Phunware Announces 2018 Financial Results
Year-Over-Year Gross Margins Increase 2,060 Basis Points to 61.8%, Net Loss per share dropped 64%
AUSTIN, Texas, March 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Phunware, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHUN), a fully-integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2018.
“We’re extremely proud to have completed our merger and commenced trading publicly on Nasdaq, particularly in light of tumultuous demands in the market,” said Alan S. Knitowski, Phunware’s CEO and Co-founder. "We are extremely excited to expose a broader global audience in the way brands and consumers interact through our MaaS enterprise cloud platform, which will enable much more trustworthy and transparent relationships on mobile.”
Full Year 2018 Financial Highlights
- Net revenues increased 16% year-over-year to $30.9 million
- Platform subscriptions and services revenue increased 18% to $19.4 million
- Gross profit was $19.1 million, or 61.8% of net revenues, an $8.1 million increase, or 20.6 percentage points, over the prior year
- Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA improved by $15.5 million to ($8.6) million compared to the prior year
- Net loss per share improved $0.68 per share to ($0.38) compared to ($1.06) the prior year
- Successfully completed merger with Stellar Acquisition III, Inc. (NASDAQ: STLR), and commenced trading as Phunware, Inc. (NASDAQ: PHUN)
"We are thrilled to have achieved nearly $31 million in net revenues, including 16% year-over-year growth, our highest performance in platform subscriptions and services to date and a material expansion of our gross margin to 61.8%," said Phunware CFO Matt Aune. "We are also excited by the organic and inorganic growth opportunities ahead and believe that our 2018 performance positions us well as we prepare for our first full year as a public company.”
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Disclosure Information
Phunware uses the investor relations section on its website as the means of complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, we recommend that investors should monitor Phunware’s investor relations website in addition to following Phunware’s press releases, SEC filings, and public conference calls and webcasts.
About Phunware:
Phunware, Inc., is the pioneer of Multiscreen-as-a-Service (MaaS), a fully integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides companies the products, solutions, data and services necessary to engage, manage and monetize their mobile application portfolios and audiences globally at scale. Phunware helps the world’s most respected brands create category-defining mobile experiences, with more than one billion active devices touching its platform each month. For more information about how Phunware is transforming the way consumers and brands interact with mobile in the virtual and physical worlds, visit www.phunware.com, www.phuncoin.com and follow @phunware and @phuncoin on all social media platforms.
Financial Results
Phunware, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
| December 31, | December 31, | |||||||
| 2018 | 2017 | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash | $ | 844 | $ | 308 | ||||
| Accounts receivable, net | 3,606 | 6,206 | ||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | 272 | 385 | ||||||
| Total current assets | 4,722 | 6,899 | ||||||
| Property and equipment, net | 66 | 128 | ||||||
| Goodwill | 25,821 | 25,886 | ||||||
| Intangible assets, net | 521 | 901 | ||||||
| Deferred tax asset – long term | 64 | - | ||||||
| Restricted cash | 5,500 | - | ||||||
| Other assets | 187 | 187 | ||||||
| Total assets | $ | 36,881 | $ | 34,001 | ||||
| Liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock, and stockholders’ equity | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | 9,890 | $ | 3,548 | ||||
| Accrued expenses | 3,028 | 8,796 | ||||||
| Deferred revenue | 2,629 | 1,044 | ||||||
| Factored receivables payable | 2,434 | 1,816 | ||||||
| Short term notes payable – related party | 1,993 | - | ||||||
| Total current liabilities | 19,974 | 15,204 | ||||||
| Deferred tax liability | 64 | 387 | ||||||
| Deferred revenue | 5,622 | 7,165 | ||||||
| Deferred rent | 17 | 98 | ||||||
| Investor deposits | - | 3,243 | ||||||
| Total liabilities | 25,677 | 26,097 | ||||||
| Commitments and contingencies | - | - | ||||||
| Redeemable convertible preferred stock | 5,377 | - | ||||||
| Stockholders’ equity | ||||||||
| Common stock | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Additional paid in capital | 118,062 | 110,265 | ||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (418) | (347) | ||||||
| Accumulated deficit | (111,820) | (102,017) | ||||||
| Total stockholders’ equity | 5,827 | 7,904 | ||||||
| Total liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock, and stockholders’ equity | $ | 36,881 | $ | 34,001 | ||||
Phunware, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
(In thousands, except per share information)
(Unaudited)
| Year Ended | ||||||||
| December 31, | ||||||||
| 2018 | 2017 | |||||||
| Net revenues | $ | 30,883 | $ | 26,722 | ||||
| Cost of revenues | 11,802 | 15,714 | ||||||
| Gross profit | 19,081 | 11,008 | ||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||
| Sales and marketing | 5,417 | 10,721 | ||||||
| General and administrative | 13,562 | 14,795 | ||||||
| Research and development | 6,965 | 11,108 | ||||||
| Total operating expenses | 25,944 | 36,624 | ||||||
| Operating loss | (6,863) | (25,616) | ||||||
| Other expense: | ||||||||
| Interest expense | (724) | (397) | ||||||
| Fair value adjustment for warrant liabilities | (54) | — | ||||||
| Impairment of digital currencies | (334) | — | ||||||
| Other expense | (2,202) | (13) | ||||||
| Total other expense | (3,314) | (410) | ||||||
| Loss before taxes | (10,177) | (26,026) | ||||||
| Income tax benefit | 374 | 88 | ||||||
| Net loss | (9,803) | (25,938) | ||||||
| Cumulative translation adjustment | (71) | 127 | ||||||
| Comprehensive loss | $ | (9,874) | $ | (25,811) | ||||
| Net loss per share, basic and diluted | $ | (0.38) | $ | (1.06) | ||||
| Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted | 25,556 | 24,519 | ||||||
Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Reconciliation
Adjusted EBITDA should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. It is not a measurement of our financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to revenue or net income (loss), as applicable, or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP and may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other businesses. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our operating results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations include;
- Non-cash compensation is and will remain a key element of our overall long-term incentive compensation package, although we exclude it as an expense when evaluating its ongoing operating performance for a particular period;
- Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the impact of certain cash charges resulting from matters we consider not to be indicative of ongoing operations, and;
- other companies in our industry may calculate Adjusted EBITDA differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.
We compensate for these limitations to Adjusted EBITDA by relying primarily on its GAAP results and using Adjusted EBITDA only for supplemental purposes. Adjusted EBITDA includes adjustments for items that may not occur in future periods. However, we believe these adjustments are appropriate because the amounts recognized can vary significantly from period to period, do not directly relate to the ongoing operations of our business and complicate comparisons of our internal operating results and operating results of other peer companies over time. For example, it is useful to exclude non-cash, stock-based compensation expenses because the amount of such expenses in any specific period may not directly correlate to the underlying performance of our business operations and these expenses can vary significantly across periods due to timing of new stock-based awards. We may also exclude certain discrete, unusual, one-time, or non-cash costs, including transaction costs and the income tax impact of adjustments in order to facilitate a more useful period-over-period comparison of its financial performance. Each of the normal recurring adjustments and other adjustments described in this paragraph help management with a measure of our operating performance over time by removing items that are not related to day-to-day operations or are non-cash expenses.
Phunware, Inc.
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)
| Year Ended December 31, | ||||||||
| 2018 | 2017 | |||||||
| Net loss | $ | (9,803) | $ | (25,938) | ||||
| Add back: Depreciation and amortization | 434 | 1,438 | ||||||
| Add back: Interest expense | 724 | 397 | ||||||
| Less: Income tax benefit | (374) | (88) | ||||||
| EBITDA | (9,019) | (24,191) | ||||||
| Add Back: Stock-based compensation | 450 | 118 | ||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | (8,569) | $ | (24,073) | ||||
Phunware, Inc.
Supplemental Information
(In thousands, except percentages)
(Unaudited)
| Year Ended December 31, | Change | |||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 2017 | Amount | % | |||||||||||||
| Revenue | ||||||||||||||||
| Platform subscriptions and services | $ | 19,409 | $ | 16,488 | $ | 2,921 | 17.7% | |||||||||
| Application transaction | 11,474 | 10,234 | 1,240 | 12.1% | ||||||||||||
| Total revenue | $ | 30,883 | $ | 26,722 | $ | 4,161 | 15.6% | |||||||||
| Platform subscriptions and services as a percentage of total revenue | 62.8% | 61.7% | ||||||||||||||
| Application transactions as a percentage of total revenue | 37.2% | 38.3% | ||||||||||||||
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Released March 20, 2019
