Markforged Holding Corporation

Add to the second half of the year, we see a restoration of growth driven by the continued rollout of our newest platform innovations, the FX10, FX20, PX100, and new materials. To maximize our cash resources and best enable us to achieve sustainable growth, we're implementing a 25 million cost reduction initiative that we expect will reduce our annual operating expenses run rate to approximately $70 million in 2025. These cost reduction actions have been initiated and we expect to be completed by the end of the year. We have a strong product line and these cost reductions are not expected to compromise our ability to grow and keep us on a sustainable growth trajectory. In Q2, We also accelerated shipments of the FX10, underscoring the product's innovative features and superior capabilities for printing mission-critical parts for the factory floor. We entered Q3 with a robust pipeline and intend to release additional capabilities, which increases our confidence that this momentum will continue to drive growth in the second half of the year. We also launched two new materials. Onyx FR, flame retardant, and Vega, with high-temperature continuous fiber. These new materials further expand the capabilities of the digital forge, and especially the FX20, which will help our manufacturing customers to solve even more applications on the factory floor. We believe these innovations amplify the capabilities of our newest platforms and will support the increased adoption and growth. I'm also excited to announce that we have successfully shipped the first PX100 in Q2, marking a significant milestone in our company's journey. This milestone is the culmination of extensive development and rigorous testing to ensure we deliver high-quality, innovative solutions to our customers. Our customers believe in the PX100's potential to set new standards in highly regulated markets such as automotive, medical, aerospace, and luxury goods, thereby supporting Markforged's future growth. We remain on plan to ship additional units in the second half of this year. Our customers across the world increasingly recognize the Digital Forge as a powerful platform to reduce costs and improve manufacturing operations. Farrison Corporation which design and deliver custom automation and robotic systems to manufacturers provides a good example. A prominent American snack food company engaged Farson to automate the collection and transport of small food product lines. When conventional manufacturing approached proved incapable of meeting their customers' needs, Farson's team turned to the digital forge to boost design flexibility and production opportunities. Farrison produced over 80 small package containers that were production ready for the packaging line while meeting a lean manufacturing budget for the customer. This is just one of many examples of how Farrison is solving its customer packaging challenges with the digital forge. Another example is with Centuri Products Limited, a leading global company specializing in the production of premium non-alcoholic beverages, which also solves manufacturing challenges using the Digital Forge. They have logged over 12,000 hours with the Digital Forge, producing over 1,000 parts, such as jigs for tube replacement, for a fraction of the cost of traditional sourcing. Success at the Haruna led to expansion across Suntory products and the entire Suntory group, enhancing productivity and innovation at multiple sites. Driven by innovative new products, as well as robust utilization rates across our growing install base, we are on plan to return to growth in the second half of the year. There is a massive opportunity to help manufacturers bring industrial production to the point of need and we remain confident that Markforge offers the best solution. With effective cost controls, prudent cash management, and our new product lines, we remain excited about the future of the company and our ability to continue to drive the adoption of additive manufacturing on the factory floor. With that, I now turn the call over to Asaf Tipori, our CFO, who will offer more details on our financial performance and guidance for the remainder of the year.

Thank you, Shai, and good evening, everyone. I will now be covering our financial results for the second quarter of 2024 and the outlook for the full year. Please note that my comments reflect our non-GAAP results and outlook. For your reference, our earnings press release issued earlier this afternoon and posted to our investor relations website includes our gap to non-gap reconciliation to assist with my commentary. Revenue for Q2 was 21.7 million compared to 25.4 million in the second quarter of 2023. Our revenue performance was largely driven by lower system revenue, which continues to be impacted by tough market conditions with high interest rates. Gross margins for the quarter was 51.9%, up 3.6% from the second quarter of 2023. This margin expansion was driven by operational efficiencies and product mix. Operating expenses were 23.3 million in the second quarter of 2024, down from 26.6 million in the second quarter of 2023. This improvement is a result of our ongoing efforts to reduce operating expenses and optimize our cash utilization. As we previously highlighted, we initiated an approximately 25 million annualized cost reduction initiative that is expected to reduce our annual OPEX run rate to approximately $70 million in 2025. We expect savings to begin to be realized in Q3 2024 with the cost reduction program almost entirely completed by the end of the year 2024. I also want to note that in Q3, we reached an agreement to terminate the lease agreement covering our previous headquarters location in Watertown, Massachusetts. As consideration for the lease termination, we made a one-time payment of 2.75 million to the landlord, avoiding approximately $600,000 of rent in 2024, and we expect to save a cumulative additional amount of approximately 6.2 million in 2025 and beyond. Our operating loss for the quarter was 12 million, an improvement from 14.3 million in the second quarter of 2023. Net loss in the second quarter of 2024 was 10.8 million, an improvement from a loss of 12.5 million in Q2 2023. Second quarter loss per share was five cents based on our weighted average shares outstanding for the quarter of 201.3 million. Our net cash used in operating activities in the first six months of 2024 was $21.9 million, which is an improvement of approximately 29% from the first six months of 2023. We expect our cash utilized in operations to improve throughout 2025 as a result of higher revenues, gross margin expansion, cost saving initiatives, and working capital efficiencies. Our cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash, were 93.9 million at the end of Q2, down from 109.4 million from the end of Q1. Our restricted cash includes 19.1 million to cover certain liabilities associated with the continuous composites lawsuit and the judgment of $17.3 million in monetary damages, plus $1.8 million of interest for the pre-judgment period and the expected duration of the appeal process. We expect these funds will remain in restricted cash as we continue to explore and pursue all available options with respect to the continuous composites measure, including seeking to overturn the verdict through the appeal process. Following the verdict, continuous composites also asserted to post-trial motion claims for royalty payments for sales of certain products manufactured and or sold in the United States after December 31, 2023. We anticipate a ruling on the post-trial royalty claims to occur during the second half of 2024. As we note in our 10Q filing for the period ended June 30, 2024, filed today with the SEC and available on our investor relations website, we estimated the last contingency related to continuous composites royalty payments claimed to be in the range of zero to 2.7 million for the six months ended June 30, 2024. In accordance with applicable accounting standards and guidance, we recorded no accrual for Q2 because the low end of this range was estimated to be zero, and we believe that no amount within this range was a better estimate than any other amount. These estimates were based on information available to us at the time of assessment. As additional information becomes available, or there are future developments in the case, we may reassess the potential liability related to this matter and may revise our estimates. In the event continuous composites post-trial royalty payment claims are successful and royalties are awarded, we expect the court's remedy to be a fixed fee assessment of royalty payments for each machine sold and or manufactured in the United States after December 31, 2023. That includes our carbon fiber reinforcement technology. In the near term, we would expect royalty payments, if awarded, to result in a five to seven percentage point reduction in our gross margins. There may be additional impacts as well, which are discussed in our Form 10Q filing for the period ended June 30, 2024, a copy of which is available on our investor relations website. As discussed previously, we continue to strongly disagree with the verdict in the continuous composite case and the associated post-trial royalty claims. We have engaged a leading law firm to support us through the appeal process and defend against the post-trial royalty claims and continue to explore all other available options. We are also exploring measures to help mitigate the impact of an ongoing royalty payment obligation if awarded by the court, such as shifting more of our manufacturing operations to sites outside of the United States. Now, moving on to our guidance. At this time, our guidance does not reflect any additional relief continuous composites may receive as a result of its post-trial claims. Our guidance does not include adjustment in future quarters to account for developments in the ongoing continuous composites litigation. We anticipate fiscal year 2024 revenues to be between 90 and 95 million, which acknowledges more persistent macroeconomic headwinds than previously anticipated. However, we expect revenues to grow low single digit quarter over quarter in Q3 and continue to see double digit year over year growth return in the second half driven by sales of new products, particularly the FX10. Given strong execution over the first half, we now expect non-GAAP gross margins to be in the upper range of our previous 48 to 50 percent guidance. Non-GAAP operating loss is expected to be in the range of 42.5 to 47 million for the year, resulting in a non-GAAP loss per share in the range of 19 to 22 cents per share. That concludes our prepared remarks today. Please open the call for questions.

Thank you. We'll now be conducting a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you'd like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we poll for questions. Thank you. Our first question is from Brian Drapp with William Blair. Please proceed with your question.

Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. Just as we were closing talking about the legal issues, I'm wondering, and maybe I missed, but can you talk about how much the legal issues have cost you at this point just in terms of legal fees cumulatively and, you know, where we're seeing that in the P&L?

So, Brian, this is Asaf. The legal fees are available in the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation. It's excluded from the non-GAAP P&L. You can see that number over there.

Okay. Do you have it top of mind? I guess I'll look for it. No problem. Yes, I can provide this to you. Okay. I'll just look for it. No problem. No problem. I'll look for it in the file. I just haven't had time to look through all the numbers yet. And can you elaborate a little bit on the cost reduction initiative and what areas are you focused on, what, you know, functions or a little bit more? I think you touched on some of the areas, but can you just put a little more detail around where you're cutting?

Sure. So thank you for the question, Brian. As you see, we announced a 25 million cost saving initiative.

We are really committed to get to what we see as sustainable growth for our company. The majority of the savings are now coming from the R&D side. And now as we released three new platforms, we're ready to start growing with them. That's the right prudent thing to do to get to sustainable growth.

Okay. Okay. Thanks. And this last one is you have, you know, I know the guidance has come down a little bit and it's a really tough macro environment, but, you know, can you just talk a little bit about, you know, why we're going to see an increase in revenue from, you know, a little over $40 million in the first half to, you know, $50 million ish, 55 in the second half. Thanks.

Sure. So you see there's a slight growth between Q2 and Q1. And we see our pipelines growing, and that's our leading indicator.

So assuming that the conversions stay the same, we believe that we will see the growth. And it's highly based on the new innovation. We see the pipeline growing significantly with FX10. As you see, we shipped the first PX100, and there's more to come. So I think it consists of kind of still challenging interest environment for capital equipment, but the new innovation definitely supports the growth in the second half.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks very much.

Thank you, Brian.

As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. I'd like to hand the floor back over to Shai Tarim for any closing comments.

Thank you, everyone, for joining us for our second quarter results. We'll talk again in Q3.

This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.