Numerex Reports Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results

2^nd Quarter 2014 Comparisons to 2^nd Quarter 2013

• Total Net Revenues up 31% to $22.6 million
• Subscription and Support revenues up 29% to $16.2 million
• Embedded devices and hardware revenues up 35% to $6.4 million
• Gross Profit increases 61% to $10.7 million, reflecting a 47% margin

ATLANTA, Aug. 6, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Numerex Corp (Nasdaq:NMRX), a leading provider of interactive and on-demand machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions enabling the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2014.

"The Company markedly advanced its M2M strategy in the second quarter and first half of the year, the result of strong demand of its new M2M solutions and the acquisition of new product and service lines," stated Stratton Nicolaides, CEO and chairman of Numerex. "These vertically-focused solutions continue to attract new customers in security, supply chain, and asset monitoring and tracking. Our recently acquired offender monitoring business is performing well and is the cornerstone of our 'people tracking' initiative, which includes mobile worker, personal emergency response, and child safety programs. Overall, our vertical market focus is centered on the delivery of high-value solutions that typically yield a higher contribution margin and increase average revenue per unit. As a result, the Company expects the momentum created year-to-date coupled with a robust opportunity funnel and sales pipeline will produce incrementally favorable results in the second half of the year."

Additional Financial Comparisons

2^nd Quarter Year-over-Year Compared to Q2 of 2013

• Gross Margin on subscriptions and support revenues was 61.3% compared to 54.6%;
• GAAP income from continuing operations, net of income taxes was $0.2 million;
• Adjusted EBITDA increased 161% to $3.0 million
• Adjusted EBITDA margin doubled to 13.2% from 6.6%

6 month Year-to-Date 2014 Compared to 6 month Year-to-Date in 2013

• Gross Margin on subscriptions and support revenues was 61.3% compared to 55.4%;
• GAAP income from continuing operations, net of income taxes was $1.4 million, up 215%
• Adjusted EBITDA increased 92% to $5.8 million;
• Adjusted EBITDA margin was 13.3% compared to 8.9%, up 49%

Mr. Nicolaides continued, "We expect a sequential improvement in total revenues and service and support revenues. Consequently, we reiterate our subscription and support revenue growth guidance of 30% to 34%. We added over 121,000 net subscriptions during the second quarter and expect continued substantial net growth in our subscription base throughout the year. That being said, our strategic focus on high-value subscriptions is expected to generate a substantial increase in contribution per subscription, which we believe is a more relevant measure of the performance of our business. As a result, we are raising our adjusted EBITDA growth guidance to 40% to 45% over the full year 2013 and are no longer providing subscription growth guidance."

Financial Metrics

Additional Q2 Financial Information and Year-over-year comparisons to Q2 of 2013

Total GAAP operating expenses were $11.0 million compared to $8.6 million:

• Sales and marketing expenses were $3.1 million compared to $2.3 million. The increase was due to recent acquisitions and the addition of sales and marketing personnel to drive and support growth.
• General and administrative expenses were $4.2 million as compared to $3.8 million. Current quarter G&A expense includes $0.9 million of acquisition related costs.
• Engineering and development costs increased to $2.1 million from $1.3 million due to recent acquisitions and to support new product and project initiatives.
• Operating expenses include depreciation and amortization charges of $1.6 million compared to $1.3 million.

Quarterly Conference Call

Numerex will discuss its quarterly results via teleconference today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Please dial (877) 303-9240 or, if outside the U.S. and Canada, (760) 666-3571 to access the conference call at least five minutes prior to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time start time. A live webcast of the call will also be available at www.numerex.com under the Investor Relations section. The audio replay will be posted two hours after the end of the call on the Company's website or by dialing (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406 if outside the US and Canada and entering the conference ID 76790493. The replay will be available for the next 10 days. 

About Numerex

Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq:NMRX) is a leading provider of interactive and on-demand machine-to-machine (M2M) enterprise solutions enabling the Internet of Things (IoT). The Company provides its technology and services through its integrated M2M horizontal platforms which are generally sold on a subscription basis. The Company offers Numerex DNA® that may include hardware and smart Devices, cellular and satellite Network services, and software Applications that are delivered through Numerex FAST® (Foundation Application Software Technology). The Company also provides business services to enable the development of efficient, reliable, and secure solutions while accelerating deployment. Numerex is ISO 27001 information security-certified, highlighting the Company's focus on M2M data security, service reliability and around-the-clock support of its customers' M2M solutions. For additional information, please visit www.numerex.com.

This press release contains, and other statements may contain, forward-looking statements with respect to Numerex future financial or business performance, conditions or strategies and other financial and business matters, including expectations regarding growth trends and activities. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "assume," "strategy," "plan," "outlook," "outcome," "continue," "remain," "trend," and variations of such words and similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could," "may," or similar expressions. Numerex cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which change over time. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Numerex assumes no duty to update forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements and future results could differ materially from historical performance.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements or historical performance: the risks and uncertainties related to our ability to successfully integrate the operations, products and employees of Omnilink; the effect of the merger on relationships with customers, vendors and lenders; our inability to capture greater recurring subscription revenues; our ability to efficiently utilize cloud computing to expand our services; the risks that a substantial portion of revenues derived from contracts may be terminated at any time; the risks that our strategic suppliers and/ or wireless network operators materially change or disrupt the flow of products or services; variations in quarterly operating results; delays in the development, introduction, integration and marketing of new products and services; customer acceptance of services; economic conditions resulting in decreased demand for our products and services; the risk that our strategic alliances, partnerships and/or wireless network operators will not yield substantial revenues; changes in financial and capital markets and the inability to raise growth capital on favorable terms, if at all; the inability to attain revenue and earnings growth; changes in interest rates; inflation; the introduction, withdrawal, success and timing of business initiatives and strategies; competitive conditions; the inability to realize revenue enhancements; disruption in key supplier relationships and/or related services; and extent and timing of technological changes.

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NON-GAAP (ADJUSTED) FINANCIAL MEASURES

In addition to providing financial measurements based on accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP), we have provided EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share, financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP (non-GAAP). The most directly comparable GAAP equivalent to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA is income from continuing operations, net of income taxes. The most directly comparable GAAP equivalent to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share is diluted earnings per share from continuing operations.

• EBITDA is income from continuing operations, net of income taxes, plus depreciation and amortization, interest and other non-operating expenses and income tax expense. Any other non-operating income, net of income taxes is subtracted from income from continuing operations, net of income taxes.
• Adjusted EBITDA is EBITDA less non-cash equity-based compensation and infrequent or unusual items further described below.
• EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share is EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA divided by weighted average diluted shares outstanding.

Reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure are provided below. We believe that presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to investors regarding our results of operations.

We believe that excluding depreciation and amortization of property, equipment and intangible assets to calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA provides supplemental information and an alternative presentation that is useful to investors' understanding of our core operating results and trends. Not only are depreciation and amortization expenses based on historical costs of assets that may have little bearing on present or future replacement costs, but also they are based on our estimates of remaining useful lives.

Similarly, we believe that excluding the effects of equity-based compensation from non-GAAP financial measures provides supplemental information and an alternative presentation useful to investors' understanding of our core operating results and trends. Investors have indicated that they consider financial measures of our results of operations excluding equity-based compensation as important supplemental information useful to their understanding of our historical results and estimating our future results.

We also believe that, in excluding the effects of equity-based compensation, our non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with transparency into what management uses to measure and forecast our results of operations, to compare on a consistent basis our results of operations for the current period to that of prior periods and to compare our results of operations on a more consistent basis against that of other companies, in making financial and operating decisions and to establish certain management compensation.

Equity-based compensation is an important part of total compensation, especially from the perspective of employees. We believe, however, that supplementing GAAP income from continuing operations by providing income from continuing operations, excluding the effect of equity-based compensation in all periods, is useful to investors because it enables additional and more meaningful period-to-period comparisons.

Adjusted EBITDA also excludes infrequent or unusual items. For the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2014, infrequent or unusual items include acquisition-related costs while the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 include temporarily higher carrier fees and acquisition-related costs. We believe that these are costs that we will not incur on a regular basis, and consequently, we do not consider these charges as a component of ongoing operations.

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not measures of liquidity calculated in accordance with GAAP, and should be viewed as a supplement to – not a substitute for – results of operations presented on the basis of GAAP. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not purport to represent cash flow provided by operating activities as defined by GAAP. Furthermore, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not necessarily comparable to similarly-titled measures reported by other companies.

We believe EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share are useful to and used by investors and other users of the financial statements in evaluating our operating performance because it provides them with an additional tool to compare business performance across periods.

We believe that:

• EBITDA is widely used by investors to measure a company's operating performance without regard to items such as interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, which can vary substantially from company-to-company depending upon accounting methods and book value of assets, capital structure and the method by which assets were acquired; and
• Investors commonly adjust EBITDA information to eliminate the effect of equity-based compensation and other unusual or infrequently occurring items which vary widely from company-to-company and impair comparability.

We use EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share:

• as a measure of operating performance to assist in comparing performance from period-to-period on a consistent basis
• as a measure for planning and forecasting overall expectations and for evaluating actual results against such expectations; and
• in communications with the board of directors, analysts and investors concerning our financial performance.

Adjusted EBITDA is also a component of our loan covenant calculations. Although we believe, for the foregoing reasons, that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding our results of operations, the non-GAAP financial measures should only be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, any measure of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Use of non-GAAP financial measures is subject to inherent limitations because they do not include all the expenses that must be included under GAAP and because they involve the exercise of judgment of which charges should properly be excluded from the non-GAAP financial measure. Management accounts for these limitations by not relying exclusively on non-GAAP financial measures, but only using such information to supplement GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same non-GAAP measures, and may not be calculated in the same manner, as those used by other companies.

For the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2014, infrequent or unusual items include acquisition-related costs while the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 include temporarily higher carrier fees and acquisition-related costs.