Operational Highlights - Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023
- Revenue increased 9.4% to
$42.6 million for the year and decreased 2.1% to$10.3 million for the quarter.- Upgrades to laser projection continue to drive customer demand.
- Services revenue grew 26.6% during the fourth quarter of 2023, and 34.0% for the full year, with increased market share, new service offerings, and contribution from the Innovative Cinema Solutions (“ICS”) acquisition adding to revenues in late 2023.
- Screen systems revenue increased 5.3% during the fourth quarter of 2023, and grew 7.2% for the full year, largely related to marketplace momentum around laser screen replacements and expansion into
Europe . This growth was partially offset by the timing of immersive screen projects.
- The Company expanded its installation, project management, content delivery and other service offerings to address customer demand and expand market share.
- Strengthened European presence with quick ship programs and local finishing operations.
- Expanded immersive product solutions and installed the Company’s first Seismos immersive flooring project.
- Completed the acquisition of certain assets of
Innovative Cinema Solutions LLC ("ICS"), adding additional scale to theStrong Technical Services operations during the fourth quarter.
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Use of Non-GAAP Measures
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not measures of performance defined in accordance with GAAP. However, Adjusted results EBITDA is used internally in planning and evaluating the Company’s operating performance. Accordingly, management believes that disclosure of these metrics offers investors, bankers and other stakeholders an additional view of the Company’s operations that, when coupled with the GAAP results, provides a more complete understanding of the Company’s financial.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) or to net cash from operating activities as measures of operating results or liquidity. The Company’s calculation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies, and the measures exclude financial information that some may consider important in evaluating the Company’s performance.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation, or as substitutes for analysis of the Company’s results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are: (i) they do not reflect the Company’s cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments, (ii) they do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, the Company’s working capital needs, (iii) EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on the Company’s debt, (iv) although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements, (v) they do not adjust for all non-cash income or expense items that are reflected in the Company’s statements of cash flows, (vi) they do not reflect the impact of earnings or charges resulting from matters management considers not to be indicative of the Company’s ongoing operations, and (vii) other companies in the Company’s industry may calculate these measures differently than the Company does, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.
Management believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period by isolating the effects of some items that vary from period to period without any correlation to core operating performance or that vary widely among similar companies. These potential differences may be caused by variations in capital structures (affecting interest expense), tax positions (such as the impact on periods or companies of changes in effective tax rates or net operating losses) and the age and book depreciation of facilities and equipment (affecting relative depreciation expense). The Company also presents EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA because (i) management believes these measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties to evaluate companies in the Company’s industry, (ii) management believes investors will find these measures useful in assessing the Company’s ability to service or incur indebtedness, and (iii) management uses EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA internally as benchmarks to evaluate the Company’s operating performance or compare the Company’s performance to that of its competitors.
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Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
Assets | ||||||||
Current assets: | ||||||||
Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 5,470 | $ | 3,615 | ||||
Accounts receivable, net | 6,476 | 6,148 | ||||||
Inventories, net | 4,079 | 3,389 | ||||||
Assets of discontinued operations | 940 | 3,167 | ||||||
Other current assets | 1,062 | 2,881 | ||||||
Total current assets | 18,027 | 19,200 | ||||||
Property, plant and equipment, net | 1,592 | 4,607 | ||||||
Operating lease right-of-use assets | 4,793 | 237 | ||||||
Finance lease right-of-use asset | 1,201 | 606 | ||||||
Film and television programming rights, net | - | - | ||||||
903 | 882 | |||||||
Other long-term assets | 10 | 6 | ||||||
Total assets | $ | 26,526 | $ | 25,538 | ||||
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity | ||||||||
Current liabilities: | ||||||||
Accounts payable | $ | 3,544 | $ | 4,102 | ||||
Accrued expenses | 3,112 | 2,685 | ||||||
Payable to | 129 | 1,861 | ||||||
Short-term debt | 2,456 | 2,510 | ||||||
Current portion of long-term debt | 270 | 36 | ||||||
Current portion of operating lease obligations | 397 | 64 | ||||||
Current portion of finance lease obligations | 253 | 105 | ||||||
Deferred revenue and customer deposits | 1,318 | 1,769 | ||||||
Liabilities of discontinued operations | 1,392 | 1,805 | ||||||
Total current liabilities | 12,871 | 14,937 | ||||||
Operating lease obligations, net of current portion | 4,460 | 234 | ||||||
Finance lease obligations, net of current portion | 971 | 502 | ||||||
Long-term debt, net of current portion | 301 | 126 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes | 125 | 529 | ||||||
Other long-term liabilities | 4 | 6 | ||||||
Total liabilities | 18,732 | 16,334 | ||||||
Commitments, contingencies and concentrations | ||||||||
Equity: | ||||||||
Preferred shares | - | - | ||||||
Class A common stock | - | - | ||||||
Class B common stock | - | - | ||||||
Additional paid-in-capital | 15,740 | - | ||||||
Accumulated deficit | (2,712 | ) | - | |||||
Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (5,234 | ) | (5,024 | ) | ||||
Net parent investment | - | 14,228 | ||||||
Total equity | 7,794 | 9,204 | ||||||
Total liabilities and equity | $ | 26,526 | $ | 25,538 |
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(In thousands, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |||||||||||||||
2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
Net product sales | $ | 7,167 | $ | 8,043 | $ | 30,776 | $ | 30,119 | ||||||||
Net service revenues | 3,119 | 2,463 | 11,840 | 8,834 | ||||||||||||
Total net revenues | 10,286 | 10,506 | 42,616 | 38,953 | ||||||||||||
Total cost of products | 5,292 | 5,812 | 22,871 | 22,729 | ||||||||||||
Total cost of services | 2,373 | 1,907 | 9,168 | 6,762 | ||||||||||||
Total cost of revenues | 7,665 | 7,719 | 32,039 | 29,491 | ||||||||||||
Gross profit | 2,621 | 2,787 | 10,577 | 9,462 | ||||||||||||
Selling and administrative expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
Selling | 564 | 538 | 2,210 | 2,252 | ||||||||||||
Administrative | 1,828 | 1,143 | 7,757 | 4,836 | ||||||||||||
Total selling and administrative expenses | 2,392 | 1,681 | 9,967 | 7,088 | ||||||||||||
Income from operations | 229 | 1,106 | 610 | 2,374 | ||||||||||||
Other income (expense): | ||||||||||||||||
Interest expense, net | (51 | ) | (52 | ) | (256 | ) | (134 | ) | ||||||||
Foreign currency transaction (loss) gain | (222 | ) | (118 | ) | (406 | ) | 528 | |||||||||
Other income, net | 3,463 | 7 | 3,479 | 22 | ||||||||||||
Total other income (expense) | 3,190 | (163 | ) | 2,817 | 416 | |||||||||||
Income from continuing operations before income taxes | 3,419 | 943 | 3,427 | 2,790 | ||||||||||||
Income tax expense | (126 | ) | (118 | ) | (477 | ) | (535 | ) | ||||||||
Net income from continuing operations | 3,293 | 825 | 2,950 | 2,255 | ||||||||||||
Net loss from discontinued operations | (5,198 | ) | (100 | ) | (4,860 | ) | (555 | ) | ||||||||
Net (loss) income | $ | (1,905 | ) | $ | 725 | $ | (1,910 | ) | $ | 1,700 | ||||||
Basic net (loss) income per share: | ||||||||||||||||
Continuing operations | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.14 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.37 | ||||||||
Discontinued operations | (0.66 | ) | (0.02 | ) | (0.70 | ) | (0.09 | ) | ||||||||
Basic net (loss) income per share | $ | (0.24 | ) | $ | 0.12 | $ | (0.28 | ) | $ | 0.28 | ||||||
Diluted net (loss) income per share: | ||||||||||||||||
Continuing operations | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.14 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.37 | ||||||||
Discontinued operations | (0.66 | ) | (0.02 | ) | (0.69 | ) | (0.09 | ) | ||||||||
Diluted net (loss) income per share | $ | (0.24 | ) | $ | 0.12 | $ | (0.27 | ) | $ | 0.28 | ||||||
Weighted-average shares used in computing net (loss) income per share: | ||||||||||||||||
Basic | 7,838 | 6,000 | 6,922 | 6,000 | ||||||||||||
Diluted | 7,838 | 6,000 | 6,978 | 6,000 |
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
Year Ended | ||||||||
2023 | 2022 | |||||||
Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||
Net income from continuing operations | $ | 2,950 | $ | 2,255 | ||||
Adjustments to reconcile net income from continuing operations to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||
Recovery of doubtful accounts | (62 | ) | (30 | ) | ||||
(Benefit from) provision for obsolete inventory | (35 | ) | 49 | |||||
Provision for warranty | 347 | 299 | ||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 596 | 697 | ||||||
Gain on acquisition of ICS assets | (1,012 | ) | - | |||||
Amortization and accretion of operating leases | 236 | 68 | ||||||
Deferred income taxes | (331 | ) | (84 | ) | ||||
Stock-based compensation expense | 955 | 123 | ||||||
Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
Accounts receivable | 2,150 | (1,595 | ) | |||||
Inventories | 39 | (309 | ) | |||||
Current income taxes | 315 | 500 | ||||||
Other assets | 538 | 919 | ||||||
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | (2,158 | ) | (373 | ) | ||||
Deferred revenue and customer deposits | (797 | ) | (758 | ) | ||||
Operating lease obligations | (239 | ) | (69 | ) | ||||
Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations | 3,492 | 1,692 | ||||||
Net cash used in operating activities from discontinued operations | (1,748 | ) | (1,535 | ) | ||||
Net cash provided by operating activities | 1,744 | 157 | ||||||
Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||
Capital expenditures | (429 | ) | (253 | ) | ||||
Acquisition of ICS assets, net of cash acquired | 58 | - | ||||||
Net cash used in investing activities from continuing operations | (371 | ) | (253 | ) | ||||
Net cash used in investing activities from discontinued operations | (503 | ) | (459 | ) | ||||
Net cash used in investing activities | (874 | ) | (712 | ) | ||||
Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||
Principal payments on short-term debt | (423 | ) | (305 | ) | ||||
Principal payments on long-term debt | (55 | ) | (28 | ) | ||||
Borrowings under credit facility | 9,604 | - | ||||||
Repayments under credit facility | (7,179 | ) | - | |||||
Payments on finance lease obligations | (145 | ) | (28 | ) | ||||
Proceeds from initial public offering | 2,411 | - | ||||||
Payments of withholding taxes for net share settlement of equity awards | (116 | ) | - | |||||
Net cash transferred (to) from parent | (3,045 | ) | (33 | ) | ||||
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities from continuing operations | 1,052 | (394 | ) | |||||
Net cash provided by financing activities from discontinued operations | - | - | ||||||
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | 1,052 | (394 | ) | |||||
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents | (67 | ) | 70 | |||||
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents from continuing operations | 4,106 | 1,115 | ||||||
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents from discontinued operations | (2,251 | ) | (1,994 | ) | ||||
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents | 1,855 | (879 | ) | |||||
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year | 3,615 | 4,494 | ||||||
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year | $ | 5,470 | $ | 3,615 |
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) to Adjusted EBITDA
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |||||||||||||||
2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
Net (loss) income | $ | (1,905 | ) | $ | 725 | $ | (1,910 | ) | $ | 1,700 | ||||||
Net loss from discontinued operations | 5,198 | 100 | 4,860 | 555 | ||||||||||||
Net income from continuing operations | 3,293 | 825 | 2,950 | 2,255 | ||||||||||||
Interest expense, net | 51 | 52 | 256 | 134 | ||||||||||||
Income tax expense | 126 | 118 | 477 | 535 | ||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 138 | 176 | 596 | 697 | ||||||||||||
EBITDA | 3,608 | 1,171 | 4,279 | 3,621 | ||||||||||||
Stock-based compensation expense | 65 | 26 | 955 | 123 | ||||||||||||
IPO related expenses | - | - | 475 | - | ||||||||||||
Gain on insurance proceeds | (2,485 | ) | - | (2,485 | ) | - | ||||||||||
Gain on purchase of ICS, net of acquisition expenses | (1,012 | ) | - | (1,012 | ) | - | ||||||||||
Foreign currency transaction loss (gain) | 222 | 118 | 406 | (528 | ) | |||||||||||
Severance and other | - | - | 7 | - | ||||||||||||
Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 398 | $ | 1,315 | $ | 2,625 | $ | 3,216 |
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