BOARDWALKTECH REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND ANNUAL FISCAL 2024 FINANCIAL RESULTS
Financial Highlights:
- Revenue for Fiscal 2024 totaled
$6.0 million compared to$6.5 million for Fiscal 2023, representing an 8% decrease in annual revenue. The portion of revenue from new and recurring SaaS licenses in Fiscal 2024 increased by 12% year-over-year but was offset by a 60% decline in professional services revenue. - Annual recurring revenue ("ARR"), a non-IFRS metric, at
March 31, 2024 was$5.6 million , a 3% year-over-year increase versus ARR of$5.5 million atMarch 31, 2023 . The Company defines ARR, a non-IFRS metric, as the annual recurring revenue expected based on trailing quarterly revenue from license subscriptions and recurring services. - Gross margin for Fiscal 2024 was 89.6%, comparable with 90.6% in Fiscal 2023.
- Adjusted EBITDA for Fiscal 2024 was a loss of
$(1.6) million , comparable with$(1.6) million loss for Fiscal 2023. However, these annual figures do not show the quarterly progress as the Adjusted EBITDA loss for Q4 Fiscal 2024 was$(0.3) million , a 20% improvement over the$(0.4) million Adjusted EBITDA for Q4 Fiscal 2023 and a 10% sequential improvement over Adjusted EBITDA for Q3 Fiscal 2024. - Non-IFRS net loss for Fiscal 2024 (as defined in the Non-IFRS Financial Measures section) totaling
$(1.6) million , or a loss of$(0.03) per basic and diluted share, versus a$(1.7) million non-IFRS loss in Fiscal 2023, or a loss of$(0.04) per basic and diluted share. Non-IFRS net loss for Q4 Fiscal 2024 was$(0.4) million , a 13% improvement over the$(0.5) million Non-IFRS net loss for Q4 Fiscal 2023 - Reported IFRS loss was
$(3.1) million in Fiscal 2024, or$(0.6) per basic and diluted share, a 13% improvement versus a$(3.6) million loss in Fiscal 2023, or$(0.08) per basic and diluted share. The improvement was due to a$0.5 million decrease in adjusted operating expenses, with the full impact of the Company's realignment and cost efforts announced inJanuary 2024 expected to be realized during the upcoming fiscal year. - The ending cash balance for as of
March 31, 2024 was$2.2 million , plus$0.4 million of trade receivables. - Outstanding debt as of
March 31, 2024 was 2.25 million which was drawn against the previously announced$4 million line of credit fromCeltic Bank .
Operations Highlights Exiting Fiscal 2024
- On
October 2, 2023 , the Company announced a teaming agreement with Hexaware, a global technology and business process services company, specializes in empowering enterprises to realize the potential of digital transformation at scale and speed by helping them build, transform, run, and optimize technology and business processes. - On
October 26, 2023 , the Company announced a teaming agreement with LTIMindtree, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies. - On
November 27, 2023 , the Company announced it had extended and expanded its commercial engagement with a Fortune 50 technology company for supply chain management, including the execution of its first long-term license with Boardwalk, following an ROI analysis by the customer. This is expected to be the first of several phases/licenses to improve the customer's supply chain execution. - On
December 28, 2023 , the Company closed the initial tranche of its Listed Issuer Financing Exemption ("LIFE") offering and concurrent non-brokered private placement, for 7,015,353 Units at CAD$0.30 per Unit for gross proceeds of$1,590,738 (CAD$2,104,606 ), pursuant to the National Instrument 45-106 - Prospectus Exemptions ("NI 45-106"). Each Unit included one common share purchase warrant at a price ofCAD$0.50 per common share for a period of 36 months from the closing date. Insiders of the Company participated in the Offering for approximatelyCAD$53,000 . - On
January 16, 2024 , the Company announced it had expanded commercial agreements with three existing customers, including existing Digital Ledger customer Sekisui Chemical who signed a license for Boardwalk's new Unity Central application for supply chain solution. - Also on
January 16, 2024 , the Company announced it had executed steps to realign its internal resources with a focus on achieving overall profitability, without compromising sales growth, to generate approximatelyUS$1,000,000 in annual cost savings. - On
February 26, 2024 , the Company closed the second tranche of its upsized LIFE offering and non-brokered private placement, of which 473,400 Units were subscribed at CAD$0.30 per Unit and 32,825 Units were subscribed by an Insider of the Company atUS$0.22 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of$112,303 (CAD$151,868 ). - On
March 28, 2024 , Boardwalktech secured aUS$4.0 Million Credit Facility withCeltic Bank to provide available growth funds. - On
April 8, 2024 , Boardwalktech announced it had signed a strategic agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the world's largest IT services and consulting companies with operations in 46 countries and over 615,000 employees, to teaming with Boardwalktech to engage customers in financial services market for the Boardwalk Velocity product, used to rapidly remediate and transform Excel and Access based End User Computing ("EUC") environments into a compliant, auditable, and scalable solution. - On
May 9, 2024 the Company announced it had addedJay Cherrie to its corporateAdvisory Board and as a business development asset.Mr. Cherrie's career has included senior executive roles including Global Industry Lead (Financial Services) for Appian Corporation, Chief Technology Officer for First Republic Bank, and led the technology strategy department forCharles Schwab Bank . As the Company continues to expand its presence in the financial services sector,Mr. Cherrie's expertise and vast relationships will prove to be highly valuable for the Company and its shareholders.
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About
Boardwalktech has developed a patented Digital Ledger Technology Platform currently used by Fortune 500 companies running mission-critical applications worldwide. Boardwalktech's digital ledger technology and its unique method of managing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data is the only platform on the market today where multiple parties can effectively work on the same data simultaneously while preserving the fidelity and provenance of the data. Boardwalktech can deliver collaborative, purpose-built enterprise information management applications on any device or user interface with full integration with enterprise systems of record in a fraction of the time it takes other non-digital ledger technology-based platforms. Boardwalktech is headquartered in
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