KLDiscovery Inc. (KLDI)

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$KLDI KLDiscovery Inc. Announces Second Quarter Financial Results
Press Release | 08/12/2020
KLDiscovery Inc. (“KLDiscovery” or the “Company”), a leading global provider of electronic discovery, information governance and data recovery services, announced today that revenue for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020 was $64.4 million versus $78.3 in the second quarter of 2019. Net loss for the second quarter 2020 was $14.9 million compared to $11.4 million in the second quarter of 2019.

EBITDA for the second quarter of 2020 was $10.4 million versus $13.7 million in the second quarter of 2019. Adjusted EBITDA (which excludes management fees and stock-based compensation, acquisition financing and transaction costs and other items as described below) for the second quarter of 2020, was $12.2 million compared to $19.6 million in the second quarter of 2019. Reconciliations of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to their comparable GAAP measure are shown in detail below, along with definitions for those terms. As of June 30, 2020, the Company had approximately $34.1 million in cash and cash equivalents.

“In the second quarter of 2020, we continued to take positive actions to ensure that we will be well positioned for the future as we remain dedicated to the health and well-being of our employees during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Christopher Weiler, CEO of KLDiscovery Inc. “Our priority was to maximize efficiencies throughout the Company while continuing to invest in technology and development staff. June was an excellent month as we achieved the second highest monthly EBITDA in company history. We made significant strides in reducing operating expenses by 15.8% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to second quarter of 2019. We accomplished consistent EBITDA margins despite seeing a decrease in second quarter 2020 revenue of $14 million versus the first quarter of 2020. We expect permanent cost savings of approximately $10 million in 2021 as we benefit from savings from integration, lower real estate expenses, data center consolidation and other cost savings initiatives. Additionally, our technology investments continue to pay off with Nebula, our proprietary end-to-end eDiscovery and information governance platform. Nebula is growing rapidly and today we host over 130 terabytes of data there, which represents over 300% growth from one year ago. This fully integrated platform continues to be key to the future growth of our business.”

Mr. Weiler continued, “Our revenue during the second quarter was adversely affected by weak global economic conditions from COVID-19, the severe 33% annualized decline in the U.S. GDP quarter and the reality that the U.S litigation process and court system were slowed down substantially and have been operating at a significantly reduced capacity. The decreased litigation activity we are experiencing today however, does not mean these cases have disappeared, they are likely delayed and will be pushed out to the future. During the last recession, our Company prospered and was awarded some of the largest and most noteworthy matters borne from the economic crisis. I believe that once global restrictions are eased and businesses work towards resuming normal operations, we will benefit from this pent-up demand.”

Year 2019-2020 Quarterly Results - Unaudited
(in millions except per share data)

2019 2020
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
Revenue


75.0





78.3





78.2





80.5





78.3





64.4



Net loss


(13.5

)



(11.4

)



(11.3

)



(17.8

)



(12.5

)



(14.9

)


Net loss per share (basic and diluted)
$

(0.32

)

$

(0.27

)

$

(0.26

)

$

(0.42

)

$

(0.29

)

$

(0.35

)

Weighted average outstanding shares (basic and diluted)


42.3





42.4





42.5





42.5





42.5





42.5




EBITDA


11.2





13.7





13.4





14.4





12.5





10.4



Adjusted EBITDA


15.1





19.6





16.8





17.2





15.0





12.2



2020 Outlook

As previously announced, KLDiscovery is currently limited in its ability to accurately predict what the financial impact will be from the COVID-19 pandemic. KLDiscovery is not providing full-year 2020 guidance until it gains additional data points about the total operational impact of this global pandemic.

Earnings Conference Call

Management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 AM EDT on Thursday, August 13, 2020 to discuss results for the second quarter of 2020 and KLDiscovery’s outlook. The audio portion of the conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet in the Investors section of KLDiscovery's website https://investors.kldiscovery.com.

To join the conference call by telephone, please register via the following link: http://www.directeventreg.com/registration/event/8274078. Once registered, you will receive an email with Direct Entry and Registrant ID along with dial-in details. An audio recording of the conference call will be available for replay shortly after the call's completion and will remain available for two weeks following the call. To access the recorded conference call, please dial [phone] (from the U.S. and Canada) or [phone] (from all other countries) using access code 8274078. The webcast replay will also be available in the Investors section of KLDiscovery’s website for a period of time following the call.

KLDiscovery Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

Three Months Ended June 30,

Six Months Ended June 30,



2020





2019





2020





2019



(unaudited) (unaudited)

Revenues
$

64,381



$

78,332



$

142,652



$

153,358



Cost of revenues


34,214





39,463





73,734





76,919



Gross profit


30,167





38,869





68,918





76,439





Operating expenses
General and administrative


12,400





14,813





28,253





29,656



Research and development


1,639





1,489





3,306





2,922



Sales and marketing


8,660





11,466





20,305





24,169



Depreciation and amortization


8,985





9,893





17,901





19,718



Total operating expenses


31,684





37,661





69,765





76,465




Income (Loss) from operations


(1,517

)



1,208





(847

)



(26

)


Other (income) expenses
Other expense


63





36





91





131



Interest expense


12,970





12,387





25,932





24,453



Loss before income taxes


(14,550

)



(11,215

)



(26,870

)



(24,610

)

Income tax provision


368





233





574





329




Net loss
$

(14,918

)

$

(11,448

)

$

(27,444

)

$

(24,939

)


Other comprehensive (loss) income, net of tax
Foreign currency translation


2,733





(855

)



(1,695

)



(45

)

Total other comprehensive (loss) income, net of tax


2,733





(855

)



(1,695

)



(45

)

Comprehensive loss
$

(12,185

)

$

(12,303

)

$

(29,139

)

$

(24,984

)


Net loss per share - basic and diluted
$

(0.35

)

$

(0.27

)

$

(0.65

)

$

(0.59

)


Weighted average shares outstanding - basic and diluted


42,529,017





42,369,357





42,529,017





42,336,093



Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Matters
(In thousands)
(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended June 30,

Six Months Ended June 30,



2020





2019





2020





2019



Net loss
$

(14,918

)

$

(11,448

)

$

(27,444

)

$

(24,939

)

Interest expense


12,970





12,387





25,932





24,453



Income tax expense


368





233





574





329



Depreciation and amortization expense


11,979





12,530





23,816





25,063



EBITDA
$

10,399



$

13,702



$

22,878



$

24,906



Acquisition, financing and transaction costs


206





2,582





291





2,756



Strategic Initiatives:
Sign-on bonus amortization


—





113





188





225



Non-recoverable draw


—





921





304





2,035



Total strategic initiatives


—





1,034





492





2,260



Management fees, stock compensation and other


870





885





1,750





2,100



Restructuring costs


128





626





718





1,335



Systems establishment


560





806





1,046





1,360



Adjusted EBITDA
$

12,163



$

19,635



$

27,175



$

34,717



Note:

Acquisition, financing and transaction costs include earnout payments, rating agency, letter of credit and revolving facility fees, and transaction costs relating to the business combination with Pivotal Acquisition Corp in December 2019
Strategic initiatives include the amortization of one-time expenses related to the hiring of a team of industry leading sales personnel.
Management fees, stock compensation & other includes consulting fees, expenses related to the Company’s stock compensation plan, business insurance and other expenses.
Restructuring costs include severance payments, recruiting fees and retention charges
Systems establishment costs include expenses related to IT infrastructure build-out, system automation and ERP implementation
KLDiscovery Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share and per share data)

June 30, 2020 December 31, 2019
(Unaudited)
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$

34,099



$

43,407



Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $8,449 and $7,486, respectively


89,120





96,994



Prepaid expenses


13,563





7,296



Other current assets


668





556



Total current assets


137,450





148,253



Property and equipment
Computer software and hardware


72,413





72,228



Leasehold improvements


27,404





26,963



Furniture, fixtures and other equipment


3,748





3,794



Accumulated depreciation


(72,416

)



(64,682

)

Property and equipment, net


31,149





38,303



Intangible assets, net


120,129





130,568



Goodwill


395,031





395,171



Other assets


2,990





2,617



Total assets
$

686,749



$

714,912



Current liabilities
Current portion of long-term debt, net
$

13,074



$

11,689



Accounts payable and accrued expense


30,804





31,270



Current portion of contingent consideration


398





340



Deferred revenue


4,984





4,851



Total current liabilities


49,260





48,150



Long-term debt, net


466,014





468,932



Contingent consideration


482





482



Deferred tax liabilities


6,590





6,294



Other liabilities


8,138





7,289



Total liabilities


530,484





531,147



Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' equity
Common stock
$0.0001 par value, shares authorized - 200,000,000 shares authorized as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019; shares issued and outstanding - 42,529,017 as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively


4





4



Preferred Stock
$0.0001 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized, zero issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively


—





—



Additional paid-in capital


383,591





381,952



Treasury stock


—





—



Accumulated deficit


(232,942

)



(205,498

)

Accumulated other comprehensive income


5,612





7,307



Total stockholders' equity


156,265





183,765



Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
$

686,749



$

714,912





KLDiscovery Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands)
(unaudited)

For The Six Months Ended June 30



2020





2019



Operating activities
Net loss
$

(27,444

)

$

(24,939

)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization


23,816





25,063



Non-cash interest


9,428





2,365



Stock-based compensation


1,639





1,489



Provision for losses on accounts receivable


2,155





1,332



Deferred income taxes


296





(130

)

Change in fair value of contingent consideration


58





—



Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable


5,866





(9,861

)

Prepaid expenses and other assets


(6,519

)



(4,078

)

Accounts payable and accrued expenses


(711

)



(3,359

)

Deferred revenue


146





236



Net cash provided by (used) in operating activities


8,730





(11,882

)

Investing activities
Acquisitions, net of cash


(3,124

)



—



Purchases of property and equipment


(5,875

)



(5,140

)

Net cash used in investing activities


(8,999

)



(5,140

)

Financing activities
Revolving credit facility - draws


29,000





21,500



Revolving credit facility - repayments


(29,000

)



(14,500

)

Payments for capital lease obligations


(455

)



(307

)

Payments on long-term debt


(8,500

)



(8,500

)

Net cash used in financing activities


(8,955

)



(1,807

)

Effect of foreign exchange rates


(84

)



14



Net decrease in cash


(9,308

)



(18,815

)

Cash at beginning of period


43,407





23,439



Cash at end of period
$

34,099



$

4,624



Supplemental disclosure:
Cash paid for interest
$

17,248



$

18,747



Income taxes paid, net of refunds
$

(297

)

$

107



Significant noncash investing and financing activities
Purchases of property and equipment in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the consolidated balance sheets
$

193



$

220



About KLDiscovery

KLDiscovery provides technology-enabled services and software to help law firms, corporations, government agencies and consumers solve complex data challenges. The company, with offices in 39 locations across 19 countries, is a global leader in delivering best-in-class eDiscovery, information governance and data recovery solutions to support the litigation, regulatory compliance, internal investigation and data recovery and management needs of our clients. Serving clients for over 30 years, KLDiscovery offers data collection and forensic investigation, early case assessment, electronic discovery and data processing, application software and data hosting for web-based document reviews, and managed document review services. In addition, through its global Ontrack Data Recovery business, KLDiscovery delivers world-class data recovery, email extraction and restoration, data destruction and tape management. KLDiscovery has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America by both Inc. Magazine (Inc. 5000) and Deloitte (Deloitte's Technology Fast 500) and CEO Chris Weiler was recognized as a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™. Additionally, KLDiscovery is a Relativity Certified Partner and maintains ISO/IEC 27001 Certified data centers around the world. For more information, please email [e-mail] or visit www.kldiscovery.com.

This press release includes “forward looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release other than statements of historical facts, including, without limitation, statements regarding KLDiscovery’s future financial and business performance, attractiveness of KLDiscovery’s product offerings and platform and the value proposition of KLDiscovery’s products, are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, the words “estimates,” “projected,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “forecasts,” “plans,” “intends,” “believes,” “seeks,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “future,” “propose” and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside KLDiscovery’s management’s control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: the ongoing impact of COVID-19, KLDiscovery’s ability to execute on its plans to develop and market new products and the timing of these development programs; KLDiscovery’s estimates of the size of the markets for its solutions; the rate and degree of market acceptance of KLDiscovery’s solutions; the success of other competing technologies that may become available; KLDiscovery’s ability to identify and integrate acquisitions; the performance and security of KLDiscovery’s services; potential litigation involving KLDiscovery; general economic conditions and cyclical nature of certain markets impacting demand for KLDiscovery’s services; KLDiscovery’s substantial levels of indebtedness; changes in complex laws and regulations in the U.S. and internationally; and volatility in the trading price of KLDiscovery common stock and warrants. These risks and other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of KLDiscovery’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and any other reports KLDiscovery files with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements made by KLDiscovery or on our behalf.

Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. All statements speak only as of the date made, and unless legally required, KLDiscovery undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to providing financial measurements based on accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), this earnings press release includes additional financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP (“non-GAAP”), including EBTIDA and Adjusted EBITDA. We believe that these measures are relevant and provide useful supplemental information to investors by providing a baseline for evaluation and comparing our operating performance against that of other companies in our industry.

The non-U.S. GAAP financial measures that we use may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies and in the future, we may disclose different non-U.S. GAAP financial measures in order to help our investors meaningfully evaluate and compare our results of operations to our previously reported results of operations or to those of other companies in our industry. We believe these non-U.S. GAAP financial measures reflect our ongoing operating performance because the isolation of non-cash charges, such as amortization and depreciation, and other items, such as interest, income taxes, management fees and equity compensation, acquisition and transaction costs, restructuring costs, systems establishment and costs associated with strategic initiatives which are incurred outside the ordinary course of our business, provides information about our cost structure and helps us to track our operating progress. We encourage investors and potential investors to carefully review the U.S. GAAP financial information and compare them with our EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA.

Adjusted EBITDA

We define EBITDA as net income (loss) plus interest (income) expense, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation and amortization. We view adjusted EBITDA as our operating performance measure and as such, we believe that the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure is net loss. In calculating adjusted EBITDA, we exclude from net loss certain items that we believe are not reflective of our ongoing business and exclusion of these items allows us to provide additional analysis of the financial components of the day-to-day operation of our business. We have outlined below the type and scope of these exclusions:

Acquisition, financing and transaction costs generally represented by non-ordinary course earn-out valuation changes, rating agency fees, letter of credit and revolving facility fees, as well as professional service fees and direct expenses related to acquisitions. Because we do not acquire businesses on a predictable cycle, we do not consider the amount of acquisition- and integration-related costs to be a representative component of the day-to-day operating performance of our business.
Strategic initiatives expenses relate to costs resulting from pursuing strategic business opportunities. We do not consider the amounts to be representative of the day-to-day operating performance of our business.
Management fees, stock compensation and other primarily represents consulting fees and portion of compensation paid to our employees and executives through stock-based instruments. Determining the fair value of the stock-based instruments involves a high degree of judgment and estimation and the expenses recorded may not align with the actual value realized upon the future exercise or termination of the related stock-based awards. Therefore, we believe it is useful to exclude stock-based compensation to better understand the long-term performance of our core business.
Restructuring costs generally represent non-ordinary course costs incurred in connection with a change in a contract or a change in the makeup of our personnel often related to an acquisition. We do not consider the amount of restructuring costs to be a representative component of the day-to-day operating performance of our business.
Systems establishment costs relate to non-ordinary course expenses incurred to develop our IT infrastructure, including system automation and enterprise resource planning system implementation. We do not consider the amount to be representative of a component of the day-to-day operating performance of our business.