Vecima Networks Inc. (TSX:VCM) today reported financial results for the three and six months ended December 31, 2020.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
(Canadian dollars in millions except percentages,
|
Q2FY21 |
Q1FY21 |
Q2FY20 |
Revenue |
$30.4 |
$27.8 |
$25.1 |
Gross Margin |
50% |
47% |
64% |
Net (Loss) Income |
$(3.1) |
$(0.8) |
$3.6 |
(Loss) Earnings Per Share1 |
$(0.14) |
$(0.04) |
$0.16 |
Adjusted (Loss) Earnings Per Share1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
$(0.14) |
$(0.04) |
$0.15 |
Adjusted EBITDA2 |
$2.5 |
$2.2 |
$7.0 |
Cash and Short-term Investments |
$20.8 |
$27.3 |
$40.2 |
Employees |
466 |
456 |
368 |
1 Based on weighted average number shares outstanding.
2 Adjusted Earnings Per Share and Adjusted EBITDA do not have a standardized meaning under IFRS and therefore
3 Starting in Q4 fiscal 2019, we have changed our definition and calculation of Adjusted Earnings Per Share. For a reconciliation
4 Adjusted Earnings Per Share includes non-cash share-based compensation of $1.2 million or $0.05 per share for
5 Adjusted Earnings Per Share includes foreign exchange loss of $1.2 million or $0.05 per share for the three months
|
“Vecima’s sales climbed to $30.4 million in the second quarter, signifying rapid year-over-year growth of 21% as our next-generation technologies gained momentum,” said Sumit Kumar, Vecima’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We paired our excellent sales performance with a gross profit of $15.2 million and adjusted EBITDA of $2.5 million, which we achieved despite a $1.2 million reduction of EBITDA from significant foreign exchange headwinds during the period and the addition of the first full quarter operating expenses from the acquired Nokia assets, which we continue to anticipate as EBITDA neutral on a first full-year operating basis.”
“Our top-line performance represented the best quarter in almost five years and was led by surging demand for our industry-leading portfolio of Entra Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) products. Entra sales accelerated to $8.0 million during the period, representing impressive sales growth of more than 6X year-over-year and 54% sequentially. Keep in mind that we are still in the very early stages of the DAA market. We see much more to come from Entra as current and additional customers transition to scale deployment as a broad set of MSOs initiate field deployments of DAA in response to both network capacity pressures and the larger trend of ramping access network bandwidth. Our customer engagements for Entra have now grown to 58 operators worldwide, and 24 of those customers have purchased DAA products for deployment from Vecima.”
Added Mr. Kumar, “Vecima’s second quarter sales momentum was further supported by robust demand for our commercial video products, particularly the TC600E, as operators continue to build out their MPEG 4 networks and a Tier 1 customer began associated densification. We also secured the first order, from a Tier 1 MSO, for our next-generation TerraceIQ hospitality industry platform and continued to see healthy demand for our legacy TerraceQAM platform where the entire widely-deployed population is upgradable to the new TerraceIQ when operators are ready.”
“In our Content Delivery and Storage segment we made important strides as we continued to consolidate the record customers wins of last year, secured an additional portfolio-wide IPTV customer, released multiple new product versions within our industry-leading MediaScaleX product family, and expanded service revenues and international sales,” added Mr. Kumar. “Across our business, we are addressing major market opportunities with technologies closely aligned to the needs of our global customers and laying the foundation for powerful growth.”
BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS
Video and Broadband Solutions (VBS)
DAA (Entra family)
Commercial Video (Terrace family)
Content Delivery and Storage (CDS)
Telematics
Governance
“Fiscal 2021 is proving to be a breakout year for Vecima,” said Mr. Kumar. “The vast potential of the cable industry’s once-in-a-lifetime technology transition to DAA is materializing, and we are tapping into it broadly with the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of distributed access solutions and the ability to address any and all of the potential DAA system architectures.”
“Simultaneously we are laying the groundwork for growth in our Content Delivery and Storage segment. While we continue to anticipate measured CDS sales growth in fiscal 2021, IPTV usage is increasing rapidly in households around the world and our MediaScaleX solutions enable operators to address this need. Vecima is uniquely positioned in the burgeoning markets for both cable access and IPTV, and our strategies are positioning us for significant growth,” said Mr. Kumar.
As previously reported, Vecima’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.055 per share for the period. The dividend will be payable on March 29, 2021 to shareholders of record as at February 26, 2021.
CONFERENCE CALL
A conference call and live audio webcast will be held today, February 11, 2021 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss the Company’s second quarter results. Vecima’s unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis for the three and six months ended December 31, 2020 are available under the Company’s profile at www.SEDAR.com, and at www.vecima.com/financials/.
To participate in the teleconference, dial 1-800-319-4610 or 1-604-638-9020. The webcast will be available in real time at http://services.choruscall.ca/links/vecima20210211.html and will be archived on the Vecima website at https://vecima.com/investor-relations/earnings-call-archive/
About Vecima Networks
Vecima Networks Inc. is a global leader focused on developing integrated hardware and scalable software solutions for broadband access, content delivery, and telematics. We enable the world's leading innovators to advance, connect, entertain, and analyze. We build technologies that transform content delivery and storage, enable high‑capacity broadband network access, and streamline data analytics. For more information, please visit our website at www.vecima.com.
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share do not have a standardized meaning under IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures provided by other issuers. Accordingly, investors are cautioned that Adjusted EBITDA or Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share should not be construed as an alternative to net income, determined in accordance with IFRS, as an indicator of the Company’s financial performance or as a measure of its liquidity and cash flows. For a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA or Adjusted Earnings (Loss) Per Share, investors should refer to Vecima’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the second quarter of fiscal 2021.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is generally identifiable by use of the words “believes”, “may”, “plans”, “will”, “anticipates”, “intends”, “could”, “estimates”, “expects”, “forecasts”, “projects” and similar expressions, and the negative of such expressions. Forward-looking information in this news release includes the following statements: Vecima’s sales climbed to $30.4 million in the second quarter, signifying rapid year-over-year growth of 21% as our next generation technologies gained momentum; we paired our excellent sales performance with a gross profit of $15.2 million and adjusted EBITDA of $2.5 million, which we achieved despite a $1.2 million reduction of EBITDA from significant foreign exchange headwinds during the period and the addition of the first full quarter operating expenses from the acquired Nokia assets, which we continue to anticipate as EBITDA neutral on a first full-year operating basis; our top-line performance represented the best quarter in almost five years and was led by surging demand for our industry-leading portfolio of Entra Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) products; keep in mind that we are still in the earliest stages of the DAA market; we see much more to come from Entra as current and additional customers transition to scale deployment as a broad set of MSOs initiate field deployments of DAA in response to both network capacity pressures and the larger trend of ramping access network bandwidth; across our business, we are addressing major market opportunities with technologies closely aligned to the needs of our global customers and laying the foundation for powerful growth; fiscal 2021 is proving to be a breakout year for Vecima; the vast potential of the cable industry’s once-in-a-lifetime technology transition to DAA is materializing, and we are tapping into it broadly with the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of distributed access solutions and the ability to address any and all of the potential DAA system architectures; simultaneously we are laying the groundwork for growth in our Content Delivery and Storage segment; while we continue to anticipate measured CDS sales growth in fiscal 2021, IPTV usage is increasing rapidly in households around the world and our MediaScaleX solutions enable operators to address this need; and, Vecima is uniquely positioned in the burgeoning markets for both cable access and IPTV, and our strategies are positioning us for significant growth.
A more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties facing Vecima is disclosed under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Information Form dated September 24, 2020, as well as the Company’s continuous disclosure filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities available at www.sedar.com. All forward-looking information herein is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement, and Vecima disclaims any obligation to revise or update any such forward-looking information or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking information contained herein to reflect future results, events or developments, except as required by law.
VECIMA NETWORKS INC. |
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Interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position |
|||||||
(unaudited – in thousands of Canadian dollars) |
|||||||
As at |
|
|
|
December 31, 2020 |
|
June 30, 2020 |
|
Assets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
$ |
10,869 |
$ |
17,350 |
|
Short-term investments |
|
|
|
9,885 |
|
17,165 |
|
Accounts receivable |
|
|
|
27,148 |
|
24,908 |
|
Income tax receivable |
|
|
|
364 |
|
333 |
|
Inventories |
|
|
|
20,014 |
|
17,212 |
|
Prepaid expenses |
|
|
|
2,090 |
|
2,051 |
|
Contract assets |
|
|
|
730 |
|
646 |
|
Total current assets |
|
|
|
71,100 |
|
79,665 |
|
Non-current assets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property, plant and equipment |
|
|
|
14,402 |
|
11,801 |
|
Right-of-use assets |
|
|
|
3,613 |
|
4,010 |
|
Goodwill |
|
|
|
15,158 |
|
15,487 |
|
Intangible assets |
|
|
|
69,855 |
|
69,200 |
|
Other long-term assets |
|
|
|
1,551 |
|
1,301 |
|
Investment tax credits |
|
|
|
25,385 |
|
24,374 |
|
Deferred tax assets |
|
|
|
4,881 |
|
4,460 |
|
Total assets |
|
|
$ |
205,945 |
$ |
210,298 |
|
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |
|
|
$ |
16,756 |
$ |
17,105 |
|
Provisions |
|
|
|
1,295 |
|
492 |
|
Income tax payable |
|
|
|
574 |
|
130 |
|
Deferred revenue |
|
|
|
4,598 |
|
4,960 |
|
Current portion of long-term debt |
|
|
|
1,629 |
|
1,698 |
|
Total current liabilities |
|
|
|
24,852 |
|
24,385 |
|
Non-current liabilities |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Provisions |
|
|
|
414 |
|
400 |
|
Deferred revenue |
|
|
|
2,485 |
|
602 |
|
Deferred tax liability |
|
|
|
7 |
|
536 |
|
Long-term debt |
|
|
|
4,099 |
|
4,613 |
|
Total liabilities |
|
|
|
31,857 |
|
30,536 |
|
Shareholders’ equity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Share capital |
|
|
|
7,925 |
|
3,161 |
|
Reserves |
|
|
|
2,006 |
|
3,838 |
|
Retained earnings |
|
|
|
164,209 |
|
170,665 |
|
Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income |
|
|
|
(52) |
|
2,098 |
|
Total shareholders’ equity |
|
|
|
174,088 |
|
179,762 |
|
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity |
|
|
$ |
205,945 |
$ |
210,298 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
VECIMA NETWORKS INC. |
|||||||||||||
Interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive (Loss) Income |
|||||||||||||
(unaudited – in thousands of Canadian dollars, except per share amounts) |
|||||||||||||
|
|
Three months |
Six months |
|
|||||||||
Periods ended December 31, |
|
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
||||
Sales |
|
$ |
30,372 |
$ |
25,123 |
$ |
58,216 |
$ |
45,235 |
||||
Cost of Sales |
|
|
15,193 |
|
9,115 |
|
30,028 |
|
18,753 |
||||
Gross Profit |
|
|
15,179 |
|
16,008 |
|
28,188 |
|
26,482 |
||||
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Research and development |
|
|
7,158 |
|
4,534 |
|
13,502 |
|
9,602 |
||||
Sales and marketing |
|
|
3,646 |
|
3,427 |
|
6,855 |
|
7,173 |
||||
General and administrative |
|
|
4,627 |
|
4,142 |
|
9,418 |
|
8,123 |
||||
Share-based compensation |
|
|
1,210 |
|
17 |
|
1,449 |
|
34 |
||||
Other expense (income) |
|
|
3 |
|
(145) |
|
- |
|
(155) |
||||
Total operating expenses |
|
|
16,644 |
|
11,975 |
|
31,224 |
|
24,777 |
||||
Operating (loss) income |
|
|
(1,465) |
|
4,033 |
|
(3,036) |
|
1,705 |
||||
Finance income |
|
|
1 |
|
554 |
|
162 |
|
762 |
||||
Foreign exchange loss |
|
|
(1,222) |
|
(477) |
|
(1,447) |
|
(179) |
||||
(Loss) income before income taxes |
|
|
(2,686) |
|
4,110 |
|
(4,321) |
|
2,288 |
||||
Income tax expense (recovery) |
|
|
432 |
|
549 |
|
(365) |
|
111 |
||||
Net (loss) income |
|
$ |
(3,118) |
$ |
3,561 |
$ |
(3,956) |
$ |
2,177 |
||||
Other comprehensive loss |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Item that may be subsequently reclassed to net income |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
Exchange differences on translating foreign operations |
(1,538) |
|
(426) |
|
(2,150) |
|
(203) |
||||||
Comprehensive (loss) income |
|
$ |
(4,656) |
$ |
3,135 |
$ |
(6,106) |
$ |
1,974 |
||||
Net (loss) income per share |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
Basic |
|
$ |
(0.14) |
$ |
0.16 |
$ |
(0.18) |
$ |
0.10 |
||||
Diluted |
|
$ |
(0.14) |
$ |
0.16 |
$ |
(0.18) |
$ |
0.10 |
||||
Weighted average number of common shares |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||
Shares outstanding – basic |
|
22,733,716 |
22,404,999 |
22,607,863 |
22,420,018 |
||||||||
Shares outstanding - diluted |
|
22,733,716 |
22,444,540 |
22,607,863 |
22,442,995 |
VECIMA NETWORKS INC. |
||||||||||||||||
Interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Change in Equity |
||||||||||||||||
(unaudited – in thousands of Canadian dollars) | ||||||||||||||||
|
|
Share
|
|
Reserves |
|
Retained
|
|
Accumulated
|
|
Total |
|
|||||
Balance as at June 30, 2019 |
$ |
1,916 |
$ |
4,104 |
$ |
173,898 |
$ |
1,010 |
$ |
180,928 |
||||||
Net income |
|
- |
|
- |
|
2,177 |
|
- |
|
2,177 |
||||||
Other comprehensive loss |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(203) |
|
(203) |
||||||
Dividends |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(2,464) |
|
- |
|
(2,464) |
||||||
Shares issued by exercising options |
|
758 |
|
(199) |
|
- |
|
- |
|
559 |
||||||
Share-based payment expense |
|
- |
|
34 |
|
- |
|
- |
|
34 |
||||||
Balance as at December 31, 2019 |
$ |
2,674 |
$ |
3,939 |
$ |
173,611 |
$ |
807 |
$ |
181,031 |
||||||
Balance as at June 30, 2020 |
$ |
3,161 |
$ |
3,838 |
$ |
170,665 |
$ |
2,098 |
$ |
179,762 |
||||||
Net loss |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(3,956) |
|
- |
|
(3,956) |
||||||
Other comprehensive loss |
|
- |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(2,150) |
|
(2,150) |
||||||
Dividends |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(2,500) |
|
- |
|
(2,500) |
||||||
Shares issued by exercising options |
|
3,016 |
|
(783) |
|
- |
|
- |
|
2,233 |
||||||
PSUs settled in common shares |
|
1,748 |
|
(2,498) |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(750) |
||||||
Share-based payment expense |
|
- |
|
1,449 |
|
- |
|
- |
|
1,449 |
||||||
Balance as at December 31, 2020 |
$ |
7,925 |
$ |
2,006 |
$ |
164,209 |
$ |
(52) |
$ |
174,088 |
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VECIMA NETWORKS INC. |
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Interim Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows |
|||||||||||
(unaudited – in thousands of Canadian dollars) |
|||||||||||
|
Three months |
|
Six months |
||||||||
Periods ended December 31, |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
|
2020 |
|
2019 |
|||
OPERATING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Net (loss) income |
$ |
(3,118) |
$ |
3,561 |
$ |
(3,956) |
$ |
2,177 |
|||
Adjustments for non-cash items: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Loss (gain) on sale of property, plant and equipment |
|
7 |
|
(135) |
|
9 |
|
(121) |
|||
Depreciation and amortization |
|
3,889 |
|
2,972 |
|
7,431 |
|
6,469 |
|||
Share-based compensation |
|
1,210 |
|
17 |
|
1,449 |
|
34 |
|||
Income tax expense (recovery) |
|
233 |
|
82 |
|
(344) |
|
(26) |
|||
Deferred income tax expense (recovery) |
|
199 |
|
467 |
|
(21) |
|
137 |
|||
Interest expense |
|
57 |
|
78 |
|
116 |
|
158 |
|||
Interest income |
|
(59) |
|
(237) |
|
(147) |
|
(460) |
|||
Net change in working capital |
|
(2,424) |
|
(2,845) |
|
(1,076) |
|
(4,038) |
|||
(Increase) decrease in other long-term assets |
|
(337) |
|
154 |
|
(294) |
|
160 |
|||
Increase (decrease) in provisions |
|
32 |
|
(78) |
|
43 |
|
(78) |
|||
Increase in investment tax credits |
|
(29) |
|
(51) |
|
(70) |
|
(89) |
|||
Income tax received |
|
174 |
|
173 |
|
174 |
|
173 |
|||
Income tax paid |
|
(370) |
|
(46) |
|
(495) |
|
(68) |
|||
Interest received |
|
60 |
|
237 |
|
148 |
|
460 |
|||
Interest paid |
|
(12) |
|
(78) |
|
(22) |
|
(158) |
|||
Cash (used in) provided by operating activities |
|
(488) |
|
4,271 |
|
2,945 |
|
4,730 |
|||
INVESTING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Capital expenditures, net |
|
(833) |
|
(481) |
|
(1,282) |
|
(925) |
|||
Purchase of short-term investments |
|
(57) |
|
(578) |
|
(141) |
|
(778) |
|||
Proceeds from sale of short-term investments |
|
7,082 |
|
6,700 |
|
7,421 |
|
8,100 |
|||
Deferred development costs |
|
(3,832) |
|
(2,776) |
|
(7,280) |
|
(5,426) |
|||
Business acquisition |
|
- |
|
- |
|
(6,401) |
|
- |
|||
Cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
|
2,360 |
|
2,865 |
|
(7,683) |
|
971 |
|||
FINANCING ACTIVITIES |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
Proceeds from government grants |
|
- |
|
63 |
|
- |
|
94 |
|||
Principal repayments of lease liabilities |
|
(491) |
|
(316) |
|
(866) |
|
(648) |
|||
Repayment of long-term debt |
|
(62) |
|
(63) |
|
(125) |
|
(146) |
|||
Dividends paid |
|
(2,500) |
|
(2,464) |
|
(2,500) |
|
(2,464) |
|||
Issuance of shares through exercised options |
|
1,940 |
|
559 |
|
2,233 |
|
559 |
|||
Cash used in financing activities |
|
(1,113) |
|
(2,221) |
|
(1,258) |
|
(2,605) |
|||
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
|
759 |
|
4,915 |
|
(5,996) |
|
3,096 |
|||
Effect of change in exchange rates on cash |
|
(322) |
|
82 |
|
(485) |
|
30 |
|||
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period |
|
10,432 |
|
17,963 |
|
17,350 |
|
19,834 |
|||
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period |
$ |
10,869 |
$ |
22,960 |
$ |
10,869 |
$ |
22,960 |
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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