Smith Micro Reports First Quarter 2024 Financial Results

Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMSI) ("Smith Micro" or the "Company") today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2024.

"In the first quarter, we have made progress in several key areas that we believe position us for growth in the back half of this fiscal year," said William W. Smith, Jr., president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Smith Micro. "We are pleased to announce that in the near term, we plan to launch our first customer on SafePath Global™, our new rapid-deployment model of our SafePath^® solution. Additionally, we have introduced our affiliate/influencer and retail store ambassador marketing programs to help drive subscriber growth of mobile operators' SafePath-based solutions, and we expect our previously announced Tier 1 MNO customer in Europe to launch in the second half of this year with a unique product approach to a family safety solution that has yet to be seen in the market."

"We are keenly focused on returning the Company to growth and profitability in the near term," Smith continued. "With our new product development initiatives, including SafePath Global, SafePath Premium™ and SafePath OS™, and our new wave of marketing activities, we believe that the Company is poised for growth over the coming quarters. To accelerate our return to non-GAAP profitability and positive cash flow, we also plan to immediately take steps to further reduce our cost structure. The team at Smith Micro is extremely dedicated and motivated to the mission of bringing new, innovative solutions to the market and delivering the technology necessary to keep families safe in the world we live in today, and to provide premium service, innovation, and ingenuity for our customers."

First Quarter 2024 Financial Results

Smith Micro reported revenue of $5.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, compared to $10.9 million reported in the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

Gross profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 was $3.8 million, compared to $7.6 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

Gross profit as a percentage of revenue was 65.7 percent for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, compared to 70.0 percent for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

GAAP net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 was $31.0 million, or $3.28 loss per share, compared to GAAP net loss of $6.9 million, or $0.97 loss per share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.

Non-GAAP net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 was $4.2 million, or $0.45 loss per share, compared to non-GAAP net loss of $3.6 million, or $0.51 loss per share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2023. Non-GAAP net income and net loss excludes the items noted below under "Non-GAAP Measures."

All share and per share amounts for common stock herein have been retroactively adjusted for all periods presented to give effect to the one-for-eight reverse stock split (the "Reverse Stock Split") of our common stock, which became effective April 10, 2024 at 11:59 pm Eastern time.

Total cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2024 were $6.2 million.

Non-GAAP Measures

To supplement our financial information presented in accordance with GAAP, the Company considers, and has included in this press release, the following non-GAAP financial measures and a non-GAAP reconciliation from the equivalent GAAP metric: non-GAAP net (loss) income, non-GAAP gross profit, and non-GAAP basic and diluted (loss) earnings per share in the presentation of financial results in this press release. Management believes this non-GAAP presentation may be more meaningful in analyzing the Company's income generation and has therefore excluded the following items from GAAP earnings calculations: stock compensation, intangibles amortization, depreciation, fair value adjustments, amortization of debt issuance costs and discount, goodwill impairment, and adjustments for non-recurring items. Additionally, since the Company currently has federal and state net operating loss carryforwards that can be utilized to reduce future cash payments for income taxes, these non-GAAP adjustments have not been tax effected, and the resulting income tax expense reflects actual taxes paid or accrued during each period. This presentation may be considered more indicative of the Company's ongoing operational performance. The table below presents the differences between non-GAAP net loss and net loss on an absolute and per-share basis. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, financial information presented in compliance with GAAP, and the non-GAAP financial measures as reported by Smith Micro may not be comparable to similarly titled amounts reported by other companies.

Investor Conference Call

Smith Micro will hold an investor conference call today, May 8, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. ET, to discuss the Company's first quarter 2024 financial results. To access the call, dial 1-844-701-1164; international participants can call 1-412-317-5492. A passcode is not required to join the call; ask the operator to be placed into the Smith Micro conference. Participants are asked to call the assigned number approximately 10 minutes before the conference call begins. An internet webcast is available at https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=diAQPqLJ. In addition, the conference call will be available on the Smith Micro website in the Investor Relations section.

About Smith Micro Software, Inc.

Smith Micro develops software to simplify and enhance the mobile experience, providing solutions to some of the leading wireless service providers around the world. From enabling the family digital lifestyle to providing powerful voice messaging capabilities, our solutions enrich today's connected lifestyles while creating new opportunities to engage consumers via smartphones and consumer IoT devices. The Smith Micro portfolio also includes a wide range of products for creating, sharing, and monetizing rich content, such as visual voice messaging, optimizing retail content display and performing analytics on any product set. For more information, visit www.smithmicro.com.

Smith Micro, the Smith Micro logo and SafePath are registered trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are, and certain statements on the related conference call may be, forward-looking statements regarding future events or results within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, including statements related to our financial prospects, goals and other projections of our outlook or performance our cost reduction plans and other future business plans, and statements using such words as "expect," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "intend," "could," "will" and other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Among the important factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are customer concentration, given that the majority of our sales depend on a few large customer relationships and the loss of any of them could materially and negatively affect our business, delay or failure of our customers to accept and deploy our products and services or new or upgraded versions thereof, delay or failure of our customers' end users to adopt our products and services or new or upgraded versions thereof, our reliance on third party operating systems for the proper operation and delivery of our solutions and any barriers to our use of such third party technology, our reliance on third party application stores for the distribution of our software applications to users and any barriers to such distribution, including any delay or failure of such third party to approve new versions of our applications or their implementation and/or application of policies that may be harmful to our business, unanticipated delays or obstacles in our development and release cycles, the degree to which competing business needs may affect our allocation of resources to planned projects, delays in our ability to fully execute on our cost reduction plans due to statutory and other requirements, the risk of harm to our business resulting from our recent and any future cost reduction efforts, our ability to attract and retain key technical personnel that are essential to our product development and support efforts, changes in demand for our products from our customers and their end users, changes in requirements for our products imposed by our customers or by the third party providers of software and/or platforms that we use, our ability to effectively integrate, market and sell acquired product lines, new and changing technologies and customer acceptance and timing of deployment of those technologies, and our ability to compete effectively with other software and technology companies. These and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made on the basis of the views and assumptions of management, and we do not undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.

Note: (Loss) earnings per share: basic and diluted - may be impacted by rounding to allow rows to calculate.

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