Tom Jewell
Analyst · Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead
Thank you, Louis, and Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining our call today and your interest in Usio. I’m going to provide a brief review of our financial results before turning the call over to Vaden. We continue to have a strong balance sheet with a cash balance of $2.6 million and no debt. For the third quarter, we reported quarterly revenues of $7.1 million, up 10% from $6.5 million for the third quarter of last year. All the growth in the quarter was organic. Gross profits for the quarter were $1.5 million, unchanged from a year ago. Consolidated gross margins were 21.8% for the quarter, compared to 22.5% in a year ago quarter, with the decline due to increased proportion of lower-margin, credit card and prepaid margins versus the prior year. General and administrative expenses for the quarter were $2.1 million, compared to $1.5 million in the same quarter last year. The increase in SGA – SG&A was due to continued Investments, as Louis has mentioned, in our business and particularly in our PayFac and Prepaid growth initiatives. We expect to continue our investment in our general and administrative expenses at these or lower levels as we go forward. Our third quarter operating loss was $1.2 million, compared to $0.8 million in the third quarter of last year, primarily due to the incremental investments in our growth initiatives, primarily Prepaid and PayFac platforms versus prior year, as mentioned previously. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $420,000, compared to a loss of $60,653 in the same period last year. The adjusted EBITDA loss did not change substantially from the second quarter. Bottom line, the net loss for the quarter was $1.2 million, or $0.09 per share, compared to a net loss of $0.8 million, or $0.07 per share for the third quarter last year. Quickly looking at results for the year-to-date – on a year-to-date basis through September 30, 2019, revenues were $20.8 million, compared to $18.6 million a year ago, a 12% increase, all of which was organic growth. Gross profits were $4.4 million for the nine-month period, up 10% from $4 million. The operating loss for the first nine months was $3.6 million, compared to a loss of $2.9 million for the same period last year, with higher loss attributable to the incremental investments in our growth initiatives. Adjusted EBITDA for the nine months was a loss of $1.2 million, compared to a loss of $0.6 million for the same period last year. In summary, the business is growing at double-digit rate, supported by the positive cash flow generated in our ACH business. We continue to use the cash flows to fund incremental investments in our PayFac and Prepaid growth initiatives. This quarter, our year-over-year growth was led by the performance of these growth initiatives. While we – have they – while they have not reached scale, we are seeing growth and we remain committed to the success with our PayFac and Prepaid growth initiatives. At this time, I’d like to turn the call over to Vaden. Vaden?