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| Let me close by saying that we remain optimistic about our prospects and opportunities to continue to leverage our best-in-class technology, robust North American footprint, extensive global network of service partners as we continue to build on the great platform we've created here at Radiant |
| Notwithstanding the tough year-over-year comparisons, we continue to deliver meaningfully positive results and have generated $16.9 million in adjusted EBITDA and $12.1 million in cash from operations for the six months ended December 31, 2023 |
| In addition, we continue to enjoy a strong balance sheet, finishing the quarter with approximately $33 million of cash on hand and nothing drawn on our $200 million credit facility |
| As previously discussed, we believe we are well positioned to navigate through these slower freight markets |
| Canada continues to do reasonably well and international ocean is starting to improve modestly |
| Through this approach, we believe, over time, we will continue to deliver meaningful value for our shareholders, operating partners, and the end customers that we serve |
| In this regard, we are very excited about our recent agent station conversions with the acquisition of Delray and the select businesses which will combine, solidify our offering in support of the cruise line industry in South Florida |
| Again at a high level our core forwarding business continues to do reasonably well |
| Through this multi-pronged approach of organic growth acquisitions and buybacks, we believe we will continue to create meaningful value for our shareholders, operating partners and the end customers that we serve |
| And then I'm optimistic that we'll start to see certainly sequential improvement after that as we kind of find our way back to some sense of normalcy |
| So there should be some incremental cost synergies available to us at the node level of the network as we continue to kind of make good on our brand promise and supporting our agent stations on their excess strategies over time |
| So I think as we see those trade flows improve for any number of reasons, I think that will be a net positive for us |
| With that said, we remain optimistic that we are at or near the bottom of the cycle and we would expect markets to begin to find their way to more sustainable and normalized levels towards the back half of calendar 2024 |
| We launched Radiant in 2006 with the goal of partnering with logistics entrepreneurs who would benefit from our unique value proposition and the built-in exit strategy available to the entrepreneurs participating in our network |
| At the same time, we remain focused on delivering profitable growth through a combination of organic and acquisition initiatives and thoughtfully re-levering our balance sheet through a combination of Asian station conversions, synergistic tuck-in acquisitions and stock buybacks |
| But we need a little better balance between shipper demand and transportation capacity and some of the weaker hands are being forced out whether it's yellow or others, that's helping the market rationalize at the end of the day in the, I guess what they call, constructive destruction that's going on in the market |
| Jeff Kauffman So when you talk about we feel like things could be turning is it more just -- well, we know the inventory destock is done, we see trade starting to flow, ISMs getting better or are you actually seeing things maybe in some sub-industries or some parts of your network that leads you to believe that we could be bottoming on the curve here? Bohn Crain We're seeing some early indications of things improving on the ocean -- kind of on the ocean side in particular |
| But it could having the same brand that could just as easily be helping come up with alternative solutions or alternative sourcing strategies that create incremental opportunities as well so |
| Awesome |
| And then that will manifest itself as margin expansion, right, EBITDA is a function of gross margin |
| So that's encouraging not just for the ocean piece but for the inland piece and just kind of supply and demand dynamics for the inland transportation side of things |
| Just good to see you guys buying back stock |
| Well, thank you both very much and congratulations |
| Jeff Kauffman Thank you very much |
| Hopefully, that will continue to improve and kind of the geopolitical stuff will settle down, but again, that kind of remains to be seen |
| Good afternoon, guys |
| It's just that the agency station commissions get eliminated and we onboard their local level labor and SG&A cost and that difference is effectively the profitability of that business that we have onboarded |
| Todd Macomber Thanks, Bohn and good afternoon everyone |
| Thank you |
| Thank you |
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| Our results for the quarter ended December 31, 2023, continue to reflect the difficult freight markets being experienced by the entire industry as well as our operations |
| This extended period of weak freight demand combined with excess capacity continues to negatively impact not only our current results but also the year-over-year comparison to our record results for the prior year period |
| I would say intermodal and truck brokerage is still probably the toughest area at least for us |
| This represents a decrease of approximately $3.851 million of net income over the comparable prior year period or 79.6% |
| And it -- I think the general narrative is, it was obviously slow through December |
| There's any number of kind of headwinds |
| But that's been certainly a tough go in this environment |
| I think it will continue to be slow relatively through the March quarter |
| It was slow going in late November and December and early January as we're watching, kind of, weekly postings in February things are starting to lift off of those lowest levels |
| This represents a decrease of approximately $9.662 million over the comparable prior year period or 72.8% |
| How is that impacting results? Or how do you see that impacting results here in the current quarter? Bohn Crain Well, it's certainly slowed down, I think for everyone |
| So when we convert an existing agent station to a company-owned store, our revenues don't increase, our gross margins really don't increase |
| And if that's -- I'm thinking of you something my battleship, B47 right? If it happens they hit a particular commodity that we're servicing that we could be impacted |
| This represents a decrease of approximately $17.998 million or approximately 51.6% |
| This represents a decrease of approximately $8.495 million or approximately 52.4% |
| And good news bad news it's the smallest piece of our business |
| But I think we're -- I would like to think and believe we kind of have seen the worst of it and I'm pretty hopeful for improvement on the back half of the year |
| This represents a decrease of approximately $5.646 million or approximately 50.7% |
| This represents a decrease of approximately $12.575 million or approximately 51.1% |
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