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| As Dale mentioned earlier, our strong liquidity position continues to provide us with the flexibility to execute our organic and inorganic growth strategies while expanding our relationships with vendor networks and customers across the globe |
| Our Q4 performance capped off another exceptional year for Climb as we generated record results in all of our key financial metrics and delivered on our acquisition objectives |
| They had a good quarter |
| Between a robust balance sheet, a growing pipeline of prospective vendors and a proven track record of accretive acquisitions, we are well positioned to continue driving shareholder value |
| And we have got some good opportunities as they're rolling out |
| It's one of the best ones as we do our surveys with our teams and our vendors that we think Climb has ever had |
| DataSolutions also carries a robust recurring revenue base with more than 90% of its fiscal 2023 revenue coming from existing reseller partners |
| Leverage our global footprint and drive organic growth, expanding our line card to the most innovative companies in the market |
| So, we just see a lot of upside from what we're signing |
| We are honoured to be recognized as Wasabi's Distributor of Choice and are excited to capitalize the momentum for 2023 into the year ahead |
| And congrats again on the very exciting quarter that you had again for the year |
| Ireland and the DataSolutions acquisition will be a really great case study for us to be able to share with the investors as we move forward throughout 2024 about how well we've integrated the sales teams, the cross-selling vendors, Citrix and Microsoft pair up really nicely |
| Vince Colicchio The organic growth appears to have been solid in the quarter |
| We also continue to generate organic growth in both the U.S |
| As I've noted before, Dale gets to share all the fun exciting aspects of our business and I'm stuck with discussing another boring record quarter in terms of our operating and financial results |
| They've got a great team |
| Drew Clark And I think Dale's -- as we've said Howard, we believe that between the organic growth and our acquisition strategy, we can double the size of this business and in theory continue to be more effective with leverage and then have increased drop through of that gross profit that we grow ourselves or we acquire and then continue to augment and grow |
| We have grown side by side with CDW for more than 20 years as partners as we look forward to building on our mutual success in the years to come |
| We like the margin profile |
| These results were driven by continued focus on our core initiatives and the integration of DataSolutions which was acquired in October of 2023 and immediately benefited our top and bottom line |
| Gross profit as a percentage of AGB increased to 5.3% compared to 5% in the prior period and was positively impacted by DataSolutions and our vendor mix in the quarter |
| And they're taking advantage and we're taking advantage with them of IBM buying Red Hat |
| On the solutions piece of our business overseas really helps out and maintains more of a stable margin profile and that's the key |
| So, you can see we have a very robust way to bring vendors in |
| We are actively identifying cross selling opportunities and cost synergies and look forward to unlocking additional benefits as we further integrate DataSolutions into our financial and operating workflows |
| Net sales in the fourth quarter of 2023 increased 20% to $106.8 million compared to $88.9 million which primarily reflects organic growth from new and existing vendors as well as contributions from our acquisition of DataSolutions in October of 2023 |
| and overseas that can broaden our geographic footprint and expand out vendor reach and also serve us in solution offerings |
| One is on this growth and adjusted gross billings, $397 million Q4, up $78 million 24% up from the year ago fourth quarter |
| Net income in the fourth quarter of 2023 increased 10% to $5.2 million or $1.15 per diluted share compared to $4.8 million or $1.06 per diluted share for the comparable period in 2022 |
| We are thrilled to have Kim to lead our global marketing efforts to align our branding as we further scale our footprint in the U.S |
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| As mentioned in our press release, earnings per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2023 was negatively impacted by $0.09 in foreign exchange currency and $0.06 in fees associated with the acquisition of DataSolutions |
| Sophos went through an ERP change, there was some delays in some of that |
| They were down a little bit year over year because they had some lumpiness that fell in and fell out whether it's coming into quarter out of the quarter from the year before |
| We picked up some smaller ones, but nothing that's earth shattering both in the positive or the negative side |
| But I think there were some hiccups in the November timeframe, but other than that, we haven't seen any of that |
| We'll see some pullback on a consolidated basis in Q2, but growth over the prior year Q2 most likely that there is a little bit of cyclicality in the business based on geographies and vendors and partners |
| DataSolutions typically Q2 of the calendar year is their weakest quarter |
| So that's just one that does have a meaningful impact and it's just not consistent right now until we get more traction with them in the marketplace around the globe |
| But we just haven't really seen the softening |
| SolarWinds, you know, has had their difficulties in the past, but has recovered from that |
| And we've had, you know, if you look at quarter-by-quarter when something goes down, VAS is going to be lumpy |
| On the vendor side, there's it's hard to hold back some of the positives we have from the vendors coming at us, either reducing their go to market and Climb being one of the leftover channel plays that they have |
| In the fourth quarter, net sales grew at a lower rate because of the impact of DataSolutions, which sells HPE Aruba appliances in connection with Citrix and the aforementioned product mix quarter-to-quarter |
| We're not fighting it out every day over margin |
| And also, the European market, the pressures or the competitiveness and what they -- two things, the competitiveness is not nearly what we have in the States with some of the big three |
| Dale, I'm curious, securities, obviously, the key driver here for your business for some time |
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