Q3 2021 Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc Earnings Call

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Greetings and welcome to the Exo Bionics third quarter 2021 financial results Conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance. During the conference. Please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note. This conference is being recorded.

Now I'll turn the conference over to your host Matt Steinberg you may begin.

Thank you operator, and thank you all for participating in today's call. Joining me from Exo Bionics are jacked, Iraq, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jack Glenn Chief Financial Officer, and Bill shock.

Our chief commercial officer.

Earlier today <unk> Bionics released financial results for the quarter ended September 30th 2021.

A copy of the press release is available on the company's website.

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This conference call contains time sensitive information and is accurate only as of the broadcast today November 2nd 2021, I will now turn the call over to Exo Bionic CEO Jacques Chirac.

Thanks, Matt and thanks to everybody for joining us today.

The third quarter reflected continued execution across our company as we reported improved revenues on both an annual and sequential basis.

And the rehabilitation segment, we made significant progress with top inpatient rehabilitation network operators.

And then the industrial segment, we were able to win material orders with both existing and new companies in the automotive and aerospace segments.

Our flexible commercial offerings, which include capital sales and subscriptions are giving our customers acquisition options and we are encouraged by an increasing level of customer interest and engagement as evidenced by a growing sales pipeline in all segments.

For the third quarter, we generated solid revenue $3 million up 38% on a sequential basis.

On the extra health side of the business, we recorded 16 excellent in our bookings.

Well, we continued to drive adoption of our subscription model, which provides purchasing flexibility for our customers nearly all of our bookings in the quarter were through capital purchases.

As a result of the capital purchases this quarter, we generated two subscription bookings this quarter.

On the industrial side, we are driving continued high level of customer interest via onsite evaluations.

And our commercial team has produced several initial orders with leading companies, particularly in the automotive vertical with some of the newer participants in that industry.

We remain focused on building greater awareness of our innovative Evo and <unk> zero G products.

Now I will turn the call over to Bill for an update on our medical segment and global commercial strategy.

Thank you Jack.

Our commercial team continued its solid execution with our 2021 plan.

An increase in customer demand from inpatient rehabilitation facilities supported by our targeted engagement strategy resulted in an influx of capital purchasing as far leading XO and our exoskeleton devices.

Many of these capital purchases were driven by deferred 2020 capital for strategic investments.

For the third quarter of 2021.

We delivered approximately $2 $7 million in extra health revenue.

Our rolling 12 month conversion and renewal rate is 77%, we now have more than $1.2 million of contracted unrecognized revenue under a subscription model.

In the past year, we've been intensely focused on gaining traction with network operators and we are pleased with the results because of our efforts network operators have comprised 70% of our new U S bookings year to date up from just 24% for all of 2020.

Penetration of this market is generating multi site multi unit orders and our strong presence with the top networks in this space are enabling us to expand faster across the United States.

One T and deepening these relationships is our introduction of the subscription model and we continue to utilize subscriptions to accelerate XO and our adoption, which is preferred amongst some of our larger network operators, we are generating closer relationships with our target customers more quickly under this model and we expect to make additional progress utilizing this offering going for.

Forward.

On the International front Europe has been a consistent strong performer for a number of reasons first we have improved strategic alignment with select partners, who manage our indirect markets.

Second we developed a more efficient sales process through a virtual meeting focus and that has opened up more opportunities in our direct markets without patient neuro rehab centers.

And third we continue to make progress with the BG network and occupational health care, operator, specifically, we are working with BG and the continuation of care pathway for our XO and are providing access from acute care inpatient rehabilitation and a program for outpatient neuro rehabilitation.

Europe remains an important region, where we see significant opportunities for future growth.

Today, we want to share both the patient success story and promising research being done at the Edgerton Neuromuscular Research laboratory at UCLA.

Toyota is an air force off of certain former F 16 fighter pilot spinal cord injured in a motorcycle accident in December of 2012.

The injury he not only was determined to recover but also to help others with spinal cord injuries Ignacio wasn't able to try exo himself until August of 'twenty 'twenty, but as a result of his determination he walked down the aisle and XO at his wedding. This July with the support of our customer narrow fit $3 60.

Ignacio and his wife and extra train physical therapist had been collaborating with Doctor Edgerton at UCLA to look at combining therapies of X O N R and trans containing a spinal stimulation in the hopes that helping more patients like ignacio improve their recovery from spinal cord injuries.

And the first month of the clinical trial Ignacio has taken more than 40000 steps and the XO and our injury has been reclassified as incomplete due to the work. He has put in we are eager to see the results of this collaboration.

As we near the end of 'twenty 'twenty. One we are excited about the progress of our commercial strategy.

We are accelerating the sales cycle and increasing the overall size of each order.

Additionally, our commitment to educate customers on the beneficial impact of our innovative devices clinical training and program support is a crucial component of our strategy.

This includes a number of exciting upcoming in person and virtual events.

We look forward to providing you updates on our progress in the coming months at this time I'd like to turn the call back to our CEO Jacques Chirac.

Thanks Bill.

I would like to provide an update on the progress with our industrial segment XO works.

First we were pleased with our commercial team has generated a greater awareness of Evo, which has in turn more than doubled exo works revenue compared to Q3 last year.

Evo is quite appealing to prominent large industrial companies as it enables customers to mitigate employee fatigue regulated productivity increase worker retention and reduce the risk of injury since launching Evo we have made considerable progress with the automotive vertical, particularly with exciting new vehicle manufacturers.

We also have seen strong progress in the construction vertical most recently with solar panel installation.

As you can see those value propositions are strong awareness efforts have enabled us to deepen penetration across several industry industrial markets.

Our commercial team has produced a number of successful initial evaluations with large prospective industrial customers in recent months and we are excited about the potential for strong future relationships.

I will now turn the call over to Jack Glenn to review, our third quarter financial results.

Thank you Jack XL generated third quarter revenue of $3 million compared to $2 $9 million for the third quarter of 2020.

Our gross profit for the second quarter was $1 $8 million.

Gross margin of approximately 59% compared to gross margin of 63% for the same period a year ago.

The decline in gross margin was primarily the result of an increase in National Health service parts and labor costs and changes in product mix.

As a reminder, gross margin tends to fluctuate from quarter to quarter based on channel and product mix.

Operating expenses for the third quarter of 2021 were $4 $6 million compared to $4 $2 million for the third quarter of 2020.

Net operating loss in third quarter of 2021 with $2 $8 million compared with a net operating loss of $2 $4 million in the prior year period.

The increase in net operating loss is primarily a result of higher general and administrative expenses as a result of increased employee head count and compensation expense.

Gain on warrant liabilities for the quarter ended September 32021 was $1 $1 million from the revaluation of warrants issued in 2019 2020 in 2021.

Paired to a $4 5 million dollar gain associated with the revaluation of warrants issued in 2015 2019 and 2020 for the same period in 2020.

Now turning to year to date results revenue for the first nine months of 'twenty, 'twenty, one with $7.2 million compared to $6 $6 million for the same period in 2020.

Gross profit for the first nine months of 2021 with $4 $3 million, an increase of 17% from gross profit of $3 $7 million for the same period in 2020.

Gross margin for the year to date period increased to 60% from 56% for the first nine months of 2020.

Operating expenses for the first nine months of 2021 were $13 $6 million, a decrease of about 3% from $14 million for the prior year period.

Net operating loss for the first nine months of 2021 narrowed to $9 3 million from $10 $3 million for the comparable period of 2020.

Flagging higher year to date revenues and a leaner cost structure.

For the first nine months of 2021 we recorded a gain on warrant liabilities of $2 million associated with the revaluation of warrants issued in 2019, 'twenty 'twenty and 2021 compared to $1.6 million loss associated with the revaluation of warrants issued in 2015 2019 and 2020.

For the same period in 2020.

Cash used in operating activities in the first nine months of 2021 was $8 $1 million.

As of September 32021, we had a strong cash balance of $43 $4 million.

Please see our 10-Q filed earlier today for further details regarding the quarter.

Operator, you May now open the line for questions.

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Our first question is from RK with H C. Wainwright. Please proceed with your question.

Thank you good afternoon, Jack and Jack and Bill.

Obviously, an excellent quarter in all compared to what we have seen in the last two quarters of 'twenty, one and really allowed the upswing in numbers.

Just a little bit of additional commentary if you could on the <unk> bookings in the third quarter.

I I mean, I tried to write down as much as I could from what you were saying, so where all the 16 bookings capital purchases are most of them are capital purchases, including two subscriptions within those 16, I'm just trying to get those things straight in my head.

Sure. Thanks RK.

Let's hear from you.

The 16 bookings we had of those 60 that might be calling on them for some support here were all capital we had.

Is that right at them all capital.

14 capital into subscription.

It makes up the <unk>, yeah, I can I can add some color Jack so it'll help.

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So RK yeah. If you if you look at it we had actually had parking capital.

He was in the quarter. We also had two subscriptions. So it was a little unique for us in the sense that most of the purchases did come from deferred capital.

We consider some some hold on capital for 2020, we also had a few donor scenarios, but as we mentioned the subscription offering has opened up a lot of new opportunities. So we do expect this to remain a viable option, especially if you look at the network partners. We've been working with if we just look at year to date.

80% of your units they've acquired at least from our top five networks have been through subscription. So again, there's a little bit unique but I'd, just say purchase purchasing methods will vary quarter to quarter. So I wouldn't think about subscription as the only option. We're focused on obviously capital business is great for us to have to.

But that was the the majority of what we saw this quarter.

Thank you very much for that color Bell and actually that is very interesting.

Because going into 'twenty, one a late 'twenty one my my thinking was.

Capital purchases would be less in number especially with.

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With budgets being weak are used up in other things other than buying capital purchases.

Having said that.

What is your feel feelings on what is still left in the capital budget for 'twenty. One are people dipping into a little bit of that 'twenty two budget Hum just because they need to ramp up their business, which they had lost in 2020.

Yeah. It's a good question one question so from our perspective, if we look at both businesses on the health care side, what we've experienced some holdover capital from 2020 that had to be spent by the end of this year. So we may see more of that but I still expect to see subscription mixed in as well and then on the industrial.

Real business. We've also seen some experiences where customers have to spend a certain amount of capital by the end of the year as well. So I I think more of it from our experiences hold over capital that needs to be spent by year end versus new capital being pulled forward.

One last question from me before I jump back into the queue, having said what you just said and and also having a month and some days into the fourth quarter. What what are the trends that you are look saying I'm just just to get a feel for a law.

What we could be seeing in the fourth quarter.

Yeah, I think for US obviously, we talk a lot about networks and we have a dedicated team focused on that works, obviously, a very important part of our strategy, which is working.

I think our relationship has significantly improved this year with our customers, which I think is partially due to the talent we brought into the organization and our strategy of how we are aligned with them. So one example of something we're doing and we're working with them on is.

What I would call multi unit multiyear agreements obviously, if we can start to move on those type of opportunities that's going to give us greater predictability into our future. So that's something where we're trying to accomplish.

I'd also just add that you know being a mission driven company. We believe every center should have access to our technology and the benefit of our technology. So we also have a group focused on regional networks academic centers Standalone facilities. So these are all important because they obviously contribute to our overall success. So obviously, we don't give a lot of guidance, but what I would say is that we.

We expect to have a pretty solid mix between networks and our independent centers.

Thank you Bill Thanks, Jack I'll get back into the queue.

Thanks, Okay.

Thank you we have reached the end of the question and answer session and I will now turn the call over to Jack <unk> for closing remarks.

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Thank you operator, and thanks to everyone for joining us today.

To recap we had a solid third quarter in what is shaping up to be a strong 2021, but our team is focused on delivering three key value drivers.

First deepening relationships with top inpatient rehab operators.

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Great Greater order flow through our subscription model and third expand evo sales by capturing new customers across a focused set of industry verticals.

By capitalizing on our momentum with top inpatient rehabilitation operators, it's becoming increasingly clear that they recognize the value that XO NR can bring to their patients activity in the U S. And Europe is written has risen significantly this year and we remain optimistic as we close out 2021.

Our focus on inpatient rehabilitation network operators is working as this customer segment is making up an increasing percentage of our sales.

Our subscription offering is also well received as it gives customers flexible acquisition options, allowing us to increase our pipeline and bring our solutions to a broader set of customers and finally on the industrial front, we are increasing market penetration, particularly with leading large employers.

<unk> team continues to add new customers in our opportunity pipeline is growing.

We look forward to providing updates on our continued progress.

Thank you and have a great day.

This concludes today's conference and you may disconnect. Your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.

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