please turn to Slide 10. So where did this revenue come from? Here at Redwire, we are a key mission enabler for our customers across their most important missions. For our most recent Q4 2022, the next few slides highlight just a few examples of successes that underscore the importance of our capability. For example, in Q4, two additional Redwire rollout solar arrays or ROSAs were installed on the International Space Station, bringing the total to four of our ROSAs providing critical power to that key international capability, and there are more on the way in 2023. That is a great example of how we are providing results now, not just in the future. On the bottom of Slide 10, we are highlighting how current flight heritage leads to future opportunities as we have been chosen to be a trusted provider of power on the lunar surface in the future. As we previously announced in Q4, Redwire was selected by the Astrobotic’s VSAT program to provide a retractable, vertical solar array that will rise to a height of 32 feet. This program is key to enabling critical power infrastructure on the surface of the moon. Please turn to Slide 11. On November 16, 2022, the United States once again made space history with the launch of Artemis I, and as one would expect Redwire was on board as part of this history making team. Redwire provided the Orion capsule a total of 11 internal and external cameras, which is why we refer to Redwire as the eyes of Orion and those cameras supported the entire 268,563 mile journey without fail. This was the farthest distance travel by a spacecraft designed for human transportation to date. And Redwire’s cameras clearly demonstrated why we are the trusted optics for the mission. Those amazing images sent back from the Redwire cameras on Orion will inspire generations to come and we look forward to being part of the team on future Artemis missions. Please turn to Slide 12. As I mentioned at the beginning of this presentation, Redwire is a leader when it comes to facilitating man’s ability to explore, live and work in space. And in doing so, we are on the cutting edge of microgravity research with the potential to significantly change our lives here on earth. For example, Redwire has the first bioprinter permanently installed on the ISS. And in Q4, we launched a mission to use our BioFabrication facility to print a meniscus, a critical part of the knee, which will spend a total of 14 days being cultured in an advanced science experiment process that was also provided by Redwire. This research is an important step towards understanding how microgravity may be the key to unlocking the future production of bio structures that could revolutionize healthcare and Redwire is at the forefront. Please turn to Slide 13. Successfully bringing agriculture to space will be critical to unlocking humanity’s ability to explore, live and work far away from earth for long periods of time. And Redwire is working on the key. In Q4, aboard Northrop Grumman CRS-18 commercial resupply to the ISS 240 seeds were sent to space for our Plant Habitat-03 investigation, which will spend 91 days growing inside the habitat. The information gleaned from this experiment is helping establish the foundation of – foundations of knowledge necessary to take space agriculture to large scale production. Understanding agriculture and microgravity is important to building a permanent human presence in space. And I’m confident that as we learn to grow plants in space, we will also collect data that will help grow plants more effectively here on earth along the way. Please turn to Slide 14. Of course, space is an international endeavour and to underscore the amazing programs and complementary capabilities of our newest members of the Redwire team, I would like to highlight a Space NV program that launched in Q4 aboard the SpaceX CRS-26 mission to the International Space Station called T-Paola. T-Paola is an experiment that was designed and built by Redwire Space NV in Belgium that will try to determine new principles for the control of solid particles in liquids. It leverages the Space NV selectable optic diagnostic instrument that has investigated over 30 liquids in space over the past 13 years. That is some incredible space heritage. Please turn to Slide 15. As you can see, the acquisition of European base Space NV in Q4 2022 has significantly expanded Redwire’s global footprint and scope of business. Space NV has a deep portfolio of highly synergistic and complementary core space infrastructure offerings and add significant heritage with over 100 missions for human spaceflight, satellites and interplanetary exploration and over 35 years of on-orbit experience. Space NV’s 2022 revenue was approximately $58.9 million, adding $11.7 million to our annual revenue between the closing of the acquisition on October 31 and the end of 2022. Please turn to Slide 16. As I mentioned, Q4 was a strong finish to a record year at Redwire setting us up for continued success in 2023. In 2022, we had a book-to-bill ratio of 2.04 and contracted backlog more than doubled growing by 124% leading to a total backlog at the end of 2022 of $465.1 million. This gives us confidence in our future growth and stability. With that, I’d now like to turn the call over to Jonathan Baliff, Redwire’s Chief Financial Officer. And following Jonathan’s remarks, I’ll provide a few closing thoughts and then we’ll open the call for questions and answers. Jonathan?