IoT Solutions Surpasses 61,000 Sites;
IoT Products & Services Awarded an Expected $20 Million Project
(Minneapolis, MN, August 8, 2019) - Digi International® Inc. (NASDAQ: DGII), today announced its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2019. We reported revenue of $61.2 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2019 compared to our guidance range of $60.0 million to $64.0 million. In the third fiscal quarter of 2018, our revenue was $62.3 million.
Adjusted EBITDA in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 was $6.1 million, or 10.0% of total revenue, compared to our guidance range of $4.5 million to $6.5 million. In the third fiscal quarter of 2018, our adjusted EBITDA was $7.9 million, or 12.6% of total revenue.
Net income for the third fiscal quarter of 2019 was $1.6 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, compared to our guidance range of $0.02 per diluted share to $0.06 per diluted share. In the third fiscal quarter of 2018, our net income was $2.9 million, or $0.10 per diluted share.
"We are excited our team’s business transformation is leading to clear results" said Ron Konezny, President and Chief Executive Officer. "In June, our IoT Products & Services team was awarded a large scale project that could deliver over $20 million of revenue including approximately $1 million of annual recurring revenue. This win was based on new products, strong direct sales, and a solutions approach. In addition, our IoT Solutions business achieved record quarterly revenue of $10.7 million. We generated $22.5 million of cash from operations for the current fiscal year, raising our cash balance to $86.3 million as of June 30, 2019."
Reconciliations of GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures appear at the end of this release.
Financial Results
Business Results for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019 and 2018
Total revenue decreased 1.8% to $61.2 million in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 from $62.3 million in the third fiscal quarter of 2018.
Product
Product revenue decreased by $4.6 million, or 8.8%, in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 compared to the third fiscal quarter of 2018. This decrease was primarily a result of lower sales of terminal servers in our network product category to a significant customer. Partially offsetting this decrease were increases in sales of RF products to a significant customer as well as increased sales of embedded products.
Services
Services revenue increased by $0.7 million, or 24.3%, in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 compared to the third fiscal quarter of 2018. The increase was related to revenues from our Digi Remote Manager® and support services, partially offset by a decline in our wireless design services revenues.
Solutions
Solutions revenue increased by $2.8 million, or 35.5%, in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 compared to the third fiscal quarter of 2018. This increase was driven by new customer deployments, additional purchases and an increase in our recurring revenue base. We are serving just over 61,000 sites as of June 30, 2019, compared to nearly 48,000 sites a year ago and just over 57,000 sites as of March 31, 2019.
Gross profit was $28.3 million, or 46.3% of revenue in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 compared to $29.6 million, or 47.6% of revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2018, a decrease of $1.3 million. This decrease in gross profit was primarily due to product and customer mix driven by lower sales of network products, which typically have higher gross margins. This was partially offset by increased sales from our IoT Solutions segment, which typically has higher gross margins.
Operating income was $1.6 million, or 2.7% of revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2019 and $2.4 million, or 3.9% of revenue, for the third fiscal quarter of 2018. The decrease in operating income was driven by a $1.3 million gross profit decrease, partially offset by a decrease in operating expenses of $0.5 million.
Net income was $1.6 million in the third fiscal quarter of 2019, or $0.06 per diluted share, compared to $2.9 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, in the third fiscal quarter of 2018.
Adjusted EBITDA in the third fiscal quarter of 2019 was $6.1 million, or 10.0% of total revenue, compared to $7.9 million, or 12.6% of total revenue, in the third fiscal quarter of 2018.
Business Results for the Nine Months Ended June 30, 2019 and 2018
Total revenue increased 17.0% to $189.2 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 from $161.8 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2018.
Product
Product revenue increased by $12.3 million, or 8.9%, in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 compared to the first nine months of fiscal 2018. This increase included $5.4 million of incremental revenue from Accelerated Concepts, Inc. ("Accelerated"), a provider of cellular (LTE) networking equipment, since the acquisition in January 2018. This increase also included increased sales within our industrial cellular, RF and embedded products due to increased customer demand, significant new customers and new product introductions. This was partially offset by lower sales of terminal servers in our network category to a significant customer.
Services
Services revenue increased by $2.4 million, or 32.8%, in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 compared to the first nine months of fiscal 2018, related to increased revenues from our Digi Remote Manager and support services.
Solutions
Solutions revenue increased by $12.7 million, or 76.4%, in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 compared to the first nine months of fiscal 2018. This increase was driven by new customer deployments, additional purchases and an increase in our recurring revenue base. In addition, we experienced Solutions revenue equipment upgrades from existing customers. The equipment updates that have taken place have occurred almost entirely during the second quarter of fiscal 2019. We are serving just over 61,000 sites as of June 30, 2019, compared to nearly 48,000 sites a year ago and just over 57,000 sites as of March 31, 2019.
Gross profit was $88.4 million, or 46.7% of revenue in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 compared to $78.4 million, or 48.5% of revenue for the first nine months of fiscal 2018.
Operating income for the first nine months of fiscal 2019 was $7.9 million, or 4.2% of revenue, as compared to $1.2 million, or 0.8% of revenue, for the first nine months of fiscal 2018, an increase of $6.7 million.
Net income was $7.7 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2019, or $0.27 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $1.7 million, or $0.06 loss per diluted share, in the first nine months of fiscal 2018.
Adjusted EBITDA in the first nine months of fiscal 2019 was $18.9 million, or 10.0% of total revenue, compared to $16.1 million, or 9.9% of total revenue, in the first nine months of fiscal 2018.
Balance Sheet, Liquidity and Capital Structure
Digi continues to maintain a strong balance sheet with no debt. As of June 30, 2019, Digi had:
- Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities balance of $86.3 million, an increase of $23.6 million from the end of fiscal 2018. The increase includes $10.0 million of proceeds received in the first fiscal quarter of 2019 for the sale of our corporate headquarters.
- Current contingent consideration liabilities of $5.4 million.
- Cash provided by operations is $22.5 million.
Customer Highlights
IoT PRODUCTS & SERVICES
- An enterprise customer selected Digi to deliver an expected $20 million of cellular routers and services to assist in the implementation of a project for a large governmental agency. The project will utilize Digi's Remote Manager® platform, expert technical support services and application development services to deliver a comprehensive solution to the customer.
- Digi won a project for a large Midwest based railroad using the Digi TransPort® WR21 enterprise router for a project that monitors train activity, safety operations and can predict maintenance requirements.
- A Midwest based managed service provider has selected several Digi products as part of their solution for business continuity with a focus on the hospitality and restaurant vertical segments.
- One of the leading transportation suppliers providing rail-based services has chosen Digi for their fleet management initiatives, leveraging the new Digi TransPort® WR44 R industrial router. They selected the new WR44 R due to its advanced routing and VPN features, designed specifically for use in rugged environments.
IoT SOLUTIONS
- A large retail grocer in St. Louis has chosen SmartSense to deploy in 115 grocery locations. The SmartSense solution will use both task management and sensor monitoring to protect critical food assets.
- A leading provider of physician office-based infusion services chose Digi to monitor 117 hospital and clinic locations. The SmartSense solution will provide real time alerting for any temperature excursion or power failure within these facilities and will be monitoring refrigeration, along with room temperature, relative humidity and air pressure differential.
- A large regional health system chose Digi to monitor medication, lab samples, environmental room temperature/humidity, along with patient nourishment and will provide real time alerting for any temperature excursion or power failure within these facilities.
- A school district in Texas, with over 54,000 students and 69 locations, chose Digi to monitor kitchen refrigeration equipment throughout its locations. The SmartSense solution will provide real time alerting for any temperature excursion or power failure for each school within in the district.
Fiscal 2019 Guidance
For the fourth fiscal quarter of 2019, Digi projects revenue to be in a range of $60 million to $64 million. Adjusted EBITDA is projected to be in a range of $6.5 million and $7.5 million. EPS is projected to be in a range of $0.04 per diluted share to $0.07 per diluted share.
For the full fiscal year 2019, Digi projects revenue to be in a range of $249 million to $253 million. Adjusted EBITDA is projected to be in a range of $25.5 million to $26.5 million. EPS is projected to be in a range of $0.31 per diluted share to $0.34 per diluted share.
Third Fiscal Quarter 2019 Conference Call Details
As announced on July 3, 2019, Digi will discuss its third fiscal quarter 2019 results on a conference call on Thursday, August 8, 2019 after market close at 5:00 p.m. ET (4:00 p.m. CT). The call will be hosted by Ron Konezny, President and Chief Executive Officer and Jamie Loch, Chief Financial Officer.
Digi invites all those interested in hearing management's discussion of its quarter to access a live webcast of the conference call through the investor relations section of Digi's website at www.digi.com. Participants may also join the call directly by dialing (855) 638-5675 and entering passcode 5279656. International participants may access the call by dialing (262) 912-4765 and entering passcode 5279656. A replay will be available within approximately three hours after the completion of the call, and for one week following the call, by dialing (855) 859-2056 for domestic participants or (404) 537-3406 for international participants and entering access code 5279656 when prompted. A replay of the webcast will be available for one week through Digi's website.
A copy of this earnings release can be accessed through the financial releases page of the investor relations section of Digi's website at www.digi.com.
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About Digi International
Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) is a leading global provider of Internet of Things ("IoT") connectivity products, services and solutions. We help our customers create next-generation connected products and deploy and manage critical communications infrastructures in demanding environments with high levels of security and reliability. Founded in 1985, we’ve helped our customers connect over 100 million things, and growing. For more information, visit Digi's website at www.digi.com, or call 877–912–3444 (U.S.) or 952–912–3444 (International).
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Presentation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This release includes adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortization ("adjusted EBITDA"), each of which is a non-GAAP measure.
We understand that there are material limitations on the use of non-GAAP measures. Non-GAAP measures are not substitutes for GAAP measures, such as net income, for the purpose of analyzing financial performance. The disclosure of these measures does not reflect all charges and gains that were actually recognized by the company. These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative for measures prepared in accordance with, generally accepted accounting principles and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies or presented by us in prior reports. In addition, these non-GAAP measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. We believe that non-GAAP measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with our results of operations as determined in accordance with GAAP and that these measures should only be used to evaluate our results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. Additionally, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our cash expenditures, the cash requirements for the replacement of depreciated and amortized assets, or changes in or cash requirements for our working capital needs.
We believe that providing historical and adjusted income and income per diluted share, respectively, exclusive of such items as reversals of tax reserves, discrete tax benefits and restructuring permits investors to compare results with prior periods that did not include these items. Management uses the aforementioned non-GAAP measures to monitor and evaluate ongoing operating results and trends and to gain an understanding of our comparative operating performance. In addition, certain of our stockholders have expressed an interest in seeing financial performance measures exclusive of the impact of matters such as the impact of decisions related to taxes and restructuring, which while important, are not central to the core operations of our business. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA, defined as EBITDA adjusted for stock-based compensation expense, acquisition-related expenses, restructuring charges and recoveries, and gains from the disposition of our former corporate headquarters is useful to investors to evaluate the Company’s core operating results and financial performance because it excludes items that are significant non-cash or non-recurring expenses reflected in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. We believe that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenue is useful because it provides a reliable and consistent approach to measuring our performance from year to year and in assessing our performance against that of other companies. We believe this information helps compare operating results and corporate performance exclusive of the impact of our capital structure and the method by which assets were acquired.
Investor Contact:
James J. Loch
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Digi International
952-912-3737
Email: jamie.loch@digi.com
For more information, visit Digi's website at www.digi.com, or call 877-912-3444 (U.S.) or 952-912-3444 (International).
