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EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT
EARNINGS CALL TRANSCRIPT 2022 - Q1
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Operator

Good morning, afternoon, evening and welcome to the Kidpik First Quarter 2022 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ezra Dabah. Please go ahead..

Ezra Dabah Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, operator. We are happy to welcome everyone to today’s call to review Q1 2022 and provide an update on our business. We’re going to start with a review of our financial and business highlights, followed by a financial review, which Adir, our CFO will take us through, and we will then open the call to Q&A.

Moshe Dabah, our Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer is also available for any questions you may have pertaining to that side of the business.

As previously communicated in our last quarterly update, we continue to face many of the same business challenges that have slowed the pace of our sales growth due to reduced member acquisitions that has been further effected by nationwide decline in consumer confidence.

We are combining the challenges in the marketplace to adopt and grow the business. We have taken actions to address this [macro forces] [ph], which I will describe in a moment.

While the quarter did not meet our expectations, we are confident that our concept, our team, our products, and the underlining business value propositions that we have at Kidpik will enable us to scale and reach our growth objectives in time.

I'll start by commenting on the top line, gross margins, and other KPIs both in terms of where we stand, the drivers and trends we have seen, and some of our go-forward strategies. Q1 revenues were 4.3 million, which represents a decrease from the same period in 2021 of approximately 19%.

As previously communicated, privacy changes across social media advertising platforms that were implemented late last year continued to affect the pace of our new customer acquisitions and resulted in lower revenues for Kidpik. These social advertising channels have historically been a primary advertising resource to acquire new customers.

To address these changes, we have launched a number of new programs that we expect to help grow our acquisitions and top line sales. These programs include a heightened focus on Google Search, our newly expanded ambassador program, newly planned direct-to-mail marketing and improved utilization of YouTube, Tik Tok, Pinterest, and Snapchat.

In addition, we aim to build upon existing brand partnerships and introduce new collaborations similar to our previously announced partnership with Disney, which will enable us to gain brand awareness amongst new customer databases.

We have noted in our prior calls that we have launched a brand ambassador program, which is up and running and growing steadily and we're implementing a paid influencers campaign strategy in which we enlist key influencers in the fashion and parenting space to share their Kidpik experience with their many followers.

Our ambassadors and influencers create UGC, our user generated content, capturing the family experiencing Kidpik, which is amongst the most effective type of content when it comes to building brand awareness and attracting new members. From our experience, it takes several touch points to get through and generate a conversion.

We feel this is an important strategy to grow awareness for the Kidpik brand in a cost effective manner. As noted earlier, we are planning a targeted in-home direct mail program for this upcoming summer season. Direct mail gives us the opportunity to communicate our convenient time saving service in a traditional manner.

It is our current understanding that the highly targeted direct mail channel has become quite a cost effective advertising method.

Our combined expertise was in-house design, merchandising, sourcing and branding, coupled with the immense technology we have built with data driven analytics, uniquely positions us within the kids subscription marketplace and enable us to deliver great products and value to a price sensitive children's wear consumer.

We noted in our press release earlier this month that we have recently introduced an option for 12 piece box delivering more items for our members to choose from and purchase.

This feature launched with our Summer 2022 collection giving our customers the option to receive a box with 12 items versus a traditional eight will raise our average box selling price. Early signs are that almost half of our members are opting – half of our new members are opting for the bigger box.

We are committed to fulfilling our mission of changing the way parents shop for children's clothing by delivering personally styled high quality products and services that make kids look great and inspire confidence.

Our products and services are appealing to parents who value more quality family time, having an expert stylist for their child, receiving outfits that make their children look great and feel confident and who enjoy the fun unboxing experience and discovery we provide.

Lastly, as you know, we operate with an integrated model where our design, merchandising, and procurement are done in-house. We have built our own Kidpik fashion brand, which gives us the opportunity to expand beyond subscriptions by selling our Kidpik brand through other e-commerce platforms and retail channels.

We're now implementing a third party software that will enable us to market our branded apparel and shoes on other top retailers online e-commerce platform. We expect this to become a meaningful revenue source for us as we continue to build a great [fashion apparel] [ph] and lifestyle brand.

Additionally, we’re growing our website e-commerce sales on shop.kidpik.com, which we invite you all to experience and where we see great growth opportunities. I want to close by saying that while we have challenges to overcome, Kidpik offers a very special and differentiated brand in service, which delights our customers.

While we anticipate the current hurdles we are facing to remain in place in the near future, we are confident in our future growth potential. With that, I'll turn the call over to Adir, to detail the financial highlights of the quarter.

Adir?.

Adir Katzav

Thank you, Ezra. Q1 revenue was $4.3 million, a decrease of 18.7% year-over-year. The decrease in revenue was primarily driven by a decrease in subscription box sales. Looking at Q1 revenue by channel, subscription sales were $3.5 million, a decrease of 24% year-over-year. Amazon sales was slightly lower at 550,000.

Online website sales increased by 129% to 293,000. Looking at Q1 revenue by product line, girls’ apparel decreased by 22% to 3.3 million, boys’ apparel decreased by 23% to 868,000. Toddler revenue was 201,000 versus 7,000 during the same period last year. We launched our Toddler collection in March 2021. Turning to gross margin.

Gross margin for the quarter was 59.9%, slightly lower than the 60.9% last year. Shipped items for the first quarter decreased by 32% to 371,000 compared to 543,000 last year. Keep rate for the first quarter was 70.4%, compared to 67.7% last year This is in-line with our record level of 70.8%, which was achieved in Q4 2021.

On the bottom line, net loss for the quarter was approximately 1.8 million or a loss of $0.24 per share, compared to net loss of 1.5 million or a loss of $0.30 per share last year. Speaking to non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was a net loss of 1.5 million, compared to a net loss of 1.3 million last year. Now to the balance sheet and cash flow.

Cash at the end of the quarter was approximately 5.4 million, compared to 8.4 million at the end of 2021. We used 2.2 million in operating cash flow for the quarter, compared to 2.7 million in the last year's quarter.

As of April 1, 2022, we had 19.5 million in total current assets, 6.3 million in total current liabilities, and a working capital of 13.2 million. With that, I will turn it back to the operator for Q&A.

Operator?.

Operator

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from [Edward Riley with Eaton] [ph]. Please go ahead..

Unidentified Analyst

Hey guys, thanks for taking my question.

Just wondering about the timing of some of the new marketing initiatives, you know, which channels have you guys been exploring the most? And then which channels do you think you'll need to explore a little bit more or maybe if you're looking forward to exploring them more in the future?.

Ezra Dabah Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. Well, we have intensified to put more money on Google Search, which we found to make-up some of the losses we have seen from Facebook.

And as you know, we have this new ambassador program that we are paying much more attention to and it's giving us – at this particular moment, we're not seeing the kind of return we would like to see, but we know that it's very cost effective and we will see it. The direct to mail program is planned for this summer.

So, we hope that will be launched within the next [three to four] [ph] weeks And in the past, we really have not paid much attention to Tik Tok and Pinterest and YouTube and Snapchat, and we are beginning to play in these channels as we speak..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. Great. Got it. Appreciate that.

Just maybe talk about your ability to maybe pass on cost to customers, given the kind of inflationary time period [we’re] in right now?.

Ezra Dabah Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Well we have, you know, I guess throughout last year passed some of the costs that we have incurred, especially as it relates to the freight.

We haven't seen as much of cost increase on the China side, but we really have not seen much of any issues as the customer accepting the cost increases that we have put in place over the last year in order to maintain our margins..

Unidentified Analyst

Okay. Great. That's it from me guys. Thank you..

Ezra Dabah Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Thank you to you, Ed..

Operator

This concludes the question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Ezra Dabah for closing remarks..

Ezra Dabah Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer

Okay. We thank you all for your time and interest. We are available for any follow-up questions any of you might have. Thanks again. Wishing everyone health, success, and a great summer. Thank you..

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect..

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