July 27th, 2022
Dear Shareholders,
This has been a quarter of significant activity for our company, including a withdrawn debt issuance, a cancelled tender offer, and management reorganization. The long-term results of our decisions will have to speak for themselves, but shareholders deserve insight into our decision-making.
Discretionary SG&A Expenses
Our Q2 2022 sales were slightly down vs. 2021 (down 2%). Without our ongoing salesforce efforts, revenue would have been down nearly 7% as we continue to decline off our COVID peak. Our expenses were much higher, including our continued efforts to grow revenue. This business on a standstill basis produces meaningful cashflow each month before growth spending. We are spending shareholder cash today to attempt to increase long-termFCF per share by growing sales and shrinking shares outstanding.We think it's helpful to disaggregate the standstill cash flow of this business from "elective" operating expenses we decide to undertake. Elective expenditures can be further divided into "capital structure reorganization," like buybacks and recapitalization legal costs, and "growth opex" buckets. Net elective expenditures totaled approximately $400,000 for Q2 2022.
Capital Structure Reorganization
Capital structure reorganization expenses were large this quarter, and are all the more frustrating because they did not result in any changes to our shares outstanding or capital structure. We aim to reduce shares outstanding at accretive prices when no attractive internal expenditures present themselves. Legal and advisory expenses were approximately $200,000. While we would take advantage of low-priced shares or low-cost debt if we had the opportunity, current plans do not include further debt issuance or buyback. We will wait to see if new internal growth opex spending proves attractive. We think it will.
Growth Opex
Ongoing growth opex is the spending we are doing to try to grow gross margin dollars beyond the current steady-state of this business. Today this includes compensation for our new CEO and three salespersons, totaling between $500 - $600k per year (~$200k this quarter net of management reorganization efficiencies). This will increase our SG&A by around 25% on an annual basis. Our hurdle rate on opex expenditure is high, but with the strategic avenues our new CEO Matt Katz is exploring, we might expect to happily spend significantly more in this column going forward.
Our preliminary data on the salesforce is beginning to indicate that this is a productive use of shareholder capital, that the NPV of incremental gross margin dollars generated by additional sales exceeds all-in ongoing compensation costs. Q2 new customer sale revenue was twice Q1's. We are still gathering data, as the sales cycle is a slow one. Our sales force increased gross margin dollars in Q2 by nearly $50,000, and we hope for this to ramp up such that it justifies the additional SG&A drag.
Matt is exploring several new "blue sky" verticals to apply our patch IP and sales force. One immediate target is employer/employee private use. Some of the longer-term targets may include direct-to- consumer or international market. Matt only began four weeks ago, so we will reserve judgment on the value of his additional compensation spend until we have more data.
Pro forma Operating Income without Growth and Buyback Spending
If one pretends for a moment that we didn't spend the net $400,000 in elective expenses this quarter, and didn't enjoy the additional sales from that spend, quarterly pro forma EBIT would have been ~$560,000, or right at $0.11 per share. We have approximately exhausted our NOL shield, and will pay taxes at a ~22% rate going forward barring any further developments.
These expenses were real - the shareholder's cash was spent! - and we will likely incur similar onetime and recurring expenses going forward both to try to grow and to try to reorganize the capital structure. We break this out in an effort to provide you, the shareholder, with the same data we use to make decisions.
Customer Disruption
Our single largest customer has notified us that their funding will not permit any purchases in Q3 2022. This customer represents approximately 10% of our revenue. This is a federal customer, and our degree of customer concentration with them is a historical anomaly of this business. Excluding this customer, federal sales are now a small percentage of our ongoing business. We have no further information on whether they will continue purchases in October 2022 when their funding resumes. Our current growth initiative ambitions are such that we hope that this sales loss, whether it is short-lived or permanent, will not be a long-term impairment to the value of the company.
As we posted in detail on our Investor Relations page, our Annual Meeting will be held in Fort Worth, Texas, on August 31. We hope to see you there.
Thank you again for the trust you've put in us.
Tice Brown
Chairman of the Board
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PHARMCHEM, INC.
BALANCE SHEETS
June 30, | December 31, | ||||
2022 | 2021 | ||||
(unaudited) | (audited) | ||||
Current Assets: | |||||
Cash | $ | 2,253,922 | $ | 2,217,270 | |
Securities | - | - | |||
Receivables: | 2,253,922 | 2,217,270 | |||
Trade | 681,777 | 691,883 | |||
Other | 241,200 | 241,200 | |||
Less: Allowance for Doubtful Accounts | (15,000) | (15,000) | |||
Total Receivables, Net | 907,977 | 918,083 | |||
Inventories | 319,737 | 68,009 | |||
Prepaids & Other | 41,721 | 20,124 | |||
Deferred Tax Asset, Net | 53,116 | 166,861 | |||
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS | 3,576,473 | 3,390,347 | |||
Equipment | 17,818 | 17,818 | |||
L.H. Improvements | 13,750 | 13,750 | |||
NetSuite Implementation | - | - | |||
TOTAL | 31,568 | 31,568 | |||
Less: Accumulated Depreciation/Amortization | (31,025) | (30,941) | |||
Net Fixed Assets | 543 | 627 | |||
TOTAL ASSETS | $ | 3,577,016 | $ | 3,390,974 | |
Current Liabilities: | |||||
Accounts Payable | $ | 194,737 | $ | 188,941 | |
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES | 194,737 | 188,941 | |||
Accrued Expenses: | |||||
Other Accrued Expenses | 118,643 | 87,772 | |||
Accrued Income Taxes | - | - | |||
Accrued Compensation | 119,889 | 265,745 | |||
Dividend Payable | - | - | |||
TOTAL ACCRUED LIABILITIES | 238,532 | 353,517 | |||
TOTAL LIABILITIES | |||||
433,269 | 542,458 | ||||
Stockholders' Equity: | |||||
Common Stock | 5,059 | 5,103 | |||
Additional Paid-In Capital | 13,696,917 | 13,819,663 | |||
Accumulated Deficit | (10,558,229) | (10,976,250) | |||
TOTAL EQUITY | 3,143,747 | 2,848,516 | |||
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY | $ | 3,577,016 | $ | 3,390,974 | |
Shares Authorized | 25,000,000 | 25,000,000 | |||
Shares Outstanding | 5,058,995 | 5,103,273 |
PHARMCHEM, INC.
STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(unaudited)
Three Months Ended June 30, | |||||||
2022 | 2021 | % Inc(Dec) | |||||
Sales, net | $ | 1,508,119 | $ | 1,531,905 | (1.6%) | ||
Cost of sales | 543,022 | 593,083 | (8.4%) | ||||
Gross profit | 965,097 | 938,822 | 2.8% | ||||
Operating Expenses: | |||||||
Sales and marketing | 208,596 | 113,799 | 83.3% | ||||
General and administrative | 559,060 | 382,971 | 46.0% | ||||
Total operating expenses | 767,656 | 496,770 | 54.5% | ||||
Income from operations | 197,441 | 442,052 | (55.3%) | ||||
Other income (expense): | |||||||
Dividend and interest income | 1,989 | 666 | |||||
Forgiveness of PPP loan | - | 125,455 | |||||
Other income (expenses) | - | 200 | |||||
Total other income | 1,989 | 126,321 | (98.4%) | ||||
Income before provision for income taxes | 199,430 | 568,373 | (64.9%) | ||||
Provision for income taxes | |||||||
Federal - current | 9,878 | 99,995 | |||||
Federal - deferred | 41,880 | - | |||||
51,758 | 99,995 | (48.2%) | |||||
Net income | 147,672 | 468,378 | (68.5%) | ||||
Earnings per share | $ | 0.029 | $ | 0.080 | |||
Diluted earnings per share | $ | 0.028 | $ | 0.067 | |||
Common shares outstanding | 5,058,995 | 5,852,593 | |||||
Diluted common shares outstanding | 5,298,995 | 6,992,593 |
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