Q3 2022 Xtant Medical Holdings Inc Earnings Call

Greetings and welcome to the extent medical Q3, 2022 financial results Conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. If anyone should require operator assistance. During the conference. Please press star zero on your telephone keypad as a reminder, this conference.

Is being recorded I would now like to turn the conference over to Matt Steinberg. That's been partners. Please go ahead.

Thank you operator, and welcome to accident Medicals third quarter 2022 financial results call.

Joining me today is Sean Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Scott Hill, Chief Financial Officer.

Today's call is being webcast and will be posted on the company's website for playback.

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The company disclaims any obligation to update its forward looking statements, except as required by applicable law now I'd like to turn the call over to Sean Browne.

Thank you, Matt and good morning, everyone I am pleased to provide an update on our company's progress during the third quarter. There were several positive items that I'd like to touch on today first we achieved solid year over year revenue growth driven by our biologics business continuing our momentum from the first half of the year.

Second we enhanced our cash position and strengthened our board third we continued to execute on our key growth pillars, thereby positioning the company to create value for our leading spine. Brad Lastly, I want to provide an update on our newly implemented ERP I, both the challenges of implementation and the benefits it will provide moving forward.

Starting with our third quarter performance total revenue increased by 5% year over year led by growth in our biologics products of 12% year over year throughout the quarter. The pace of sales increase following a slow start and we close the chapter on a positive note. We are pleased with our revenue growth against the backdrop of a challenging labor environment.

Market demand, particularly for our biologics products remains strong however, due to limited availability of production labor, we were operating below 70% capacity for most of Q3. This is not just a challenge at <unk>, but one that is impacting the entire tissue banking industry, we work with a number of tissue banks for some outsource law.

Sure volume products and they too were having significant labor issues to minimize as in fact be proactively increased recruiting and training efforts for our processing team. We believe our actions are starting to alleviate the supply chain issues. So that we can keep up with demand and produce more product. While it typically takes about six months to get a new employee full they trade.

And we are confident that we will be operating at 100% capacity by the end of first quarter of 2023.

Now turning to our recently announced private investment during the quarter, we bolstered our financial position by entering into a securities purchase agreement with select group of accredited investors led by <unk>, It's really a dockets.

Successful biotech executive at Investor The total gross proceeds of $9 $75 million from the transaction will support working capital and other general corporate purposes.

After the completion of this closing in August stop Russ became nonexecutive Chairman of these acts that board. He brings his distinguished career of more than 30 years of serving the broader spine and orthopedic surgical markets. Having recently served as Chief Executive Officer advice next we welcome his deep experience and leadership that will be in <unk>.

As we grow our business that's still our mission.

Moving forward our focus remains primarily on four key growth initiatives, one do product introductions to distribution network expansion.

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Steel factor in particular is a terrific product for bringing on new distributors and for providing a safe and very effective growth factor product to our surgeons. We are excited about the traction generated to date and look forward to continued growth of these new product lines.

Our distribution expansion strategy is bearing very nice fruit over the course of the last two years, we have been targeting at least 10, new distributors per quarter I'm happy to say the quality of those distributors at their overall impact on our business has been very positive at the beginning of the year. We plan for that group of new distributors to contribute $6 1 million in sales for all of <unk>.

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Our third key pillar targeted adjacent market penetration remains an important part of our strategy that represents a total market opportunity of 625 billion concurrent with the production labor constraints that I discussed earlier, our penetration into certain adjacent market has slowed our focus remains out of our existing private label and OEM.

In the near term, but we will continue to view the adjacent markets is a key growth pillar moving forward.

Our last pillar is leveraging our growth platform through strategic acquisitions as we have previously communicated we feel this strategy can provide both the path to accelerate scale, but it is a strategy that takes time to execute with the recent reductions in public market companies valuations. Many private companies that are only now beginning to realize.

But the valuations of 2021 I'm not the same as they are in 2022, we will remain diligent in our approach to acquisition, but this will be an important element of our goal to get to greater scale.

Finally amidst the many production challenges extended space. We also implemented a new enterprise resource planning system or ERP system. This is the fourth time in my career I've been involved in such an endeavor and the previous through was very disruptive to the everyday work load every one of those respective companies.

For <unk>, we endured a tough transition in July and August but by September we are beginning to reap the benefits in this wonderful new system.

Thrilled by how our team stepped up and successfully implemented this system I look at the implementation of this new ERP system is the last step in turning this business around and fortifying our growth platform.

Looking back in the third quarter, we have made significant progress on our growth pillars operations and financial position I am appreciative of the work that our dedicated team has achieved by delivering 5% revenue growth at 12% biologics growth under a very tight labor market.

Given the strong demand environment, we have taken the necessary actions are ramping up our recruiting and training efforts to ensure we can meet this the bat looking forward, we are more confident than ever regarding our future prospects with the recently closed private investment and supported by the deep experience in <unk>, Missouri in August along with all of our newly implemented.

ERP, we believe all the pieces are in place to execute on our vision and strategy now I'd like to turn the call over to Scott, Neil who will discuss our third quarter 2022 financial results.

Thank you Sean and good morning, everyone total revenue for the third quarter of 2022 was $14 5 million compared to $13 $8 million in the same quarter in the prior year.

This 5% increase in revenue was attributed primarily to the introductions of new products gross margin for the third quarter of 2022 was 54, 6% compared to 52, 2%. The same period in 2021, the increase was primarily attributable to improved capacity utilization.

Operating expenses for the third quarter of 2022 totaled $9 8 million compared to $8 6 million in the third quarter of 2021 as a percentage of total revenue operating expenses were 68% compared to 63% in the same period a year ago.

General and administrative expenses were $3 $7 million for the screen months ended September 32022, compared to $3 1 million for the same period in 2021.

This increase was primarily attributable to additional expenses related to product registrations.

Employee compensation plans.

Sales and marketing expenses were $5 $9 million for the three months ended September 32022, compared to $5 $3 million. The same period. In 2021. This increase was primarily attributable to additional independent agent sales commissions and incentives due to higher revenues versus comparable period 2021.

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Net loss for the third quarter of 2022 was $2 $4 million with <unk> per share compared to a loss of $1 $8 million or two cents per share in the comparable 2021 period.

non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2022 totaled a loss of $9 million.

Compared to a non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA was <unk> six.

$6 million for the prior year period.

As of September 30th 2022, we had $17 $4 million of cash and cash equivalents $9 8 million of net accounts receivable $17 million of inventory and $7 $3 million available under our credit facility now.

Now I'll turn the call back to Sean for closing remarks.

Thank you Scott we are pleased with the progress made in the third quarter by delivering 5% revenue growth driven by a 12% increase from our biologics products against the challenging market environment. We.

We continue to make promising strides in our key growth pillars highlighted by strong performance from our latest biologic product introductions and the significant contributions our new distributors have made to our business.

Private financing solidified our balance sheet by strengthening our cash position, enabling us to advance our long term strategy. Additionally, we are excited to welcome <unk> to.

To our board with his expansive experience he will be a significant contributor to our future success in closing extends values are centered around the three Rs respect for the individual responsiveness to our customers and our responsibility to our shareholders. These values drive our mission, which is our duty is to.

Honor the gift of donation, while our job is to build world class products. So that our patients can live as full and complete a life as possible.

Thank you for joining us today and for your continued support I will now turn it back over to the operator.

Thank you that concludes our call all parties may now disconnect.