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| That's why I continue to be extremely optimistic about our future |
| I'm very pleased with our fourth quarter results and our achievement of consistent double-digit growth in both revenue and adjusted EBITDA |
| To summarize, I'm very proud of our performance in 2023 and continue to be bullish on our ability to drive double-digit top and bottom line performance in 2024 and beyond |
| In addition to increasing our revenue and adjusted EBITDA, the year included several noteworthy accomplishments |
| We generated strong free cash flow, which allowed us to pay down debt |
| And as we stated before, our de novo performance has been very, very strong |
| So right now, we feel very good about it |
| I am proud of the many contributions of our teams and want to personally thank each one of them for their dedication that delivered our strong results in 2023 |
| I am also very proud of our strong track record in having safely completed more than 50,000 procedures |
| We are pleased that our rates continue to pace on the high end of our expected range, which reflects the fact that our core consumer is in a higher socioeconomic group, which provide us more insulation from some of the economic volatility in the market |
| I mean these are very, very good and robust markets that we feel very good about |
| As we look ahead, our strategy continues to focus on strengthening the AirSculpt brand accelerating our store openings and further enhancing our profitability, as we scale our business both domestically and internationally to further increase shareholder value |
| Our business remained strong in Q4, highlighted by 17% revenue growth and 28% adjusted EBITDA growth compared to the prior year |
| Our robust top line performance continues to be driven by our de novo locations that opened over the last two years with our 2023 centers continuing to ramp very favorably compared to their budgeted objectives |
| In fact, the average revenue of these centers in their first three months was the highest level in company history, excluding our 2021 de novos, which, as shared in previous calls, had a pronounced benefit from COVID |
| One of our most important areas of focus will be on customer acquisition costs, or CAC, as noted previously, we continue to see good outcomes from the investments we made in our celebrity program, which has helped increase our brand awareness by 30% over the prior year |
| Our adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter improved year-over-year by 180 basis points to 21.2%, which was driven by our increased focus on cost management |
| We are already starting to see an improvement in our total leads, our lead quality and our console to case conversion rate |
| First, we take the safety and well-being of our patients seriously, and we're proud of our safety track record |
| So the markets that we're opening, we feel very, very good about |
| Those are performing as I said in my prepared remarks, well above our expectations |
| We fully expect to take advantage of the awareness building opportunities and the operational efficiency benefits these multisite markets will provide |
| As previously shared, our work with a third-party real estate analytics company has helped us determine that the runway for AirSculpt locations is in the hundreds, which gives us confidence to continue to increase the number of annual openings |
| However, as the quarter has progressed, we are encouraged with what we are seeing and fully expect a robust season |
| Salesforce will provide us more real-time data and will allow us to better analyze our sales and marketing performance as well as our patient experience, all of which will help drive growth |
| Our organization did a good job in 2023 in this area, and we are reiterating our previously shared objective of delivering $5 million of in-year savings for 2024, but we know we need to push for more |
| As Todd pointed out, we were able to achieve the $2.5 million of in-year savings and our 2024 outlook includes an incremental $2.5 million of savings for a total run rate of $5 million |
| We remain focused on reestablishing our same-store growth trajectory, improving operating margins and making prudent investments that build upon our solid foundation as well as drive long-term success of the overall business |
| The safety and well-being of our patients is our top priority, and we have policies and procedures that have ensured positive outcomes throughout our history |
| Expanding in existing markets represents an evolutionary step in our growth strategy as these centers will give us a tremendous opportunity to leverage scale in these markets, something we have not been able to do with our previous approach of one location per market |
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| Our full year adjusted EBITDA of $43.2 million which increased 11.2% versus the prior year, fell below our updated guidance of at least $45 million |
| Our overall same-store revenue performance was minus 1.7%, which was below our expectations for the quarter |
| Same-store has been a little bit softer than what we had originally put in the IPO model a couple of years ago |
| Second would be there's a little bit of softness from the same store that was in the model |
| Due to the de novos coming on later in the year, the 2024 de novos will have a negative impact to our margins of approximately 1.5% |
| For the quarter, our cash flow from operations to adjusted EBITDA conversion ratio was 48.2%, which was slightly below our expectations and primarily due to the lease deposits previously mentioned on our upcoming de novo centers |
| Our same-store revenue was slightly negative in the quarter |
| Historically, our processes have been very manual and tracking relevant KPIs has been very challenging |
| We did see some slight softness as we exited 2023 which carried into January |
| We just don't think it has much credence given all the inaccuracies and the misleading nature of the information |
| As we noted, some of that demand and some of that performance softened a little bit as we exited the quarter, but we decided to keep that investment |
| This shortfall was mostly due to the additional investment in awareness building, which I just referenced |
| All that being said, we do believe at some point that there might be opportunity for us there, just given the kind of uncertainty of the economic environment and everything that's going on in the marketplace |
| And with the $9 billion TAM, we have only scratched the surface of the huge opportunity that exists |
| And the ability to have any kind of critical mass in that market from operationally and awareness building, et cetera, et cetera, is very limited |
| Do you have any concern like some of these markets you burn through the first group of patients and then there's just not enough growth or population to support long-term growth |
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