Cambium Networks Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

• Revenues of $43.7 million decreased 5% sequentially
• Gross margin of 39.9% and non-GAAP⁽¹⁾ gross margin of 42.3%, both higher sequentially
• Operating loss of $8.1 million, non-GAAP⁽¹⁾ operating loss of $3.6 million
• Net loss of $9.7 million or a loss of $0.34 per diluted share; non-GAAP⁽¹⁾ net loss of $3.8 million or a loss of $0.14 per diluted share
• Net cash provided by operating activities of $8.9 million; $46.5 million cash on the balance sheet
• Adjusted EBITDA⁽¹⁾ loss of $2.3 million or (5.3)% of revenues, an improvement of 65% sequentially

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambium Networks Corporation ("Cambium Networks") (NASDAQ:CMBM), a leading provider of wireless and wired networking infrastructure solutions, today announced financial results for the third quarter 2024 ended September 30, 2024.

"We are pleased that, despite the market challenges, revenue and margins were within our guidance range for the third quarter. Most importantly, we generated continuing growth in the Enterprise portfolio of products. Margins improved and we delivered increased positive cash from operations compared to the second quarter 2024, and $5.2 million in free cash flow. Cambium's product sales out of the distribution channel remain higher than reported revenues, and channel inventories declined, as reported by our distributors," said Morgan Kurk, president and CEO.

Revenues of $43.7 million for the third quarter 2024 decreased by $2.2 million, or 5%, compared to $45.9 million in the second quarter 2024, primarily due to lower Point-to-Point revenues to defense customers, offset partially by higher Enterprise revenues.   

GAAP gross margin for the third quarter 2024 was 39.9%, 850 basis points higher than 31.4% for the second quarter 2024. GAAP operating loss for the third quarter 2024 was $8.1 million, a $4.0 million improvement from the operating loss of $12.1 million for the second quarter 2024. GAAP net loss for the third quarter 2024 was $9.7 million, or a net loss of $0.34 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $9.1 million, or net loss of $0.33 per diluted share for the second quarter 2024.

Non-GAAP gross margin for the third quarter 2024 was 42.3%, a 880 basis point improvement from 33.5% for the second quarter 2024, primarily due to a decline in inventory reserve charges and losses on supplier commitments. Non-GAAP operating loss for the third quarter 2024 was $3.6 million, an improvement from a non-GAAP operating loss of $7.9 million for the second quarter 2024. Non-GAAP net loss for the third quarter 2024 was also improved, at $3.8 million, or a net loss of $0.14 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net loss of $7.1 million, or net loss of $0.25 per diluted share, for the second quarter 2024. For the third quarter 2024, adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $2.3 million or (5.3)% of revenues, a 65% improvement from an adjusted EBITDA loss of $6.7 million or (14.5)% of revenues for the second quarter 2024.

Net cash provided by operating activities was $8.9 million for the third quarter 2024, significantly higher compared to net cash provided by operating activities of $2.4 million for the second quarter 2024. Non-GAAP free cash flow totaled $5.2 million for the third quarter of 2024, an improvement compared to negative $1.8 million for the second quarter 2024. Cash totaled $46.5 million as of September 30, 2024.

As of September 30, 2024, the company remained in compliance with its monthly liquidity covenant for its outstanding bank debt at each measurement period during the quarter, but was not in compliance with its quarterly consolidated EBITDA covenant. The company was also not in compliance with its liquidity covenant as of October 31, 2024. The covenant violations affords the lenders the right to declare the amounts outstanding immediately due and payable, and as such, the term loan facility and the associated debt issuance costs and the revolving loan facility have all been classified as a current liability and the deferred debt issuance costs associated with the revolving loan facility have been classified as a current asset in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets as of September 30, 2024. The company is seeking a forbearance from the bank and is working with them to address its noncompliance with the covenants.

Fourth Quarter 2024 Financial Outlook

Cambium Networks' financial outlook does not include the potential impact of any possible future financial transactions, acquisitions, pending legal matters, or other transactions.  Accordingly, Cambium Networks only includes such items in the company's financial outlook to the extent that they are reasonably foreseeable; however, actual results may differ materially from the outlook.

Taking into account our current visibility, the financial outlook as of November 7, 2024, for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2024, is as follows:

• Revenues between $40.0-$45.0 million
• GAAP gross margin between 40.0%-42.0%; and non-GAAP gross margin between 42.5%-44.5%
• GAAP operating loss between $7.0-$9.0 million; and non-GAAP operating loss between $3.0-$5.0 million
• Adjusted EBITDA loss between $1.0-$3.0 million; and adjusted EBITDA margin between (2.0)%-(7.0)%

Conference Call and Webcast

Cambium Networks will host a live webcast and conference call to discuss its financial results for the third quarter of 2024 at 4:30 p.m. ET today, November 7, 2024. To join the financial results live webcast and view additional materials that will be posted to the investor website, listeners should access the investor page of Cambium Networks website at: https://investors.cambiumnetworks.com/.  Following the live webcast, a replay will be available in the event archives at the same web address for a period of one year.

To access the live conference call by phone, listeners should register in advance at https://register.vevent.com/register/BIdc28a1c98af9472980b80dde48bef173. Upon registration, telephone participants will receive a confirmation email detailing how to join the conference call, including the dial-in number and a unique passcode.

About Cambium Networks

Cambium Networks enables service providers, enterprises, industrial organizations, and governments to deliver exceptional digital experiences and device connectivity with compelling economics. Our ONE Network platform simplifies management of Cambium's wired and wireless broadband and network edge technologies, allowing customers to focus more on managing their business rather than the network. We make connectivity that just works.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements concerning our expected next quarter revenues, net income and cash. All statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this document, including statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this document and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions including those described in the "Risk factors" section of our 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 2024, and Form 10-Qs filed on May 10, 2024 and August 9, 2024. Because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in our forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Some of the key factors that could cause actual results to differ from our expectations include: the unpredictability of our operating results; our ability to meet the financial and other covenants under our secured credit facilities; our ability to predict and respond to emerging technological trends and network operators' changing needs; our ability to successfully comply with or obtain a waiver of compliance with the financial covenants under our credit facilities  and therefore continue as a going concern; the sufficiency of our cash resources and needs for additional financing; our ability to forecast future demand or the level of inventory in our distribution channel; our ability to manage inventory and the risk of excess or obsolete inventory in our channel; the impact of competitive pressures on the development of new products and our success against competitors in our markets; risks caused by political tensions around the world; the strength of the United States dollar and the impact on the cost of our products globally; current or future unfavorable economic conditions, both domestically and in our foreign markets, including the risk of a global or localized recessions; our reliance on limited or sole source suppliers; our reliance on third-party manufacturers, which subjects us to risks of product delivery delays and reduced control over product costs and quality; our reliance on distributors and value-added resellers for the substantial majority of our sales; the ability of our third-party logistics and warehousing providers to deliver products to our channel partners and network operators in a timely manner; the technological complexity of our products, which may contain undetected hardware defects or software bugs or subject our products to the risks of ransomware or malware or other cyber-attacks; the impact of any material weaknesses in and our ability to maintain an effective system of internal controls, produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations; any future impairment or write offs of intangible assets; the impact of actual or threatened health epidemics and other outbreaks; our reliance on the availability of third-party licenses; and our inability to obtain intellectual property protections for our products. Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events or otherwise.

Use of non-GAAP (Adjusted) Financial Measures

In addition to providing financial measurements based on generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP), we provide additional financial metrics that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP (non-GAAP), including Adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP pre-tax income, non-GAAP provision for income taxes, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP fully weighted basic and diluted shares. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures, in addition to GAAP financial measures, to understand and compare operating results across accounting periods, for financial and operational decision making, for planning and forecasting purposes, to measure executive compensation and to evaluate our financial performance. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures help us to identify underlying trends in our business that could otherwise be masked by the effect of the expenses that we exclude in the calculations of the non-GAAP financial measures.

We believe that these financial measures reflect our ongoing business in a manner that allows for meaningful comparisons and analysis of trends in the business and provides information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our operating results, enhancing the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects. Although the calculation of non-GAAP financial measures may vary from company to company, our detailed presentation may facilitate analysis and comparison of our operating results by management and investors with other peer companies, many of which use similar non-GAAP financial measures to supplement their GAAP results in their public disclosures. These non-GAAP financial measures are discussed below.

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net (loss) income as reported in our consolidated statements of operations excluding the impact of (i) interest expense (income), net; (ii) income tax provision (benefit); (iii) depreciation and amortization expense; (iv) nonrecurring expenses, (v) share-based compensation expense, and (vi) restructuring expenses. EBITDA is widely used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties to evaluate the profitability of companies. EBITDA eliminates potential differences in performance caused by variations in capital structures (affecting net finance costs), tax positions (such as the availability of net operating losses against which to relieve taxable profits), the cost and age of tangible assets (affecting relative depreciation expense) and the extent to which intangible assets are identifiable (affecting relative amortization expense). We adjust EBITDA to also exclude nonrecurring expenses since this is one-time in nature and does not reflect our ongoing operations. We adjust EBITDA for share-based compensation expense which is a non-cash expense that varies in amount from period to period and is dependent on market forces that are often beyond Cambium Networks' control. As a result, management excludes this item from Cambium Networks' internal operating forecasts and models. We also adjust EBITDA to exclude nonrecurring expenses and restructuring expenses as these relate to events outside of the ordinary course of continuing operations and to provide a more accurate comparison of our ongoing business results.

Free cash flow is a non-GAAP measure defined as cash flows from operating activities less capital expenditures, which is disclosed as purchases of property and equipment and purchases of software in our unaudited condensed consolidated statement of cash flows. We believe this non-GAAP financial measure is a useful indicator of liquidity that provides information to management and investors, even if negative, about the amount of cash used in our operations other than that used for investments in property and equipment. Since free cash flow is not a measure calculated in accordance with GAAP, it should not be considered in isolation of, or as a substitute for cash from operating activities and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures employed by other companies. Free cash flow is not necessarily a measure of our ability to fund our cash needs.  

Non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income and non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP effective tax rate and non-GAAP net income are used as a supplement to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP. We believe these non-GAAP measures are the most meaningful for period-to-period comparisons because they exclude the impact of share-based compensation expense, restructuring expenses, nonrecurring legal expenses, amortization of acquired intangibles, and amortization of capitalized software costs as we do not consider these costs and expenses to be indicative of our ongoing operations.

Share-based compensation expenses are excluded. Management may issue different types of awards, including share options, and restricted share units, and excludes the associated expense in this non-GAAP measure. Share-based compensation expense is a non-cash expense that varies in amount from period to period and is dependent on market forces that are often beyond Cambium Networks control.

Amortization of acquired intangibles includes customer relationships and is excluded since these are not indicative of continuing operations.

Amortization of capitalized software costs include capitalized research and development activities amortized over their useful life and included in cost of revenues and are excluded since these are not indicative of continuing operations.

Restructuring expenses consist primarily of severance costs for employees which are not related to future operating expenses. Cambium Networks excludes these expenses since they result from an event that is outside the ordinary course of continuing operations. Excluding these charges permits more accurate comparisons of Cambium Networks' ongoing business results.

Our non-GAAP tax adjustments include the tax impacts from share-based compensation expense including excess or decremental tax benefits available to the company that are recorded when incurred. Non-GAAP results exclude the effect of a valuation allowance recorded against tax assets for the cumulative loss related to our UK and U.S. operations. Cambium Networks excludes these amounts to more closely approximate the company's ongoing effective tax rate after adjusting for one-time or unique non-recurring items. The associated non-GAAP effective tax rate is also applied to the gross amount of non-GAAP adjustments for the purpose of calculating non-GAAP net income in total and on a per-share basis. This approach is designed to enhance the ability of investors to understand the company's tax expense on its current operations, provide improved modeling accuracy, and substantially reduce fluctuations caused by GAAP adjustments which may not reflect actual cash tax expense. 

Non-GAAP fully weighted basic and diluted shares are shown as outstanding during the entire period presented and include dilutive shares if their effect on earnings per share is dilutive. We also use non-GAAP fully weighted basic and diluted shares to provide more comparable per-share results across periods.

These non-GAAP financial measures do not replace the presentation of our GAAP financial results and should only be used as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, our financial results presented in accordance with GAAP. There are limitations in the use of non-GAAP measures because they do not include all the expenses that must be included under GAAP and because they involve the exercise of judgment concerning exclusions of items from the comparable non-GAAP financial measure. In addition, other companies may use other measures to evaluate their performance, or may calculate non-GAAP measures differently, all of which could reduce the usefulness of our non-GAAP financial measures as tools for comparison. We present a "Reconciliation of GAAP Financial Measures to Non-GAAP Financial Measures" in the tables below. 

The following table reconciles net income to Adjusted EBITDA, the most directly comparable financial measure, calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP (in thousands): 

The following table reconciles Cash flows from operating activities to Free cash flow, the most directly comparable financial measure, calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP (in thousands): 

The following table reconciles all other GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures (in thousands):