Kubient Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results

Rhea-AI Summary

Kubient, a cloud-based software firm for digital advertising, reported a 37% increase in net revenues for the six months ending June 30, 2022, totaling approximately $1.6 million. However, revenues for Q2 2022 fell by 20% to $400,000 due to a contract renewal at a reduced scope. The company aims to reduce cash burn, anticipating cost savings beginning August 2022. Despite an adjusted EBITDA loss of $2.2 million for Q2, the company ended the period with a robust cash balance of $17.7 million.

Positive

• Net revenues for six months increased 37% to $1.6 million.
• Anticipated cost savings starting August 2022.
• Strong cash position of $17.7 million.

Negative

• Q2 2022 net revenues decreased by 20% to $400,000.
• Adjusted EBITDA loss rose to $2.2 million for Q2.

NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kubient, Inc. (NasdaqCM: KBNT, KBNTW) (“Kubient” or the “Company”), a cloud-based software platform for digital advertising, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.

Second Quarter 2022 and Recent Operational Highlights

• Net revenues for the six-month period ended June 30^th, 2022 increased 37% compared to the same year ago period.
• Strengthened and optimized balance sheet in order to secure cash position and extend runway; Company expects to recognize cost savings starting in August 2022.
• Received three new client wins and two client extensions and budget increases.
  

Management Commentary
“Over the previous two quarters Kubient has sought to minimize cash burn, as we look to maintain existing operations while working to build our top line with a renewed workforce," said Kubient Founder, Chairman, CEO, CSO, and President, Paul Roberts. "Throughout the process or reducing the company’s cash burn, we believe that Kubient has transitioned into a better position to take advantage of strategic alternatives and M&A opportunities offered in the inorganic growth market, thanks to what we believe is a cleaner balance sheet and strong cash position. In parallel, close care has been kept to maintaining the key components of our organization on the development and operations side of our engineering core, which has kept the fire lit under Kubient Managed Services and the Audience Cloud.”

Second Quarter and Six Month 2022 Financial Results
Due to severance and cancelation costs incurred from certain third-party vendors and services during the second quarter, the normalization of the Company’s burn rate did not take effect until the beginning of August. Kubient expects that its third quarter results and beyond will reflect the lower cash burn rate.

Net revenues for the quarter ended June 30^th, 2022 decreased 20% to approximately $400,000 compared to approximately $498,000 in the same period last year. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease of $495,000 of net revenues associated with a major customer whose contract renewed in the first quarter of 2022 at a reduced scope as compared to the 2021 period, partially offset by revenues generated in the 2022 period related to customer contracts acquired in connection with the acquisition of MediaCrossing in November 2021.

Net revenues for the six-month period ended June 30^th, 2022 increased 37% to approximately $1.6 million compared to approximately $1.2 million in the same period last year. The increase in net revenues was primarily attributable to net revenues generated related to customer contracts acquired in connection with the acquisition of MediaCrossing in November 2021.

Adjusted EBITDA loss, a non-GAAP measure, for the quarter ended June 30^th, 2022 increased to approximately $2.2 million, or $(0.16) per basic and diluted share, compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of approximately $1.6 million, or $(0.12) per basic and diluted share, in the same period last year. Adjusted EBITDA loss for the six-month period ended June 30^th, 2022 increased to approximately $5.8 million, or $(0.41) per basic and diluted share, compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of approximately $3.1 million, or $(0.24) per basic and diluted share, in the same period last year.

As of June 30, 2022, the Company had a cash balance of approximately $17.7 million.

Conference Call
Kubient will hold a conference call today (August 15, 2022) at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time) to discuss these results.

Kubient management will host the conference call, followed by a question and answer period.

Date: Monday, August 15, 2022
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time)
U.S. dial-in: 1-800-225-9448
International dial-in: 1-203-518-9708
Operator Prompted Access Code: KUBIENT

Please call the conference telephone number 10 minutes prior to the start time. An operator will register your name and organization. If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact Gateway Investor Relations at 949-574-3860.

The conference call will be broadcast live and available for replay here and via the Investor Relations section of Kubient’s website.

A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available after 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on the same day through August 25, 2022.

Toll-free replay number: 1-877-481-4010
International replay number: 1-919-882-2331
Replay ID: 46231

About Kubient
Kubient is a technology company with a mission to transform the digital advertising industry to audience-based marketing. Kubient’s next generation cloud-based infrastructure enables efficient marketplace liquidity for buyers and sellers of digital advertising. The Kubient Audience Marketplace is a flexible open marketplace for advertisers and publishers to reach, monetize and connect their audiences. The Company’s platform provides a transparent programmatic environment with proprietary artificial intelligence-powered pre-bid ad fraud prevention, and proprietary real-time bidding (RTB) marketplace automation for the digital out of home industry. The Audience Marketplace is the solution for brands and publishers that demand transparency and the ability to reach audiences across all channels and ad formats. For additional information, please visit https://kubient.com.

Forward-Looking Statements
The information contained herein includes forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or to our future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects our current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. The safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 protects companies from liability for their forward-looking statements if they comply with the requirements of the Act.

Non-GAAP Measures
The Company defines EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest (including non-cash interest), taxes and depreciation and amortization. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA, further adjusted to eliminate the impact of certain non-recurring items and other items that we do not consider in our evaluation of our ongoing operating performance from period to period. These items will include stock-based compensation that the Company does not believe reflects the underlying business performance.

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are financial measures that are not calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). Management believes that because Adjusted EBITDA excludes (a) certain non-cash expenses (such as depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation) and (b) expenses that are not reflective of the Company’s core operating results over time (such as stock based compensation expense), this measure provides investors with additional useful information to measure the Company’s financial performance, particularly with respect to changes in performance from period to period. The Company’s management uses EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA (a) as a measure of operating performance, (b) for planning and forecasting in future periods, and (c) in communications with the Company’s board of directors concerning the Company’s financial performance. The Company’s presentation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not necessarily comparable to other similarly titled captions of other companies due to different methods of calculation and should not be used by investors as a substitute or alternative to net income or any measure of financial performance calculated and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Instead, management believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA should be used to supplement the Company’s financial measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP to provide a more complete understanding of the trends affecting the business.

Although Adjusted EBITDA is frequently used by investors and securities analysts in their evaluations of companies, Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and investors should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for, or more meaningful than, amounts determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Some of the limitations to using non-GAAP measures as an analytical tool are (a) they do not reflect the Company’s interest income and expense, or the requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments on the Company’s debt, (b) they do not reflect future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments, and (c) although depreciation and amortization charges are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and non-GAAP measures do not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements.

Kubient Investor Relations
Gateway Investor Relations
Matt Glover and John Yi
T: 1-949-574-3860
Kubient@gatewayir.com

Kubient, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(unaudited)
	For the Three Months Ended								For the Six Months Ended
	June 30,								June 30,
		2022				2021				2022				2021
Net Revenues	$	400,351			$	497,568			$	1,645,655			$	1,205,325
Costs and Expenses:
Sales and marketing		1,050,423				504,380				2,383,433				1,261,330
Technology		959,157				619,692				2,114,856				1,139,447
General and administrative		1,509,208				1,108,280				3,691,757				2,363,852
Impairment loss on intangible assets		2,626,974				-				2,626,974				-
Impairment loss on property and equipment		49,948				-				49,948				-
Impairment loss on goodwill		463,000				-				463,000				-
Loss accrual on customer contract		(413,918	)			-				375,687				-
Total Costs and Expenses		6,244,792				2,232,352				11,705,655				4,764,629
Loss From Operations		(5,844,441	)			(1,734,784	)			(10,060,000	)			(3,559,304	)
Other (Expense) Income:
Interest expense		(2,536	)			(1,576	)			(6,408	)			(3,210	)
Interest income		2,734				33,355				5,025				62,664
Change in fair value of contingent consideration		23,378				-				613,000				-
Other income		10,974				-				11,000				233
Total Other Income		34,550				31,779				622,617				59,687
Net Loss	$	(5,809,891	)		$	(1,703,005	)		$	(9,437,383	)		$	(3,499,617	)
Net Loss Per Share - Basic and Diluted	$	(0.41	)		$	(0.12	)		$	(0.66	)		$	(0.26	)
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding - Basic and Diluted		14,316,483				13,983,195				14,286,655				13,307,766

Kubient, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
	June 30,				December 31,
		2022				2021
	(unaudited)
Assets
Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	17,683,885			$	24,907,963
Accounts receivable, net		259,562				2,291,533
Other receivables		-				526,070
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		236,160				495,178
Total Current Assets		18,179,607				28,220,744
Intangible assets, net		-				2,946,610
Goodwill		-				463,000
Property and equipment, net		-				44,756
Deferred offering costs		10,000				10,000
Total Assets	$	18,189,607			$	31,685,110
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
Current Liabilities:
Accounts payable - suppliers	$	562,877			$	1,844,544
Accounts payable - trade		323,402				659,362
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities		376,409				2,493,287
Deferred revenue		146,339				395,914
Notes payable		1,509				151,336
Total Current Liabilities		1,410,536				5,544,443
Contingent consideration		-				613,000
Notes payable, non-current portion		77,391				77,407
Total Liabilities		1,487,927				6,234,850
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' Equity:
Preferred stock, $0.00001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; No shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021		-				-
Common stock, $0.00001 par value; 95,000,000 shares authorized; 14,401,252 and 14,253,948 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively		144				143
Additional paid-in capital		52,719,709				52,030,907
Accumulated deficit		(36,018,173	)			(26,580,790	)
Total Stockholders' Equity		16,701,680				25,450,260
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity	$	18,189,607			$	31,685,110

Kubient, Inc.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(unaudited)
	For the Six Months Ended
	June 30,
		2022					2021
Cash Flows From Operating Activities:
Net loss	$	(9,437,383	)			$	(3,499,617	)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Bad debt expense		7,000					-
Impairment loss on intangible assets		2,626,974					-
Impairment loss on property and equipment		49,948
Impairment loss on goodwill		463,000					-
Depreciation and amortization		330,993					159,293
Change in fair value of contingent consideration		(613,000	)				-
Stock-based compensation:
Common stock		717,265					255,667
Options		4,362					5,085
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable		2,024,971					878,814
Other receivable		507,387					-
Prepaid expenses and other current assets		259,018					(52,766	)
Accounts payable - suppliers		(1,281,667	)				16,061
Accounts payable - trade		(335,959	)				(404,930	)
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities		(1,913,445	)				(334,280	)
Accrued interest		-					(3,975	)
Deferred revenue		(249,575	)				-
Net Cash Used In Operating Activities		(6,840,111	)				(2,980,648	)
Cash Flows From Investing Activities:
Purchase of intangible assets		-					(1,114,072	)
Purchase of property and equipment		(16,549	)				(10,181	)
Net Cash Used In Investing Activities		(16,549	)				(1,124,253	)
Cash Flows From Financing Activities:
Proceeds from exercise of warrants [1]		-					9,787,149
Proceeds from exercise of options		-					8,361
Repayment of PPP loan		(149,843	)				-
Repayment of financed director and officer insurance premiums		(217,575	)				-
Payment of deferred offering costs		-					(10,300	)
Net Cash (Used In) Provided By Financing Activities		(367,418	)				9,785,210
Net (Decrease) Increase In Cash and Cash Equivalents		(7,224,078	)				5,680,309
Cash and Cash Equivalents - Beginning of the Period		24,907,963					24,782,128
Cash and Cash Equivalents - End of the Period	$	17,683,885				$	30,462,437
[1] Includes gross proceeds of $10,169,027, less issuance costs of $381,878.

Kubient, Inc.
Reconciliation of GAAP EBITDA to Non- GAAP Adjusted EBITDA
(Unaudited)

	For the Three Months Ended
	June 30,
		2022				2021
Net Loss	$	(5,809,891	)		$	(1,703,005	)
Interest expense		2,536				1,576
Interest income		(2,734	)			(33,355	)
Depreciation and amortization		168,772				81,914
EBITDA		(5,641,317	)			(1,652,870	)
Adjustments:
Stock-based compensation expense		288,971				19,538
Impairment loss on intangible assets		2,626,974				-
Impairment loss on property and equipment		49,948				-
Impairment loss on goodwill		463,000				-
Change in fair value of contingent consideration		(23,378	)			-
Adjusted EBITDA	$	(2,235,802	)		$	(1,633,332	)
Adjusted Loss Per Share	$	(0.16	)		$	(0.12	)
Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding - Basic and Diluted		14,316,483				13,983,195

FAQ

What were Kubient's net revenues for the second quarter of 2022?

Kubient's net revenues for Q2 2022 were approximately $400,000, a 20% decrease from the same period last year.

How much did Kubient's net revenues increase for the first half of 2022 compared to last year?

For the six months ended June 30, 2022, Kubient's net revenues increased by 37% to approximately $1.6 million.

What was Kubient's adjusted EBITDA loss for Q2 2022?

Kubient reported an adjusted EBITDA loss of approximately $2.2 million for the second quarter of 2022.

What is Kubient's current cash balance as of June 30, 2022?

As of June 30, 2022, Kubient had a cash balance of approximately $17.7 million.

What cost-saving measures is Kubient implementing?

Kubient expects to recognize cost savings starting in August 2022 as part of its strategy to minimize cash burn.