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TransAct Technologies Incorporated (TACT)

Q2 2019 Earnings Call· Sat, Aug 10, 2019

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the TransAct Technologies Second Quarter 2019 Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. We will also conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time [Operator instructions]. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would like to turn the conference over to your host, Mr. Jim Leahy of Investor Relations. Jim, please go ahead.

Jim Leahy

Analyst

Thank you, Tiana. Good afternoon, and welcome to TransAct Technologies 2019 Second Quarter Conference Call. Joining us today from the company are Chairman and CEO, Bart Shuldman and President and CFO, Steven DeMartino. Today's call will include a discussion of the company's key operating strategies, progress against these initiatives and details on the second quarter financial results. We will then open the call to participants for questions. As a reminder, this conference call contains statements about our future events and expectations, which are forward-looking in nature. Statements on this call may be deemed as forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially. For a full list of risks inherent to the business and the company, please refer to the company's SEC filings, including its reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q. TransAct undertakes no obligations to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the call. Today's call webcast will include non-GAAP financial measures within the meaning of SEC Regulation G. When required, a reconciliation of all non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP can be found in today's press release as well as on the company's Web site. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Bart Shuldman, Bart?

Bart Shuldman

Analyst

Thank you, Jim, and welcome to everyone joining us on this afternoon's conference call and webcast. For the 2019 second quarter, TransAct had net sales of $11.4 million, operating income of $300,000 and adjusted EBITDA of $600,000, delivering a quarterly gross profit margin of 50.3%. Diluted EPS for the second quarter was $0.02 per share. Steve will review these and the rest of our financial results in more detail in a few moments. The transformation of TransAct is underway as we demonstrated the potential of BOHA! throughout the second quarter in the form of new agreements with a number of prominent restaurant and foodservice operators. While our financial results for the 2019 second quarter reflect the transitional nature of our near term business, I believe the growth and success of our BOHA! ecosystem with our many apps and hardware solutions is underway. If you follow the news, you know that restaurant and foodservice operators have never faced a more difficult operating environment inside their store or establishment. Just a month ago, 21 states and municipalities, including New Jersey, Argon and Washington, D.C., raised their hourly minimum wage, bringing their total number of states with minimum wage loss above the federal minimum to 32. At the same time, the National Restaurant Association indicates that one of the primary challenges that members faced today is recruiting an employee retention, particularly for employees with back of the house roles. One restaurant chain announced they are experiencing a 140% turnover, think about that. With their manual processes, the training cost must be exploding. We heard loud and clear at the National Restaurant Association show back in mid-May when we launched BOHA! that restaurant and foodservice operators are actively looking for technology to address these challenges by driving efficiencies in their back of the house…

Steven DeMartino

Analyst

Thanks, Bart. Good afternoon, everyone. Second quarter 2019 net sales were $11.4 million, which was down 23% from $14.8 million in the second quarter last year. Looking at our second quarter sales by market, restaurant solutions sales declined 34% year-over-year to $830,000. The decline was driven primarily by lower sales of our restaurant solutions hardware. As you may remember, we made initial shipments of what is now the BOHA! Terminal to 2 large customers in the year-ago period, and these shipments didn't repeat. While Terminal sales were again down in the quarter, it's important to note that our backlog of BOHA! Terminal and other BOHA! hardware products continue to grow. In our subscription revenue related to BOHA! software solutions is growing as well. Given the orders we announced over the course of the second quarter and into the current quarter, we expect BOHA! Terminal revenue to grow sequentially in the third quarter and beyond as deployments begin in earnest. Casino and gaming sales were down 20% year-over-year to $5.6 million in the 2019 second quarter. Domestic casino and gaming sales were down 16% from the prior year as the year-ago period included a large onetime shipment of gaming printers to IGT for use in the Swedish lottery installation. Broadly across the domestic casino and gaming industry, sales remained mostly stable, and we saw mixed performance across our OEM customers. Sales into the international markets were down 26% over the prior year as a large sale to an Asian customer last year didn't repeat in the second quarter this year. We also saw reduced sales to one of our larger European OEM customers in the quarter. POS automation and banking sales were down 27% to $1.6 million in the 2019 second quarter. As with the first quarter of the year, we…

Bart Shuldman

Analyst

Thanks, Steve. We've been on the road to transforming our business to a recurring SaaS and software-based model, all while leveraging our industry-leading casino and gaming solutions to invest for growth. As we begin the second half of 2019, our team's confidence in our company's future is growing each and every day. BOHA! is, we believe, TransAct's largest-ever market opportunity, and each member of the TransAct team is committed to leveraging our position in this exciting new market to increase the scope and scale of our business and, of course, create significant long-term value for our shareholders. I'll let my comments as I do every quarter by thanking you, our shareholders, for your support and trust. I'll also take the opportunity to thank our TransAct team for the great work as we position our company for what we believe is a very bright future. At this point, operator, we're ready to take some questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Mitchell Sacks from Grand Slam Asset Management.

Mitchell Sacks

Analyst

So question for you on the $135 million opportunity. Is that including Terminal sales and recurring revenue? Is it just recurring revenue? And if so, can you kind of break those two things out?

Bart Shuldman

Analyst

Yes. So it's a combination. So what we do, Mitch, is we take every opportunity, and we break it down between the onetime sales of hardware, which will be terminals, tablets, handhelds, probes and sensors and gateways. And then we match that up with what we believe will be the recurring revenue piece, which is what apps are they going to buy? Are they going to buy service? And then, of course, they've got to buy our labels. So it's a combination of both. I actually did not break out the onetime versus recurring, but as you can see from some of our announcements, we've had a mixture of different levels of recurring revenue based on the Terminal, right? So when you look at what their ARPU is, the average revenue per unit, after we sell it, we've had numbers as high as 1,700 with the largest order we've received. So it's all in there, and that's a 3-year combined amount. So all of the, I should say, not all, but most of the deals that we're looking at are for a minimum of 3 years. I mean, one thing we do not put in there, Mitch, is the additional apps that the customer could buy. We have one customer right now, for instance, that we've closed and just began shipping and they're looking at if not 2, 3 additional apps. That does not go in that $135 million. These are within the $135 million is what we believe we will close, not an app that they might test afterwards and buy.

Mitchell Sacks

Analyst

Okay. And then as I think about the customers that are taking the terminals and the apps. I know you've mentioned in your press release is there foodservice corporations. Can you give maybe a little bit better granularity to what types of customers are using it? Is it full service restaurants? Is it some of these convenient stores? Or is that too proprietary at this point?

Bart Shuldman

Analyst

Yes, it's kind of not in our best interest to get into too much detail about our customers. Being the only one out there with a full suite of apps, it's not in our best interest. If anybody is interested in going and meeting -- and selling something to these customers. I can tell you, though, it is across the spectrum and everything that we've -- I mean, look, we have a casino customer, so that we decided to tell because that's a market that we know quite well, but it does cross a lot of foodservice and restaurants. And if I look out at the projects that are near to closing, it continues the same path of different styles of restaurants, quick-serve, casual, won't see much fine dining, of course. And then foodservice operators, so -- and that breaks down into a bunch of different categories. So what I see and when I look out and meet with our sales manager about the opportunities that are near to us right now, it still is -- with -- I guess, the good news is, it's still hitting all of these different buckets that we've highlighted that our potential candidates for BOHA!

Operator

Operator

[Operator instructions] I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the conference back to you, Mr. Shuldman.

Bart Shuldman

Analyst

Sure. Thank you, everybody, for joining us on the call this afternoon. We look forward to reporting back to you on further progress in our business when we report our third quarter results in early November. Also, if you plan to be in Las Vegas in October for the Annual Global Gaming Expo, please stop by our booth, we'd be happy to provide a demonstration of our entire Epic and Epicentral solution set. And by the way, we'll also have BOHA! in the booth. We had early success in the casino market with BOHA! and plan to show the BOHA! ecosystem to the whole industry. I thank you for attending today and look forward to speaking to you in the future. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference. Thank you for your participation, and have a wonderful day. You may all disconnect.