NASDAQ:BTM Bitcoin Depot Q2 2024 Earnings Report $1.51 +0.02 (+1.34%) Closing price 05/2/2025 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$1.51 0.00 (0.00%) As of 08:00 AM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Bitcoin Depot EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.13Consensus EPS $0.03Beat/MissMissed by -$0.16One Year Ago EPSN/ABitcoin Depot Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$163.07 millionExpected Revenue$148.49 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$14.58 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ABitcoin Depot Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2024Date8/15/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateTuesday, August 13, 2024Conference Call Time10:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsBitcoin Depot's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Thursday, May 15, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 10:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Bitcoin Depot Q2 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 13, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 9 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, and welcome to Bitcoin Depot's Q2 2024 Conference Call. My name is Sarah, and I'll be your operator today. Before this call, Bitcoin Depot issued its financial results for the Q2 ended June 30, 2024 in a press release. A copy will be furnished in a report on Form 8 ks filed with the SEC and will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Joining us on today's call are Bitcoin Depot's CEO, Brandon Mintz and CFO, Glenn Leibowitz. Operator00:00:34Following their remarks, we will open the call for questions. Before we begin, Cody Slach from Gateway Group will make a brief introductory statement. Mr. Slaugh, please proceed. Speaker 100:00:47Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Before management begins their formal remarks, we would like to remind everyone that some statements we're making today may be considered forward looking statements under securities laws and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. As a result, we caution you that there are a number of many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. For more detailed risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our forward looking statements, please see the disclosures in our earnings release and public filings made with the SEC. Speaker 100:01:21We disclaim any obligation that we're undertaking to update forward looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward looking statements are made, except as required by law. We will also discuss non GAAP financial measures and encourage you to read our disclosures and the reconciliation table to applicable GAAP measures in our earnings release carefully as you consider these metrics. We refer you to our filings with the SEC for detailed disclosures and descriptions of our business as well as uncertainties and other variable circumstances, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties identified under the caption Risk Factors in our recent filings. You may get Bitcoin Depot's SEC filings for free by visiting the SEC website atcc.gov. I'd like to remind everyone this call is being recorded and will be made available for replay via a link available in the Investor Relations section of Bitcoin Depot's website. Speaker 100:02:21A supplemental earnings presentation highlighting our Q2 performance has also been made available on our IR website. Now I will turn the call over to Bitcoin Depot's CEO, Brandon Mintz. Brandon? Speaker 200:02:36Thanks, Cody, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our Q2 2024 conference call. I'd like to briefly discuss some recent developments across our business and what gives us confidence in the year ahead. We built on our momentum in the 2nd quarter with sequential growth in revenue, net income and adjusted EBITDA. We continued to focus on our growing kiosk network and building a robust pipeline of major regional and national retail partners to enhance their footprint. Speaker 200:03:11In fact, we proudly announced just last month that we achieved and exceeded our ambitious goal of deploying over 8,000 Bitcoin ATMs 5 months ahead of schedule with 8,180 kiosks. This is a testament to the relentless dedication of our team and our strategic initiatives aimed at expanding Bitcoin's accessibility. Building on the momentum we've already cultivated in the first half of twenty twenty four, we have no intention of slowing down as we gear up to provide even more customers with seamless access to the crypto ecosystem. This, along with our acquisition of over 2,700 kiosks in 2024 will increase our total kiosk fleet size to over 10,400 kiosks once all kiosks are delivered, furthering our industry leading market share. Over the past three quarters, we have focused heavily on relocating underperforming BTMs to new locations, which historically has shown to increase average profitability per kiosk over time. Speaker 200:04:21While we do not get that benefit immediately, over time the increase in profitability typically continues to grow as the BCMs ramp up. While it's not apparent in our consolidated numbers for the quarter, the relocation strategy is working and is showing a lot of growth potential base into the business as it sits today. For example, in June of this year, the average monthly revenue per kiosk for VTM that have been installed for 12 months to 24 months was 85.6 percent higher than VTM installed for less than 12 months. In this calculation, the BCMs installed for less than 1 year averaged roughly 4 months of operation since the time of install at the location. Other key performance indicators that tell us our kiosk optimization process is working include the consistency and returning user transaction count and the recent lift in median transaction size. Speaker 200:05:22It's important to note that while we regularly optimize our kiosk footprint, our repositioning efforts will likely slow in the coming quarters. This year, we are focused on footprint growth to expand our market share and competitive positioning. As of the end of Q2 2024, around 3,000 of our kiosks have been installed for less than 1 year and thus still need more time to ramp up to their full potential. Additionally, once we receive delivery of all of our purchased and ordered kiosks, we will reach an installed fleet of roughly 10,000 total BCMs by the time they are all installed. This number accounts for about 400 kiosks in transit that are undergoing maintenance or repair at any given time. Speaker 200:06:11Between the ramp of our newly installed kiosks and the kiosks we will receive over the course of 2024 from orders and purchases, there is very large growth potential baked into the business as it sits today. Furthering our North American expansion in the second quarter, we announced the new retail partnership with Nurea Energy Corporation, a leading convenience store brand based in the Northeast with operations across 175 company owned fee stores and fuel retailers. Beginning in Q2, 2024, Bitcoin Depot deployed its kiosks and the 57 in the Rio locations across Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. We also continue to strengthen our profit share program with SOPERS Capital. In July, we announced the sale of 200 additional BTM to Sopris. Speaker 200:07:06As a reminder, our profit sharing partners like Sopris benefit from our expertise in operating DCMs and integration with BitAxis Software, the premier software suite for Bitcoin ATM operations. Our profit share program provides the capital efficient strategy for Bitcoin Depot's 10 year expansion this year as we aim to have the largest installed fleet of Bitcoin ATMs in the company's history. Given the sequential growth in our financials, our strong cash flow dynamics and the continued build up in our sales pipeline, we are well positioned to execute our growth plan. As a reminder, this plan comprises of 3 main categories. 1st is international expansion. Speaker 200:07:51We have shipped over 200 kiosks for our upcoming Australia launch and we are anticipating regulatory approval then. Additionally, Puerto Rico is fully operational with over 100 kiosks installed. 2nd, we are focusing additional attention on the profit share program to grow our footprint and profitability. We have a strong pipeline of opportunities that can provide a capital efficient strategy for Bitcoin Depot to continue expanding this year while enhancing profitability. 3rd, we will continue to pursue additional licenses to expand our access points for customers. Speaker 200:08:29New York State remains the largest potential growth opportunity for our kiosks in the U. S. And we are in regular dialogue with regulators to secure license to operate in the state. With no existing BTM operators in the state today according to coinacmradar.com, We believe our opportunity for kiosk deployment will be substantial and our unit economics would be strong. At this moment, we do not have any updates on the expected timeline for approval, but hopefully it could happen at some point in 2024. Speaker 200:09:04Lastly, we will continue to explore growth opportunities internationally beyond recent announcements on our expansion in Puerto Rico and Australia. While our focus remains within North America, where approximately 90% of BPMs globally are located, We believe the growing adoption of cryptocurrency will offer us an opportunity to establish a market leading presence outside of North America. While it's still early, we are encouraged by the pace of new deployments and pipeline of retail opportunities we have identified internationally. In summary, we are encouraged by our recent momentum and remain well positioned to execute our strategic goals this year. Now, I'll turn the floor over to our CFO, Glenn Lebowitz, who will provide more in-depth insights into our financial performance and business outlook. Speaker 200:09:57Glenn? Speaker 300:09:59Thanks, Brandon, and good morning, everyone. I'll start with a detailed review of our Q2 2024 results and we'll finish with a discussion on our outlook. 2nd quarter revenue declined approximately 17% year over year to $163,000,000 Speaker 200:10:18compared to $197,000,000 Speaker 300:10:21for last year's Q2. This decline was largely driven by the impact of unfavorable legislation that was passed in California that went into effect in January, along with relocating kiosks during the quarter to optimize our fleet for maximum profitability. Speaker 400:10:40We Speaker 300:10:40are actively engaged in California with their legislature and continue to seek constructive changes to the operational limitations that are currently in place in that state. However, as Brandon mentioned, our focus remains to drive revenue growth through kiosk expansion in other markets. Adjusted gross profit for the Q2 of 2024 decreased 13% to $26,400,000 compared to $30,200,000 for the Q2 of 2023. Adjusted gross margin in the Q2 of 2024 increased 80 basis points to 16.2% compared to 15.3% in the Q2 of 2023. This margin increase was largely driven by optimizing our markup for maximized profitability. Speaker 300:11:35Total operating expenses for the Q2 of 2024 declined 3% to $18,800,000 compared to $19,700,000 for the last year's Q2. The improvement was attributable to lower professional service expenses and we anticipate this trend will continue over the coming quarters as we move further away from the De SPAC transaction and optimize expenses for life as a public company. GAAP net income for the Q2 of 2024 was $4,400,000 compared to a net loss of $4,000,000 for the Q2 of 2023. This was driven by an approximate $10,000,000 expense recorded in the year ago quarter related to the fair value of our Series A preferred stock, which did not repeat in the current year's Q2. Adjusted EBITDA, a non GAAP measure, decreased to $12,700,000 for the Q2 of 2024 compared to $19,800,000 for the Q2 of 2023. Speaker 300:12:42This was the result of overall lower revenue during the Q2 of 2024 compared to the Q2 of 2023. Also as a reminder, as we deploy more kiosks, we increase fixed asset costs. These deployments do not come with an immediate revenue or EBITDA improvement, but they're expected to drive growth later in 2024 and in future years. Adjusted EBITDA margin, which is derived from adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue, in the Q2 of 2024 was 7.8% compared to 10% margin in the Q2 of 2023. We continue to focus on our cash flow and balance sheet and ended the quarter with approximately $43,900,000 in cash and cash equivalents and $50,600,000 in debt, including finance leases. Speaker 300:13:38A strong driver of our building cash balance has been efficiencies gained the operations of our business. As cash flows provided by operations were approximately $11,300,000 for the 1st 6 months of 2024, with $10,000,000 alone being generated in our Q2. Additionally, during the Q2, we announced the adoption of Bitcoin as part of our treasury strategy. This underscores our long standing belief in Bitcoin as a significant financial asset and a store of value. With this investment, it also allows our shareholders to benefit from any future BCC appreciation. Speaker 300:14:22The amounts on our current balance sheet are small, but should build as we activate this strategy. Now turning to our outlook. We remain committed to additional operational enhancements to drive profitability growth going forward, including improving vendor pricing, lowering professional service costs and optimizing customer markups. We will not be providing guidance at this time. We are focused on optimizing the business for profitability and positive cash flow ahead. Speaker 300:14:59Also, given the variability in our business from the California legislation and the significant revenue ramp in our kiosks, combined with the relocation of kiosks to start the year, we have decided to refrain from formal guidance. However, for the remainder of 2024, we still expect to follow a similar seasonality trend as we have described previously, with significantly higher revenue in Q2 and Q3 than in Q1 and Q4. With that, we are now happy to take your questions. Operator? Operator00:15:36Thank Your first question comes from the line of Mike Colonese with H. C. Wainwright. Your line is open. Speaker 500:16:14Hi, good morning guys. Congrats on a great quarter and all the progress you've made so far to date in 2024 here. First one for me, if you could just provide more details around your Bitcoin strategy, your Bitcoin treasury strategy. You guys are generating really strong operating cash flow here, but are also aggressively expanding your footprint. So how should we think about future Bitcoin purchases within the context of your broader capital allocation strategy? Speaker 400:16:41Hey, Mike. Thanks for the question. This is Scott Buchanan. So we're going to continue to look at adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet opportunistically. We're not allocating all of our excess capital there and we don't want to be too aggressive, but it will remain something that we consider as we continue to build cash onto the balance sheet, along with the other opportunities we have for using cash, like stock buybacks or dividends in the future even. Speaker 500:17:09Got it. Got it. And then in terms of external financing opportunities, as you strategically continue to expand your footprint here, how are you guys thinking about financing and financing alternatives outside of just the operating cash flows you guys are generating to continue to increase skill organically, but also potentially to evaluate some M and And Speaker 400:17:32so we continue to be in conversations with different operators in the space. And so we continue to be in conversations with different operators in the space or other adjacent industries. And if something comes up that make sense, we'll be happy to go after it. As far as financing kiosks, we continue to look to our leasing partners as much as possible so that we're efficiently using our capital as we expand the fleet of kiosks. Speaker 500:18:00Got it. Thanks for taking my question, Scott. Speaker 200:18:03Thanks, Mike. Operator00:18:05Your next question comes from the line of Hal Ghos with B. Riley Securities. Your line is open. Speaker 600:18:14Hey, I have a couple of questions on expansion. Speaker 100:18:17Could you just give us a Speaker 600:18:18little more details on what you guys are doing on your end to educate legislators and or regulators in New York that feed this along. It's probably one of the remaining states, one of them a little more detail on what the holdup is and what needs to be done there and how the process actually works. And then second question is on Australia, Puerto Rico and any other countries you're considering, what is the regulatory process there? What's the potential for kiosk in Australia? Thank you. Speaker 200:18:53Thanks for the question, Hal. This is Brandon. So as far as New York goes, we've been in the final stages of review by their review team that submits the applications to this committee within the New York Department of Financial Services. And that committee will make a decision to approve or deny the application. Now unfortunately, during this review process, we believe a big part of the delay is somebody on that review team unfortunately passed away. Speaker 200:19:29So a new person had to come in and pick up Slack and get up to speed on our application. Outside of that, we're not aware of anything specifically that would be holding itself. It's just the expected Q and A from them. So hopefully, it's still something that can be achieved this year. There's still no other editors operating within the state of New York. Speaker 200:19:58Now in Puerto Rico, we don't anticipate growing our footprint there in the near future very much just because the kiosks are so new. We want to see some sales data on how those kiosks will perform. Also, we have such significant market share on the island already. I believe we have over half of the market share. So there's not really a need to deploy more kiosks from that perspective as well. Speaker 200:20:30In terms of Australia, we believe it's a shorter license application process than something like New York State in the U. S. And we believe we're at the final stages of our application process there or application that was submitted earlier this year in 2024. We do have over 200 kiosks already in Australia waiting to be deployed. At the moment, we're ready. Speaker 200:21:01And we do have location relationships available as soon as we are ready as well. So we anticipate Australia is something that will happen within the next quarter or so in 2024 as far as the launch goes. And that market is still looking very solid in terms of opportunity. Australia's population is similar to Texas and the U. S. Speaker 200:21:28And Texas typically ranges somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 to 4000 Bitcoin ATMs at any given time. Australia currently sits at around 1200 Bitcoin ATMs in the market. So there's a big opportunity to fill that gap and the market has potential to grow by thousands of Bitcoin ATMs over the next couple of years in Australia. And we plan to be a big part of that and take a huge piece of that market share. Speaker 600:21:58All right. Hey, terrific. Thanks for that. Keep up the good work. Speaker 200:22:02Thank you. Operator00:22:04Your next question comes from the line of Mike Grondahl with Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open. Speaker 700:22:13Hey, thanks. The new retailer Nuria Energy, did you say how many of those 175 stores you're already in or expect to be in? Speaker 200:22:27Yes. I believe, let me look at my notes here. It I said it in the transcript. It is around 60%, 57% to be exact across Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. Speaker 700:22:44That's where you are right now. Speaker 200:22:47That's what we've originally taken. That's what we've originally taken in the contract. So those kiosks are some of them are already installed or pending transit at the moment. Speaker 700:23:00Got it. 60. Okay. And then you talked about 2Q and 3Q being your seasonally strongest quarter. But if I look back to last year, clearly 2Q was stronger than 3Q. Speaker 700:23:18Is that something we should be cognizant of this year too between 2Q and 3Q? Or how should we think about that with you guys not giving guidance? Speaker 200:23:31Well, over the past few years, if you look at it on a per kiosk basis, because it's hard on a total number basis since we're always deploying or relocating kiosks, etcetera. 2Q is usually slightly higher than Q3 and in terms of revenue for kiosks. Speaker 700:23:55Got it. And then cash flow in the back half of the year, the last 6 months, what do you guys kind of what's the range to think about there? Speaker 200:24:14I think the easiest way to look at it would be to assume the first half of the year is what continues. The first half of the year, Q1 in terms of cash flow is significantly lower than Q2, but we still had a little bit more of those fee stack expenses dragging on that we were paying. So I think it'll even out, even though if Q3 behaves on a revenue basis like it has in the past a little bit lower than Q2, then we should expect to see somewhat similar results. And I'm just speaking from a historical basis. Speaker 700:25:02Sure. And then what are your priorities for that cash that you're generating? Is do you want to address the debt, buying more Bitcoin? Can you just talk about how you're thinking about uses with that cash? Speaker 200:25:22Right now, really exploring options. I think there's potential for M and A opportunities. We do have the Bitcoin Treasury strategy and we were opportunistic with that and picking up some on this dip here over the past couple of weeks. Our debt has a prepayment penalty that will end, I believe, at the very end of Q1 of next year. So that's another thing to consider as well. Speaker 200:25:57This is a cash flowing business and now it's true colors are really starting to show a lot of the issue in the prior quarter since we've been public was just de SPAC related expenses that weren't going to continue in the future. And so now that the world can kind of see that with this very impressive cash flow number for Q2 based on the enterprise value of the business as it sits today, this is even a company that could be a dividend paying company in the future. So that's always another option. Really, we're just trying to evaluate these options over this next quarter and figure out what the best direction will be since there are so many options since we do have this cash flow. We want to do something that is not only accretive to the business and for the long term, but something that will attract additional investors and keep our current investors happy and incentivized to hopefully buy more shares moving forward. Speaker 200:27:08So weighing those options further will allow us to get you a clear answer in the future. Speaker 700:27:15Got it. Okay. Thank you. Operator00:27:27Your next question comes from the line of Pat McCan with Noble Capital Markets. Your line is open. Speaker 800:27:35Hey, guys. Congrats on the quarter. Just a couple of quick questions from me. First of all, I was just curious with the franchising program, are you getting a lot of additional interest? Are you in more conversations about expanding that further? Speaker 800:27:52I'm just wondering if other players are seeing that and wanting to dip their toes in as well. Speaker 200:28:01Hey, Pat. To answer your question, things are going very well on that profit sharing program. You guys have seen we did a press release with Sophus Capital where they decided to purchase an additional 200 Bitcoin ATMs from us because they were happy with the initial results. And we do have new groups talking to us at the moment as well. There have been competitors of ours in the past that have done this and their profit sharing partners, a couple of them actually came over from those competitors to us. Speaker 200:28:39I think those profit sharing partners were just impressed with kind of how we run the business and how it's just very organized and how we provide the reporting and such. So I would say we're not really worried about our current competitors such as other Bitcoin ATM operators. Because in reality, if you were to partner with somebody that were operating a fleet of Bitcoin ATMs for you, you would want to know everything you possibly can about what's going on inside that business. And since the vast majority of our competitors are private and the 2 public ones are not on major markets like we are on NASDAQ, they don't really provide the level of public disclosure and reporting that we provide. So I think we're just a lot more of a trusted vendor to be doing this than our competition with everyone being able to see our financials publicly and be on calls such as this to learn more details about the business that others may not be willing to share. Speaker 800:29:50Great. Thanks for that. And then my other question was around the Nuria partnership. I was just wondering if there's any commentary you can give around based on the geographical locations or the customer demographics, are there any particular key factors that made you want to pursue a partnership with that retailer in those locations? Speaker 200:30:18Well, we're always trying to get larger enterprise accounts, such as NAREA and the door. But the states specifically that we're going in, these are pretty solid states in terms of the revenue numbers per machine for us. So we're excited about expanding in them specifically. Speaker 800:30:41Great. Thanks so much. That's all I have. Congrats again. 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There are 9 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Good morning, and welcome to Bitcoin Depot's Q2 2024 Conference Call. My name is Sarah, and I'll be your operator today. Before this call, Bitcoin Depot issued its financial results for the Q2 ended June 30, 2024 in a press release. A copy will be furnished in a report on Form 8 ks filed with the SEC and will be available in the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Joining us on today's call are Bitcoin Depot's CEO, Brandon Mintz and CFO, Glenn Leibowitz. Operator00:00:34Following their remarks, we will open the call for questions. Before we begin, Cody Slach from Gateway Group will make a brief introductory statement. Mr. Slaugh, please proceed. Speaker 100:00:47Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Before management begins their formal remarks, we would like to remind everyone that some statements we're making today may be considered forward looking statements under securities laws and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. As a result, we caution you that there are a number of many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. For more detailed risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our forward looking statements, please see the disclosures in our earnings release and public filings made with the SEC. Speaker 100:01:21We disclaim any obligation that we're undertaking to update forward looking statements to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward looking statements are made, except as required by law. We will also discuss non GAAP financial measures and encourage you to read our disclosures and the reconciliation table to applicable GAAP measures in our earnings release carefully as you consider these metrics. We refer you to our filings with the SEC for detailed disclosures and descriptions of our business as well as uncertainties and other variable circumstances, including, but not limited to, risks and uncertainties identified under the caption Risk Factors in our recent filings. You may get Bitcoin Depot's SEC filings for free by visiting the SEC website atcc.gov. I'd like to remind everyone this call is being recorded and will be made available for replay via a link available in the Investor Relations section of Bitcoin Depot's website. Speaker 100:02:21A supplemental earnings presentation highlighting our Q2 performance has also been made available on our IR website. Now I will turn the call over to Bitcoin Depot's CEO, Brandon Mintz. Brandon? Speaker 200:02:36Thanks, Cody, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our Q2 2024 conference call. I'd like to briefly discuss some recent developments across our business and what gives us confidence in the year ahead. We built on our momentum in the 2nd quarter with sequential growth in revenue, net income and adjusted EBITDA. We continued to focus on our growing kiosk network and building a robust pipeline of major regional and national retail partners to enhance their footprint. Speaker 200:03:11In fact, we proudly announced just last month that we achieved and exceeded our ambitious goal of deploying over 8,000 Bitcoin ATMs 5 months ahead of schedule with 8,180 kiosks. This is a testament to the relentless dedication of our team and our strategic initiatives aimed at expanding Bitcoin's accessibility. Building on the momentum we've already cultivated in the first half of twenty twenty four, we have no intention of slowing down as we gear up to provide even more customers with seamless access to the crypto ecosystem. This, along with our acquisition of over 2,700 kiosks in 2024 will increase our total kiosk fleet size to over 10,400 kiosks once all kiosks are delivered, furthering our industry leading market share. Over the past three quarters, we have focused heavily on relocating underperforming BTMs to new locations, which historically has shown to increase average profitability per kiosk over time. Speaker 200:04:21While we do not get that benefit immediately, over time the increase in profitability typically continues to grow as the BCMs ramp up. While it's not apparent in our consolidated numbers for the quarter, the relocation strategy is working and is showing a lot of growth potential base into the business as it sits today. For example, in June of this year, the average monthly revenue per kiosk for VTM that have been installed for 12 months to 24 months was 85.6 percent higher than VTM installed for less than 12 months. In this calculation, the BCMs installed for less than 1 year averaged roughly 4 months of operation since the time of install at the location. Other key performance indicators that tell us our kiosk optimization process is working include the consistency and returning user transaction count and the recent lift in median transaction size. Speaker 200:05:22It's important to note that while we regularly optimize our kiosk footprint, our repositioning efforts will likely slow in the coming quarters. This year, we are focused on footprint growth to expand our market share and competitive positioning. As of the end of Q2 2024, around 3,000 of our kiosks have been installed for less than 1 year and thus still need more time to ramp up to their full potential. Additionally, once we receive delivery of all of our purchased and ordered kiosks, we will reach an installed fleet of roughly 10,000 total BCMs by the time they are all installed. This number accounts for about 400 kiosks in transit that are undergoing maintenance or repair at any given time. Speaker 200:06:11Between the ramp of our newly installed kiosks and the kiosks we will receive over the course of 2024 from orders and purchases, there is very large growth potential baked into the business as it sits today. Furthering our North American expansion in the second quarter, we announced the new retail partnership with Nurea Energy Corporation, a leading convenience store brand based in the Northeast with operations across 175 company owned fee stores and fuel retailers. Beginning in Q2, 2024, Bitcoin Depot deployed its kiosks and the 57 in the Rio locations across Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. We also continue to strengthen our profit share program with SOPERS Capital. In July, we announced the sale of 200 additional BTM to Sopris. Speaker 200:07:06As a reminder, our profit sharing partners like Sopris benefit from our expertise in operating DCMs and integration with BitAxis Software, the premier software suite for Bitcoin ATM operations. Our profit share program provides the capital efficient strategy for Bitcoin Depot's 10 year expansion this year as we aim to have the largest installed fleet of Bitcoin ATMs in the company's history. Given the sequential growth in our financials, our strong cash flow dynamics and the continued build up in our sales pipeline, we are well positioned to execute our growth plan. As a reminder, this plan comprises of 3 main categories. 1st is international expansion. Speaker 200:07:51We have shipped over 200 kiosks for our upcoming Australia launch and we are anticipating regulatory approval then. Additionally, Puerto Rico is fully operational with over 100 kiosks installed. 2nd, we are focusing additional attention on the profit share program to grow our footprint and profitability. We have a strong pipeline of opportunities that can provide a capital efficient strategy for Bitcoin Depot to continue expanding this year while enhancing profitability. 3rd, we will continue to pursue additional licenses to expand our access points for customers. Speaker 200:08:29New York State remains the largest potential growth opportunity for our kiosks in the U. S. And we are in regular dialogue with regulators to secure license to operate in the state. With no existing BTM operators in the state today according to coinacmradar.com, We believe our opportunity for kiosk deployment will be substantial and our unit economics would be strong. At this moment, we do not have any updates on the expected timeline for approval, but hopefully it could happen at some point in 2024. Speaker 200:09:04Lastly, we will continue to explore growth opportunities internationally beyond recent announcements on our expansion in Puerto Rico and Australia. While our focus remains within North America, where approximately 90% of BPMs globally are located, We believe the growing adoption of cryptocurrency will offer us an opportunity to establish a market leading presence outside of North America. While it's still early, we are encouraged by the pace of new deployments and pipeline of retail opportunities we have identified internationally. In summary, we are encouraged by our recent momentum and remain well positioned to execute our strategic goals this year. Now, I'll turn the floor over to our CFO, Glenn Lebowitz, who will provide more in-depth insights into our financial performance and business outlook. Speaker 200:09:57Glenn? Speaker 300:09:59Thanks, Brandon, and good morning, everyone. I'll start with a detailed review of our Q2 2024 results and we'll finish with a discussion on our outlook. 2nd quarter revenue declined approximately 17% year over year to $163,000,000 Speaker 200:10:18compared to $197,000,000 Speaker 300:10:21for last year's Q2. This decline was largely driven by the impact of unfavorable legislation that was passed in California that went into effect in January, along with relocating kiosks during the quarter to optimize our fleet for maximum profitability. Speaker 400:10:40We Speaker 300:10:40are actively engaged in California with their legislature and continue to seek constructive changes to the operational limitations that are currently in place in that state. However, as Brandon mentioned, our focus remains to drive revenue growth through kiosk expansion in other markets. Adjusted gross profit for the Q2 of 2024 decreased 13% to $26,400,000 compared to $30,200,000 for the Q2 of 2023. Adjusted gross margin in the Q2 of 2024 increased 80 basis points to 16.2% compared to 15.3% in the Q2 of 2023. This margin increase was largely driven by optimizing our markup for maximized profitability. Speaker 300:11:35Total operating expenses for the Q2 of 2024 declined 3% to $18,800,000 compared to $19,700,000 for the last year's Q2. The improvement was attributable to lower professional service expenses and we anticipate this trend will continue over the coming quarters as we move further away from the De SPAC transaction and optimize expenses for life as a public company. GAAP net income for the Q2 of 2024 was $4,400,000 compared to a net loss of $4,000,000 for the Q2 of 2023. This was driven by an approximate $10,000,000 expense recorded in the year ago quarter related to the fair value of our Series A preferred stock, which did not repeat in the current year's Q2. Adjusted EBITDA, a non GAAP measure, decreased to $12,700,000 for the Q2 of 2024 compared to $19,800,000 for the Q2 of 2023. Speaker 300:12:42This was the result of overall lower revenue during the Q2 of 2024 compared to the Q2 of 2023. Also as a reminder, as we deploy more kiosks, we increase fixed asset costs. These deployments do not come with an immediate revenue or EBITDA improvement, but they're expected to drive growth later in 2024 and in future years. Adjusted EBITDA margin, which is derived from adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue, in the Q2 of 2024 was 7.8% compared to 10% margin in the Q2 of 2023. We continue to focus on our cash flow and balance sheet and ended the quarter with approximately $43,900,000 in cash and cash equivalents and $50,600,000 in debt, including finance leases. Speaker 300:13:38A strong driver of our building cash balance has been efficiencies gained the operations of our business. As cash flows provided by operations were approximately $11,300,000 for the 1st 6 months of 2024, with $10,000,000 alone being generated in our Q2. Additionally, during the Q2, we announced the adoption of Bitcoin as part of our treasury strategy. This underscores our long standing belief in Bitcoin as a significant financial asset and a store of value. With this investment, it also allows our shareholders to benefit from any future BCC appreciation. Speaker 300:14:22The amounts on our current balance sheet are small, but should build as we activate this strategy. Now turning to our outlook. We remain committed to additional operational enhancements to drive profitability growth going forward, including improving vendor pricing, lowering professional service costs and optimizing customer markups. We will not be providing guidance at this time. We are focused on optimizing the business for profitability and positive cash flow ahead. Speaker 300:14:59Also, given the variability in our business from the California legislation and the significant revenue ramp in our kiosks, combined with the relocation of kiosks to start the year, we have decided to refrain from formal guidance. However, for the remainder of 2024, we still expect to follow a similar seasonality trend as we have described previously, with significantly higher revenue in Q2 and Q3 than in Q1 and Q4. With that, we are now happy to take your questions. Operator? Operator00:15:36Thank Your first question comes from the line of Mike Colonese with H. C. Wainwright. Your line is open. Speaker 500:16:14Hi, good morning guys. Congrats on a great quarter and all the progress you've made so far to date in 2024 here. First one for me, if you could just provide more details around your Bitcoin strategy, your Bitcoin treasury strategy. You guys are generating really strong operating cash flow here, but are also aggressively expanding your footprint. So how should we think about future Bitcoin purchases within the context of your broader capital allocation strategy? Speaker 400:16:41Hey, Mike. Thanks for the question. This is Scott Buchanan. So we're going to continue to look at adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet opportunistically. We're not allocating all of our excess capital there and we don't want to be too aggressive, but it will remain something that we consider as we continue to build cash onto the balance sheet, along with the other opportunities we have for using cash, like stock buybacks or dividends in the future even. Speaker 500:17:09Got it. Got it. And then in terms of external financing opportunities, as you strategically continue to expand your footprint here, how are you guys thinking about financing and financing alternatives outside of just the operating cash flows you guys are generating to continue to increase skill organically, but also potentially to evaluate some M and And Speaker 400:17:32so we continue to be in conversations with different operators in the space. And so we continue to be in conversations with different operators in the space or other adjacent industries. And if something comes up that make sense, we'll be happy to go after it. As far as financing kiosks, we continue to look to our leasing partners as much as possible so that we're efficiently using our capital as we expand the fleet of kiosks. Speaker 500:18:00Got it. Thanks for taking my question, Scott. Speaker 200:18:03Thanks, Mike. Operator00:18:05Your next question comes from the line of Hal Ghos with B. Riley Securities. Your line is open. Speaker 600:18:14Hey, I have a couple of questions on expansion. Speaker 100:18:17Could you just give us a Speaker 600:18:18little more details on what you guys are doing on your end to educate legislators and or regulators in New York that feed this along. It's probably one of the remaining states, one of them a little more detail on what the holdup is and what needs to be done there and how the process actually works. And then second question is on Australia, Puerto Rico and any other countries you're considering, what is the regulatory process there? What's the potential for kiosk in Australia? Thank you. Speaker 200:18:53Thanks for the question, Hal. This is Brandon. So as far as New York goes, we've been in the final stages of review by their review team that submits the applications to this committee within the New York Department of Financial Services. And that committee will make a decision to approve or deny the application. Now unfortunately, during this review process, we believe a big part of the delay is somebody on that review team unfortunately passed away. Speaker 200:19:29So a new person had to come in and pick up Slack and get up to speed on our application. Outside of that, we're not aware of anything specifically that would be holding itself. It's just the expected Q and A from them. So hopefully, it's still something that can be achieved this year. There's still no other editors operating within the state of New York. Speaker 200:19:58Now in Puerto Rico, we don't anticipate growing our footprint there in the near future very much just because the kiosks are so new. We want to see some sales data on how those kiosks will perform. Also, we have such significant market share on the island already. I believe we have over half of the market share. So there's not really a need to deploy more kiosks from that perspective as well. Speaker 200:20:30In terms of Australia, we believe it's a shorter license application process than something like New York State in the U. S. And we believe we're at the final stages of our application process there or application that was submitted earlier this year in 2024. We do have over 200 kiosks already in Australia waiting to be deployed. At the moment, we're ready. Speaker 200:21:01And we do have location relationships available as soon as we are ready as well. So we anticipate Australia is something that will happen within the next quarter or so in 2024 as far as the launch goes. And that market is still looking very solid in terms of opportunity. Australia's population is similar to Texas and the U. S. Speaker 200:21:28And Texas typically ranges somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000 to 4000 Bitcoin ATMs at any given time. Australia currently sits at around 1200 Bitcoin ATMs in the market. So there's a big opportunity to fill that gap and the market has potential to grow by thousands of Bitcoin ATMs over the next couple of years in Australia. And we plan to be a big part of that and take a huge piece of that market share. Speaker 600:21:58All right. Hey, terrific. Thanks for that. Keep up the good work. Speaker 200:22:02Thank you. Operator00:22:04Your next question comes from the line of Mike Grondahl with Northland Capital Markets. Your line is open. Speaker 700:22:13Hey, thanks. The new retailer Nuria Energy, did you say how many of those 175 stores you're already in or expect to be in? Speaker 200:22:27Yes. I believe, let me look at my notes here. It I said it in the transcript. It is around 60%, 57% to be exact across Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. Speaker 700:22:44That's where you are right now. Speaker 200:22:47That's what we've originally taken. That's what we've originally taken in the contract. So those kiosks are some of them are already installed or pending transit at the moment. Speaker 700:23:00Got it. 60. Okay. And then you talked about 2Q and 3Q being your seasonally strongest quarter. But if I look back to last year, clearly 2Q was stronger than 3Q. Speaker 700:23:18Is that something we should be cognizant of this year too between 2Q and 3Q? Or how should we think about that with you guys not giving guidance? Speaker 200:23:31Well, over the past few years, if you look at it on a per kiosk basis, because it's hard on a total number basis since we're always deploying or relocating kiosks, etcetera. 2Q is usually slightly higher than Q3 and in terms of revenue for kiosks. Speaker 700:23:55Got it. And then cash flow in the back half of the year, the last 6 months, what do you guys kind of what's the range to think about there? Speaker 200:24:14I think the easiest way to look at it would be to assume the first half of the year is what continues. The first half of the year, Q1 in terms of cash flow is significantly lower than Q2, but we still had a little bit more of those fee stack expenses dragging on that we were paying. So I think it'll even out, even though if Q3 behaves on a revenue basis like it has in the past a little bit lower than Q2, then we should expect to see somewhat similar results. And I'm just speaking from a historical basis. Speaker 700:25:02Sure. And then what are your priorities for that cash that you're generating? Is do you want to address the debt, buying more Bitcoin? Can you just talk about how you're thinking about uses with that cash? Speaker 200:25:22Right now, really exploring options. I think there's potential for M and A opportunities. We do have the Bitcoin Treasury strategy and we were opportunistic with that and picking up some on this dip here over the past couple of weeks. Our debt has a prepayment penalty that will end, I believe, at the very end of Q1 of next year. So that's another thing to consider as well. Speaker 200:25:57This is a cash flowing business and now it's true colors are really starting to show a lot of the issue in the prior quarter since we've been public was just de SPAC related expenses that weren't going to continue in the future. And so now that the world can kind of see that with this very impressive cash flow number for Q2 based on the enterprise value of the business as it sits today, this is even a company that could be a dividend paying company in the future. So that's always another option. Really, we're just trying to evaluate these options over this next quarter and figure out what the best direction will be since there are so many options since we do have this cash flow. We want to do something that is not only accretive to the business and for the long term, but something that will attract additional investors and keep our current investors happy and incentivized to hopefully buy more shares moving forward. Speaker 200:27:08So weighing those options further will allow us to get you a clear answer in the future. Speaker 700:27:15Got it. Okay. Thank you. Operator00:27:27Your next question comes from the line of Pat McCan with Noble Capital Markets. Your line is open. Speaker 800:27:35Hey, guys. Congrats on the quarter. Just a couple of quick questions from me. First of all, I was just curious with the franchising program, are you getting a lot of additional interest? Are you in more conversations about expanding that further? Speaker 800:27:52I'm just wondering if other players are seeing that and wanting to dip their toes in as well. Speaker 200:28:01Hey, Pat. To answer your question, things are going very well on that profit sharing program. You guys have seen we did a press release with Sophus Capital where they decided to purchase an additional 200 Bitcoin ATMs from us because they were happy with the initial results. And we do have new groups talking to us at the moment as well. There have been competitors of ours in the past that have done this and their profit sharing partners, a couple of them actually came over from those competitors to us. Speaker 200:28:39I think those profit sharing partners were just impressed with kind of how we run the business and how it's just very organized and how we provide the reporting and such. So I would say we're not really worried about our current competitors such as other Bitcoin ATM operators. Because in reality, if you were to partner with somebody that were operating a fleet of Bitcoin ATMs for you, you would want to know everything you possibly can about what's going on inside that business. And since the vast majority of our competitors are private and the 2 public ones are not on major markets like we are on NASDAQ, they don't really provide the level of public disclosure and reporting that we provide. So I think we're just a lot more of a trusted vendor to be doing this than our competition with everyone being able to see our financials publicly and be on calls such as this to learn more details about the business that others may not be willing to share. Speaker 800:29:50Great. Thanks for that. And then my other question was around the Nuria partnership. I was just wondering if there's any commentary you can give around based on the geographical locations or the customer demographics, are there any particular key factors that made you want to pursue a partnership with that retailer in those locations? Speaker 200:30:18Well, we're always trying to get larger enterprise accounts, such as NAREA and the door. But the states specifically that we're going in, these are pretty solid states in terms of the revenue numbers per machine for us. So we're excited about expanding in them specifically. Speaker 800:30:41Great. Thanks so much. That's all I have. Congrats again. Speaker 200:30:44Thank you. Operator00:30:46At this time, this concludes our question and answer session. I'd now like to turn the call back over to Scott. Thank you for joining us today for Bitcoin Depot's conference call. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by