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| This offering sets minimum level of production, reduced barrier to entry, provides more predictability and visibility for our customer and for us, shortens the sales cycle and improves our opportunity to address screen printers |
| Adjusting for these restructuring charges, our adjusted EBITDA was positive in the fourth quarter, marking a significant improvement over the adjusted EBITDA loss of $6.1 million in the same period last year and the adjusted EBITDA loss of $5.6 million last quarter |
| These objectives included strengthening our product portfolio, broadening the application we serve, diversifying our customer base, successfully launching our Apollo platform, expanding our Direct-To-Fabric business and optimizing our operating model |
| We have a very good visibility where they are heading |
| We cemented our leading position with the MAX technology as the new industry standard for quality, introduced the Apollo platform for bulk production, enhance our DTF offering for unprecedented capabilities, expanded the application reach of our Poly offering, Integrated Smart Curing Technology into our mass production solutions, made major software enhancement to the KornitX platform and brought added-value ancillaries like our RSS smart pallet adjustment technology |
| We have a very good visibility, and we see how Q1 tracking as well |
| The event was very successful, and I'm also pleased to report that one of our beta customers has already disclosed the plan to add several more Apollos to their facilities throughout 2024 |
| So overall, we are happy to see this momentum continue |
| And we expect that it will continue to be strong as well next year |
| So this is customized design a very good indication |
| We had a very strong year in 2023, and we expect it to continue to grow also in 2024 |
| Our new ink solution unveiled ITMA, combined with our MAX technology has created a best-in-class solution in the growing digital pigment market |
| But in Q4, we saw double-digit, which is the peak season and to see in the peak season double-digit, is a very strong indication |
| And also, we saw a very nice growth on the impression, which gave us confidence that the customers starting to improve the utilization and capacity utilization of the systems and we'll be ready to starting adding orders of additional systems in 2024 and definitely into 2025 |
| This will accelerate the growth in the market |
| We continue to believe that the direct-to-fabric market represents a significant long-term growth opportunity, especially with global brands and retailers who have committed to move to sustainable production and offer maximum flexibility |
| In the same way, you will see an improvement on our EBITDA and profitability across the quarter |
| You will see stronger Q2 and H2 will be much stronger than H1, both from ink perspective and a system perspective |
| A key factor to this return to profitability was consistently strong growth in consumables through 2023 |
| This year-over-year improvement in both impressions and consumables indicates continued digestion of capacity within our install base, which we view as a positive leading indicator for future systems demand |
| So these tons of diversification, new customer, new geographies, new products, new segments and I'm very pleased that we managed to do it in the last two years, and I really hope that soon we will see the result in the growth of system sales as well |
| We expect these proactive measures to contribute to our return to consistent profitability and allow us to protect our robust balance sheet |
| So Q4, on the positive side, we can see that the supplies, we saw a very nice supplies growth |
| Despite the persistent macroeconomic headwinds, fourth quarter results were driven by good peak season where we saw double-digit year-over-year growth in impressions and in our consumable revenues |
| Looking at our key customers and our global strategic customer, they had a very strong quarter in terms of impressions and in growth |
| And there, we are going very strong with the Apollo |
| This marks our fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year impressions growth |
| Another good trend is our service revenue, which grew as well and continue to be strong |
| They were super impressed by the quality, the productivity can run up to 400 governments an hour |
| We also have a very strong pipeline into 2024 and beyond on the Apollo |
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| For the overall 2023 and specifically Q4, our system revenue and system sales was weak |
| This was offset by the sizable decline in system sales volumes, reflecting the challenging environment we faced throughout 2023, and particularly in the last quarter |
| As we discussed on our last earnings call, the consumer environment remains uncertain, which with regard to system sales impacts our customers' purchasing appetite and thus our visibility |
| However, the adjusted EBITDA margin for 2023 decreased to minus 14% compared with minus 11.3% for 2022, primarily due to significantly lower revenues year-over-year |
| Additionally, we continue to expect to face a challenging macro environment in 2024, similar to what we faced in 2023 |
| Q1 is the lowest quarter in terms of supplies and system sales |
| Despite consumables and services demonstrating healthy growth for the full year, the year-over-year decline was primarily attributable to significantly lower system sales in 2023 |
| Before I pass the call over to Lauri, as you all know, Israel faced an horrific barbaric attack in the second half of 2023 |
| What they are telling us that currently their customers, the brands and retailers still struggling to get rid of the inventory that pile up from the Corona time |
| While we will work proactively with our customers, invest in our product portfolio and improve our operating model, we acknowledge that these macroeconomic headwinds will weigh on our ability to convert leads and plan confidently |
| Our outlook assumes that the challenging macroeconomic backdrop we experienced in 2023 continues into 2024 |
| Total fourth quarter non-GAAP operating expenses were $30.1 million, a decrease of about 9% from $32.9 million in the same period last year |
| While we gave a guidance of negative EBITDA in Q1, we’re expecting Q2 to be closer to breakeven and H2 to be profitable on EBITDA |
| We currently expect revenues for the first quarter of 2024 to be between $43 million and $48 million and adjusted EBITDA margin to be in the negative 16% to negative 26% range |
| As a result, many retailers spent 2023 working through excess inventories that had piled up since the pandemic, while shifting the focus towards fixing their operating models and supply chains |
| Where we have a relative lower visibility is on system sales |
| For the full-year 2023, non-GAAP operating expenses decreased about 12% to $127.7 million compared to 2022 |
| As for our global strategic customers, of course, we cannot get into their purchasing plans for 2024 |
| With that said, we continue to expect modest growth and modest profitability in 2024 on a full year basis |
| What is limiting us in 2024 in the Apollo is not the demand in the market |
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