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Genasys Inc. (GNSS)

Q3 2020 Earnings Call· Tue, Aug 11, 2020

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Operator

Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Genasys Inc.'s Fiscal Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. At this time, it is my pleasure to turn the floor over to Satya Chillara, Investor Relations for Genasys. Sir, the floor is yours.

Satya Chillara

Analyst

Thank you, Jess. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Genasys Fiscal Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call. I'm Satya Chillara, Investor Relations for Genasys. With me on the call today are Richard Danforth, Chief Executive Officer; and Dennis Klahn, Chief Financial Officer of Genasys. Before we begin, I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that during the course of this call, management will make forward-looking statements other than statements of historical facts. Statements made during this call that are forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations. During this call, we may discuss company's plans, expectations, outlook or forecast for future performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, the failure of the proposed Amika Mobile transaction to close on the expected time line or at all, the effect of Amika Mobile announcement of the transaction on customer relationships and operating results, the ability to meet all closing conditions to the Amika Mobile transaction, the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak, other pandemics and other risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond the company's control. These forward-looking statements are based on information and management's expectations as of today. Future results may differ materially from our current expectations. For more information regarding potential risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Risk Factors section of the company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2019. Genasys disclaims any intent or obligation to update those forward-looking statements, except as otherwise specifically stated. We may also discuss non-GAAP operational metrics of bookings and backlog, which we believe provide helpful information to investors with respect to evaluating the company's performance. We consider bookings and backlog leading indicators of future revenues and use these metrics to support production planning. Bookings is an internal operational metric that measures the total dollar value of the customer purchase orders executed in a given period regardless of the timing of the related revenue recognition. Backlog is a measure of purchase orders received that are scheduled to ship in the next 12 months. Finally, a replay of this call will be available in approximately 4 hours through the Investor Relations page on our website. At this time, it is my pleasure to turn over the -- turn the floor over to Genasys CFO, Dennis Klahn. Dennis?

Dennis Klahn

Analyst

Thank you, Satya, and welcome, everyone. I will open today's call with a recap of fiscal third quarter 2020 financial results. Richard will then provide an update on the business. Afterward, we will open the call for questions. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 were $12 million, the highest revenue for any third quarter in the company's history. This compares with revenues of $8.9 million in the third fiscal quarter of 2019. The 35% increase in revenues was due to a larger backlog at March 31, 2020, as compared to March 31, 2019, and strong acoustic hailing device revenues in the current year period. Gross profit was $6.5 million or 54.1% of revenue. The increase in gross profit margin compared to last year was largely due to the additional leverage of fixed overhead costs gained on the higher revenues. Operating expenses in fiscal Q3 were $4.5 million, an increase from $3.9 million in the same period a year ago. The increase was primarily due to higher selling, general and administrative expenses to support our higher revenue and future revenue growth opportunities. With higher revenues and gross margin, we generated net income of $1.5 million or $0.04 per diluted share in the fiscal third quarter. This compares with net income of $600,000 or $0.02 per diluted share in the same quarter last year. Cash generated from operating activities in the quarter was $5.8 million. Our balance sheet remains strong. Cash and cash equivalents totaled $20.7 million on June 30, 2020, up from $16.4 million on March 31, 2020, and $18.8 million on September 30, 2019. The $4.3 million increase in cash and cash equivalents from the last quarter was due to cash provided by operating activities. Working capital increased by $1.4 million to $26.9 million at June 30, 2020, compared to $24.8 million at September 30, 2019. The increase in working capital was primarily due to the net income from operations and cash received from the exercise of stock options in the first 9 months of fiscal year 2020. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Richard.

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Thank you, Dennis, and good afternoon to everybody on the call. Thanks to the outstanding work of the Genasys team and the support of our suppliers and service providers during this unprecedented pandemic, fiscal third quarter revenues were a record for any third quarter. These results were in line with the outlook provided on prior calls where I said revenues in the second half of fiscal 2020 were expected to be much stronger than fiscal first half revenues. Fiscal third quarter bookings were $22.7 million, up 118% from the same period last year. U.S. Army and Navy orders as well as other domestic and international defense, maritime, law enforcement, border and homeland security orders generated the majority of the fiscal third quarter bookings. Backlog at June 30, 2020, was $26.4 million, an increase of 26% from the same period a year ago. Our strong bookings and backlog keep the company on track for another fiscal year of record revenues. As discussed on our last call, as an essential provider of critical communication systems and solutions, Genasys has stayed open and the production floor remains busy, building and shipping products and systems. Our supply chain continues to deliver the pods needed to build our industry-leading hardware and public safety mass notification systems for a growing customer base. Ongoing civil unrest and COVID-19 communication applications have increased demand for the hardware and software communication systems from law enforcement and public safety agencies. The crowd noise generated by large and boisterous protesters overpowers bullhorns and vehicle PA systems. LRAD systems ensure voice communications are clearly heard from safe standoff distance to provide police and first responders more time to assess and properly deescalate dangerous situations. We designed our LRAD voice communication systems to help safeguard the public and protect officers. Police departments in…

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. We'll go first to Ed Woo at Ascendiant Capital.

Ed Woo

Analyst

Congratulations on the quarter. My question is on M&A with Amika. Do you feel that you can take on additional acquisitions broadway? Or do you need to digest this acquisition first?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

No, I think we can do more than one thing at a time, Ed. So we're not stopping. We're continuing.

Ed Woo

Analyst

That sounds great. And then in terms of -- obviously, with the disruption with what's going on with COVID, has that changed any of your business at all, either manufacturing, supply chain or even for request for proposals from customers?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

It's had an impact, yes. As I mentioned, all of the cities that have been ordering product mainly, so orders have -- order volume has certainly gone up. The size of the orders, however, have not been huge. They're buying 1s and 2s and 3s. We have seen an increase in demand for Genasys products and services and software. But we see a slowness in the communities, the governments getting the RFPs out and awarded. But -- so the long term, I see this as proving to create more demand for Genasys. Short term, we might have to fight some slower bookings.

Operator

Operator

We'll take our next question from Ryan MacWilliams at Stephens.

Ryan MacWilliams

Analyst

Congrats on the Amika Mobile contract. I think it really fills out your product suite with your leading hardware platform, your fully featured public warning product and now an enterprise mass notification-oriented product. Just in terms of the recent acquisition, how do you plan to build out the go-to-market to support this function? And is there any individual company vertical you'll try to target initially? Like a second vertical?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Ryan, to answer your first question, we are establishing a sales force for North America for the feature sets that Amika brings as well as the feature sets that Genasys had. So we will be hiring salespeople that will be geographically dispersed throughout North America. So that's how we're going to go after it. In terms of -- what was your second question, Ryan? It was first verticals? Oh, verticals, yes, okay. What Amika brings to us is verticals that include for both the U.S. and Canadian government veterans administration, cities, states, so I think they will provide to us the credentials and the backdrop of those credentials that we did not currently have in the enterprise world.

Ryan MacWilliams

Analyst

Perfect. And one more for me. Just on the Amika Mobile acquisition again, how do you feel this expands your addressable market on the software side? And then down the line, do you think you could see your installed base of hardware customers leading to public-warning opportunities and then within those covered geographies, leading to additional mass notification opportunities within enterprises or local state governments with the Amika Mobile deal?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

I do. So the first question is the size of the market. You know that at least as good as I do. And it's -- worldwide, it's in the billions of dollars. I think our hardware sales will beget software sales here in the United States, and I think the software sales will beget some hardware sales in the EU. And I think the enterprise solution that Amika provides is another vertical that we were just barely scratching into. And this will, as I mentioned in my remarks, substantially accelerate that growth.

Operator

Operator

We'll go next to Rick Neaton at Rivershore Investment.

Rick Neaton

Analyst

And congratulations on a record quarter. In terms of the Amika Mobile acquisition, your press release suggests that this is a cash acquisition. Is that right?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

We haven't disclosed the terms yet, Rick. We come to an agreement with Amika, and the close is subject to some Canadian government approvals and some contractual activity that we need to get through between now and closing. At close -- when we finish the closing, we obviously will report the financial terms, but there'll be no borrowing of any money, if that's what you're thinking of. It's -- it will be paid for out of cash.

Rick Neaton

Analyst

Okay. Yes, that's what I was thinking of. In terms of what additional resources Amika brings to you, is that going to help you better compete in the U.S. for Genasys or software wins in counties and states that are having their contracts up for renewal?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Yes. But it's not their people. They have a great group of software developers, much like we have in Madrid. What Amika brings to us is 20 years of history and credentials. And that was a shortcoming in the enterprise market for Genasys, and Amika fills that void.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions]. We'll go next to Scott Billeadeau of Walrus Partners.

Scott Billeadeau

Analyst

Several of them have been answered. Good quarter. Just wanted to -- as you file the S-1, buy Amika in, is there a focus for the M&A activity going forward? Will it be more software-based vis-à-vis hardware-based? I don't know if you've got any color for us, that would be great.

Richard Danforth

Analyst

No, not really, Scott. I mean software is more interesting to us at this time given our position from a hardware perspective in award marketplace, but I won't discount anything without looking at it. So I think we're wide open.

Scott Billeadeau

Analyst

Okay. And maybe just a follow-up. Are there some -- from a business development perspective, you guys showing your books, do you have -- you're kind of developing yourself. You got a formal process for BD. I mean you've been -- you've done a couple of deals here, but just trying to figure out how formal the business -- that BD process will be for you, guys.

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Well, the process to identify and then prosecute potential M&As is right now still all done internally.

Scott Billeadeau

Analyst

Okay. Good. Great. One last quick question. In terms of M&A, is it domestic focus, international focus? Or just, hey, where there's a good synergy? Any thoughts at this particular point in time?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

The world. I mean the two acquisitions we've done so far have been Madrid, and we're now prosecuting on Amika in Canada.

Scott Billeadeau

Analyst

Canada?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Yes.

Operator

Operator

The next is Lloyd Corton [ph].

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Richard and crew, terrific quarter, obviously. A few questions. No particular order here. Homeland security, what's going on with them? And what can we look forward to potentially?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Well, as you know, homeland security, Department of Homeland Security has been a -- not a great contributor to Genasys' bookings. We've seen a change in that in the last quarter where interest and demand from DHS and ICE has turned to be real. So I think it's the environment we're currently living in across the world, as shown -- as I mentioned in my remarks, showing the need for more Genasys hardware and software. And DHS is finally coming to the play.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

That would be wonderful. Can you -- you had an announcement a couple of weeks ago about Esri. Can you explain that to me or us what that's about?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Sure. Esri is perhaps the best mapping software company in the world. A couple of weeks ago, we announced -- a couple more than that, but we announced a partnership with Esri. So our GIS platforms that we sell will be powered by Esri. Esri brings with it feature sets, deep feature sets that can then be resold by Genasys. It's a terrific thing to come.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. So potential revenue for us. Yes?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Yes. Absolutely.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Okay. Also, with the -- what's going on physically all over the country today between states and cities and counties with financial headaches brewing with lack of revenue, how is that affecting us? And what are you hearing?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Well, as I mentioned, I believe we -- as I said all year, I believe the second half revenues would be much stronger than the first half, and that proved to be the case in Q3, and it will be the case in Q4 as well. I see our backlog and demand as we look forward to fiscal year '21 to continue to show growth.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst

Are you finding any headwinds with the municipalities upgrading their systems to us these days?

Richard Danforth

Analyst

Yes. The municipalities have largely been not working, as you know, for months. And that has delayed things. But they're coming back to work around the globe now, and activity is picking back up.

Operator

Operator

And with no other questions holding, I'll turn the conference back to management for any additional or closing comments.

Satya Chillara

Analyst

We regularly discuss our business at investor events during the year. We invite you to join us for these events. Thank you for participating in today's call. We look forward to speaking with you again in a few months when we report fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 results.

Operator

Operator

And ladies and gentlemen, that will conclude today's call. We thank you for your participation. You may disconnect your phone line at this time. And have a great day.