Q2 2022 CompoSecure Inc Earnings Call
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Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Anthony panlla, Head of corporate communications for compost secure. Please go ahead, Anthony.
Good evening and thank you for joining us to review comice secure: second quarter 2022 financial results.
With me on the call tonight is John wilk, complsecure's Chief Executive Officer, and Tim F Simmons, Chief Financial Officer.
They will begin with prepared remarks and then we will open the call for QA.
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A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures is available in our press release and earnings presentation available on the investors Relations section of our website.
Thank you, and with that said, let me turn the call over to John to discuss second quarter earnings.
Thanks Anthony. Good evening everyone, and thank you for joining us tonight as we discuss our second quarter 2022 earnings release.
We appreciate your interest and thank you for participating.
In the first quarter we established early momentum and we achieved new record sales and profitability.
I'm pleased to announce that we had another outstanding quarter, and I'd like to start by thanking our nearly 800 employees for their contributions that have helped us accelerate our growth.
For the second quarter, we achieved net sales of ninety-seven million.
Which is 55% higher year-over-year and up 15% sequentially.
Driven by strong sales execution and growth across new and existing accounts.
In addition, our performance continues to be bolstered.
By consistent card issuer trends, including a robust demand for travel and entertainment spending, growth in solicitations.
Growth in new customer, new customer card acquisitions.
And demand for premium metal card products.
Our adjusted EBITDA four million for the second quarter.
Up 45% year over year.
Demonstrating the impressive margin profile of our premium metal card business and our constant focus on operational excellence.
And process improvement.
Before I share some customer win details, I'd like to take a moment to address the current digital asset market challenges.
Including the news around exchanges freezing or limiting withdrawals.
This climate actually drives an increased need for consumers to control the private keys to their digital assets.
This is what our arculus cold storage wallet offering was made for, and we believe we will benefit from this market turbulence in the long term.
We are encouraged by recent partnerships to address the growing need for security, authentication and cold storage.
For example inbesco, a Latin American-based fintech, has selected compo secure to launch a metal card that is designed to combine premium payment card technology and digital authentication.
Separately. ambco plans to white label the arulus cold storage wallet, giving their users the option to securely custody the keys for their digital assets.
At the same time, we believe this dynamic market has created uncertainty in timing.
For our anticipated arculus ramp-up.
As some of our partners and targets have been impacted.
We continue to be thoughtful about how we're running the business.
And remain focused on margins.
While simultaneously managing our investments to capture long-term value for shareholders.
We are confident that our aruus platform is well positioned.
To meet the current and anticipated needs of the market.
I am excited to announce that we are raising our full year guidance for 2020 -two and.
Our first half results have positioned us extremely well.
And with confidence in our sales pipeline and backlog. We now expect net sales to be in the range of 355 to three hundred and eighty million.
Up from our previous guidance of 336 to 300 and seventty-six.
And we expected adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of 110 to one hundred and twenty million.
Up from a hundred to a hundred and Ten.
Turning to Slide three.
We are using a similar framework from last quarter to highlight momentum and wins in both the metal payment card business and arulus portfolio.
On the left side, we continue to demonstrate momentum with both new and existing clients.
From traditional banks to fintech partners. I'm not going to go through all the examples in the quarter, but will highlight a few.
We were honored to be part of the new Boeing 747 American Express Delta reserve card. Limited edition.
With metal taken from a retired Delta 747 aircraft.
This program is being supported by a strong marketing campaign from Delta and American Express.
And the early customer feedback has been extremely positive.
Another new relationship was with truest.
To deliver a truest Visa card for the U's market. This is the credit card issuer resulting from the merger of SunTrust and BNT.
We expanded our chase relationship with a new co-brand partner in Hyatt.
With a card focused on business.
And we established a new relationship with credit Swiss for a metal card for the Swiss market.
Through our distribution partner talas.
And the last example was we expanded our relationship with Verizon for a Verizon business: Mastercard.
Through a new distributor relationship with first national Bank of Omaha.
On the fintech side. X one is a card issued by a community bank and another new relationship that offers up to five X spending limits more than traditional cards, and they're currently accepting weightless orders.
And finally, we established established a new relationship with oxygen, a bank focused on supporting entrepreneurs and creators. To deliver a metal debit card.
Supporting their elements: product line: water, fire and air.
Moving on to our ardulus platform.
We highlight some of the progress we are seeing in partnerships, marketing and events.
I mentioned in vesco earlier.
They plan to offer a premium payment card plus rulous digital authentication.
And separately white label our arulus cold storage wallet.
Providing their users the option for some custody ONT the trend that I described earlier.
Change is a DFI app with half a million users that empowers people to become their own digital bank.
They are looking to offer arulus cold storage for their mobile wallet.
Hedge allows users to automatically convert their pay into crypto.
And we will partner with hedge on co-marketing of each other's products and services.
As well as developing an integration plan for the aruus cold storage product.
As we mentioned last quarter, we are working with mass pay, a leading payments platform that enables customers to deliver mass payouts globally in fiatto cryptocurrency.
They have selected arulus for an integrated payment card with cold storage and digital authentication.
And the last note on that side is we received approval from Visa and Mastercard for issuing payment cards with authentication capabilities built in.
This is a big step in enabling our ardulus road map. We are very excited to bring this capability to market.
Finally I want to highlight some of our marketing activity.
I'm proud that our aruus platform was ranked the most innovative cold storage wallet in a recent report by ABI research.
We were also included as one of the top three leaders for cold storage of digital assets.
That's quite an accomplishment, in our view, for a product that's been out less than a year.
In June , we had a standout presence at consensus, a leading digital asset conference, with over 15 thousand attendees, influencers and media who were exposed to both our B two B and our B two C offerings.
We'll have a strong presence at money 2020 in October and Las Vegas and we are scheduled to participate in a marketing event with super rare, a leading NFT marketplace, to discuss the need for cold storage wallets for NFT digital assets.
Turning to some industry trends on Page four.
I mentioned some of the card issuer trends. I'd like to provide some detail: what we're seeing in the marketplace.
On the left-hand side of Slide 4, we're showing our largest customers' purchase volume growth based on publicly available data.
Which remains well above pandemic levels.
In the recent earnings announcements, we've heard several of our top customers refer to how they're seeing spending in such areas as travel and entertainment, as well as premium goods and services, where pent-up demand continues to drive consumer spend.
Moving to the right side of the chart, you can see how banks are spending aggressively to drive new customer card acquisitions.
With solicitations in the first half of 22 above 2019 prepandemic levels for the same period.
This was highlighted in a Wall Street Journal article from two days ago with the headline: big banks spend to boost credit card sign-ups, defying recession fears.
On Slide 5, you can see that American Express.
Continues to publicly report strong card acquisition numbers.
We showed you this chart last quarter, which has been updated, and you can see a positive trend. As a matter of fact, during the recent earnings call, American Express highlighted that acquisitions of U's consumer Platinum, gold and Delta were at record levels and that their customer retention and credit quality both remain at exceptionally strong levels.
On Page six.
You can see that industry observers believe in the growth of metal payment cards as well.
Maybe I research published a report that estimated.
Total worldwide metal payment card shipments of 2021 around 29 million. As you know, we announced that we produced more than 22 million cards in 2021, confirming our strong leadership position in the marketplace.
Abi expects the premium metal card market will double to more than 63 million card shippped by 2026, which we believe highlights several growth factors.
Including increased demand by premium clients and expansion toward other vertical payment segments.
I know there may be some new listeners on the call today and I want to take the opportunity to dive deeper into arculus.
And share the diversity and strength of the platform.
Each time we talk about arulis, I have highlighted that it is a security and authentication platform.
With opportunities across a variety of verticals.
one of them is crypto, but we have always said there are numerous opportunities and we want to continue to frame that for you.
Let me orient you to what's on Slide seven on the left side. We're talking about our B two B solutions.
That we would white label for their customers.
To deliver security authentication, identity verification and or cold storage across a variety of verticals, including financial institutions, fintech partners, gaming and gambling.
calic, com: sports and entertainment and health care.
And we believe these opportunities are as big or bigger than the opportunities that we have within the crypto market.
When we talk about secure authentication.
This helps a consumer better protect the log-in process, whether it's for banking and investment accounts, gaming or gambling, et cetera. This is our direct response to the password problem we are all aware of. An arulus allows for the user for the use of three -factor authentication.
To support enhanced security.
On the right side we have our direct-to-consumer arculus cold storage product that you are familiar with, and I'm going to cover more on the next few pages.
Which leads me to our overall portfolio on Page eight.
We've got our core offerings across the top metal payment cards, cold storage and authentication.
I mentioned a moment ago that we've received approval for the ability to add.
Payment cards with digital authentication.
And later this year we'll have payment cards with cold storage.
Cold storage cards with authentication.
And then finally, early next year, we intend to bring together payments plus cold storage, plus digital authentication, and we are excited for each of these advances.
I spoke about the current challenges in the digital asset market, as exchanges were freezing or limiting withdrawals.
This has been driving the increased need for consumers to control the private keys to their digital assets.
You can see on Slide nine the timeline and actual headlines over the last few months, as this has become a widespread issue for exchanges and digital asset platforms.
Not only has this elevated the awareness for consumers to protect their assets.
But these platforms may move to offer cold storage as part of their offerings to help protect their consumers' digital assets, which we are well positioned to support.
On Slide ten.
We're proud to continue to meet our targets for adding features and functionality to arculus.
And everything you see on the top of the slide is fully available today. This includes the ability to view NFTs's and arculus, as well as walletconnect integration and expanded currency support that we launched at the end of June .
For the second half, we've got a number of meaningful updates coming, including our ability to significantly expand the number of digital currencies that we support.
Introducing white-labeled payment cards with integrated cold storage functionality, which I mentioned.
Continuing to enhance our SDK for B two B integrations.
Offering a joint wallet option for Director to-consumer.
Expanding our direct-to-consumer distribution channels and finally, simplifying succession planning for crypto through our joint wallet solution.
On Page 11. I want to summarize some points that I've made already but I think are critical.
Number one We believe that the current challenges in the market are driving an increased need for consumers to take control of their private keys to their digital assets.
Second we're encouraged by recent partnerships where we can address the growing need for security, authentication and cold storage, even while the market is facing a bit of turmoil.
We do not see cryptoe going away.
This market cycle has created uncertainty in timing for our anticipated arist ramp-ups and some partners and targets have been impacted.
And we continue to be thoughtful about how we're running the business.
andas, you can see by our margin discussion later, we remain focused on margin.
While simultaneously managing our critical investments.
To capture long-term value for our shareholders.
We are confident that our arulus platform is well positioned to meet the current and anticipated needs of the market.
I'm going to turn it over to Tim to give some financial highlights.
Thanks John , and good evening everyone. I'll provide a more detailed overview of our second quarter 2022 financial performance and then turn it back to John before we open the call for questions.
Second quarter 2022, net sales grew 55% to $97 million, up from 63 million in the same quarter of the prior year.
As John mentioned, we continue to perform extremely well through strong sales execution about sales strategy and our deep client relationships both domestically and internationally.
Moving on to gross margin, gross margins were 61% in the second quarter of 2022 versus 56% in the second quarter of 2021. We continue to watch supply chain costs and have been successful offsetting raw material cost increases through production efficiencies and increased scale.
We reported net income for the second quarter of 2022 of $61 million.
This includes a $35 million favorable impact for fair value adjustments associated with the mark-to-market of the warrants in the earn-out.
If you adjust out the $35 million about operating net income, would be $26 million, which is up 18% compared to our operating net income of twotwenty-two million in the second quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA was a record $4 million in the second quarter of 2022, of 45% to $27 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Similar to last quarter, the ocuous revenue and investment resulted in a net impact of approximately minus seven million in the second quarter.
Turning to the first half results.
Looking looking at our strong performance of the first half of the year. Net sales grew 43% to $181 million in the first half of 2022, up from 127 million in the first half of 2021.
Gross margins were 59% in the first half of 2022 versus 55% in the first half of 2021, a change of more than 440 basis points.
Driven by production efficiencies and product mix.
Net income for the first half of 2022 was eighty-eight million.
This includes a favorable impact of 37 million for the fair value adjustments associated with the mark-to-market of the warrants and earnap. If you adjust out the 37 million at about operating net income, it would have been $51 million or up 13%, compared to an operating net income of 45 million and the first half of 2021.
So far for the first half of 2022, we have produced adjusted EBITDA of $73 million, which was an increase of 29% from the first half of 2021 and, of course, excludes the $37 million increase of fair value adjustments from the earnout warrant revaluation, but includes the net impact of minus one million related to the Oculus investments.
For the first half of 2022, we also had operating cash flows of $51 million, versus 27 million for the first half in 2021, and free cash from cash flow from operations of 47.5 million when you back out the three point five million of capital spending.
You can see this cash flow statement in the appendix of the presentation.
Looking at the split between domestic and international, you could see that we continue to have strong domestic sales, increasing 50% compared to the second quarter of 2021 to $7 million, again due to the strength of our sales execution and favorable industry trends.
International net sales for the second quarter of 2022 was $27 million.
71% higher than the prior year due to the expansion of our international sales team, continued distribued growth and demand for premium payment cast in the international markets.
As we mentioned last quarter, our edgid on survey highlighted the growing demand for metal payment cards in the international market. We are well positioned to take advantage of this growing opportunities.
I want to touch briefly on the deckt. Please note this balance sheet is in the appendix.
As of June thirtieth, we have secured debt of 258.1 million, which is made up of 231.1 million of a term loan plus 25 million of a drawing revolver, an unsecured convertible debt of one hundred thirty million.
In the quarter we made the 200 and took that the 2021 excess cash flow payment of 13.8 million, thereby reducing our term. Lo, we had cash of 13.4 million on the balance sheet and this resulted in a net debt leverage to the secured debt of twenty-one point nine.
And a total of 21- I apologize- and total net debt leverage of 3.29, based on $118 million in trailing 12 -month EBITDA. This calculation is in accordance with without banker goodid.
The secured debt facility, along with our operating cash flow, will provide working capital for us to fund our growth plans.
Let's turn to Slide sixteen.
I want. I want to talk about our earnings per share.
As you may have read now earnings release, we've adopted an alternative method under GAAP for calculating basic and diluted EPS.
This method allows us to allocate changes in fair value. Adjustments of the mark-to-market instruments among the public company and the operating subsidiaries better reflect the actual economic impact of the conversion of such instruments on our net income per share basis.
The reason we are doing this is that gap is evolving as it relates to EPS on a company with an UPC structure. We believe this method better reflects the economic impact on for our shareholders.
Having said that, let me run throughout EPS calculations.
Basic GAAP earnings per share for the first half of 2022 is 80 cent per share and diluted at 75 sets per share.
You can read through the footnotes on the slide that take you through the complexities of the allocation of the net income due to the UPC structure and the shares that are included in the basic and diautic calculations.
Note that the fair value adjustments in the quarter and year-to-date have been allocated among the operating companies that come to preallocation net income.
On Slide 17 and innomdna. We're also providing a non-GAAP EPS that takes out the impact of the non-cash fair value adjustments and the effect of the upca structure.
We believe that this provides a clearer picture of the economics of the company's operating results.
With that background, our basic non-GAAP earnings per share for the first half of 2022, with 60 cents per share and diluted, its 52 cents per share.
In the appendix you'll find a reconciliation to the GAAP and non-GAAP net income used in these calculations.
Note that we have added back the impact of the fair value adjustments and the stock-based compensation to be consistent with our adjusted EBITDA calculations.
Now let me hand it back over to John - we address our updated guidance and for a final summary, before we take questions.
Thanks Tim.
As I mentioned, our first half results have positioned us well.
We have confidence in the strength of our sales backlog and pipeline and have updated our guidance.
We now expect net sales to be in the range of 355 to 38 million, up from our previous guidance.
And we now expect adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of 110 to 12 million, also up from our previous guidance of 100 to 110.
Turning to Slide nineteen.
I also want to reshare our strategic priorities, as I do every quarter.
Regardless of short-term market dynamics.
We continue to be guided by our strategic priorities and I'm very pleased with the progress we are making against goals as we pursue long-term value creation for our shareholders.
We had another outstanding record quarter.
And we have set a strong pace going into the second half of the year.
We continue to see increased demand for our metal payment card offerings from both new and existing customers.
Driven by strong sales execution, deep relationships and market momentum.
We are focused on our growth while maintaining our improving margins to capture long-term value.
We remain encouraged by both the business and consumer response to arculus, even with the current crypto-market turbulence and partially because of it.
And we believe we have created a powerful platform that is well positioned to meet the growing need for digital security, authentication and cold storage solutions.
With that, I want to thank you all for taking the time to join us today.
We very much appreciate your attention.
And I'll open it up to questions.
Thank deil. At this time we will conduct the question-and-answer session. As a reminder, to ask the question you will need to press star 1- one on your phone and wait for your namees to be announced.
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Our first question comes from Steve moss from the Riley Securities. Go ahead, Steve.
Thank good afternoon.
Maybe just starting here with the revenue guide. Here it kind of seems to apply about a flattish revenue guide at the high end relative to the second quarter level. Maybe just talk about the drivers and the puts and takes as we look forward.
Sure thanks for the question, Steve. So when you think about the guidance we've given first half revenue at roughly 180 and you know second half, that you know.
Total guidance at 355 to 380. you know it says that in the second half we think we will sort of beat or exceed the first half. Essentially is the way we're looking at it and you know we set guidancein Steve in a way that you know we always hope to be able to meet and exceed.
Ok.
That's, that's helpful. And then in terms of just the adjusted EBITDA guidance you know seems like it', s- I'm assumed, it's fair to assume that you know the second half will be impacted by an increase in the arq spender to the first halfen that a fair assumption?
A bit, But at the same time Steve, we've taken a very measured approach to spending. As I mentioned on our last call the spending for us back half weighted. So yes, there is more spending in the back half. At the same time, we are able to control the levers and dials of our business quite well as we try to balance, driving strong results in growth and in margin to build long-term value.
Okay and maybe just in terms of driving efficiency, is this gross margin sustainable here, or should you use maybe just a little bit of a lower number here for going forward?
Steve. We've given, I think, kind of gross margin and EBITDA margin guidance, certainly on the core business.
That we would suggest that you go back and look at.
For no long-term ranges.
Ok.
And one more question is back on revenue. For me just kind of curious if you could break out is the contribution from our isk this quarter and just kind of with the uncertainty you're seeing in the market for crypto, just kind of how you're thinking about the revenue contribution relative to the prior color.
Yes Steve, as we said on the last call, we're not breaking out the aruous revenue and units separately. At a later date, as it becomes a greater part of our business, it would break out into its own reporting segment, but not at this point. We've tried to give you guidance in terms of progress we're making on partnerships. We have seen an uptick in demand from in Q2 versus Q1, we think as a result of some of the trends that we described.
And you know.
Overall we still remain very confident about the arulus platform. At the same time, we certainly saw some partners impacted. That slowed down some progress that we would have liked to have made.
Alright, great. Thank you very much for the color this quarter.
Thank you.
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Our next question comes from John toaro from needha and company.
So I have johp.
Thank you. Thanks for taking my question, guys. I guess just.
Looking at net revenue guide a little bit further, I mean the growth in that it's fair to assume that all that growth is coming from the metal card side, right or is is there? I know we're not going to break out ulus, But in some of that growth contributing from artculus, should we really be thinking it as the courre metal card side?
Yes John , similar to the response I gave theve, we're not breaking out the arulus business, I think.
I'd point you back to my comments on where we are both pleased about the progress and the partnerships.
Some uptick that we've seen in demand: Q2 over Q1 and confidence in sort.
Of executing against the you the opportunity that's there for aruus at the same time we've seen some impact from some of those relationships that have slowed down as a result of some of the turmoil. So.
I'm not going to break it out more deeply than that.
Okay understood. And then kind of just the strategy on that. With some of the slowdown in crypto, any some of the institutional partnerships slowdown, is there a strategy shift to focus more on the direct-to-consumer which, as you guys noted with the issues with the centralized operators, there's a growth in kind of that average everyday retail user trying to take custody of their assets and move to a hardware wallet. Are you guys shifting a strategy a little bit to focus on that direct-to-consumer segment or still is the focus? I guess just can you break out the focus between going after the institutional partnerships versus that direct-to-consumer strategy?
Yes it's a great question, jump. I think we believe that over the long term, the B two B opportunities will still be the bigger channel for us.
Your point is fair- and I made that point- that we have seen some increase in demand on the B two C side, as we think consumers are recognizing the need to control their private keys.
But I would say our strategy hasn't changed. It will still leverage both the B two B and B two C channels. We think heavier B two B over the long term for us.
Okay thanks for that. And then just the last question on the recessionary environment. If we, if there were our concerns that recessionary environment gets a little bit worse here, where would the focus be in seeing some of that weakness are? Is the fintech relationships, some of the larger legacy core customers, international expansion, just any high level color on that would be helpful.
So John , the best example that we can look at for that is when the pandemic hit.
It did have well. Well, it may not have been defined as a recession, it did have a significant impact on the credit card market. So marketing spending was down, acquisitions were down and you can see that trend if you look at some of the data that we've shared.
And those trends impact us. So, through we believe, the pandemic, which was a pretty tough set of circumstances for us, we still managed to grow in single digits.
During that time.
So if the recessionary concerns were to pick up more deeply.
Could it slow down some of the growth? Potentially a bit, but net-net we were still able to grow through extremely challenging times before because we have a number of drivers in the business. New acquisition is 1, but we also have natural reissue. We also have.
Lost stolen cards and it is kind of the three of those drivers that come together.
And we were able to continue to increase new account of new.
Net new logos during that time as well. So that's kind of how we think about possible downturn impacts.
Okay ay great, Thank that. Thank that helpful. Those are all the questions for me. You Congress, on the quarter. Guys appreciate it.
Appreciate thanks for the question, John .
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