Headwinds At Identiv Should Gradually Clear

1 year ago

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Identiv (NASDAQ:INVE) nan shaper of precocious RFID chips is going done a unsmooth spot owed to proviso problems for which, successful their ain words, they were ill-prepared.

For a speedy recap, nan institution has 2 segments (December/22 IR presentation):

Supply concatenation problems

Well, during nan Q1CC guidance touted their proactive proviso concatenation guidance but now person to admit this faltered.

The problems are occurring successful their Identity segment, nan premises conception is experiencing less problems and grows astatine astir 3x nan market. That is simply a redeeming grace, arsenic premises generates astir of nan gross profit dollars contempt being smaller.

Their contingency readying grounded arsenic they knowledgeable immoderate problems. One of their customers realigned their proviso chains, which costs Identiv almost $1.5M successful postponed orders and constituent shortages produced a $4.5M hit.

They're fixing these problems done caller operations and proviso concatenation activity and accrued attraction connected proviso availability, arsenic good arsenic redesigns producing constituent interoperability.

They didn't capable successful nan gross spread pinch little separator products for illustration successful Q4/21. All this caused a gross shortfall of $5M. However, underlying RFID request is still very strong, witness:

Backlog +31% to $36.9M
Backlog for transportation successful Q4 +42% and +19% q/q to $16.6M
Wiliot ordered 25M units (for an unnamed customer who tin easy sorb these quantities), 10M of these tin beryllium met successful Q4 but they said that their quarterly tally complaint will really beryllium higher than 25M units a quarter.

So location is small chance of deficiency of demand, should immoderate customer standard backmost they tin capable that pinch others, and triumph caller logos arsenic well.

They're not building nan Wiliot bid into their guidance until they are judge they tin present it (that is, having nan supply) and arsenic a consequence they took FY23 guidance $30M down, assuming a guidelines lawsuit for only supplying 10% of its needs (25M+ units per 4th astatine adjacent to $0.30 per unit).

Identity

The institution has 100% retention successful RFID customers, 18 caller power projects (for a full of 56), and further developments successful healthcare, cannabis, and different segments.

In our erstwhile article, we described already immoderate of their innovative uses for RFID successful astir of nan products they have, like:

FC Koln, a German shot nine wherever they're putting RFID chips successful their instrumentality scarves which do things for illustration automatic entry, get real-time integer contented and offers wrong nan stadium. They will return this to different shot clubs pinch partner Collect ID.
Wiliot: proviso chain, a whopper 25M portion per 4th bid for a large unit customer of Wiliot.
Cannabis; smart tamper seals person a bully changeable astatine becoming standard.
Medical auto injection which has a precocious ROI (compared to session visits) progressive projects pinch 4 of nan apical 5 world car injector companies pinch 1 placing bid for 500K units, will create into a multi-100M portion category.
Medical prescription pill bottle: from nan Q3/CC: "The medicine pill vessel class now is consolidated nether 1 of our partners Envision America, resulting successful 4 of nan apical six drugstore chains successful nan U.S. now progressive pinch spoken RX projects supported by our RFID devices. We're prioritizing this class for shipments successful Q4 to dress up astir $600,000 that we didn't negociate to vessel successful Q3."
OTACA Tequilla smart packaging (Jul/22).
They besides build nan bitse.io SaaS platform (Dec/22) to support way of assets.

It gives immoderate thought of really important their marketplace opportunity is but it remains to beryllium seen really accelerated they tin standard these, fixed nan proviso problems, imaginable headwinds successful nan economy, and customer take clip for analyzable technology. And location is much to come:

Then location is nan caller strategical business pinch Trace-ID to (company PR):

become nan exclusive supplier for Trace-ID’s complete statement of specialty and business UHF RFID crossed North America. This business delivers best-in-class specialty and business UHF RFID astatine nan astir competitory value points and provides Identiv pinch entree to a European manufacturing installation that has line-of-sight to 1 cardinal units of specialty UHF capacity.

What's successful it for Trace-ID? Well:

Identiv has nan commercialized expertise to transmission specialty UHF products overmuch further into higher-value applications

Finances

Some data:

Revenues +7% to $31M.
Revenue for personality was $19.2 cardinal astatine Premises was $11.8M.
RFID portion shipment +17% to 45.4M, constricted by constituent supplies
Non-GAAP gross separator 37% versus 39% successful Q3/21; LT target is 40-45%.
Identity adj gross separator astatine 24% versus 29% Q3/21 owed to merchandise operation and bequest smart paper readers (which are declining).
Premises adj gross separator astatine 59% versus 58% successful Q2/22 and Q3/21; LT target 55-60%.
GAAP gross separator 36% versus 38% Q3/21.
GAAP OpEx $10.6M vs $10.5M successful Q2/22 and $9.2M successful Q3/21.
non-GAAP OpEx $9.5M (31% of revs) versus $9.2M Q2/22 and $8.2M Q3/21 (28% of revenues)
Adj EBITDA $2M (7% margin) versus $1.4M Q2/22; LT target 15-20%
Backlog +31% to $36.9M
Backlog for transportation successful Q4 +42% astatine $16.6M, +19% q/q
$21.9M successful cash, nary debt
Guidance FY22 $112M-$118M; FY23 +20-25%. this is risk-adjusted for macro headwinds, proviso problems, and immoderate customers moving slower, only 10% of Wiliot is factored into this (that is, only 10M of 100M+ imaginable units). At full-scale Wiliot would adhd 15 to 20 percent points to this maturation rate, pushing it supra 40%.
They spot premises increasing 205-25%

The proviso problems took a wound retired of rate flow:

But that's not instantly alarming, and while they person sizeable CapEx successful beforehand of them (new machines, a installation successful Indonesia) guidance expects small aliases nary rate bleed going forward.

Valuation

There is much dilution connected nan way, from nan 10-Q:

So that's 32.78M shares afloat diluted astatine $7 stock value for a marketplace headdress of $230M and an EV of $208M. With $140M successful guided gross (with upside if they negociate to do much for Wiliot) for FY23 nan shares waste astatine 1.5x FY23 EV/S.

Analysts expect a 7 cent nonaccomplishment per stock this twelvemonth turning to a 16 cent per stock profit. It's not inexpensive connected an net basis, and this business needs to standard first, which I deliberation it will do. Their premises business is very charismatic connected a stand-alone basis:

$45M+ gross increasing astatine 15%-20% growth, 3x nan market
Over 15% of recurring revenues
59% gross margin

This could easy waste astatine 4x income which would beryllium almost nan full marketplace headdress of nan company. The institution is besides delivering cutting-edge solutions for its personality segment, which is quickly expanding arsenic RFIDs are still successful their infancy but present nan institution has a immense TAM to spell aft arsenic ever caller usage cases are developed.

Conclusion

We spot plentifulness of things we like:

The institution is simply a exertion leader bringing innovative solutions to market.
The RFID marketplace is still successful its infancy and sets to turn for years to come.
The company's personality conception grows overmuch faster than nan market, generates precocious gross margins, and connected a stand-alone ground could beryllium worthy a ample portion of its marketplace cap.
While nan institution knowledgeable immoderate impermanent problems, underlying maturation isn't gone, witnessed by nan beardown summation successful backlog.
Once nan proviso problems are gone, this is simply a business that tin standard rapidly, nan Wiliot bid unsocial provides a immense opportunity but location are respective much arsenic RFID becomes cheaper and much versatile and nan usage cases expand.
While astatine first show location seems to beryllium consequence from nan economy, but guidance has been very observant successful its guidance and nan important backlog should supply a cushion for immoderate but nan astir terrible economical downdrafts.
The shares are still costly connected an net ground but erstwhile nan business scales, which I deliberation it will, this will beryllium rather different matter.

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