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Apr. 28, 2026 2:00 PM
SuperCom, Ltd (SPCB)

SuperCom, Ltd (SPCB) 2025 Q4 Earnings Call Transcript

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Rick Becker: expansion into more regions and larger contracts. Start with the U.S. U.S. growth is one of the central developments in 2025 and early 2026. Since mid-2024, when we began our U.S. expansion rapidly, we have signed more than 35 new electronic monitoring contracts, entered 16 new states, and built 17 new service provider partnerships. Rather than walk through each state individually, I want to organize our U.S. progress around five themes and capture the structure. of this expansion. Firstly, new state entry. We entered 60 new states, as we said, since mid-2024, including Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In many of these states, we replaced the incumbent vendors. Texas was a notable late 2025 win. Our first contract was signed in December 2025, with a second one following within weeks in January 2026. both juvenile provision agencies and both displaced incumbents. Louisiana, secured in February 2026, marked our 16th new state and 17th service provider partnership. Secondly, we're looking at density in existing states. Beyond entering new states, we've been deepening our presence in states we've already entered. Wisconsin has seen three county-level deployments since September 2025 through a Midwest regional service partnership using Pure One and Pure Shield technologies. Alabama added two new contracts in November 2025 on top of an earlier direct agency contract. Kentucky added a fourth contract in March 2026 through a direct county agency. North Carolina followed an initial December 2025 Pure One deployment with a third North Carolina contract in January 2026. In addition to the statewide procurement vehicle we won earlier in 2025 from North Carolina Sheriff's Associations. Thirdly, incumbent displacement. Many of these wins have come by replacing established incumbent providers. Validating the competitive strength of our peer security platform, our Texas, Kentucky, Alabama, and Missouri wins, among many others, displaced incumbents. We have built 17 new service provider partnerships since mid-2024. These partnerships help us reach local agencies and county-level customers more efficiently together with local providers who have known and worked with these customers for many years. And these providers... It's important to note our experts in the electronic monitoring field. They've tried most of the technology, if not all, and then choosing to put on our technology and to displace their incumbents is another strong validation to the capabilities and advantages that we provide to the industry. In the U.S., we are moving up the customer ladder. We started the U.S. expansion of resellers in a very small county tier. Throughout 2025, we operate increasingly at the county level. slowly growing to larger and larger counties and larger programs. A nice breakthrough moment came in November 2025, when we secured our first state-level Department of Corrections contract in the United States, awarded under Arizona Statewide Behavioral Health Services. The DOC and state agency tier represents a step up from the regional and county-level wins that built our U.S. presence. Implementation began in January 2026, and we expect this contract to serve as a strategic reference point for state-level pursuits across the country. Beyond these five themes, our only owned subsidiary, LCA, was awarded a reentry services contract in Northern California valued up to $2.5 million for over five years. Since the acquisition of LCA, our California presence has accumulated more than $35 million in total wins. The framework we've described to you over the past year is unfolding as expected. On the international side, we continue to deliver expansion of existing programs and entry into new geographies. In January, 2026, we secured a national EM contract in a Western European country, marking the 10th nation globally to adopt our domestic violence monitoring solution, proprietary solution that we have introduced to the market to help towards our goal to assist in eradicating domestic violence. The contract is structured as a multi-year framework with a term of at least three years and began deployment in Q1, 2026. The partner has indicated plans to transition its entire EM program portfolio to our proprietary solutions and technology. In March, 2026, we were awarded the Swedish Prison and Probation Service National Contract valued at a whopping $17 million. This represents 6X the scale of our original 2019 deployment with the same customer, and they've shared their expectation to grow the program significantly. The award came through a year-long competitive evaluation involving five companies, including a 25-year former incumbent. And once it clears the standstill period, which it has, it's becoming one of the largest deployments in our company's modern history. Our European contract history shows how the scale of our program has increased over time. We started in Lithuania and Latvia with projects valued at only a few hundred thousand dollars. We grew to Denmark with a thousand units, Finland, 3.6 million. Then our first contract in Sweden back in 2018 and 2019 valued at $7 million only. We won Romania of over $33 million in 2022, a program with 15,000 offenders, which serves as a great reference for us for additional large programs. And now we achieved our fourth award in Sweden, a new $17 million contract with potential for substantial growth beyond that as we add additional programs. Several large EU contracts are up for award in the upcoming 24 months, and we're actively pursuing them. Our deployment with Israel Prison Service continues to advance after displacing a 20-year incumbent here as well. The national EM contract covers all EM programs, including home detention, GPS tracking, among other programs. What are the structural change goals for our business? is the increased diversification of our revenue base as we grow to more and more customers to more geographies around the world. This goal will become more attainable. In 2025, our largest customer represented approximately 25% of our revenue. Despite this decline in concentration from our largest customer of recent years, total revenue still grew. As new contracts and growth from other customers offset the prior year's contribution from an added incremental growth on top, underlying growth, excluding the impact of this customer decline, It's approximately 40% year over year. And I'll explain that again shortly in the financials. This is the first case we are working toward. There's an outcome of our US expansion and broader European wins. We expect to see further contract activations and continued diversification through coming years. The new customers and projects in the USA during 2025, we're still at early stages. But we expect them to grow in size and lead to more contracts of various sizes through strong networking effects and referrals as our momentum continues. Turn briefly to our capital structure and corporate actions in 2025 and 2026. The company reduced its long-term debt by approximately 45% since the start of 2024, mainly through premium price share issuances, including a $4.3 million reduction at $43 a share, enhancing its ability to capitalize on growth opportunities. Amended debt terms also improved the company's debt annual interest rates from double digits to a blended annual rate below 6%. In January 2025, we completed a $6 million common-only registered offering at $11 per share. Net proceeds were used for working capital, R&D, and potential acquisitions as part of our general strategy. Over the course of 2025, we also executed a meaningful restructuring of our debt, including the conversions into shares at premiums. Shareholders' equity has grown substantially to $43.5 million at the end of 2025 from $11.7 million at the end of 2024, reflecting both improved profitability and strengthened balance sheet. Looking to the rest of our financials, for the full year ended December 31, 2025, revenue of $27.9 million compared to $27.6 million in fiscal 2024. demonstrating stability and modest growth despite geopolitical headwinds in certain operating regions. It's interesting to note, while revenue has only increased 1% year-over-year, this period reflects a lower contribution from our largest customer. Excluding this impact, the underlying revenue growth was approximately 40% year-over-year, so essentially the decline from that customer was made up for and more by other customers that are growing and new ones that joined. Growth margin expanded to 55% from 48.4% in 2024, reflecting the continued shift toward higher margin recurring revenue contracts and the impact of technology investments on cost reduction. EBITDA in 2025 reached $9.4 million compared to $6.3 million in 2024, a 49% year-over-year improvement and a record number for us. Other expenses of $2.7 million for the full year compared to $2 million in 2024, an increase of possibly 34%. This is primarily attributable to provision for doubtful accounts, mainly related to long overdue receivables from African government customers from our legacy business of e-government, which amounted to roughly $1.8 million in debt expense in 2025 versus $1.2 million in 2024. Doubtful accounts related to our current main markets in the United States and Europe remain extremely low as the payment and collections are doing very well in these markets. Gap net income for the year was $3.7 million, a record for us, compared to $661,000 in the prior year. Non-gap net income was $11.2 million, and non-gap EPS was $2.47, which is Also, a nice achievement that shows our improvements in our profitability. To put these results in context, when we began executing our current strategy in 2021, revenues were $12.3 million, and the company carried a gap net loss of approximately $6.7 million. Over the four years since, we have more than doubled revenues to record levels, which is our strongest gap profitability since, to lead to record net income, record non-gap net income, and record EBITDA levels, and built a contract base spanning three continents with a growing momentum in many different regions. For the first quarter, the financial results, fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. Our revenue was $7.5 million compared to $6.3 million in Q4 2024, representing 18% year-over-year growth. Gross profit of $2.9 million, representing a gross margin of 39%. And this reflects some of the volatility we have in gross margin between the quarters, as we've described many times in the past. The mix of revenues depends on many different contracts that are consolidated for the quarterly results, and there could be fluctuations between quarters. It's better to look at these things on an annual basis. And gap net loss of 2.3 million compared to net loss of 1.9. Over 4 million of this was impacted by one-time expenses. including bad debt expense of $1.9 million related to legacy e-gov operations in Africa and approximately $1 million expense related to the change of fair value in warrant derivatives. In this quarter, EBITDA was $2.2 million compared to $1.6 in the previous year period, and non-GAAP EPS was $0.36. As we look ahead to 2026, we're encouraged by the momentum we are carrying into the new year. We've already secured over six new North American contracts in the first four months of 2026. Our 17 million national contracts in Sweden, the new one that we just described for March, is expected to begin contributing to revenue as deployments progress. And combined with the continued ramp of our existing North American European contracts under recurring revenue daily unit models, we believe we're positioned for continued revenue growth and expansion in coming years. Our growth strategy across 2026 rests on five drivers. Win versus win large-scale national contracts in Europe. Our pipeline in Europe remains active. The 17 million in Sweden is now secured, and that's just the first stage. We believe there's substantial upside from adding new programs into this contract. Several large EU contracts are up for award over the next 24 months, and our 65% win rate gives us confidence and ability to convert more opportunities into projects. We're expanding our U.S. footprint by entering through direct bids and partnerships. We have these 17 service provider partnerships. They help bring us into local new opportunities, as well as direct bids with county agencies of various sizes, and we're also looking at the state level. The Arizona DOC will invalidate that our platform competes at the state and federal tier. We have a clear playbook for moving from resellers to small counties to large county projects to state and federal projects over time. We're also looking at acquisitions, some inorganic growth to complement acquisitions A lot of these service providers have a great presence and have great relationships with a lot of these counties. After we're to acquire one of these, we can replace their equipment costs by other vendor equipment with our equipment that drives a very strong growth to their operating profit and also gives us a good presence for additional top line growth. The LCA acquisition is one example of the strategy where we continue to actively evaluate U.S. acquisition opportunities that fit similar profiles. We're enhancing our practice sales efforts and streamline cycles. As more contracts move past deployment, our recurring revenue base compounds. Our sales organization is positioned to convert pipeline into revenue, and we have new industry experts, salespeople from the industry that are helping us get more demos out there and more projects to close. And lastly, we continue to innovate. With every new project, we add additional features, additional capabilities that we take with us to other projects. Our domestic violence solutions are a clear example of how product innovation creates entirely new sub-market revenue streams. We expect to continue adding capabilities to support additional program types and customer needs. Underlining all the structural market opportunity, the global electronic market is projected to reach $2.3 billion by 2028. The prison systems in the United States and across the developed world face high operating costs, and meaningful capacity constraints. Electronic monitoring offers substantial cost advantage relative to incarceration while supporting public safety objectives such as reducing incarceration. As governments seek smarter, more cost-effective alternatives, we believe Supercom is well-positioned to compete. We will provide further updates on our progress throughout the year. In closing, 2025 was a defining year for Supercom. Record full-year results, a substantially strengthened balance sheet, and the most aggressive global expansion in our company's modern history. We delivered one of our largest electronic monitoring contract wins since the transformation started in 2021, our first state-level Department of Corrections contract in the United States, and entered new US states at a faster pace than any prior moment. We entered 2026 with more contracts, a broader US footprint, deeper international activity, and a stronger foundation than any prior point in our modern history. The opportunity in front of us is meaningful, and our team has demonstrated the ability to execute against it. We are grateful for the continued trust of our government partners, our employees, and our shareholders. And with that, I'd like to open the call to questions. Operator, please go ahead.

Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish to ask a question on today's call, you will need to press star, then the number one on your telephone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before entering your request and speaking on the call. If your question has been answered and you wish to withdraw your request, you may do so by pressing the pound key. One moment please for the first question. Thank you. Our first question is coming from Matthew Galinko with Maxim Group. Your line is live.

Matthew Galinko: Thanks for taking my question and congrats on the great results. Given the trend we've seen towards, you know, sort of against Euro-skeptic politicians in Europe, I'm curious how that influences the big picture for your opportunities in Europe. Is that helpful for getting more countries into the EM pipeline.

Rick Becker: I'm just curious if you have any big picture thoughts on that. Yeah, you were just a little muffled. You said the trend we've seen, and then I didn't hear you broke out, the trend we're seeing in Europe around?

Matthew Galinko: Fewer Euro or EU skeptic politicians.

Rick Becker: Okay. we're seeing, I can't share specifics, but we're seeing a lot of activity in Europe and there's, as we did share for Sweden, they believe that there's going to be a lot of potential growth in crime because of various political and other advances that have happened in recent years. And they expect their program to go 6-6 in the coming years and to have additional programs. We started with a $17 million program and we can expect something on top of that. But the general trend that you're describing shouldn't impact us, except for what I described here.

Matthew Galinko: Okay. And then I guess secondly, as far as state-level programs go for the U.S., what are your opportunities? What does that look like in 2026? Do you think that's sustainable and that you'll add to the single that you signed? or is it still more scattered as far as being able to move up market in the U.S.?

Rick Becker: In the U.S., just like we did in Europe, we started with very small counties, and we already have lots of contracts, over 35, and now we're actually growing in size. We have the smaller ones and a bit larger and medium, and we had the first DOC contract in Arizona, and we're bidding on others on the state level, and also there's some large county opportunities like L.A. County, Cook County, and others These are tens of millions of dollars in programs. So there's great opportunities in the U.S. and we're bidding kind of in a scattered way, but in areas that we think are most strategic with lowest hanging fruit.

Matthew Galinko: Great. And the last question would just be on the debt. Obviously, you've done a great job at bringing that down. Anything you could say about plans to continue managing that in 2026 or Don't just be opportunistic when you can.

Rick Becker: I think we have a good relationship with our debt holders, and we're able to pay down meaningful parts of the debt. And we have right now in the latest amendment until end of 2028 to pay down the debt without all the interest is picked. That being said, we hope to opportunistically pay down the debt and lower the balance. over time, and we work with them to do that in various specific periods of time where it makes sense.

Unknown Participant: Thank you.

Operator: Our next question is coming from Greg Mesnias with Kingswood Capital. Your line is live.

Greg Mesnias: Thank you. Good morning. Question on your recent wins in the U.S. Ordon, how much does price negotiation enter into the equation? I mean, is that really what drives the displacement of legacy vendors? Or is it a combination of price, aggressive pricing and, you know, feature richness of the product?

Rick Becker: Hey, Greg. Great question. In most of the wins that we had in the U.S., we displaced an incumbent vendor, as you might be aware. And we typically try to come in with similar prices. We offer newer, more innovative technology with better capabilities, much longer battery life, lighter weight, more accurate tracking, and try to match prices not to come in aggressively. And it's been very successful in that fashion.

Greg Mesnias: Would you say that that's been a template that you can then bring to other regions of the world as well?

Rick Becker: In Europe, we come in with similar pricing and we offer a better solution at that price. Better accuracy, better features, more innovation.

Greg Mesnias: So it sounds like competitive pricing is sort of a starter, but what really clinches the deal at the end of the day is the feature richness.

Rick Becker: We don't come in with special pricing. The pricing in the industry, we can see what the prices are, especially if we're working with a reseller. He tells us what he's paying, and we can give him at a similar price a much better solution, more innovative and better technology. We don't need to come in with a lower price to win the projects because of our technology. In Europe as well, the processes in Europe are national government processes. The valuation of technology is very lengthy and stringent, and they look into the capabilities, and they like what we have to offer, so much so that they're able to displace their incumbents for 15 years, 20 years, 25 years. Prices are scored, of course, and you don't want to come in with the highest price of the competition, but if you have a similar price and you have much better technology, that's enough to win. That's what I'm focusing on.

Unknown Participant: Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. As a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have any questions, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. Our next question is coming from Brendan McCarthy with Sudoti & Company. Your line is live.

Brendan McCarthy: Rick, good morning. Thanks for taking my question here, and congrats on the strong results. Just wanted to look at the pipeline across Europe and the U.S. Which pipeline looks relatively more attractive, you know, heading into 2026?

Rick Becker: So, in Europe, we're later stage. We started our projects, as I noted, for $100,000 in size, and we grew to several million, and then 7 million, and 17 million, and over 33 million. We're in the stage right now in Europe that we can bid on practically any size. We have great references there. And so naturally the pipeline is larger in Europe. That being said, the opportunity in the U.S. is six times the size of Europe. The margins are much higher. Everything is recurring revenue per unit per day. Everything is centralized on the cloud. Everything is in English. And it's much more diversified. So we're, of course, very interested in the U.S. market, and we're expanding into it as well. And we think over time that will be a larger market. part of our business. But at this point, since we have a lot of experience in Europe and we're very well entrenched in Europe, the pipeline in Europe is larger. Got it. That makes sense. In terms of value, at least. The number of opportunities in the U.S. are more than in Europe, but the total value in Europe is still larger.

Brendan McCarthy: Understood. And then from a competitive standpoint, does one market tend to carry a more favorable market competitive bidding process? Because I'm curious as to how many competitive bidders there are during each procurement process.

Rick Becker: It's interesting. This market is very highly barriered. We see 10 players around the world, whether a max of these 10 players in Europe or in the U.S., and we've had a very successful record in winning these RFPs in Europe and in the U.S., We're doing very well as well. Some of these are through direct contracts with service providers, and some of them are through formal RFP processes, and we're able to score highly on these bids, whether they're very technical with long evaluations, as we've seen in Europe, or if they're shorter. And what I mean shorter is sometimes a service provider will ask you to send the technology, they'll demo it, they'll try it out, and very quickly they could see that it's much different and hopefully much better. than what they've tried to date, and that's how we can bring on these contracts relatively fast at the U.S.

Unknown Participant: That's helpful. Appreciate the insight. That's all from me. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. Thank you. If there will be any final questions or comments, please indicate so now by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad. Okay, at this time, as we have no further questions in queue, I'd like to hand it back to management for any closing remarks.

Rick Becker: I want to thank you all for participating in today's call and for your interest in Supercom. We look forward to sharing our progress on our next conference calls, filings, and press releases. Thank you very much, and have a good day.

Operator: thank you ladies and gentlemen this does conclude today's call you may disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful day and we thank you for your participation