~Improvement in Q1 Adjusted EBITDA with 2024 positive EBITDA goal remaining intact~
First Quarter Highlights Include:
- Revenue of
$18.1 million ; - Gross profit of
$4.6 million , Gross Margin1 before amortization of$4.8 million (27% of revenue); - Adjusted EBITDA2 loss of
$0.5 million ; - Net loss and comprehensive loss of
$0.8 million , - Sales Order Backlog3 of
$24 million as atMarch 31, 2024 ; and - Cash and cash equivalents of
$7.2 million and no debt, other than payables, advance payment / performance bonding and standby letters of credit resulting from normal course operations, as atMarch 31, 2024 . - Subsequent to
March 31, 2024 , the Company soldGreenlane Renewables UK Limited that carried on the Company'sUK and EU-based legacy aftercare services business. For Q1 2024, the business generated revenue of$0.5 million and realized an Adjusted EBITDA loss of$0.1 million . This transaction triggered a restatement of our financial statements to reflect this business as discontinued operations.
"We recognized a significant improvement in Adjusted EBITDA with a reduced loss of
"I am encouraged with the progress that we've made towards our objective of achieving Adjusted EBITDA positive results for this fiscal year," said
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SPECIFIED FINANCIAL MEASURES
Management evaluates the Company's performance using a variety of measures, including "Gross Margin before amortization", "Adjusted EBITDA" and "Sales Order Backlog". The specified financial measures, including non-IFRS measures and supplementary financial measures should not be considered as an alternative to or more meaningful than revenue, gross profit or net income. These measures do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and therefore they may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other publicly traded companies and should not be construed as an alternative to other financial measures determined in accordance with IFRS. The Company believes these specified financial measures provide useful information to both management and investors in measuring the financial performance and financial condition of the Company. Management uses these specified financial measures to exclude the impact of certain expenses and income that must be recognized under IFRS when analyzing consolidated underlying operating performance, as the excluded items are not necessarily reflective of the Company's underlying operating performance and make comparisons of underlying financial performance between periods difficult. From time to time, the Company may exclude additional items if it believes doing so would result in a more effective analysis of underlying operating performance. The exclusion of certain items does not imply that they are non-recurring.
Note 1 - Gross Margin before amortization is a non-IFRS measure and is defined by the Company as gross profit before amortization of intangible assets and property and equipment.
Note 2 - Adjusted EBITDA is a non-IFRS measure and is defined by the Company as earnings before interest, taxes, foreign exchange, depreciation and amortization, as well as adjustments for other income (expense), value assigned to options and RSU's granted, impairment of intangible assets and goodwill, impairment of notes receivable, strategic initiatives, transaction costs and non-recurring items.
Reconciliation of net loss and comprehensive loss to Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations:
(in $000s) | Three months ended | |
2024 | 2023 | |
Net loss and comprehensive loss | (796) | (1,986) |
Add (deduct): | ||
Exchange difference on translating foreign operations | (22) | (176) |
Provisions for income taxes | 256 | 82 |
Foreign exchange gain | (131) | (237) |
Other (income) loss | (252) | 21 |
Finance income | (104) | (208) |
Finance expense | 35 | 16 |
Share-based compensation | 200 | 335 |
Amortization of office equipment | 53 | 88 |
Amortization of property and equipment | 86 | 36 |
Amortization of intangible assets | 138 | 473 |
Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations | (537) | (1,536) |
Reconciliation of net loss and comprehensive loss to Adjusted EBITDA from discontinued operations:
(in $000s) | Three months ended | |
2024 | 2023 | |
Net loss and comprehensive loss | (477) | (73) |
Add (deduct): | ||
Exchange difference on translating foreign operations | - | (25) |
Foreign exchange loss (gain) | 20 | (49) |
Finance expense | 1 | 2 |
Impairment loss of inventory and property and equipment | 342 | - |
Amortization of office equipment | 20 | 23 |
Adjusted EBITDA from discontinued operations | (94) | (122) |
Note 3 - Greenlane provides regular updates on its upgrader system sales opportunities that successfully convert into contractual agreements in its reported sales order backlog ("Sales Order Backlog"). Sales Order Backlog is a supplementary financial measure that refers to the balance of unrecognized revenue from contracted biogas upgrading system supply projects. The Company's Sales Order Backlog is a snapshot in time which varies from period-to-period. The Sales Order Backlog increases by the value of new system sales contracts and is drawn down over time as projects progress towards completion with amounts recognized in revenue (by reference to the stage of completion of each contract). A typical biogas upgrading system sales contract has six stages of completion and a duration of nine to 24 months, and therefore annual and quarterly operating results will fluctuate as a result of the timing of contract related work. Note that Sales Order Backlog does not include Cascade H2S sales, service revenue, or revenue from the Company's agreement with ZEG Biogás.
About
Greenlane is driving change: accelerating the energy transition to a net-zero emissions economy. We are cleaning up two of the largest and most difficult to decarbonize sectors of the global energy system: the natural gas grid and commercial transportation. As a pioneer and leading specialist in biogas upgrading, we have been actively contributing to the decarbonization of our planet for over 35 years. The systems we provide transform biogas generated from organic waste into high-value grid-ready renewable natural gas ("RNG"). Our systems produce clean, low-carbon and carbon-negative RNG from organic waste sources including agriculture (such as dairy and hog manure), water resource recovery facilities, food waste, landfills, and sugar mills. Greenlane is the only biogas upgrading company offering and actively deploying the three main upgrading technologies: waterwash, pressure swing adsorption, and membrane separation, plus proprietary biogas desulfurization technology. Greenlane has delivered over 145 biogas upgrading systems into 19 countries, including some of the largest RNG production facilities in the world, and over 160 biogas desulfurization units. For further information, please visit www.greenlanerenewables.com.
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FINANCIAL OUTLOOK INFORMATION – This news release contains "financial outlook information" regarding Greenlane's prospective revenue and results, which is subject to the same assumptions, risk factors, limitations, and qualifications as set forth in the above. Revenue and other estimates contained in this news release were made by Greenlane management as of the date of this news release and are provided for the purpose of describing anticipated changes, and are not an estimate of profitability or any other measure of financial performance. Investors are cautioned that the financial outlook information contained in this news release should not be used for purposes other than for which it is disclosed herein. The Company's revenues are largely derived from a relatively small number of biogas upgrader orders accounted for on a stage of completion basis over typically a nine to eighteen-month period. Timing of new contract awards varies due to customer-related factors such as finalizing technical specifications and securing project funding, permits and RNG off-take and feedstock agreements. Some contracts contain termination provisions that allow the customer to terminate with no penalty or with minimum prescribed threshold payments based on the length of time since the contract was entered into. Some projects have built-in pause periods to allow customers to complete concurrent activities such as civil work. As a result, the Company's revenue varies from month to month and quarter-to-quarter. THE COMPANY QUALIFIES ALL THE FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NEWS RELEASE BY THE FOREGOING CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS.
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