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CEA Industries Inc. Common Stock (BNC)

Q4 2021 Earnings Call· Tue, Mar 29, 2022

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the CEA Industries, Inc. Q4 and Full Year 2021 and earnings conference call. [Operator Instructions] It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, CEA Industries CEO, Tony McDonald. Sir, the floor is yours.

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

Thank you, and good afternoon. Welcome to CEA Industries Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Earnings Call. My name is Tony McDonald, I'm the company's Chairman and CEO, and I'm joined today by our Chief Financial Officer, Ian Patel. Before we begin, please be advised that this call may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. These statements reflect our current beliefs and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this call, including the risk factors set forth in our Form 10-K, which we filed with the SEC. Please refer to our SEC filings for a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with our business. Please note that we filed our annual report on Form 10-K and issued a press release announcing fourth quarter and full year 2021 results earlier today. These documents can be found on our website at www.ceaindustries.com/investor-relations. If you would like to be on our e-mail distribution list, send an e-mail to info@ceaindustries.com. While we will highlight some key information contained in the press release, the primary purpose of this call is to provide an update on our recently updated strategic and organic growth plans and our key operating metrics. In the fourth quarter of last year, we changed the name of our company from Surna Inc. to CEA Industries, Inc. Earlier in the year, we renamed our subsidiary business that designs, engineers and provides equipment for indoor cultivation facilities to Surna Cultivation Technologies. We updated the Surna name to better reflect all of our capabilities and product and service offerings and to make the company more readily identifiable on social media to potential customers. We…

Ian Patel

Analyst

Thanks, Tony. 2021 saw continued momentum largely due to execution of our organic growth strategy. Our net bookings, which will be discussed in a bit more than doubled compared to 2020. Our revenue, which was $13.6 million for the full year represents a 60% increase over 2020. And despite the challenges presented by our pandemic-impacted supply chain was the second best in our history. Revenue was impacted in the quarter by disruptions in our supply chain, which delayed shipments and affected our ability to translate some of our contract pipeline to revenues in accordance with the original time frame of the contracts. Our 2021 gross profit margin was 21.5% compared to 18.2% for 2020, an increase of 330 basis points. The primary drivers of our increase in year-over-year margin were higher sales off of a fixed cost base, partially offset by a lower margin on equipment sales. Our operating loss for 2021 was $1.98 million compared to a $2.36 million operating loss in 2020. The 2021 operating loss included $382,000 of noncash expenses as compared to $520,000 in noncash expenses for the year ended December 31, 2020. Excluding these noncash items, our operating loss decreased by $24,000. Our net loss for 2021 was $1.34 million, which is $421,000 lower than our 2020 net loss of $1.76 million. Our 2021 net bookings were approximately $16 million, which included $3.9 million in change orders and were net of $1.4 million of cancellations. This booking amount represents a 116% increase as compared to our total 2020 net bookings. As previously stated, at $9.6 million, our net bookings in the second half of 2021 were the highest in the company's history and a 22% increase on the same figure for 2020. As of December 31, 2021, our cash position was $2.16 million compared to…

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

Thanks, Ian. The financial results just reported further reinforced validation of our business model and our market opportunity within CEA. We are confident that our organic growth strategy is gaining traction in the market and will continue to bear fruit in the second half of this year. The CEA industry's team greatly appreciates all of the support from our shareholders. This concludes today's prepared remarks, and we will open the floor for questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

As we wait for people to enter the queue, I will field some questions received via e-mail and the webcast. To what do you attribute your second half bookings growth from 2021? We attribute this to the continued execution on our strategic plan, our expanded product and service offerings. Do we have any positive news on our future project pipeline? No, we don't offer any forward-looking guidance, but we do periodically offer press releases on recently completed contracts. Will you be providing guidance for future revenue and earnings? We have not historically, and we do not currently offer any guidance. That concludes the pre-submitted questions. Operator, are there any questions from the lines at this time.

Operator

Operator

The first question is coming from Alan Brochstein, Alan, please mount your affiliation and pose your question.

Alan Brochstein

Analyst

Congratulations, Tony. This is Alan from New Cannabis Ventures. I just wanted to ask with this cash that you now have. And I believe during the call you might have spoken about it. Can you talk about some of the potential acquisitions and timing of those acquisitions that you'd be contemplating?

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

I really couldn't speak to that, Alan. I appreciate your call and encouragement. I couldn't speak to anything directly other than to say that if you look at our stated intentions, the fact that we, in January, brought on Vice President of Corporate Development that we have these firmly in mind and are doing everything we can to fulfill our strategic objective of growing our platform.

Alan Brochstein

Analyst

Well, let me ask it a little differently. Do you think it would be limited to the United States? Are you looking at other markets outside of the United States?

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

We have stated in our public filings that we believe there are opportunities for us internationally. And of course, we've long operated in Canada. But beyond that geography that we do believe there are opportunities that lie outside North America and that we -- at some stage, we'll be interested in pursuing them.

Operator

Operator

And the next question is coming from Andrew Scott.

Andrew Scott

Analyst

It's Andrew Scott of ThinkEquity. Congratulations, really excited to see what 2022 has in store with you. We know you guys are cashed up. A quick question for Ian. Do you know what the cash value per share is?

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

I don't know what the cash value per there is off hand, but let me get it today. Give me one second.

Andrew Scott

Analyst

Sure because we still think the stock is really cheap. We're excited about the outlook for your growth prospects. There's a lot happening in your market. It's stock just looks really cheap. I know the fourth quarter was impacted by some supply chain disruptions, but we're really excited about what you guys can do in 2022. I'm going to drop off. But when you get the cash-per-share number, on a weighted basis. Please let us know and I'll drop off and let you free it up to other questions.

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

Yes. Thanks, Andrew. Actually, the answer to that is $2.66. So to your point, there's a lot of room here to run and we're looking forward to 2022 that's supported in that.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And there were no other questions at this time.

Anthony McDonald

Analyst

Well, great. That concludes today's conference call. We look forward to presenting our first quarter results in May, and we thank you for your continued interest in CEA Industries.

Operator

Operator

An audio replay of this call will be available on ceaindustries.com/investor-relations beginning on March 30 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time and will remain available until May 6, 2022. You may disconnect your phone lines at this time, and have a wonderful day. Thank you for your participation.