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| Our adjusted EBITDA guidance reflects our ongoing commitment to drive additional adjusted EBITDA margin expansion |
| So, we have strong conviction |
| We believe the smart-living opportunity is large and it is durable and that long-term secular tailwinds including technology adoption, software enablement, housing construction and small business formation will continue to propel the industry and our Company forward |
| And second, expanding our operating margins through several key programs, which have already yielded positive results |
| We've invested in scale and platforms that will drive better solutions for the end customer, more capacity for the integrator and growth for Snap One in a way that increases operating margins over time |
| Complementing our product portfolio, we continue to optimize our go-to-market strategy to drive ecosystem adoption and we are pleased with all that we've accomplished this year as part of this initiative, including leveraging our best-in-class loyalty platform to drive product category and ecosystem adoption and strengthen our relationships with partners |
| And so, we were quite pleased with that |
| From a platform adoption perspective, our continued innovation in our products, solutions and service models enhances our relationships with our partners, delivers a better end customer experience and drives market share gains for Snap One |
| Importantly, this reflects an expanded operating margin of 11%, a 90 basis point year-over-year improvement |
| We are positioning ourselves for a turnaround in housing and are ready to build on our profitability momentum as we drive further operating leverage with expanded scale |
| The sentiment from our sales force post event has been exceptionally strong |
| We remain highly confident in our operating model and believe that our resilient integration partners, our diversified business model and consistently strong execution position us to prosper in a dynamic macro environment |
| And then, we think we have confidence in our opportunity to grow share of wallet and market share |
| Based on this sentiment as well as some of our own internal information, we would expect to see sales trending more strongly in the back half of the year |
| Nice margin performance |
| And finally, we're bolstering our own foundation by maintaining a strong employee engagement with the best team in the industry and making it easy for our integrators to buy from us week-after-week through whatever channel they prefer |
| But overall, we are pleased with the current liquidity position of the Company and the operational flexibility that it provides |
| This year, we made strong gains in our contribution margin as costs related to the supply chain alleviated and additionally, we executed on our operating margin expansion plan and we intend to make more progress in the coming year |
| We are seeing customers come online now and we are excited for our partners and end customers to benefit from the value of these offerings in 2024 and beyond |
| First, driving higher platform and product adoption by our partners and in turn delivering far better end consumer experiences |
| And then everything else should be free cash flow, which should be pretty robust and allow us to make good operating decisions as we go forward |
| You guys have been amazing and the efforts you deliver every day for our end customers, integration partners and our shareholders will pay dividends in the future |
| And we remain confident in our expectations for consistent long-term growth |
| We expect to achieve this both through continued contribution margin momentum stemming from our supply chain efficiencies, as well as continued disciplined operating expense management |
| Our team has been doing lots of work from a sourcing standpoint with our suppliers, driving cost down, driving efficiency across the supply chain and we do expect to see continued contribution margin expansion as we go forward |
| Contribution margin as a percentage of net sales increased largely due to continued momentum from our supply chain cost management initiatives driven by our teams as well as a modest impact from cumulative price adjustments we took in the last 12 months |
| First, we are really proud of our team's ability to grow adjusted EBITDA compared to last year and expand our operating margins despite the headwinds the industry faced |
| The supply chain is now largely normalized and our team has successfully extracted those cost inefficiencies, driving sustained contribution margin expansion this year |
| And, inside our Summit, the response was fantastic |
| John, that was very comprehensive and you mentioned strong margins on these recurring revenues |
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| Net sales in the fiscal fourth quarter decreased 1.4% to $264.4 million down from $268.2 million comparable year ago period |
| I think what we're saying is, right now the market continues to be a bit weak and we're continuing to capture share |
| For the full-year ended December 29, 2023, net sales decreased 5.6% to $1.06 billion from $1.12 billion in the year ago period |
| Finally, as we think about our 2024 seasonal trends, when we look at the external demand factors, prevailing data continues to indicate slow activity across the housing industry |
| As we look to the rest of 2024, we expect the operating environment to remain uncertain, but we plan to achieve growth nonetheless |
| And right now, the market looks like, it's a bit challenging |
| Several of the factors that have applied modest pressure on our demand over the last few quarters all remain in the short-term |
| Adjusted net income, a non GAAP measurement of operating performance decreased to $40.3 million or 3.8% of net sales in the full-year 2023 from $52.6 million or 4.7% of net sales in the year ago period |
| This created near-term inefficiencies for Snap One |
| And while destocking did serve as a notable headwind to sales in 2023, we do not expect to see major stocking or destocking activity going forward |
| I think directionally, I don't have quarters in front of me, but I think the issue really is this market activity |
| And, I can tell everybody we're two years into our five-year plan that existed pre-COVID and the whole COVID disruption, supply chain disruption causes us to go very consciously a lot slower on those things as we focused on, the supply chain and maintaining inventory for our suppliers and all the other things that, lots of folks in the world have had to do |
| Eric, we came out of a period of time where we were significantly constrained on certain products from an inventory standpoint as you know |
| Obviously, as we think about our guidance, if we do see growth, we would expect inventory to grow a little bit |
| And I'd expect that to continue to slip down a little bit, offsetting that, as this RMR revenue grows, not this year |
| Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of operating performance, totaled $66.5 million in the full-year ended December 29, 2023, compared to a negative $44.6 million in the comparable year ago period |
| Our net loss of $5.8 million in the fourth quarter compared to a net loss of $4.1 million in the comparable year ago period |
| We believe the primary factors contributing to this ‘24 sales change to be: A, excluding the impacts of channel inventory, we expect net sales to range from a decrease of 0.5% to an increase of 2% |
| But, I think this year it's going to be even a little bit more dramatic just given the overall market activity that we're anticipating |
| And for the full-year, our net loss totaled $21.4 million compared to a net loss of $8.7 million in the comparable year ago period |
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