InterCloud Systems Reports Third Quarter Results

• 3rd Quarter Gross Profit Increased 33% to $7.2 Million
• 3rd Quarter Revenue Grew 5% to $21.7 Million
• 9 months Revenue up 25% over 2014
• 9 months Adjusted EBITDA reaches $1.9 Million

SHREWSBURY, N.J., Nov. 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterCloud Systems, Inc. (the "Company" or "InterCloud") (Nasdaq:ICLD), a leading provider of cloud networking orchestration and automation solutions and services, today reported financial results for the third quarter of 2015.

3rd Quarter and 9 Months Financial Highlights:

• Gross Profit for Q3 jumps 33% year-over-year to $7.2 million
• Revenue for Q3 increased 5% year-over-year to $21.7 million
• Adjusted EBITDA of $697 thousand compared to a loss of $(1.5) million for the third quarter of 2014
• Gross Profit Margin of cloud segment was 82% for the quarter
• Gross Profit Margin at 33% for the 9 months compared to 29% in 2014

Mark Munro, Chairman and CEO of InterCloud, stated, “We are very pleased to report that year to date, InterCloud’s revenue has grown 25% over the same period in 2014. In addition to revenue growth, and equally important, we have increased our year to date gross profit margins to over 33% from 29% for the same period in 2014. Our goal is to continue to grow our business and focus on expanding our gross margins as we sell higher margin cloud services. InterCloud has some exciting new cloud products and services that will help us achieve those goals. Our near term and long term outlook is very positive and we look forward to ramping up our portfolio of recurring revenue. InterCloud is positioned competitively with a robust private cloud portfolio of services, an industry leading software development team, and an aggressive sales and engineering group that will ultimately help us achieve our goals and objectives of being a market leader in cloud networking orchestration and automation solutions to enterprise and service provider markets.”

Third Quarter of 2015 Financial Results:

Revenue for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015 increased by 5% to $21.7 million, compared to $20.5 million for the third quarter of 2014. This was the result of increased revenue from our managed services and recently acquired cloud services segment.  These increases were offset by a decline in revenue from our professional services segment.  

Gross profit margin was 33% during the third quarter of 2015, compared to 26% for the comparable period in 2014.  Increases in the gross profit margin in our managed services and cloud segments were offset by a decrease in our professional services segment.  The gross profit margin in the cloud segment was 82% in the third quarter of 2015.  There was no cloud segment in the comparable period in 2014.

The Company had a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $(2.7) million for the third quarter of 2015 compared to a net loss of $(8.7) million for the comparable period of 2014.  The decrease in net loss during the third quarter of 2015 compared to the comparable period of 2014 resulted from an increase in gross profit of $1.8 million.  This was offset by an increase in salaries and wages of $1.1 million.  Salaries and wages expense includes non-cash stock compensation expense of $885 thousand for the third quarter of 2015 compared to $557 thousand for 2014. Also, the increase resulted from a decrease in goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges.  During the third quarter of 2014, the Company recorded impairment charges of $3.8 million.  The Company had net increases in gains on contingent consideration, conversion of debt and extinguishment of debt totaling $2.7 million.  These increases were offset by changes in fair value of derivative instruments of $1.2 million. 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2015 Financial Results:

Revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 increased by 23% to $64.9 million, compared to $52.6 million for 2014. This was the result of increased revenue from our cloud and managed services segments. 

Gross profit increased to 33% for the nine months ended September 30, 2015, compared to 29% for the comparable period in 2014.  The increase in gross profit margin was driven by operations in our cloud and managed services segments.  The gross profit margin in the cloud segment was 83% in the first nine months of 2015.  There was no cloud segment in the comparable period in 2014.

The Company had a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $(27.5) million for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 compared to a net loss of $(8.6) million for 2014.  The increase in net loss during the nine months ended September 30, 2015 resulted from an increase in the change in fair value of derivatives of $24.2 million and an increase in salaries and wages expense of $6.6 million.  This was offset by an increased gross profit of $6.1 million, a decrease in goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges totaling $3.8 million and a decrease in the loss on extinguishment of debt of $4.6 million.  Salaries and wages expense includes non-cash stock compensation expense of $7.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 compared to $1.8 million for 2014.

Business Highlights for Third Quarter

• InterCloud signed its largest two contracts in history worth $19M
• InterCloud announces “Dpod Private Cloud offering with Juniper Contrail and Openstack”
• InterCloud launches new SAS offering for Virtual Network Function validation
• InterCloud announces over $31M in new contracts in 3rd quarter

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This earnings release includes the following Non-GAAP financial measures; Adjusted EBITDA, Non-GAAP net income (loss) and Non-GAAP net income (loss) per share.  We define adjusted EBITDA as net loss adjusted to exclude interest income, interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock based compensation, transaction costs from acquisitions, certain legal expenses, salaries for terminated employees, change in the fair value of derivative instruments, non-controlling interests, gains and losses from conversion of debt, modification of debt, extinguishment of debt, contingent consideration and exchange of shares.

We define Non-GAAP net income (loss) as net loss adjusted to exclude interest income, income taxes, stock based compensation, transaction costs from acquisitions, certain legal expenses, salaries for terminated employees, change in the fair value of derivative instruments, non-controlling interests, gains and losses from conversion of debt, modification of debt, extinguishment of debt, contingent consideration and exchange of shares.

We have provided below a reconciliation of each of Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) to net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.  Neither Adjusted EBITDA nor Non-GAAP net income (loss) should be considered as an alternative to net loss or any other measure of financial performance calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

We believe that Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) are useful because they facilitate operating performance comparisons on a period-to-period basis as they exclude variations primarily caused by changes in the excluded items noted above.  In addition, we believe that Adjusted EBITDA, Non-GAAP net income (loss) and similar measures are widely used by investors, securities analysts, rating agencies and other parties in evaluating companies as measures of financial performance.

Our use of each of Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider either in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.  Some of these limitations are:

• Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the payment or receipt of interest or the payment of income taxes;
• Neither Adjusted EBITDA nor Non-GAAP net income (loss) reflects changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
• Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future, and Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect cash capital expenditures requirements for such replacements or for new capital expenditures or any other contractual commitments;
• Nether Adjusted EBITDA nor Non-GAAP net income (loss) consider the potentially dilutive impact of shares issued or to be issued in connection with share-based compensation or warrant issuances; and
• Other companies, including companies in our own industry, may calculate Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.

Because of these limitations, you should consider Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) alongside other financial performance measures, including various cash flow metrics, net loss and our other GAAP results.  In addition, in evaluating Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss), you should be aware that in the future we will incur expenses such as those that are the subject of adjustments in deriving Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) and you should not infer from our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA and Non-GAAP net income (loss) that our future results will not be affected by these expenses or any unusual or non-recurring items.

About InterCloud Systems, Inc.

InterCloud Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud networking orchestration and automation, for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) cloud environments to the communications service provider and corporate enterprise markets, through cloud solutions and professional services. Additional information regarding InterCloud may be found on InterCloud's website at www.intercloudsys.com. 

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These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this release and, except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise after the date of this release. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and should consider various factors, including the risks described, among other places, in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as well as any amendments thereto, filed with the SEC.