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| I'm proud of how we've demonstrated strong agility and navigated the difficult operating environment throughout fiscal 2023 and with proactive inventory management and cost actions |
| Finally, we remain confident in the long-term industry opportunity and our own position due to our leading brands, comprehensive equipment portfolio and omnichannel approach as we continue on our path to becoming a leader in connected fitness |
| And we're excited about all those things looking forward |
| First, by leveraging our Direct business and through strong cost control, we delivered Q4 and fiscal '23 results significantly better than our guidance provided in February |
| Our focus on operational excellence showing this difficult macroeconomic environment, is reflected in the meaningful improvement in free cash flow |
| Third, we expect our efforts to drive free cash flow and return the company to profitability, resulting in significant year-over-year improvement in adjusted EBITDA for the full year fiscal 2024 |
| The sale of non-core assets, amendments to our credit agreements, and substantially improved inventory position provide us with enhanced liquidity and a stronger balance sheet |
| As such, we are guiding to a significant year-over-year improvement in adjusted EBITDA for the full year of 2024 |
| These items will result in lower operating expenses and gross margin expansion as some of these costs are part of COGS |
| We have laid a strong foundation for JRNY, delivering continued total member growth |
| This has resulted in achievement of our 500,000-member growth |
| The rest of the EBITDA improvement will come from lower landed product costs, which will result in further gross margin expansion |
| On the bottom line, our operational excellence efforts enabled us to deliver Q4 and fiscal year '23 adjusted EBITDA above expectations |
| Our main focus of our operational excellence is centered around inventory management and per our plan, we continued to significantly improve our inventory position in the fourth quarter |
| We feel very well positioned as we enter our seasonally softer months to provide our customers the products they want, when they want them and where they want to buy them |
| I'm proud of our continued momentum on scaling our differentiated digital offering as we exceeded our growth targets for JRNY members |
| So the employees here and myself and Aina, we're all very excited about what we've got coming there |
| You're continuing to see some strength in our Direct business |
| We have significantly enhanced our delivery times to retailers, permitting them to order closer to when they need the product, and we are rolling out a better last mile delivery process for our Direct consumers |
| In addition to tangible gross margin improvement via lower landed product costs |
| This is highlighted by the strength of our direct business where we have the strongest visibility into end-user demand and we are excited to have an exciting pipeline of new product offerings and refresh Bowflex branding to be introduced in fiscal 2024 |
| We have been successful in doubling our Direct segment market share since 2020 and we believe Retail will remain an important long-term component of our business model when market conditions improve |
| We are seeing the benefits of this in our demand for our equipment, particularly our fast-moving top sellers |
| We excel at equipment and are building and scaling a strong, differentiated digital platform, placing us on the right side of industry trends |
| Under our consumer-first mindset, we have implemented better consumer segment targeting and optimized our media mix, which is driving enhanced return on advertising investment |
| Structurally, the answer to your question is just it's a low unit quarter that drives that for the most part, and we're excited about what's going forward |
| Within Direct, we saw momentum in strength, which was up 22% in the quarter versus Q4 fiscal '20, reflecting the enhancements we've made to our offerings in this category |
| Looking ahead, we remain confident in the long-term industry opportunity |
| We have made significant progress over the last 2 years on our long-term strategic transformation under our North Star strategy, what we believe will make the company stronger as our industry normalizes post pandemic |
| Long-term favorable shift to home fitness is enduring |
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| As a percent of full year sales, is expected to be lower than last year driven by softness in our retail segment |
| One thing I would want to call out and remind everybody that all throughout the pandemic, we were really unable to satisfy all retailer demands and some retailers got more of our inventory in the last few years |
| At the same time that we're seeing a reversion to pre-pandemic seasonality of demand, the macroeconomic environment has continued to be difficult causing our retail partners to maintain their conservative inventory positions |
| Net sales for the fourth quarter were $68 million, down 43% versus last year and down 19% versus the same quarter in fiscal year '20, excluding Octane versus fiscal year '20 Direct declined by about 12%, driven by cardio as strength was up 22% |
| Gross profit was $11 million and gross margins were 16%, down about 2 points from LY |
| While significant uncertainty remains in top line for fiscal '24, especially in retail |
| While inventory has been rightsized, our competitors and the retailers continue to be pressured on the inventory front |
| Retail was down 29% as retailers continue to be more conservative with their inventory purchases given the macro environment |
| And then from that point, you have a pretty steep, especially this quarter with the retail business being what it was, you have a pretty steep drop in units sold in the fourth quarter and that kind of flattens things out |
| Like many other companies, we are preparing for a continuation of the difficult operating environment |
| Per our plan, inventory was $47 million, down 58% versus March 2022 and down 71% from our peak of $163 million at September 2021 |
| However, given the uncertain macro in our net revenue guidance range, we're guiding to a range of adjusted EBITDA loss of negative $15 million to breakeven |
| But help us understand just in terms of maybe the sale of the Nautilus business and I think you said royalty revenue and presumably income will be lower year-over-year |
| In the U.S., we've now cleared through older inventory that was burdened by pandemic-related detention and demurrage and higher inbound freight |
| Consistent with the typical seasonality of our business, Q1 is expected to be the lowest revenue quarter of the year |
| So it's a reduction in EBITDA that we had to overcome of about $1.6 million |
| In the U.S., we've sold through the older inventory that was burdened with the tension and demurrage, higher inbound freight than the previous factory calls |
| However, retailers continue to take a conservative approach across the home fitness category in light of the macroeconomic environment |
| I was looking the other day at our auto retailers inventory balances, and they're down nearly 50% versus last year, ex Amazon, who continues to buy more things |
| So the royalty revenue is declining by about $1.6 million |
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