Blonder Tongue Announces Third Quarter and Nine-Month 2021 Results

OLD BRIDGE, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / October 22, 2021 / Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:BDR) announced its sales and results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2021.

Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. net sales increased $1,000 or 0.02% to $4,172,000 for the third quarter of 2021 from $4,171,000 for the comparable period in 2020. Net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2021, was $(201,000) or $(0.02) per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $(1,787,000) or $(0.18) per diluted share for the comparable period in 2020.

Commenting on the third quarter results, Ted Grauch, Blonder Tongue Laboratories' President and CEO noted, "The Company made strong progress in the third quarter on several fronts. We've continued to grow sales of our high technology and higher margin IP video encoding, transcoding, transmission, video security and video signal processing product lines such as the NXG, Clearview and Aircaster™ lines. We've done a great job during the quarter turning a number of customer relationships into longer term supply commitments, and we've greatly increased our bookings and multi-month product backlog in the process. Additionally, we've been able to keep our operating expenses under tight control, while at the same time, we've released a number of new products and product enhancements, and brought on new customers in the third quarter, all of which is providing us optimism in increasing sales for future quarters. Some of those include significant product design wins at large service operator accounts.

During the last three months, the Company experienced a specific short-term semiconductor supply chain disruption. This disruption and related increase in the cost of some semiconductors had a material adverse impact on our results of operations for the quarter. The unexpected increase in material costs negatively affected our margins and delays in obtaining a portion of our semiconductor supply resulted in delayed product shipments of several products by as much as a month in some cases. Based on negotiations with and agreement from our key customers, we've been able to successfully implement certain product price increases to offset our higher material costs on certain affected products. We were also able to resume full production of the products affected by the supply chain issues by the end of the quarter. Overall, as we enter the fourth quarter, the Company is seeing growing bookings and a recovering telecommunications, cable TV, and fiber optic technology market place, but, at the same time a tightening of the supply chain situation on a range of semiconductor and other electronics components. We've compensated by performing longer look-ahead planning of our manufacturing jobs, but it appears that disruptions in the supply chain will continue to provide challenges for the whole industry into 2022."

The third quarter included an increase in sales of IP video transcoder products and NXG IP digital video processing products, offset by a decrease in sales of analog video headend products, Consumer Premise Equipment (CPE) products and Hybrid Fiber-Coax (HFC) distribution products. Sales of transcoder products were $1,732,000 and $543,000, NXG products were $420,000 and $89,000, analog video headend products were $176,000 and $323,000, CPE products were $113,000 and $1,379,000 and HFC distribution products were $404,000 and $599,000 for the third three months of 2021 and 2020, respectively.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, net sales decreased $291,000 or 2.4% to $11,761,000 in 2021 from $12,052,000 for the comparable period in 2020. Net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, was $1,011,000 or $0.08 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $(5,061,000) or $(0.52) per diluted share for the comparable period in 2020. Net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 included $1,769,000 related to a gain on debt forgiveness of the Company's PPP loan and $1,804,000 of other income related to the Employee Retention Tax Credit. Net cash used in operating activities was $(627,000) for the first nine months of 2021, compared to net cash used in operating activities of $(2,149,000) for the comparable period of 2020.

The decrease in sales for the nine months is primarily attributable to a decrease in sales of DOCSIS data products, digital video headend products, HFC distribution products, CPE products and analog video headend products, offset by an increase in sales of video transcoder products and NXG products. Sales of DOCSIS data products were $681,000 and $1,807,000, digital video headend products were $2,348,000 and $2,603,000, HFC distribution products were $1,327,000 and $1,769,000, CPE products were $1,096,000 and $3,051,000, analog video headend products were $657,000 and $838,000, transcoder products were $3,805,000 and $937,000 and NXG products were $1,311,000 and $570,000 in the first nine months of 2021 and 2020, respectively.

The Company expects bookings of transcoder products to remain healthy as market exposure to, and acceptance of, those products continues. The Company expects sales of CPE products to continue to trend lower than in prior periods as the Company, consistent with its business plan, transitions those products into a higher margin but lower revenue services, fulfillment, and support business model, and works to promote an expanded array of distribution, content delivery and processing technologies to those service-provider customers.

The Company's primary sources of liquidity have been its existing cash balances, cash generated from operations, amounts available under its revolving credit facility ("the MidCap Facility"), amounts available under the Subordinated Loan Facility and cash generated from sales of its common stock, as well as funds made available to the Company through participation in several federal government financial assistance programs implemented pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, including the Paycheck Protection Program and the Employee Retention Tax Credit. At September 30, 2021, the Company had $516,000 available under the MidCap Facility.

As disclosed in the Company's 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K, last year the Company experienced a decline in sales, a reduction in working capital, a loss from operations and net cash used in operating activities, in conjunction with liquidity constraints. These factors raised substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Certain of the above factors still exist. Accordingly, there still exists substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability of the recorded assets or the classification of the liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.

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About Blonder Tongue
Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. is the oldest designer and manufacturer of telecommunications and cable television video transmission technology in the USA. The majority of our products continue to be designed and built in our state-of-the-art New Jersey facility, which has been the Company's home for more than 50 years. Blonder Tongue Labs offers U.S.-based engineering and manufacturing excellence with an industry reputation for delivering ultra-high reliability products. As a leader in cable television system design, the Company provides service operators and systems integrators with comprehensive solutions for the management and distribution of digital video, IPTV and high-speed data services, as well as RF broadband distribution over fiber, IP, and Coax networks for homes and businesses. Additional information on the Company and its products can be found at www.blondertongue.com.

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Contacts
Eric Skolnik
Chief Financial Officer
[email protected]
(732) 679-4000

Ted Grauch
Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
(732) 679-4000

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