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EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT
EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT 2017 - Q4
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Executives

Virland Johnson - Chief Financial Officer Jon Isaac – President and Chief Executive Officer Rodney Spriggs – President and CEO of Vintage Stock.

Operator

Good day, everyone, and welcome to today’s Live Ventures Year-End Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question-and-answer session. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will be standing by should you need any assistance.

It is now my pleasure to turn this program over to Mr. Virland Johnson, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir..

Virland Johnson

Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Live Ventures Incorporated fiscal year-end September 30, 2017 conference call. Earlier today, the company filed a press release in an extension to file our Annual Report Form 10-K within the prescribed extension period, provided under Rule 12b-25 with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This press release and associated filing can be found on our website www.live-ventures.com in the Investor Relations section as well as on the SEC website, www.sec.gov. My name is Virland Johnson, Chief Financial Officer, and joining me today is Jon Isaac, Chief Executive Officer.

Please note that some of the remarks you will hear today may contain forward-looking statements about the company’s performance. As well there may be forward-looking statements made during the Q&A session that follow our prepared remarks.

These statements are neither promises nor guarantees and there are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in these forward-looking statements.

Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from those in these forward-looking statements is contained in our filing when available and periodic reports filed with the SEC, copies of which are available on our website or maybe requested directly from the company.

Forward-looking statements are made as of today’s date and we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during today’s call. Thank you everyone for joining us today for our year-end 2017 call.

Our Form 10-K filing has been extended largely due to working to and finalizing the purchase accounting adjustments for Vintage Stock within the measurement period allowed. We expect to file our Form 10-K shortly within the extension time provided. This is the first year under audit with our new auditor, BDO.

The process has been a good one for the company and its personnel. The process has been rigorous and thorough. Some of the areas that BDO has been especially helpful in are properly accounting for our leases, prepaids, long-term assets, gift cards, inventory and purchase accounting.

Taking this step to change auditors early in the year was a large one for Live Ventures, but the right one, given the value that has already been delivered to the company. It has helped our people to be more proactive and responsive to the increased expectation level of what BDO brings to our company and shareholders.

Our 10-K filing will provide you with many of the operational and financial details we will discuss in general today. There are some highlights that I can answer today. Revenues for Live Ventures will exceed $152 million for the year.

Vintage revenues will exceed $72 million since acquisition in November 16, Marquis had record revenues of over $79 million, a 9.9 year-over-year percentage change. Cash on hand at the end of the year was $3.9 million. Availability under our revolving lines of credit at year-end was $8.1 million.

Cash flow from operations for the year should be $9.5 million. The notes payable net of debt issuance costs at year-end, $77.4 million at year-end. All three segments of our business were profitable for the year.

For additional financial information and details, I invite you to review our press release distributed this afternoon and view our 10-K filing on either our website or the SEC’s website when available.

Our focus remains on seeking out the best acquisition opportunities and growing our existing portfolio of companies, while minimizing our cost of capital and enhancing shareholder value. With that, I thank you very much for your participation on this call and your continued interest in Live Ventures Incorporated.

At this time, Jon has some prepared remarks, and then we will take questions..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

So we’ve had a great year everybody. We’re very excited for what transpired. Our revenues are up 92% since last year, record revenues for the company ever $152 million. So last year and our fiscal year starts October 1 and ends September 30, just as a reminder.

So last year, we started off the year with our largest acquisition to date, which is Vintage Stock. And with me today, by the way, is Mr. Rodney Spriggs, who is the President and CEO of Vintage Stock. He’ll be available to answer any questions that you may have. We then proceeded.

We announced the appointment of our Chief Financial Officer, Virland, and we are extremely happy and pleased with what accounting has done with us so far this year. Vintage Stock then announced that we opened nine stores at Vintage and they’re all performing very, very well.

Not too long after the company terminated, we – our S-3 registration statement with the SEC. This allowed us to effectively raise equity or cash for Stock. We canceled that voluntarily with the SEC, because we believe that our company was undervalued and that we would not be issuing any shares, so we canceled that.

We then – the company changed its independent registered accounting firm and we selected BDO. And we’ve been very pleased with BDO and what they’ve done and how thorough they have been with – as it relates to our accounting. They found numerous things for us that you will see in the 10-K.

Two lawsuits were filed against us as a result of an article that was written online, this was earlier in the year. One, we were served with one class action and one derivative lawsuit. We called those two lawsuits bogus, baseless and meritless. We got both lawsuits dismissed just recently.

And so although this was a distraction for the company, we believe it actually benefited the company and long-term shareholders as it gave us the opportunity to repurchase our share at what we believe was a great deal at the time.

So far, the company acquires – has acquired a total of 116,000 shares on the open market since the inception of our stock repurchase program. About 66,000 of those were during our fiscal year. Our average stock price on our repurchase was about $10 a share. So based on, we are about in my remarks here I have, we are about 30% or 35% in the money.

But if I’m looking at after hours activity, we’ve essentially doubled our investment since our repurchase of all of our stock. And another set of very good news in an effort to clean up our capital structure, the company repurchased some of our Series E preferred shares.

This was a class of shares that existed well before I joined the company, I believe it was in the year 2000 or 2001 during the years of yp.com. We were able to acquire 40% of the total outstanding shares of the Series E for a grand total of $4,000. So and another more good news, we are in contract with a new lender at the Vintage Stock level.

This proposed financing is expected to close in the next few weeks or maybe couple of months, I would say. I’m instructed to say, of course, there are no guarantees. However, it looks great. And we have signed with them and we will – they’re doing their due diligence.

They’ve visited the company, and they’re working diligently on getting this financing done. Once this financing closes when and if it does, it should help to save the company and reduce its interest expense. Did you want to comment on Marquis and Vintage? I mean, it’s all for me on a – at a high-level. Let me see if there’s any questions. Yes.

Anyone has any questions, we will be happy to answer those..

Operator

[Operator Instructions].

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

John Flynn [ph]. Can we take the call, Lynn from John Flynn..

Operator

John, your line is open..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes, how are you today?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

How are you?.

Unidentified Analyst

I’m fine. Thank you. Happy holidays..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Thank you. You too..

Unidentified Analyst

In your opinion, what do you think has kept the stock price so depressed until today?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

I really don’t know. I mean, we can all have our different opinions. I mean, it could be numerous things. It could be that we haven’t really filed any financials for almost, what 90 days now or even more than that. It could be anticipation. I really don’t know. Your guess is as good as mine..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. I didn’t know if you know, there was a tremendous amount of shorting going on sometime that happened in these market or….

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Maybe it could be. So I mean, we don’t really pay too much attention to the day-to-day trading of our stock. I mean, obviously, if there’s something going on that’s illegal, if it’s brought to our attention, we’ll have to deal with it. But again, we’re really focused on the long-term value of our company.

Shareholder equity and our financial performance is of utmost priority to us and we think that the stock price will follow over time gradually. So we don’t get too concerned with the day-to-day trading of our stock. But we’re very pleased to see that the stock is up after hours, so we’re happy about that..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Thank you. Let’s talk to David..

Unidentified Analyst

Hey, Jon, how are you?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Good. How are you, David? I heard your name before..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes. Hey, I got a question – just a couple of quickies. On the original LiveDeal, you said all three segments were profitable.

Could you share a little light on what is the key driver? and then how are you allowed to talk any about the December season for the – Vintage Stock?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

I can maybe refer to it a little bit. We don’t have – obviously, we’re still in the season of December 27. But, yes, your question was, are we profitable, where I guess..

Virland Johnson

He was asking?.

Unidentified Analyst

In the original LiveDeal….

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Virland can answer that..

Virland Johnson

Profits between the segments, obviously, our Services segment is relatively small with revenues under $1 million, again consistently profitable, however. With regards to Marquis, we’ve already shared that Marquis revenues were up 9.9% year-over-year. Their profits also were excellent in terms of the same comparable timeframe.

They’re continuing to outperform and steadily perform relative to our expectations. Vintage obviously is new this year, so there’s really no comparison year-over-year. But Vintage was clearly profitable for the year, turned in excellent results in terms of the time period that we’ve owned them.

I’ll tell you that operating earnings are pretty split between the two a seg – the two remaining segments, but that’s about as much detail as I can go into at this point..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay.

And do you guys have an estimated timeframe on – when you will file your financial report?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

We’re going to file as soon as possible, but the statutory limit is within 15 days of normal due date. In our specific case, it’s 15 days within the 29th..

Unidentified Analyst

Thank you..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Any other questions?.

Operator

[Operator Instructions].

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Marquis had an excellent year, too, Virland. Company invested about $8 million in new equipment a new mag extruder machine, 15 new twisters, those have all been installed. The twisters are operational. The extruder will be operational in the next coming weeks.

So we are very confident that this will push Marquis even to the new lever – new level and it increased its capacity. It can take on more, I think, close to 15 million pounds at a time.

This was a work that was previously outsourced to competition, now we brought it in-house, so it will reduce our cost of goods and should increase our bottom line and our bottom line as well. Let’s take a question from Jacob from Wells Fargo..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes, how are you guys doing?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Good..

Unidentified Analyst

Great. Hey, thanks for taking my call. Hey, question for you on the year-end revenues coming in at $152 million or so looking to be kind of right on par with Q3 revenues.

Is that something that you expect or you’re not paying too much concern with one quarter, the next revenues, how you kind of see that falling in line relative to the previous quarters in the fiscal year?.

Virland Johnson

We feel that it was pretty much in line with the exception of an uptick from Marquis. Vintage’s quarter was – is – typically that’s their seasonably lower quarter of the year. But Marquis, came in with a very strong quarter. So we’re very pleased with the results in our fourth quarter..

Unidentified Analyst

Got it. Thanks..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Nick – Nick Reed?.

Operator

Nick, your line is open..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes, I appreciate you doing this. This is actually one of my first earnings call, so I’m still new to everything. But I didn’t catch....

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Welcome, Nick..

Unidentified Analyst

Hey, thanks.

I didn’t catch the – what the revenue was for the, not the Marquis, not the Vintage, the Live?.

Virland Johnson

Well, Live is made up of three segments and we have a Retail Online segment. We have a Manufacturing segment and we have a Services segment. The total of those segments add up to over $152 million. For the year, our Services segment is the smallest, it’s under $1 million in annual revenue.

And the other two segments are pretty well split in terms of revenue evenly..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. And you said the Vintage one is relatively new. So did you touch base on what the percent revenue was that for that? I didn’t catch that..

Virland Johnson

It’s approximately a little less than half of our revenue. We acquired Vintage in November 3 of 2016. So we only have right at about 11 months worth of operations for them in this fiscal year..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

We’ve owned Vintage for less than a year, so you’ll – we’ll have less than a year’s worth of performance, I think, we closed in November. So we’re about six weeks or so shy of full-year ownership, but this is the first time that Vintage Stock gets consolidated in our 10-K, which is actually the primary reason for the delay in our 10-K..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. Thank you, and I appreciate you guys doing this..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

William from Merrill Lynch..

Unidentified Analyst

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my call. Just a couple of questions. I know the lawsuit was settled, which was terrific, I thought it was going to happen.

But there has not been a lot of news coming out on the company for the last quarter as long as that had anything to do with the lawsuit being this quiet? And the second thing is, I know we purchased shares in the repurchase at low prices.

Is there a current authorized purchase still in place, if shares remain low to take advantage of the lower price?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

It’s still in place. We have up to $10 million authorized. So there’s still quite a bit available to us, that’s number one. Number two, no, we have not been quiet because of any lawsuits. We’ve tried to, of course, update the public and make the public aware of any news that we think would be worthy or material for you.

One thing that I would like to mention to you and everybody else on the call is, I invite you to like our page on Facebook, because a lot of times we have news that may be not really worthy of “a press release”, but we do post a lot of content on Facebook.

We have a small PR department that was part of our initiative as it relates to keeping shareholders up to date. So we have videos and all interviews, all sorts of things on the Facebook page. So please facebook.com/liveventuresinc, facebook.com/liveventuresinc, all one word. Please like us there and leave comments and we’re very communicative there..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. Well, keep doing what you’re doing; the stocks undervalued and eventually the market’s going to recognize you..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Thank you very much for your support..

Unidentified Analyst

All right. Thank you..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Scott Lander [ph]..

Unidentified Analyst

Hi there, Jon..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Hi..

Unidentified Analyst

Nice to talk to you.

How are you doing?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Very good. Thank you..

Unidentified Analyst

All right. See, I’ve been a fairly longtime investor kind of road thought that the stock up and down and up and down. And the original concept of the daily deal thing, it seems that kind of faded away and you’ve changed your direction and how to build the company.

And I was wondering, if that would be continuing and also why you’ve decided to go a different direction in acquisitions instead of building the original business model?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

We focused through – we’ve changed the company name back in 2015, and we went straight to the holding company model. We like that model a lot better. We think it’ll bring more long-term value for shareholders. I understand, the valuation may be a little bit different if we were a technology company.

But we really believe in building our balance sheet and improving and strengthening our profit and loss statements. And we really like the model that we’re in now, and I don’t think we will deviate from it. We’re always on the lookout for new acquisitions.

We’re looking at many right now, a few, I should say maybe, all of which could be good candidates, all of which would increase and improve our numbers even more. So, I – the daily deal was, we dabbled with it. We – back when, we still have it on, but we don’t dedicate too much, too many resources to it. And we have a very….

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. We have a follow-up question, too..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Sure..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. So the bundling of companies acquisition wise like these two ones that have done very well over the last year, they’re quite different markets. And so is that, I think, you mentioned that, you kind of going for – I thought you said similar markets that these seem so diverse one to retail and one to manufacturing.

So is your proposition like if you can find a business that’s either undervalued, but in a growing business like what’s your philosophy on that like?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

We’re looking for companies that – there’s a few things that we look for any companies. Number one is a good management team. We’ve been extremely fortunate with Mr. Tim Bailey and Mr. Rodney Spriggs at the helm of both of our subsidiaries. But management team is key, number one. Number two, the company must have a history of pretty strong financials.

We’re not investing in into startups or companies that have a big dream. We’re really looking, focusing on the last several years of financials prior to our ownership.

And if we’re looking for something that’s stable, something that’s been consistent and we’re avoiding companies that have too much volatility or too much concentration in one industry or another. So, anything really that makes sense on our website, we have a form.

If you’ve got something that you think would work for us, somebody can fill out the form. And we’ll be in contact with whoever filled out the form very quickly. We’re looking usually for a much larger deals. We’re looking at probably companies that have no less than $10 million of annual pre-tax profits.

So if you know of any, please be in contact with us..

Unidentified Analyst

All right, terrific. All right. Well, thanks. Good luck going forward and I’m on Board for the long-term. So I hope things continue to grow..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

I appreciate your support..

Unidentified Analyst

You got it. Thanks..

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions].

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

So we’re talking about Marquis, $8 million invested in new equipment. The extruder machine, 15 new twisters. The twisters are already operational. I think, we’ve seen some of those effects in the last couple of quarters. The new extruder machine I know was a pretty big undertaking for Tim and his team.

Those will – those already installed, but we’ll start seeing the effects of those, I think, in the next quarter or two. We’re looking at a potential – potentially a bolt-on acquisitions, potentially no promises, but a few candidates that are possibly good for us. We have a question from Larry from Merrill Lynch..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes. Hi, thanks for taking the call. First off for Marquis, you talk about this new expansion. Can you elaborate a little bit on how much additional volume that can bring to the company? And also on Vintage Stock, you said you opened nine stores this year.

What are the so-called expansion plans for Vintage going forward for stores next year and the following years other states that they may be going into, and if you can also talk about possibly same-store sales at those terms…?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Why don’t we start with the Vintage question, maybe I’ll turn the mike over to Rodney. Rodney maybe you can answer this question and maybe even elaborate on what we discussed earlier about how you’re doing – how good you’re doing this month and anything else.

Go ahead?.

Rodney Spriggs President & Chief Executive Officer of Vintage Stock, Inc.

Okay, I appreciate that question. Somebody had asked earlier, how our December is going. And we’ve got some really good strong numbers out of those former hasting stores that we acquired out of the bankruptcy court, there were seven stores acquired last year.

And through the December 1st through 24th period, those stores even though it was a soft opening we’re comparing against last year, because we rushed to get them over for the Christmas season. They’re actually up 60% year-over-year in sales..

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We opened those seven stores all at once. There was actually a Vintage Stock brand store that opened in December last year and another large footprint 25,000 square foot EntertainMart store, there’s a former Hastings that opened in Saint Joseph, Missouri in May of this past year.

Going forward, we’re looking to open basically two to four new locations in fiscal 2018, probably one per quarter. And one of the things that we’ve been working on that Jon had mentioned earlier Virland was the refinance of the company.

So we’ve been paying a lot of effort and energy to make sure that we get that done to increase shareholder value, because our cost of the financing has dropped fairly significantly, which is a good thing. We’re also expecting the box office, which has been one of the drags a little bit this year, where you’ve had some off months.

We’ll be positive one month and we’ll be off a little bit. The box office was much weaker this year. There were only seven 300 million tiles versus nine in 2016. We expect more blockbuster titles in 2018 with Avengers, Jurassic World leading the way.

There’s more comic based titles like Black Panther another X-Men movie some things like that will drive store traffic. And since we’re a one stop shop for the toys, comics, music, soundtracks, games and movies, these titles will drive sales in all the categories we carry. So we do expect a good strong 2018. The video game turn is happening.

We expected that with Nintendo Switch coming out in March of this year. That system got its backdoor. We have three video game systems that we are selling video games for, instead of going from four to two and the previous generation was discontinued in 2016. So we’re seeing large increases in the double-digits on new video game sales and hardware.

And in our market, you’ve got to remember that sales will lag on the use side until you get the large installed base of the hardware. Sony and Microsoft had large back in rebates this year, which drove their systems down below $200, which have a large sales volume for them putting their systems into homes and household penetration.

Those type of things will eventually, we’ve had a little bit of margin contraction, because we’re selling more new. But over 2018 and 2019, we expect margin to start increasing as more tiles are available for customers to trade into us and to sell to us, which again our margins on used product is significantly higher than there is on the new.

So we do continue to see increase growth in same-store sales moving into 2018, especially late 2018 and 2019. I hope that answers your question. There’s a lot of information there, but that’s what’s going on..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes that’s great.

Any new states that you’re going to go into?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

We actually because of that Hastings acquisition ended dropping into Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, we were already in Texas. But in theory, we would expand out from around those stores. So we have a lot of different sites that we’re currently evaluating.

And with that spread and we can service those stores, we really are just looking for the best deals that makes the most sense. We’re going to get a good lease with the landlord, and so we kind of weigh those. We also want to grow out from where we’re already at.

So I would expect not necessarily new states, but the stores are probably locate nearer to some of those locations we’re already at..

Unidentified Analyst

What would you guesstimate your online sales are?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Online sales currently are minimal, which we have done that for a reason. We’re kind of on our closed loop system. We want customers to buy from us. We turnaround and sell it back to them. They turnaround, trade and sell it to us.

Now on the flip side, we are ramping up our website sales and we’re redesigning the website to be a little more mobile-friendly. We know that 80% of our sales off of our website is mobile. But the overall sales are basically less than 1%.

But that is also a revenue growth in a new revenue stream that we can take advantage of going forward that we by choice have not invested into actually bring that out.

But with a Live coming on and being owner of the company now and having people in-house who deal with that kind of stuff because of some of their previous companies, we have actually been able to take advantage to redesign our website or getting ready to launch that. So there should be increased sales of online in the future..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay great. And then….

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

I think, you got disconnected..

Unidentified Analyst

…new equipment that you’ll be able to bring on next year or following years?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Sure..

Virland Johnson

Yes, I’ll address the Marquis questions. Marquis, we’ve invested very heavily in Marquis in terms of our replacement equipment and new equipment in both the extrusion and the twisting applications. Well, as Jon indicated earlier to limit and/or reduce our third-party subcontracting, expense have increased margin, but also to expand capacity.

And talking with Tim Bailey today, the capacity is expected to be at least 25% more than it presently is with which to we have the service customers. We also should see margin improvement in terms of the decrease in cost of goods sold relative to our insourcing of our twisting and extrusion capability.

So we continue to see positive things coming out of Marquis. The other real growth area in Marquis is the sale of our flooring and the expansion of our distribution business. We do not manufacture those products, but the products are very profitable and the sales have been increasing steadily on a quarterly basis. So we expect that to continue..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

There are numerous areas at the Marquis level that would allow us to spend some money on some growth CapEx, and this is what we’ve been doing since our acquisition. We acquired the company in the summer of 2015, and we’ve since invested millions and millions of dollars into growth CapEx.

So we’ve seen some of those yields saw very good results in this fiscal year that just ended. And we think that additional investments on the new extrusion – extruder machines will show some more results, better results even in the fiscal year 2018..

Virland Johnson

And beyond. These are – this is long-term CapEx..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Yes. I mean, those are very – the ROIs on those are very, very favorable. We have the backing of Bank of America that’s helping us finance a lot of this equipment at a very, very low cost, I think, somewhere in the north – south of 3% to 4% or somewhere in there. So we’re very, very pleased with both companies and also their future outlook.

We’re very excited for 2018, especially with what’s going on now with Vintage. Anymore questions, Larry, before we move on..

Unidentified Analyst

Why don’t you move on and maybe I’ll come back..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Okay..

Unidentified Analyst

I’ll ask later on. Maybe somebody else ask..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Jacobs from Wells Fargo Advisors..

Unidentified Analyst

The question or the conversation on the Vintage Stock acquisition. Just curious to know how you and the team assess kind of in the era of the Amazon age and more and more retail it seems stimulating into online sales.

How you assess that the implications of that to the Vintage Stock business model? And kind of what you – just how you assess of where retail sales are right now and kind of the implications of the era that we’re in with increased mobile sales and the emerging of Amazon?.

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Rodney gets ask that question almost on a daily basis. Maybe I’ll have him answer it. I have my opinion of it. Maybe, Rodney, why don’t we have familiar on that, please?..

Rodney Spriggs President & Chief Executive Officer of Vintage Stock, Inc.

Well, that I will say that don’t get caught too much in the headlines. There’s people they’re trying to push certain things product line, sites, things like that Amazon has been around for a long time. So it’s not a new competitor to us by any means Netflix has been around a long time, Redbox, you go through the list.

So we compete well with all of them. Some may comes in our store. The great thing is that, we are instant gratification and shoppers in general or instant gratification, that’s what people want to do, it’s almost a sport to go shopping and people enjoy it. So it’s never going to be completely online.

And in fact, if you read the headlines, you would believe that, online shopping accounts are probably half of all shopping, when, in fact, it’s less than 15% of all shopping. So the big retail chains that you’re seeing in trouble are mainly clothing and you’re also seeing the big boxes that really haven’t changed in 15 or 20 years.

They’re doing the exact same thing they did at that time. We’ve changed product lines and things that we do. We’ve been in business almost 40 years. We are profitable. We continue to be profitable. We make usually more money every year. For them, it’s very little, but then we pop back the next year. So we definitely change in morph with the times.

That’s one reason that we’re actually going to open up that revenue stream on online, because we are the biggest buyer of products in any market we’re in. We will out buy a Game Stop. We will out buy FYE, any of those sites that are buying product in, we are the biggest buyer in the market.

And we buy more than we sell every day, that’s why we have another revenue stream that is selling product off to rack jobbers. They supply product to truck and travel, and grocery stores and things like that, and we continue to believe – see that business growing for us and they’re adding customers.

So we expect that more product is actually going to be shifted out to supply those avenues. And if you look at some of the things that happened with Sony on PSP Go, it was a completely downloadable handheld video game system. It was the biggest flop in video game history.

And Microsoft came out and said, hey, our Xbox One is going to be on all the time. And if you buy a game, it’s going to be attached to that system. And you can’t take that game or resell or do anything. And the people went nuts, they had to change everything they were doing to release that system and they were delayed.

And honestly, that’s why they’re behind PS 4 and Sony right now. Sony kind of learned their lesson and they weren’t going to go down that path and Sony is outselling Microsoft and Xbox over two to one. And they’ve – Microsoft has not recovered and they had the biggest online community for video games that was out there.

Movies, it moves around, but again, as those companies have to pay for their content and the movie industry has always been very good about guarding their revenue streams, they – as they start to have to pay for it has caused some issues.

Netflix, as you know, creating their own content, which is massively expensive and not sure when they’re going to make money. But they’ll keep doing that, but they can’t afford to go out and buy off movies. So what content they do have changes from time to time, because they can only afford to have it for a certain period of time.

So again, it’s just a different sort of competition. We’re not unaware of it. We adjust to all those things that happen in the market. But to believe that retail shopping is going to die in the way that they’re talking about it is so far from the truth.

But again, headlines the way you read them everything sensationalize and we’re going to continue to do what we’re doing, we’ll take advantage of some of those other things. Like Amazon, we ship directly at people’s house, too.

So if somebody comes in, we – there’s that rare occurrence, so we do not have in our stores, which is almost never the occurrence. Then we find it one of our other stores and one of our suppliers, we ship it directly to their home for free. So we know how to compete against these big players..

Unidentified Analyst

That is great. Thank you..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Yes, thank you. Yes, let’s go to John Flynn [ph]..

Unidentified Analyst

Yes. I have another question for Mr. Johnson..

Virland Johnson

Sure..

Unidentified Analyst

Are you available?.

Virland Johnson

Yes..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay.

With this new tax reform bill, what kind of impact do you expect that to have on Live Corporation?.

Virland Johnson

That’s a good question I haven’t studied so much. The – I’ve been too busy with the cakes..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay..

Virland Johnson

The – as I understand it, there will be possibly some reductions in corporate income taxes. I think that will be bullish for Live….

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Going forward, for sure..

Rodney Spriggs President & Chief Executive Officer of Vintage Stock, Inc.

Going forward, for sure. Historically, I don’t necessarily know. But I think going forward, any change in go-forward taxes in tax rates will be bullish for the company, because we’re at the maximum rate right now in terms of paying income tax, all of our income is domestic. So given this is a domestic change, it’s going to be bullish for us..

Unidentified Analyst

Terrific. Thank you so much..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

John Kosmer [ph]..

Unidentified Analyst

Hello, Jon. Hello, Virland..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Hey, John..

Virland Johnson

Hey, John..

Unidentified Analyst

Good to hear your voices. And my question was actually asked by the predecessor caller on the taxes, so I won’t go down that road again. But just want to congratulate you guys again having been reviewed Jon and Tony over the years since you began this, it’s been – it hasn’t always been easy, sounds easy now, but I appreciate what you’ve done.

Thank you..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Thank you very much, John, for your support..

Virland Johnson

Thank you, John..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Anyone else have any questions? I guess, we’ll be meeting again for the 10-Q, which is expected….

Virland Johnson

Soon..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

…around mid-February usually..

Virland Johnson

Mid-February, yes..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

We’ll have another call. Should we wait a minute here until we….

Operator

[Operator Instructions].

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Thank you very much..

Virland Johnson

Thank you. We appreciate everyone’s following of the company and investment in the company. We will be talking again very shortly. As Jon said mid-February for our Q1 call and talk with you then. Thank you..

Jon Isaac Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Thank you..

Operator

This does conclude today’s program. You may disconnect your line at any time and have a wonderful day..

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