Adjusted EBITDA And CapEx Enhancements Drove Enhancing Money Movement

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SmileDirectClub, Inc. (Nasdaq: SDC), the following technology oral care firm with the primary medtech platform for tooth straightening, at present introduced its monetary outcomes for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.

Second Quarter 2022 Monetary Highlights

• Whole income of $126 million, a 17.0% lower over the primary quarter of 2022 and a lower of 27.8% over the prior yr interval.

• Internet lack of $(65) million, an enchancment of $Eight million over the primary quarter of 2022 and reduce of $10 million over the prior yr interval.

• Adjusted EBITDA of $(23) million, an $11 million enchancment over the primary quarter of 2022, and a lower of $1 million over the prior yr interval.

• Diluted EPS of $(0.17), an enchancment of $0.02 over the primary quarter of 2022 and a lower of $0.03 over the prior yr interval.

• Internet money utilized in working actions was $(18) million, an enchancment of $43 million over the primary quarter of 2022 and an enchancment of $13 million over the prior yr interval.

• Free Money Movement outlined as web money utilized in working actions much less web money utilized in investing actions of $(36) million, an enchancment of $41 million over the primary quarter of 2022 and an enchancment of $18 million over the prior yr interval.

Key Working Metrics and Strategic Highlights

• Second quarter distinctive aligner shipments of 62,705, a 17.8% sequential lower over 76,254 shipments within the first quarter of 2022.

• Second quarter common aligner product sales value (“ASP”) of $1,917 in comparison with $1,890 for the primary quarter of 2022.

“Regardless of prime line challenges, our price management actions taken within the first quarter lowered our expense base and minimized the impression to our backside line, whereas delivering an enhancing money move outcome through the second quarter,” stated David Katzman, Chief Govt Officer and Chairman of SmileDirectClub. “We acknowledge that reengaging top-line progress via innovation is necessary to the long-term success of our enterprise.”

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Katzman added, “A key step in leveraging our know-how improvements would be the rollout of our cellular scanning app for 3D therapy planning as a part of our SmileMaker Platform. That is our proprietary smartphone-based scanning app with AI know-how that permits clients to scan their tooth utilizing their smartphone to see their 3D draft therapy plan for his or her new smile, learn the way lengthy it can take to straighten their tooth, and buy inside minutes of downloading our utility. This know-how delivers on our founders’ unique imaginative and prescient of creating it simple to get began with therapy, and no different clear aligner choice on the market can do what we now have developed. This transformative innovation improves the shopper expertise and reduces the timeline between website go to and buy determination that exists at present.

“This new go-to-market technique transforms SmileDirectClub from a marketing-led method to progress to a technology-led firm, with a pipeline of recent improvements that might be launched into the market in future quarters. Along with our SmileMaker Platform, we’ll proceed to concentrate on executing on our key strategic progress initiatives, together with increasing our buyer attain via our Companion Community, investing in proprietary applied sciences and product improvements, creating and launching our SDC+ answer and pursuing worthwhile SmileShop enlargement.”

Enterprise Outlook

SmileDirectClub’s mission is to democratize entry to a smile each particular person loves and deserves by making it inexpensive and handy for everybody. The aspirational imaginative and prescient of the group is to turn into the “world’s main oral well being model by serving to extra folks notice the life altering potential of a assured smile.” SmileDirectClub’s imaginative and prescient and mission are larger than manufacturing and advertising clear aligners. Each determination and funding the Firm has made is to help and broaden this mission and allow its long-term progress potential. For SmileDirectClub to appreciate its imaginative and prescient via its mission, the Firm should broaden attain inside and past the present core buyer base. Increasing attain comes via constantly bringing transformative innovation to the market throughout a whole portfolio of each shopper going through and non-consumer going through improvements via concentrate on the Companion Community, aligner product improvements, SDC+, oral care options and SmileShop enlargement. SmileDirectClub possesses the distinctive property and innovation to disrupt the incumbents, the agility to regulate to the wants of its buyer, and a sustainable model that’s prime of thoughts with shoppers.

The Firm has been issued 43 patents and counting for its improvements in orthodontic therapy planning, aligner manufacturing, smile scanning applied sciences, its proprietary telehealth platform and quite a lot of different areas. There are various extra patents pending and within the pipeline in each the US and overseas on varied applied sciences referring to knowledge seize, 3D picture seize, intraoral scanning, monitoring, manufacturing, and shopper merchandise. As well as, the Firm has enabled therapy for over 1.7 million clients, constructed the one end-to-end vertically built-in platform for the buyer at scale, created a dental Companion Community with 690 international practices which can be reside or pending coaching, created oral care merchandise obtainable at over 16,300 retail shops worldwide, and stays the strongest teledentistry model with 57% aided consciousness.

When shoppers are contemplating straightening their tooth, they sometimes do one or all the following: search on-line to know their choices; ask a dentist; and ask a pal or member of the family which choice they need to select. Primarily based on the Firm’s analysis, shoppers have famous its product and buyer expertise is sort of an identical to Invisalign, cheaper, and extra handy. For different teledentistry platforms, its analysis confirmed that considerably fewer clients would suggest these manufacturers in contrast with SmileDirectClub clients. The U.S. Model Tracker first quarter survey individually famous that the Firm’s unaided and aided model consciousness continued its separation from its teledentistry rivals and nearer consciousness in comparison with Invisalign. Moreover, the Firm’s pioneering telehealth platform was not too long ago acknowledged by MedTech Breakthrough, successful the “Finest Telehealth Platform” award in 2022.

Along with these investments to create the following technology of oral care and affect shopper determination making, the Firm will proceed to make strategic investments in penetrating new demographics to drive managed progress, whereas additionally executing towards its profitability targets. Lastly, favorable trade dynamics proceed to extend with broader acceptance of telehealth and particularly teledentistry, minimal penetration towards the entire addressable market, a lot of current regulatory wins that ought to assist take away boundaries to entry to care, and clear aligners gaining share within the total trade.

Revised Full Yr 2022 Steerage

Challenges to shopper spending accelerated quicker than we anticipated through the quarter which, mixed with lowered stimulus, sustained excessive inflation, and a shift in discretionary spending in direction of providers have resulted in much less predictable demand curves and decrease total anticipated demand for the stability of the yr.

For the yr ended December 31, 2022, the Firm expects complete income to be within the vary of $450 million to $500 million.

The complete yr 2022 prices and capital outlook embrace (see Firm’s supplemental earnings presentation for extra insights relating to these assumptions):

• Gross margin vary (as a proportion of complete revenues) of 69.5% to 71.5%

• Adjusted EBITDA vary of ($180 million) to ($140 million)

• CapEx vary of $60 million to $70 million

• One-time prices vary of $20 million to $25 million

• Yr-end money stability between $120 million to $160 million

Income and expense steerage updates now embrace contributions and investments for accelerated enlargement of the Companion Community and SmileShop footprint enlargement.

Convention Name Info

A replay of the decision could also be accessed the identical day from 11 a.m. Jap Time on Tuesday, August 9, 2022 till 11:59 p.m. Jap Time on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (home) or 1-412-317-6671 (worldwide) and getting into the replay PIN: 13730975. A replica of the second quarter 2022 outcomes supplemental earnings presentation and an archived model of the decision, when accomplished, can even be obtainable on the Investor Relations part of SmileDirectClub’s web site at traders.smiledirectclub.com.

Ahead-Wanting Statements

This earnings launch incorporates forward-looking statements. All statements aside from statements of historic information could also be forward-looking statements. Ahead-looking statements usually relate to future occasions and embrace, with out limitation, projections, forecasts and estimates about attainable or assumed future outcomes of our enterprise, monetary situation, liquidity, outcomes of operations, plans, and targets. A few of these statements might embrace phrases akin to “expects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “targets,” “plans,” “potential,” “intends,” “initiatives,” and “signifies.”

Though they replicate our present, good religion expectations, these forward-looking statements are usually not a assure of future efficiency, and contain a lot of dangers, uncertainties, estimates, and assumptions, that are tough to foretell. A number of the components which will trigger precise outcomes and outcomes to vary materially from these expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements embrace, however are usually not essentially restricted to: the continued evaluation of the cyber incident, materials authorized, monetary and reputational dangers ensuing from such incident and the associated operational disruptions; the length and magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated containment measures; our administration of progress; the execution of our enterprise methods, implementation of recent initiatives, and improved effectivity; our gross sales and advertising efforts; our manufacturing capability, efficiency, and value; our potential to acquire future regulatory approvals; our monetary estimates and desires for added financing; shopper acceptance of and competitors for our clear aligners; {our relationships} with retail companions and insurance coverage carriers; our R&D, commercialization, and different actions and expenditures; the methodologies, fashions, assumptions, and estimates we use to organize our monetary statements, make enterprise choices, and handle dangers; legal guidelines and rules governing distant healthcare and the follow of dentistry; {our relationships} with distributors; the safety of our working techniques and infrastructure; our threat administration framework; our money and capital wants; our mental property place; our publicity to claims and authorized proceedings; and different components described in our filings with the Securities and Alternate Fee, together with however not restricted to our Annual Report on Type 10-Okay for the yr ended December 31, 2021 and our Type 10-Q for the interval ended March 31, 2022.

New dangers and uncertainties come up over time, and it isn’t attainable for us to foretell all such components or how they might have an effect on us. You shouldn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which communicate solely as of the date they’re made. We’re underneath no responsibility to replace any of those forward-looking statements after the date of this earnings launch to evolve these statements to precise outcomes or revised expectations. It’s best to, due to this fact, not depend on these forward-looking statements as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the date of this earnings launch.

About SmileDirectClub
SmileDirectClub, Inc. (Nasdaq: SDC) (“SmileDirectClub”) is an oral care firm and creator of the primary medtech platform for tooth straightening. Via its cutting-edge telehealth know-how and vertically built-in mannequin, SmileDirectClub is revolutionizing the oral care trade. SmileDirectClub’s mission is to democratize entry to a smile each particular person loves by making it inexpensive and handy for everybody. For extra info, please go to SmileDirectClub.com.

Investor Relations:
Jesse Weaver
International Head, FP&A and Investor Relations

Jonathan Fleetwood
Director, Investor Relations
investorrelations@smiledirectclub.com

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press@smiledirectclub.com

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Use of Non-GAAP Monetary Measures

This earnings launch incorporates sure non-GAAP monetary measures, together with adjusted EBITDA (“Adjusted EBITDA”) and Free Money Movement. We offer a reconciliation of those non-GAAP monetary measures to essentially the most immediately comparable GAAP monetary measures under and in our Present Report on Type 8-Okay asserting our quarterly earnings outcomes, which could be discovered on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov and our web site at traders.smiledirectclub.com.

We make the most of sure non-GAAP monetary measures, together with Free Money Movement and Adjusted EBITDA, to judge our precise working efficiency and for the planning and forecasting of future intervals.

We outline Free Money Movement as web money utilized in working actions much less web money utilized in investing actions.

We outline Adjusted EBITDA as web loss, plus depreciation and amortization, curiosity expense, earnings tax expense (profit), equity-based compensation, loss on extinguishment of debt, impairment of long-lived property, abandonment and different associated expenses and sure different non-operating bills, akin to one-time retailer closure prices related to our actual property repositioning technique, severance, retention and different labor prices, sure one-time authorized settlement prices, and unrealized international forex changes. We use Adjusted EBITDA when evaluating our efficiency after we imagine that sure objects are usually not indicative of working efficiency. Adjusted EBITDA offers helpful supplemental info to administration relating to our working efficiency, and we imagine it can present the identical to members/stockholders.

We imagine that Adjusted EBITDA will present helpful info to members/stockholders about our efficiency, monetary situation, and outcomes of operations for the next causes: (i) Adjusted EBITDA is among the many measures utilized by our administration crew to judge our working efficiency and make day-to-day working choices and (ii) Adjusted EBITDA is regularly utilized by securities analysts, traders, lenders, and different events as a typical efficiency measure to check outcomes or estimate valuations throughout firms in our trade.

Adjusted EBITDA doesn’t have a definition underneath GAAP, and our definition of Adjusted EBITDA will not be the identical as, or corresponding to, equally titled measures utilized by different firms. Adjusted EBITDA shouldn’t be thought of in isolation from, or as an alternative choice to, monetary info ready in accordance with GAAP.

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