Management hosted a second quarter conference call on September 3, 2024 at 1:00pm PT (4:00pm ET) to discuss its Q2 2024 results.
Below is a recap of the conference call for reference:
The second quarter of 2024 saw a continued steady trend in our revenues and income, EBITDA and cash flows.
While our financial metrics are lower in this quarter compared to the prior year, the main reason for that was due to a one-time royalty buyout on the Teichos royalty last year, which provided a one time increase in our revenues and income and cash flow last year. Given there was no similar royalty buyout this quarter, we expected lower figures for this quarter compared to last year. If you exclude this one-time royalty buyout, you will see that our revenues and income were consistent with Q2 of last year, and actually higher when compared on a six month basis.
Our portfolio of investments continue to remain resilient despite uncertainties in the economy and our pipeline of projects remain very strong. We have made significant progress in reaching definitive documents for some of these pipeline of projects and we hope to be able to share these exciting opportunities with our shareholders and bondholders in the near future.
We also recently closed the first tranche of our Series 4 Green Bonds for total gross proceeds of approximately $4.4m, which gives us a very healthy cash balance of over $17m to execute on a number of opportunities we have been doing due diligence on.
At the end of June 2024, we have 114 royalties under contract covering projects that generate solar and wind energy, projects that convert waste to energy, storage projects and energy efficiency projects. Cumulatively these represent approximately 428 MW of clean energy capacity and generate approximately one million MWh of clean energy every year. This is enough clean energy to power approximately 136 thousand homes, offsetting approximately 429 thousand tonnes of CO2 emissions annually.
We continue to see a substantial number of new high-quality investment opportunities from both existing and new clients to add to our project pipeline and backlog. Our team is currently undertaking detailed due diligence on several of these opportunities in order to determine the best allocation of our current cash on hand.
We have a number of transactions that we are prepared to fund right now, but our timing is subject to our client’s meeting their contractual conditions precedent.
Some of the more advanced opportunities include:
Construction financing for a portfolio of operating and development solar projects in South Asia;
Financing for a provider of remote solar hybrid solutions in Canada.
Equipment financing for a renewable natural gas project in Missouri, United States.
Construction of distributed energy storage projects in Mexico
Equipment financing for a network of electric vehicle chargers in the US and Canada; and
Various interconnection deposit opportunities in the United States.
These opportunities under evaluation are still subject to completion of due diligence, definitive documents, conditions precedent for each transaction and approval by the Company’s Board of Directors. There is no assurance that any of the opportunities under evaluation will result in a completed transaction.
The Company’s royalty revenue and finance income in Q2-2024 was consistent with Q2-2023. The Company recorded an aggregate amount of $1.8 million in royalty revenue and finance income in Q2-2024 that represents a 2% decrease from Q2-2023. Although, the Company completed additional transactions in the current year (to-date June 30, 2024), the Company received an early repayment of the loan receivable from NOMAD Power in Q1-2024. The impacts of these investing activities on the Company’s finance income almost off set each other.
In the prior year quarter, that is Q2-2023, the Company recorded a gain of $1.6 million from the sale of the Teichos royalty interest. No similar gain was recorded in the current quarter.
The Company’s operating results and trends that will be discussed here are mainly driven by the aforesaid gain. Gross profit, including changes in the fair value of financial assets, for Q2-2024 was $1.7 million, representing a decrease of $1.6 million or 49% compared to Q2-2023.
E-BIT-DA for Q2-2024 was $0.5 million, which represents a decrease of $1.6 million compared to Q2-2023. Net loss for Q2-2024 was $0.70 million, compared to a net income of $1.1 million in Q2-2023.
The amount of cash and cash equivalents held by the Company at June 30, 2024 was $13.2 million.
Q2 2024 was a stable quarter for us and there are some very good opportunities that we are currently evaluating and doing due diligence on, and with the existing cash on hand and recent Green Bonds, we feel that the Company is poised to build on this success even more in the coming quarters.
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