Newtopia Inc. (“Newtopia” or the “Company”) (TSXV: NEWU) (OTCQB: NEWUF), a tech-enabled habit change provider focused on preventing, slowing and reversing chronic disease, today announced its first quarter 2022 financial results and operational highlights.
TORONTO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Newtopia Inc. (“Newtopia” or the “Company”) (TSXV: NEWU) (OTCQB: NEWUF), a tech-enabled habit change provider focused on preventing, slowing and reversing chronic disease, today announced its first quarter 2022 financial results and operational highlights. These results pertain to the three months ended March 31, 2022 and are expressed in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted. First Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights (vs. Q1 2021):
“Newtopia had a strong start to 2022, with revenue of $2.9 million, up 9.5% from the prior-year period and up 19.3% sequentially,” said Jeff Ruby, Founder and CEO of Newtopia. “In addition, we saw strong momentum in our participant engagement, with the total number of engagements reaching an all-time high of 38,000, a new company record. Importantly, with churn rates remaining low and customer stickiness high, we are delivering some of the best engagement levels in our history.” Mr. Ruby continued, “Just post the first quarter, we successfully closed on a $3.5 million private placement, strengthening our balance sheet and providing us with the working capital to continue to promote our long-term growth plan. We also recently received the green light to expand our partnership with one of our long-standing Fortune 50 financial services clients into their employee base in Florida. This expansion follows the successful delivery of outcomes from a 24-month novel behavioral economic trial, all of which remarkably took place during the pandemic. I am very proud of our team’s accomplishments this past quarter and remain confident that our business is very well positioned to achieve full year revenue growth in 2022.” First Quarter 2022 Financial Results Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $2.9 million, as compared to $2.6 million in the prior-year period. This increase in revenue was largely the result of strong enrollment and engagement numbers during the quarter. Engagement fee revenue totaled $2.5 million for the first quarter, up from $2.0 million in the prior-year period. Gross profit for the first quarter 2022 totaled $1.3 million, relatively consistent with the prior-year period. Gross profit is comprised of Newtopia’s revenue less direct expenses, which include the cost of Welcome Kits sold to new participants as well as labor costs associated with hiring and training of the Company’s coaching team of Inspirators. As a percentage of revenue, gross profit totaled 47%, compared to 50% in the prior-year period. Please note, that Welcome Kits carry lower margins, so as participant enrollment increases, margins tend to decline. Nevertheless, as Welcome Kit sales translate into recurring engagement fee revenue, gross margins improve over time.
Adjusted operating expenses2 for the three months ended March 31, 2022 totaled $2.6 million, compared to $2.9 million in the prior-year period. This decline in adjusted operating expenses is the result of a reduction in headcount and compensation costs tied to an expense right-sizing effort initiated by the Company in the fourth quarter of 2021. For the quarter, the Company had an adjusted operating loss3 of $1.2 million, or a loss of $0.02 per diluted share, compared to an adjusted operating loss of $1.6 million, also a loss of $0.02 per diluted share, in the prior-year period. The Company ended the first quarter 2022 with $1.05 million in cash and an outstanding loan balance of $3.8 million against its $7.5 million credit facility. Post-quarter end, the Company successfully closed on a brokered private placement facility offering of 16,950,000 units at a price of $0.20 per Unit, for aggregate proceeds of $3,390,000. The Company also currently completed a non-brokered private placement of 550,000 units for aggregate gross proceeds of $110,000. 2022 Outlook The Company continues to anticipate achieving full year revenue growth for 2022 over 2021. Revenue growth will be more heavily weighted towards the second half of the year as Newtopia rolls out new customer phases onto its platform in the third and fourth quarters, including the recent expansion in Florida with a Fortune 50 financial services client. Newtopia continues to expect approximately $0.5 million in capex for 2022. A significant portion of this capital expenditure will be directly related to the launch of a new version of the Newtopia platform on the Company’s own architecture in the second half of this year. Once the migration to this new platform is complete, an annual licensing cost associated with the existing CRM platform of approximately $450,000 per year will be eliminated. Newtopia also anticipates that the Company will see improved gross profit margins over time after the launch of its new platform. These expenditures will be capitalized and amortized over their lifetime. Newtopia takes a measured approach to adding expenses in support of growth, and, as such, with the anticipated top line growth, the Company continues to strive to be cash flow positive from operations as it exits 2022. Grants of Stock Options Newtopia further announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the grant of 1,140,000 stock options to certain tenured employees and newly hired employees. The options issued to newly hired employees will expire five years from the date such employees complete their probationary period, and the exercise price will be based on the closing price of Newtopia’s common shares on the trading day prior to the day these employees complete their probationary period. The options granted to tenured employees will be at an exercise price of CAD$0.235 per common share and will expire five years from the grant date. Conference Call The Company will host a conference call today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the first quarter 2022 results in further detail. To access the conference call, please dial (877) 407-3982 (U.S.) or (201) 493-6780 (International) ten minutes prior to the start time and reference Conference ID number 13729573. The call will also be available via live webcast on the investor relations portion of the Company’s website located at investor.newtopia.com. A replay of the conference call will be available through Wednesday, June 1, 2022 which can be accessed by dialing (844) 512-2921 (U.S.) or (412) 317-6671 (International) and entering the passcode 13729573. The webcast will also be archived on the Company’s website.
About Newtopia Newtopia is a tech-enabled habit change provider focused on disease prevention and reducing the cost of care for health insurers. As a provider of whole person care, we prevent, reverse and slow the progression of chronic disease while enriching mental health, resilience and overall human performance. Newtopia’s programs leverage genetic, social and behavioral insights to create individualized prevention programs with a focus on type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and weight. With a person-centered approach that combines virtual care, digital tools, connected devices and actionable data science, Newtopia delivers sustainable clinical and financial outcomes. Newtopia serves some of the largest nationwide employers and health plans and is currently listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and quoted on the OTC Venture Market in the U.S. (TSXV: NEWU) (OTCQB: NEWUF). To learn more, visit newtopia.com, LinkedIn or Twitter. Forward Looking Information This press release contains forward-looking information and forward-looking statements, within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation, and forward looking statements, within the meaning of applicable United States securities legislation (collectively, “forward-looking statements”), which reflects management’s expectations regarding Newtopia’s future growth, results from operations (including, without limitation, future production and capital expenditures), performance (both operational and financial) and business prospects and opportunities. Wherever possible, words such as “predicts”, “projects”, “targets”, “plans”, “expects”, “does not expect”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “anticipate” or “does not anticipate”, “believe”, “intend” and similar expressions or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative or grammatical variation or other variations thereof, or comparable terminology have been used to identify forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking information. Such statements reflect Newtopia’s current views and intentions with respect to future events, based on information available to Newtopia, and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including without limitation, the Company’s successful completion of its strategic technology projects (including on budget), continued and sustained high levels of client engagement and low client churn, the expansion of client relationships, the rollout of new clients, the conversion of pilot projects into full blown rollouts, the Company’s ability to continue to grow its sales pipeline, and current financial trends remaining at or above the current levels in respect of revenue, gross profit, gross margin percentage and adjusted operating expenses. Material factors or assumptions were applied in providing forward-looking information. While forward-looking statements are based on data, assumptions and analyses that Newtopia believes are reasonable under the circumstances, whether actual results, performance or developments will meet Newtopia’s expectations and predictions depends on a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results, performance and financial condition of Newtopia to differ materially from its expectations. Certain of the “risk factors” that could cause actual results to differ materially from Newtopia’s forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation: the termination of contracts by clients, risks related to COVID-19 including various recommendations, orders and measures of governmental authorities to try to limit the pandemic, including travel restrictions, border closures, non-essential business closures, quarantines, self-isolations, shelters-in-place and social distancing, disruptions to markets, economic activity, financing, supply chains and sales channels, and a deterioration of general economic conditions including a possible national or global recession; and other general economic, market and business conditions and factors, including the risk factors discussed or referred to in Newtopia’s disclosure documents, filed with the securities regulatory authorities in certain provinces of Canada and available at www.sedar.com. Should any factor affect Newtopia in an unexpected manner or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, the actual results or events may differ materially from the results or events predicted. Any such forward-looking information is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement. Moreover, Newtopia does not assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such forward-looking information. The forward-looking information included in this press release is made as of the date of this press release, and Newtopia undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information, other than as required by applicable law. Non-GAAP Financial Measures The Company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). Management uses certain non-GAAP measures, which are defined in the appropriate sections of this press release, to better assess the Company’s underlying performance. These measures are reviewed regularly by management and the Company’s Board of Directors in assessing the Company’s performance and in making decisions about ongoing operations. In addition, we use certain non-GAAP measures to determine the components of management compensation. We believe that these measures are also used by investors as an indicator of the Company’s operating performance. Readers are cautioned that these terms are not recognized GAAP measures and do not have a standardized GAAP meaning under IFRS and should not be construed as alternatives to IFRS terms, such as net income. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. 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