Q2 2025 Great Elm Group Inc Earnings Call
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Speaker Change: I'll provide a brief overview of the quarter and of course welcome all of you to review our filings in greater detail or reach out to our team with any questions.
In closing
We're pleased with the performance of our credit and real estate businesses this quarter.
The acquisition of Greenfield theory strengthens our real estate capabilities while GECCs continued growth demonstrates our momentum in credit.
Speaker Change: Second quarter revenues grew 20, corporate $3 5 million from the prior year period, primarily driven by increased revenue from bottom line.
Speaker Change: Alongside a pick up in my opinion.
We remain focused on our core objectives.
Speaker Change: Our fee paying AUM totaled approximately $751 million and $538 million up 14%.
Enhancing financial performance.
Expanding our platform and growing AUM.
Looking ahead, we will continue to evaluate strategic opportunities to expand our businesses and creative differentiated product offerings with attractive risk adjusted return profiles.
Speaker Change: Respectively from the prior year quarter.
Speaker Change: Great on the group generated net income from continuing operations of $1 4 million for the quarter as compared to a net loss from continuing operation.
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Speaker Change: Point $2 million for the prior year period.
Thank you, Jason. I will provide a brief overview of the quarter and of course welcome all of you to you are filing some greater detail or reach out to our team with any questions.
Speaker Change: Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $1 million compared to a narrow point $6 million in the prior year period.
It's the 2nd quarter revenues grew 24% to 3.5 million from the prior year period, primarily driven by an increased revenue from Moamoy BTS alongside a pickup and management fees from GECC AUM and fee paying AUM totaled approximately $751 million and $538 million up 14% and 17% respectively from the prior year quarter end.
Speaker Change: As of December 31, we had approximately $44 million of cash on our balance sheet.
Speaker Change: Across our growing alternative asset management platform.
Speaker Change: Please refer to slides that provides an overview of our financial highlights.
Speaker Change: Highlight the book value per share of approximately $2 or 30%.
Speaker Change: This concludes my financial review with a quarter with that I will turn the call over to the operator to open for questions.
Great on group generated net income from continuing operations of $1.4 million for the quarter.
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Speaker Change: One moment, please while they pull for questions.
Speaker Change: There are no questions at this time I would like to turn the floor back over to Jason <unk> CEO for closing comments.
Speaker Change: Thank you again for joining US today, we look forward to speaking with you soon.
Speaker Change: This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.
Speaker Change: Okay.
Greetings and welcome to the great Elm Group fiscal 2025 2nd quarter conference call at this time all participants are in a listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. Should anyone require operator assistance during the conference, please press 0 on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host Adam Yates, managing director. Thank you. You may begin.
Good morning everyone.
As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded on Thursday, February 6, 2025.
If you would like to be added to our distribution list, you can email ginvestor relations at greatelmcap.com where you can sign up for alerts directly on our website www.gre Emgroup.com.
The slide presentation accompanying today's conference call and webcast can be found on our website under events and presentations.
A link to the webcast is also available on our website as well as in the press release that was disseminated to announce the quarterly results.
Today's conference call includes forward looking statements, and we ask that you refer to Great Elm Group's filings with the SEC for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements.
Great Oro does not undertake to update its forward looking statements unless required by law.
In addition, during today's call, management will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures.
Reconciliations to the most comparable financial measures are included in our earnings release.
To obtain copies of our SEC filings, please visit great on Group's website under financial information and select SEC filings.
Today's comments do not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy interest in any investment vehicle managed by Great EM or its affiliates.
Any such offer or solicitation will only be made pursuant to the applicable offering documents for such investment vehicle.
On the call today we have Jason Reese, CEO.
Adam Kleinman, president and general counsel.
Nicole Mills, COO, and Kerry Davis, CFO.
I will now turn the call over to Jason Reese, CEO.
Welcome everyone and thank you for joining us today.
We delivered a solid fiscal 2nd quarter 2025 marked by significant year over year growth in both assets under management and revenue across our businesses, building on the last quarter's momentum.
We continue to evolve as a streamlined alternative asset management business and our solid foundation leaves us well positioned to expand our core credit and real estate platforms while executing on our long term growth strategy.
Among our recent highlights.
Earlier this week we announced the launch of Moamoy Construction Services with the strategic acquisition of Greenfield CRE.
A leading construction management company.
Great on Capital Corp or BBC raised an additional $13.2 million of equity at net asset value in December. It's 3rd equity capital raise in calendar 2024.
We continue to grow our assets under management, increasing our fee paying AUM by 17% on a year over year basis.
We generated total revenue of $3.5 million growing 24% year over year.
We completed construction of and are working to sell our second Moamoy built to suit property for a potential gain.
We surpassed double digit net returns in great elm credit income fund or GSI.
Since our inception through December 31st.
We continue to repurchase shares at a meaningful discount to book value executing on our expanded $20 million buyback authorization and we ended the quarter in a strong financial position.
With over $44 million in cash available to facilitate continued growth across our asset management platforms.
Diving into the quarter in more detail.
Be paying assets under management continue to grow and reach approximately $538 million representing a 17% increase over the prior year period, primarily driven by our BBC.
In December 2024 GECC raised $13.2 million of equity capital at net asset value through another STV Summit World Partners.
This brings total capital raised at GECC through equity and debt issuances to over $147 million in the last year.
GEG supported the December race with a $3.3 million investment into the STV alongside it an approximately $10 million investment from other institutional investors.
GEG has now participated in a total of 3 equity raises at GECC with a combined investment of approximately $12 million facilitating an increase in fee paying assets under management at GECC of greater than 40%.
GECC also continued to perform well, as evidenced by its ability to raise capital in the recently announced 5.7% increase to the quarterly based distribution to 37 cents per share.
For the first calendar quarter of 2025.
Since the refresh of the management and the board in March 2022 GECC has nearly doubled its net asset value delivering meaningful value to shareholders as it continues to expand its portfolio and leverage its infrastructure.
In addition to its base distribution GECC declared a special cast distribution of 5 cents per share in December 24, driven by the portfolio's strong income generation throughout 24.
Overall GECC's recent successes are fundamental to our growth strategy.
The increased capital base expands our fee paying AUM.
Thriving both higher recurring management fees and send the the potential.
Notably, our base management fee from GECC group 33% year over year to $1.2 million and we earned.
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GC, our private credit fund has delivered a strong return on invested capital of approximately 13.9% net of fees since inception in November 23.
With these strong returns and a now established track record where well positioned to attract new capital and further scale the fund.
Meanwhile, our real estate business, Moamoy also continued to deliver strong results with the completion of our second design build project we anticipate continued profitability across Moo Mo's platform as we focus on selling our second built to shoot project and work towards the development of our 3rd contracted design build project.
With a strong pipeline of built to shoot opportunities we remain committed to executing on these development projects to drive profitability and deliver value for both our tenants and shareholders.
Further building on strategic growth initiatives on February 4th we significantly expanded our real estate capabilities through the acquisition of Greenfield CRA.
A leading construction management company in a long standing partner of Momo.
Greenfield has a deep knowledge of our development projects, a strong understanding of our tenant needs and expectations and a proven track record of delivering on Momo's high standards.
In connection with this transaction we launched Moamoy Construction Services or MCS.
And can find the assets of Greenfield with the assets of our monomoy BPS construction management consulting business.
MCS meaningfully bolsters our real estate platform by creating a fully integrated full service construction vertical to serve our existing asset management entities and we expect our close relationship with the Greenfield team to make for a seamless integration.
Additionally, MCS expands our third party owner rep consulting services.
Adding a created fee revenue opportunities.
While improving our operational efficiency to economies of scale.
We expect this transaction to enhance our construction management expertise by adding to Moomoy's existing civil engineering and land planning talent expanding our scope of services and fortifying our overall real estate value proposition to our investors and clients.
Additionally, Moamoy Reed continues to execute.
We closed on 3 property purchases for approximately $3.8 million and maintain a strong pipeline of transaction opportunities and open requirements from our tenants.
We have several value added acquisitions on the contract that we expect to close over the next 6 months.
Outside of our core businesses.
We have made significant progress in repurchasing shares under our expanded $20 million buyback.
From February 4th we have repurchased approximately 4.1 million shares for $7.4 million in an average price of $1.83 per share.
Representing an approximately 20% discount to our book value of $2.30 per share.
Additionally, GEG has continued to experience outsized returns on its unique investments such as the convertible preferred financing for core Weave and a private fund managed by Stoneridge Asset Management a best in class re insurance manager.
These investments further enhance our shareholder value and are testament to the strength of our sourcing capabilities for a board of directors and broader sophisticated network.
Which gives us a seat at the table in unique investment opportunities.
We continue to maintain a strong balance sheet and capital position with over $44 million of cash. Our ample liquidity enables us to support future growth initiatives across our alternative asset management platform.
In closing
We're pleased with the performance of our credit and real estate businesses this quarter.
The acquisition of Greenfield the strengthens our real estate capabilities while GECCs continued growth demonstrates our momentum in credit.
We remain focused on our core objectives.
Enhancing financial performance.
Expanding our platform and growing AUM.
Looking ahead, we will continue to evaluate strategic opportunities to expand our businesses and creative differentiated product offerings with attractive risk adjusted return profiles.
With that I'll turn it over to Carrie.
Thank you, Jason. I will provide a brief overview of the quarter and of course welcome all of you to you are filing in greater detail or reach out to our team with any questions.
It's 2nd quarter revenues grew 24% to 3.5 million from the prior year period, primarily driven by an increased revenue from Moomoy BTS alongside a pickup and management fees from GECC AUM and fee paying AUM totaled approximately $751 million and $538 million up 14% and 17% respectively from the prior year quarter end.
Great on group generated net income from continuing operations of $1.4 million for the quarter as compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $0.2 million for the prior year period.
Adjusted Era for the quarter was $1 million compared to 0.6 million in the prior year period.
As of December 31st we had approximately $44 million of cash on our balance sheet to deploy across our growing alternative asset management platform.
Please prefer to slide 7 that provides an overview of our financial position and highlights the book value per share of approximately $2.30.
This concludes my financial review of the quarter. With that, we will turn the call over to the operator to open for questions.
Thank you, we will now be conducting a question and answer session if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad, a confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue.
For participants using speaker equipment it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys.
One moment please while we pull for questions.
There are no questions at this time. I would like to turn the floor back over to Jason Reese, CEO for Closing Commons.
Thank you again for joining us today. We look forward to speaking with you soon.
This concludes phase teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.