Velo3D Reports Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results

Velo3D, Inc. (NYSE: VLD), a leading additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical metal parts, today announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2023.

“Our second quarter results reflect strong execution as we expanded our global footprint, improved manufacturing cycle times through our efficiency initiatives and prudently managed our costs,” said Benny Buller, CEO of Velo3D. “Demand for our industry leading technology remains strong as we booked a record amount of new customer orders during the quarter and exited Q223 with a growing pipeline across a diverse set of industries. In particular, we continued to expand our presence in the defense vertical while maintaining our leading position as a preferred supplier to the global space industry. However, despite these positive demand trends, second quarter bookings came in below plan, primarily due to delays in booking certain orders, which will impact our second half revenue forecast. As a result, we now expect our fiscal year 2023 revenue to be in the range of $105 million to $115 million. Importantly, our path to profitability remains clear and with the announcement of our registered direct offering of $70 million of senior secured convertible notes, we believe we have strong liquidity to reach our goal of sustained profitability.

“Operationally, manufacturing cycle times continue to improve for our Sapphire XC and Sapphire XC 1MZ systems. As these systems have become the majority of our quarterly shipments, we are now seeing the benefits of scale in our production processes. This scale, combined with the continued improvement in materials costs and manufacturing efficiency, has enabled us to improve our gross margin in the second quarter. We also remain committed to managing our expense structure and expect to materially reduce our operating costs in the second half of the year.

“Finally, we continue to execute on our 2023 strategic priorities and our focus for the balance of the year continues to be on margin expansion, reducing our manufacturing and operating costs and improving cash flow. We are excited about the future as demand for our industry leading technology remains high as customers continue to look to Velo3D to manufacture the critical, high value metal parts they need.”

Information about Velo3D’s use of non-GAAP information, including a reconciliation to U.S. GAAP, is provided at the end of this release.

1. Reconciliations to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) financial measures are presented below under “Non-GAAP Financial Information”.
2. Non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP net loss per diluted share exclude stock-based compensation expense, and fair value adjustments for the Company’s warrants and earnout liabilities in the three months ended June 30, 2023, March 31, 2023 and June 30, 2022.

Summary of Second Quarter 2023 results

Revenue for the second quarter was $25.1 million, an increase of 28% year over year. Compared to the second quarter of 2022, Year of Sale revenue¹ improvement was driven by a higher average selling price due to higher transaction pricing and a more favorable Sapphire XC system product mix. On a sequential basis, Year of Sale revenue declined slightly due to lower transaction pricing and lower maintenance and other part sales. Support service and recurring payment revenue of $1.9 million was in line with the second quarter of 2022 as the increase in support service revenue resulting from a larger installed base was offset by a decrease in recurring payment revenue due to a one-time charge and expiration and buyouts of system leases.

Gross margin for the second quarter was 11.9%, up 100 basis points sequentially. Printer sales margin increased approximately 400 basis points to 14.9% due to improved material and production efficiency. This improvement was partially offset by higher service support costs and a one-time charge affecting recurring payment revenue. The company expects further improvement in its material costs through the end of 2023.

Operating expenses for the second quarter were $28.7 million compared to $27.0 million in the first quarter of 2023. The increase in operating expenses was driven by a $1.9 million increase in research and development primarily related to material costs for a new product development program. Both sales and marketing and administrative costs were in line with company expectations. Non-GAAP operating expenses, which excludes stock-based compensation expense of $6.5 million, was $22.2 million. The company remains committed to reducing its operating expenses in the second half of 2023.

Net loss for the quarter was $23.2 million and reflected a gain of $2.7 million on the fair value of warrants and contingent earnout liabilities. Non-GAAP net loss, which excludes, among other items, the gain on fair value of warrants and contingent earnout liabilities as well as stock-based compensation expense, was $19.3 million in the three months ended June 30, 2023. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter, excluding the same metrics, was a loss of $17.5 million. For more information regarding the company’s non-GAAP financial measures, see “Non-GAAP Financial Information” below.

The company ended the quarter with a solid balance sheet with $47 million in cash and investments. Net cash flow for the quarter was in line with forecasts and the company expects sequential improvement in cash flow through the balance of the year.

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¹ Year of sale revenue refers to revenue from all units shipped within the calendar year.

Guidance

The company expects third quarter year-over-year revenue growth in excess of 27%. However, due to the delay in Q2 bookings signings, the company now expects 2023 revenue to be in the range of $105-$115 million compared to its previous guidance of $120 - $130 million.

For the third quarter of 2023, the company expects the following:

• Revenue in the range of $25 million to $29 million
• Gross margin in the range of 14% to 18%, assuming no non-recurring charges

For the fiscal year 2023, the company’s updated guidance is as follows:

• Revenue in the range of $105 million to $115 million
• Gross margin in the range of 14% to 18%, assuming no non-recurring charges – with gross margin of 21% to 25% in the fourth quarter of 2023
• Continued improvement in quarterly cash flow for the balance of 2023

The company will host a conference call for investors this afternoon to discuss its second quarter 2023 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The call will be webcast and can be accessed from the Events page of the Investor Relations section of Velo3D’s website at ir.velo3d.com.

About Velo3D:

Velo3D is a metal 3D printing technology company. 3D printing—also known as additive manufacturing (AM)—has a unique ability to improve the way high-value metal parts are built. However, legacy metal AM has been greatly limited in its capabilities since its invention almost 30 years ago. This has prevented the technology from being used to create the most valuable and impactful parts, restricting its use to specific niches where the limitations were acceptable.

Velo3D has overcome these limitations so engineers can design and print the parts they want. The company’s solution unlocks a wide breadth of design freedom and enables customers in space exploration, aviation, power generation, energy, and semiconductor to innovate the future in their respective industries. Using Velo3D, these customers can now build mission-critical metal parts that were previously impossible to manufacture. The fully integrated solution includes the Flow print preparation software, the Sapphire family of printers, and the Assure quality control system—all of which are powered by Velo3D’s Intelligent Fusion manufacturing process. The company delivered its first Sapphire system in 2018 and has been a strategic partner to innovators such as SpaceX, Honeywell, Honda, Chromalloy, and Lam Research. Velo3D has been named as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023. For more information, please visit Velo3D.com, or follow the company on LinkedIn or Twitter.

VELO, VELO3D, SAPPHIRE and INTELLIGENT FUSION, are registered trademarks of Velo3D, Inc.; and WITHOUT COMPROMISE, FLOW and ASSURE are trademarks of Velo3D, Inc. All Rights Reserved © Velo3D, Inc.

Amounts herein pertaining to June 30, 2023 represent a preliminary estimate as of the date of this earnings release and may be revised upon filing our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). More information on our results of operations for the three months ended June 30, 2023 will be provided upon filing our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the SEC.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996. The company’s actual results may differ from its expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect”, “estimate”, “project”, “budget”, “forecast”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “plan”, “may”, “will”, “could”, “should”, “believes”, “predicts”, “potential”, “continue”, and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the company’s guidance for the third quarter, fourth quarter and full year 2023 (including the company’s estimates for revenue, revenue growth and gross margin), the company’s expectations regarding its ability to achieve profitability, the company’s strategic priorities for 2023 (including the company’s plans and targets for revenue growth, gross margin improvement, manufacturing and operating cost reductions and cash flow improvements), the company’s expectations regarding its liquidity and capital requirements, and the company’s other expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies for the future. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 (the “FY 2022 10-K”), which was filed by the company with the SEC on March 20, 2023 and the other documents filed by the company from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are outside the company’s control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the inability of the company to execute its business plan, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its key employees; (2) changes in the applicable laws or regulations; (3) the possibility that the company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (4) the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic; and (5) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time described in the FY 2022 10-K, including those under “Risk Factors” therein, and in the company’s other filings with the SEC. The company cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive and not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, including projections, which speak only as of the date made. The company does not undertake or accept any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Non-GAAP Financial Information

The company uses non-GAAP financial measures to help it make strategic decisions, establish budgets and operational goals for managing its business, analyze its financial results and evaluate its performance. The company also believes that the presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures in this release provides an additional tool for investors to use in comparing the company’s core business and results of operations over multiple periods. However, the non-GAAP financial measures presented in this release may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies due to differences in the way that these measures are calculated. The non-GAAP financial measures presented in this release should not be considered as the sole measure of the company’s performance and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles accepted in the United States (“GAAP”).

The information in the table below sets forth the non-GAAP financial measures that the company uses in this release. Because of the limitations associated with these non-GAAP financial measures, “Non-GAAP Net Loss”, “EBITDA”, “Adjusted EBITDA”, “Adjusted EBITDA excluding merger costs and loss on convertible note extinguishment” and “Non-GAAP Operating Expenses”, should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The company compensates for these limitations by relying primarily on its GAAP results and using Non-GAAP Net Loss, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA excluding merger costs and loss on convertible note extinguishment and Non-GAAP Operating Expenses on a supplemental basis. You should review the reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures below and not rely on any single financial measure to evaluate the company's business.

The following tables reconcile Net income (loss) to Non-GAAP Net Loss, EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA and Total Operating Expenses to Non-GAAP Operating Expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2023, March 31, 2023, June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022 and the six months ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022: