DATA Communications Management Corp. Announces Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

SECOND QUARTER 2024 HIGHLIGHTS

• Revenues of $125.8 million were up +5.7%, or +$6.8 million vs. Q2 2023
• Gross profit of $34.3 million increased +7.2% or $2.3 million
• Gross profit as a percentage of revenues improved to 27.3%, vs. 26.9% in Q2 2023, marking continued progress towards returning gross profit margins to +30%
• Adjusted EBITDA¹ increased +22.2% vs. the prior year to $16.9 million
• Adjusted EBITDA represented 13.4% of revenues, compared to 11.6% for Q2 2023, consistent with objective to improve Adjusted EBITDA margins to more than 14%
• Net income was $4.1 million compared to a net loss of $2.9 million last year; Adjusted net income was $4.0 million vs. $3.8 million last year
• Net debt at the end of Q2 2024 was $75.1 million, down -48.3% or -$70.2 million since the closing of the MCC acquisition.  The Company ended the quarter with a net debt to trailing 12 months Adjusted EBITDA (net of lease payments) ratio of 1.7x.  DCM’s commitment to paying down debt remains a key priority

¹ Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenues, Adjusted net income (loss) and Adjusted net income (loss) as a percentage of revenues are non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures.  For a description of the composition of these and other non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures used in this press release, and a reconciliation to their most comparable IFRS Accounting Standards measure, where applicable, see the information under the heading “Non-IFRS Accounting Standards Measures”, the information set forth on Table 2 and Table 3 herein, and our most recent Management Discussion & Analysis filed on www.sedarplus.ca.

Brampton, Ontario – August 7, 2024 – DATA Communications Management Corp. (TSX: DCM; OTCQX: DCMDF) (“DCM” or the “Company”), a leading provider of marketing and business communication solutions to companies across North America, today reported its second quarter 2024 financial results.

MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY

“I am pleased to report on the continued progress of our business in the second quarter of 2024 during which we marked the one-year anniversary of completing our acquisition of Moore Canada Corporation (“MCC”),” said Richard Kellam, President & CEO of DCM.

“During the quarter, we continued to be guided by our commitment to delivering on our key post-acquisition integration priorities including consolidating our plant network, integrating legacy MCC systems, completing our restructuring actions and focusing on profitable growth.  Through these actions, we remain on track to realize annualized post-acquisition synergies of $30-35 million which we expect to substantially achieve prior to the end of this fiscal year.”

“Our Commercial team is making progress on several fronts on our path to building a strong platform for profitable growth.  The team is leveraging our expanded suite of product and service offerings, led by our tech-enabled solutions, with a focus on continuing to improve our product mix, increasing our wallet share with existing clients, strengthening our presence in key industry verticals, and winning new logos.  The team is also delivering on our commitment to drive margin improvement through strategic revenue management initiatives we are implementing across the business.”

“Our other post-acquisition priorities remain on track for completion by the end of 2024 including the plant consolidation we initiated last year to increase our operating efficiency by reducing our network from 14 to 10 main production facilities.  During June we completed the consolidation of our Thistle and Bond facilities, and we are on track to close our plants in Trenton, Ontario and Fergus, Ontario by year end.  During the second quarter, we accelerated production and equipment moves from Trenton and Fergus to our Brampton, Ontario and Drummondville, Quebec factories, respectively while investing in new state-of-the-art equipment to further enhance our production capabilities and position us to drive additional operating efficiencies.  These investments are consistent with our commitment to provide high quality solutions for our clients and to invest in markets with strong potential for growth. ” 

SECOND QUARTER 2023 EARNINGS CALL

The Company will host a conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 8, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. Mr. Kellam, and James Lorimer, CFO, will present the second quarter of 2024 results followed by a live Q&A.

Instructions on how to access both the webcast and call are available below.

DCM will be using Microsoft Teams to broadcast our earnings call, which will be accessible via the options below:

Register for the webcast prior to the start of the event: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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The Company’s full results will be posted on its Investor Relations page and on www.sedarplus.ca. A video message from Mr. Kellam will also be posted on the Company’s website.

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About DATA Communications Management Corp.

DCM is a marketing and business communications partner that helps companies simplify the complex ways they communicate and operate, so they can accomplish more with fewer steps and less effort.  For 65 years, DCM has been serving major brands in vertical markets including financial services, retail, healthcare, energy, other regulated industries, and the public sector.  We integrate seamlessly into our clients’ businesses thanks to our deep understanding of their needs, our technology-enabled solutions, and our end-to-end service offering.  Whether we are running technology platforms, sending marketing messages, or managing print workflows, our goal is to make everything surprisingly simple.

Additional information relating to DATA Communications Management Corp. is available on www.datacm.com, and in the disclosure documents filed by DATA Communications Management Corp. on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com.

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Forward-looking statements

Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking” statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, objectives or achievements of DCM, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, objectives or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  When used in this press release, words such as “may”, “would”, “could”, “will”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “believe”, “intend”, “plan”, and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements.  These statements reflect DCM’s current views regarding future events and operating performance, are based on information currently available to DCM, and speak only as of the date of this press release. 

These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions.  They should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such performance or results will be achieved.  Many factors could cause the actual results, performance, objectives or achievements of DCM to be materially different from any future results, performance, objectives or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  We caution readers of this press release not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements since a number of factors could cause actual future results, conditions, actions, or events to differ materially from the targets, expectations, estimates or intentions expressed in these forward-looking statements.

The principal factors, assumptions and risks that DCM made or took into account in the preparation of these forward-looking statements and which could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements are described in further detail in our Management Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2024, and include but are not limited to the following:

• Our ability to successfully integrate the DCM and MCC businesses and realize anticipated synergies from the combination of those businesses, including revenue and profitability growth from an enhanced offering of products and services, larger customer base and cost reductions;
• The expected annualized synergies that the Company expects to derive from the MCC acquisition have been estimated by the Company based on its experience integrating previously acquired businesses, other facilities and completing previous restructuring initiatives, and includes estimated benefits expected to be derived from the acquisition, including those related to facility sales and consolidations, operational improvements, eliminating redundant positions, and purchasing synergies;
• Our expected total annualized synergies estimates are principally based upon the following material factors and assumptions: (a) given the significant overlap in the nature of the two businesses, DCM will be able to eliminate duplication of overhead expenses across the combined DCM and MCC businesses in its SG&A functions; (b) given significant overlap in the nature of DCM’s and MCC’s production processes and available combined excess capacity, DCM will be able to consolidate manufacturing plants; (c) further operational and SG&A costs savings will be achievable once the above-noted initiatives are completed; (d) the combined business will achieve more favourable purchasing terms by virtue of the fact it is approximately twice the size of each of DCM and MCC pre-acquisition, and therefore able to command lower pricing from vendors based on larger volumes, and its expected ability to better harmonize purchasing strategies to leverage more favourable purchasing terms than each company had individually for similar goods or services; and (e) the combined business will be able to generate certain revenue synergies from cross-selling each other’s broader, combined, suite of capabilities; and
• Such expected annualized cost savings have not been prepared in accordance with IFRS Accounting Standards, nor has a reconciliation to IFRS Accounting Standards been provided, and the Company evaluates its financial performance on the basis of these non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures.  Therefore, the Company does not consider their most comparable IFRS Accounting Standards measures when evaluating prospective acquisitions.

Additional factors are discussed elsewhere in this press release and under the headings “Liquidity and capital resources” and “Risks and Uncertainties” in DCM’s Management Discussion and Analysis and in DCM’s other publicly available disclosure documents, as filed by DCM on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca).  Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.  Unless required by applicable securities law, DCM does not intend and does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Non-ifrs accounting standards measures

This press release includes certain non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures, ratios and other financial measures as supplementary information.  This supplementary information does not represent earnings measures recognized by IFRS Accounting Standards and does not have any standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS Accounting Standards.  Therefore, these non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures, ratios and other financial measures are unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers. Investors are cautioned that this supplementary information should not be construed as alternatives to net income (loss) determined in accordance with IFRS Accounting Standards as an indicator of DCM’s performance.  Definitions of such supplementary information, together with a reconciliation of net income (loss) to such supplementary financial measures, can be found in Table 4 and Table 5 of our Management Discussion and Analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and filed on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.