CompoSecure, Inc. Announces Record Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Raises 2022 Guidance

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CompoSecure, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMPO) reported strong Q2 2022 results with Net Sales reaching $97.2 million, a 54.9% year-over-year increase. Net Income soared to $60.7 million, up 182.4% year-over-year, and Adjusted EBITDA was $39.7 million, a 45.2% rise. The company raised its full-year guidance for Net Sales to $355 million to $380 million and Adjusted EBITDA to $110 million to $120 million. Arculus received recognition as the most innovative cold storage wallet, reflecting strong growth in international markets and new customer acquisitions.

Positive

• Net Sales up 54.9% to $97.2 million.
• Net Income increased 182.4% to $60.7 million.
• Adjusted EBITDA grew 45.2% to $39.7 million.
• Raised full year 2022 guidance for Net Sales to $355 million to $380 million.
• International Net Sales rose 71.0% to $27.1 million.

Negative

• Uncertainty in timing for Arculus ramp-up due to challenges in the digital asset market.

• Second quarter Net Sales of $97.2 million, up 54.9% year-over-year
• Second quarter Net Income of $60.7 million, up 182.4% year-over-year
• Second quarter Adjusted EBITDA of $39.7 million, up 45.2% year-over-year
• Arculus named most Innovative Cold Storage Wallet by ABI Research
• Raises 2022 full year fiscal guidance

SOMERSET, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CompoSecure, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMPO), a leader in payment, security, and authentication solutions, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.

Jon Wilk, CompoSecure’s President and CEO commented, “We had an outstanding quarter, and I am proud that we have achieved record results through strong sales execution, deep customer relationships, and international expansion. Looking ahead, we expect continued growth in our metal payment card business driven by both new customers and expansion of business from our existing base. In addition, we believe that we will benefit from ongoing card issuer trends such as the robust demand for travel and entertainment spending, and the high demand for premium metal card products.”

He continued, “Current challenges in the digital asset market, including crypto exchanges freezing or limiting withdrawals, are driving an increased need for consumers to control their private keys, and we are encouraged by recent partnerships for security, authentication, and cold storage leveraging our Arculus platform. At the same time, this market cycle has created uncertainty in timing for our anticipated Arculus ramp up since some of our partners and targets have been impacted. As we have stated, we continue to be thoughtful about how we are running the business and remain focused on margins while simultaneously managing our investments to capture long-term value for our shareholders. We are confident that our Arculus platform is well positioned to meet the current and anticipated needs of the market.”

Mr. Wilk added, “We have delivered exceptional results through the first half of the year while navigating a dynamic environment. Given our performance and continued confidence in the strength of our sales pipeline, we are raising our 2022 full fiscal year guidance.”

Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights

• Net Sales: Net Sales for the second quarter of 2022 were $97.2 million, up 54.9% compared to $62.7 million in the second quarter of 2021, and grew 15.0% sequentially from the first quarter of 2022
• Net Income: Net Income for the second quarter of 2022 was $60.7 million compared to a net income of $21.5 million in the second quarter of 2021.
• Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2022 was $39.7 million, compared to $27.3 million for the second quarter of 2021, up 45.2% year over year.
• Gross Profit/Margin: Gross Profit for the second quarter of 2022 was $58.9 million, compared to $35.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin for the second quarter of 2022 was 60.6%, compared to 56.0% for the second quarter of 2021.
• Earnings Per Share: Net Income Per Share attributable to Class A common stockholders for the second quarter of 2022 was $.56 per share (basic) and $.52 per share (diluted).
• Change in EPS Accounting Policy: Adopted alternative method under U.S. GAAP for calculating basic and diluted EPS by allocating changes in fair value adjustments of mark-to-market instruments among the public company and operating subsidiaries to better reflect the actual economic impact of conversion of such instruments on net income on a per share basis.

Second Quarter 2022 Highlights

• Record Net Sales driven by strong sales execution, new customers and expansion of business from existing base.
• Strong international growth with second quarter international Net Sales of $27.1 million, 71.0% higher than second quarter of 2021 due to expansion of international sales team, distributor growth, and demand for premium payment cards in international markets.
• Arculus ranked as the most innovative Cold Storage Wallet by ABI Research and included as one of the top three leaders for storing cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
• InBestGo, a Latin American based fintech, has selected CompoSecure to launch a metal credit card that combines premium payment card technology and best-in-class digital authentication; Separately, InBestGo to white label the Arculus cold storage wallet, giving their users the option to securely custody their own keys for their digital assets.

Financial Outlook

• Full Year 2022 Guidance: The Company is raising its full fiscal year 2022 guidance. For the full year 2022 the Company now expects Net Sales to be in the range of $355mm to $380mm (up from $336mm to $376mm) and full year 2022 Adjusted EBITDA guidance to be in the range of $110mm to $120mm (up from $100mm to $110mm).

Conference Call and Webcast

CompoSecure will host a webcast and simultaneous conference call today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to review the Company’s financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. To access the webcast, please register at CompoSecure Q1 Earnings Webcast. You may also register to access via a conference call. A live webcast of the conference call will be accessible from the Investors section of our website at https://ir.composecure.com/news-events/events.

About CompoSecure

Founded in 2000, CompoSecure (Nasdaq: CMPO) is a technology partner to market leaders, fintechs and consumers enabling trust for millions of people around the globe. The company combines elegance, simplicity and security to deliver exceptional experiences and peace of mind in the physical and digital world. CompoSecure’s innovative payment card technology and metal cards with Arculus security and authentication capabilities deliver unique, premium branded experiences, enable people to access and use their financial and digital assets, and ensure trust at the point of a transaction. For more information, please visit www.composecure.com and www.GetArculus.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of management. Although the Company believes that its plans, intentions, and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company cannot assure you that it will achieve or realize these plans, intentions, or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Generally, statements that are not historical facts, including statements concerning the Company’s possible or assumed future actions, business strategies, events, or results of operations, are forward-looking statements. In some instances, these statements may be preceded by, followed by or include the words “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “plans,” “scheduled,” “anticipates” or “intends” or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. You should not put undue reliance on these statements which speak only as of the date hereof. You should understand that the following important factors, among others, could affect the Company’s future results and could cause those results or other outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the Company’s forward-looking statements: the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company or others; the impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; the ability of the Company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers, compete within its industry and retain its key employees; the possibility that the Company may be adversely impacted by other economic conditions (including the rapidly evolving conflict between Russian and the Ukraine), business, and/or competitive factors; future exchange and interest rates; and other risks and uncertainties included under “Risk Factors” in other Company filings that have been made or will be made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligations to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) and that may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The Company believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful to investors in evaluating the Company’s financial performance. The Company uses these measures internally to establish forecasts, budgets and operational goals to manage and monitor its business, as well as evaluate its underlying historical performance and to measure incentive compensation, as we believe that these non-GAAP financial measures depict the true performance of the business by encompassing only relevant and controllable events, enabling the Company to evaluate and plan more effectively for the future. In addition, the Company’s debt agreements contain covenants that use a variation of these measures for purposes of determining debt covenant compliance. The Company believes that investors should have access to the same set of tools that its management uses in analyzing operating results. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as measures of financial performance under U.S. GAAP, and the items excluded from EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing the Company’s financial performance. Accordingly, these key business metrics have limitations as an analytical tool. They should not be considered as an alternative to net income or any other performance measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP or as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of the Company’s liquidity and may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP measures used by other companies. Please refer to the tables below for the reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA for the quarters and years ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021.

CompoSecure, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(unaudited)
	Three Months Ended June 30,								Six Months Ended June 30,
	2022				2021				2022				2021
Net sales	$	97,199			$	62,743			$	181,382			$	126,465
Operating expenses:
Cost of sales		38,347				27,633				73,771				57,039
Selling, General and administrative		24,431				10,739				43,209				18,796
Total operating expenses		62,778				38,372				116,980				75,835
Income from operations		34,421				24,371				64,402				50,630
Total other income (expense), net		29,039				(2,891	)			26,509				(5,928	)
Income before income taxes		63,460				21,480				90,911				44,702
Income tax provision		(2,802	)			-				(3,345	)			-
Net income		60,658				21,480				87,566				44,702
Net income attributable to non-controlling interests		52,184				-				75,628				-
Net income attributable to CompoSecure, Inc	$	8,474			$	21,480			$	11,938			$	44,702
Net income per share attributable to Class A common stockholders -basic	$	0.56				n/a			$	0.80				n/a
Net income per share attributable to Class A common stockholders - diluted	$	0.52				n/a			$	0.75				n/a
Weighted average shared used to compute net income per share attributable to Class A common stockholders - basic		15,052				n/a				14,993				n/a
Weighted average shared used to compute net income per share attributable to Class A common stockholders - diluted		32,363				n/a				32,341				n/a

CompoSecure, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
	Six Months Ended June 30,
	2022				2021
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income	$	87,566			$	44,702
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities
Depreciation		4,567				5,173
Equity-based compensation expense		4,020				784
Amortization of deferred finance costs		1,252				774
Change in fair value of earnout consideration liability		(19,041	)			-
Revaluation of warrant liability		(18,041	)			-
Change in fair value of derivative liability		61				-
Deferred tax expense		3,094				-
Changes in assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable		(17,282	)			(20,542	)
Inventories		(2,938	)			(192	)
Prepaid expenses and other assets		(1,144	)			(515	)
Accounts payable		(201	)			(1,600	)
Deposits and other assets		-				(3,681	)
Accrued expenses		10,262				2,125
Other liabilities		(782	)			180
Net cash provided by operating activities		51,393				27,206
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Acquisition of property and equipment		(3,504	)			(1,251	)
Net cash used in investing activities		(3,504	)			(1,251	)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from line of credit		10,000				-
Payment of line of credit		-				(5,000	)
Payment of term loan		(16,878	)			(12,000	)
Distributions		(25,731	)			(14,602	)
Payment of issuance cost related to business combination		(23,833	)			-
Net cash used in financing activities		(56,442	)			(31,602	)
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents		(8,553	)			(5,647	)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period		21,944				13,422
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period	$	13,391			$	7,775
Supplementary disclosure of cash flow information
Cash paid for interest expense	$	9,638			$	5,136
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash financing activity:
Derivative asset - interest rate swap	$	5,590			$	-

CompoSecure, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet Data
(in thousands)
	June 30, 2022				December 31, 2021
	(unaudited)
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents	$	13,391			$	21,944
Accounts Receivable, net		45,208				27,925
Inventories		28,743				25,806
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		3,740				2,596
Property and equipment, net		21,114				22,177
Right of use asset, net		9,286				5,246
Deferred tax asset		24,777				25,650
Derivative asset - interest rate swap		5,590				-
Deposits and other assets		10				10
TOTAL ASSETS	$	151,859			$	131,354
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current portion of long-term debt	$	4,997				12,500
Current portion of lease liabilities		1,664				1,119
Accounts payable		6,857				7,058
Accrued expenses		23,482				13,220
Deferred issuance costs		-				23,107
Bonus payable		2,676				3,512
Long-term debt, net of deferred finance costs		224,787				233,132
Convertible notes, net of debt discount		127,119				126,897
Derivative liability - convertible notes		613				552
Warrant liability		17,230				35,271
Line of credit		25,000				15,000
Earnout liability		19,386				38,427
Lease liabilities		8,257				4,709
Tax receivable agreement liability		24,897				24,500
Total stockholders' (deficit)		(335,106	)			(407,650	)
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY	$	151,859			$	131,354

CompoSecure, Inc.
Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
		Three Months Ended June 30,							Six Months Ended June 30,
		2022				2021			2022				2021
Net income		$	60,658			$	21,481		$	87,566			$	44,703
Add:
Depreciation			2,217				2,587			4,567				5,173
Interest expense, net			5,547				2,891			10,513				5,928
Taxes			2,802				-			3,345				-
EBITDA		$	71,224			$	26,959		$	105,991			$	55,804
Equity compensation expense			3,014				343			4,020				784
Mark to market adjustments (1)			(34,586	)			-			(37,021	)			-
Adjusted EBITDA		$	39,652			$	27,302		$	72,990			$	56,588
(1) Includes the changes in fair value of warrant liability, derivative liabilities and earnout consideration liability for the quarter and year ended June 30, 2022.

 

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Anthony Piniella

Head of Communications, CompoSecure

Phone: 908.898.8887

Email: ir@composecure.com

Source: CompoSecure, Inc.

FAQ

What were CompoSecure's Q2 2022 earnings results?

CompoSecure reported Q2 2022 Net Sales of $97.2 million, a 54.9% increase year-over-year, and Net Income of $60.7 million, up 182.4%.

How did CompoSecure's Adjusted EBITDA perform in Q2 2022?

Adjusted EBITDA for Q2 2022 was $39.7 million, representing a 45.2% year-over-year growth.

What is the outlook for CompoSecure in 2022?

CompoSecure raised its full-year guidance, now expecting Net Sales between $355 million and $380 million and Adjusted EBITDA between $110 million and $120 million.

What recognition did the Arculus platform receive?

Arculus was named the most innovative cold storage wallet by ABI Research.

How did international sales perform for CompoSecure in Q2 2022?

International Net Sales reached $27.1 million, up 71.0% compared to Q2 2021.