Benjamin Locke
Analyst · H.C. Wainwright. Please go ahead
Thank you, Bonnie. So, as the agenda on slide four indicates, I'll start with the brief Company overview, followed by a summary of the Company's performance and results for the first quarter of 2020. Bonnie will then discuss the financials in a little more detail. And then, I'll provide some overall takeaways from the quarter. Bob will then give an overview of our emissions technology development efforts. And then, I'll conclude talking more about our plans for 2020 in light of the COVID pandemic. We will of course take questions afterwards. I'd like to start off by reminding our investors about Tecogen’s core business model shown on slide 5. Heat, power and cooling that is efficient, clean and reliable. Tecogen's clean, reliable distributed generation systems use natural gas, propane, syngas or renewable natural gas efficiently and cleanly as an alternative to using expensive and sometimes unreliable electricity to heat and power buildings and infrastructure. As large facilities strive to reduce operational costs, improve greenhouse gas emissions and become resilient to grid outages, Tecogen's systems are increasingly sought after to meet these goals. We have differentiated ourselves from other onsite generation technologies by virtue of our clean, proprietary near-zero emission system, called Ultera; our exclusive microgrid technology; our corporate longevity; and our comprehensive factory service presence. The InVerde is the only microgrid-enabled CHP system using a permanent magnet generator operating at variable speed with an integrated onboard inverter, key features that are opening new markets for us. Our Tecochill and Tecofrost natural gas chillers have no other equivalent competitors and are increasingly becoming the design basis for many facilities with large cooling or refrigeration needs. Ultimately, our equipment provides a reliable alternative to the electric grid. As concerns mount about electric reliability and cost, particularly in the current environment, our systems provide resiliency to power outages and other grid disruptions. Turning to slide 6. The first quarter of 2020 saw revenues of $7.9 million, compared to $8.2 million in the first quarter of 2019, a 3% decrease quarter-over-quarter. This decline is due to a few factors including a 40% or $490,000 reduction in energy production revenue, as we sold a portion of the energy production fleet last year. And our product revenues were adversely impacted by the return of three chillers shipped in the fourth quarter of 2019, due to the customer losing financing. Absent the return, the first quarter product revenues were a little over $3.4 million, which would have been a 13% increase quarter-over-quarter. The quarter saw our overall margins come in at 35% versus 36% year-over-year. While I'm not happy with this overall margin number, I am happy to see our profit margins rebound to 39% from 36% previously, and both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. The softer overall margins in Q1 of 2020 are mainly attributable to lower margins in our service segment, which is comprised of maintenance services and installation services. In this case, while our maintenance service margins were good for the quarter, our installation services margins were poor due to the initial challenges of construction work at the onset of the COVID pandemic. I'll talk more about our margins in a few minutes. On the expense side, our G&A was slightly higher than the first quarter of 2019, but lower than last quarter, Q4.We expect further reductions in G&A going forward, as we continue to improve many of our business practices. I was happy to see operational cash flows of positive $1.1 million for the first quarter of 2020 as compared to negative cash flows of minus $600,000 in the first quarter of 2019. And as we indicated in our earnings release, we consolidated our intellectual property for the remaining Ultera patents, while abandoning other patent applications, resulting in a onetime non-cash write down of $180,000. The end result was a net loss of $1.2 million for the quarter compared to a loss of $3.3 million in the first quarter of 2019, and an adjusted EBITDA of minus $817,000 as compared to an adjusted EBITDA of $678,000 in Q1, 2019. Please recall, the first quarter of 2019 income and adjusted EBITDA included some onetime accounting treatments of goodwill impairment relating to the selling of certain energy generating assets that previous quarter. So, while the first quarter loss at face value seems discouraging, I think it's very important to emphasize our core business segments did well and did not suffer any precipitous drop-offs in the first quarter. And despite the challenges due to the COVID pandemic, we do not expect any significant disruption in our core business going forward. I'll talk more about our outlook for the rest of 2020 in a few minutes, but first I'd like to turn it over to Bonnie for a little bit more detail on the financials. Bonnie?