Where Food Comes From, Inc. Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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Highlights

  • Total Revenue: Approximately 6% year-over-year decline from Q1 2024.
  • Verification & Certification Segment: Revenue declined by $252,000 YoY due to smaller cattle herds and drought effects.
  • Gross Margin: Held steady at 41.6% (vs. Q1 2024).
  • SG&A Expenses: Flat at $2.1 million YoY.
  • Net Income: $31,000 or $0.01 per diluted share, down from $178,000 or $0.03 in Q1 2024. Over half the decline attributed to a $76,000 non-cash digital asset charge.
  • Share Buybacks: 31,345 shares repurchased for $383,000 in Q1 2025.
  • Digital Asset Holdings: Company holds small but profitable Bitcoin investment. A $345,000 unrealized gain was reported in Q4 2024.

Operational Challenges

  • Beef Verification: Disruption due to smaller cattle inventories and drought has limited the number of cattle moving through the system.
  • Poultry & Dairy Cow Verifications: Avian influenza outbreaks led to high mortality rates impacting verification activity.
  • Customer Retention: Despite challenges, customer retention in the beef segment remains in the high 90% range.

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Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Where Food Comes From First Quarter Earnings Call. At this time all participants’ are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jay Pfeiffer of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Jay Pfeiffer: Good morning, and welcome to the Where Food Comes From 2025 first quarter earnings call. Joining me on the call today are CEO, John Saunders; President, Leann Saunders; and Chief Financial Officer, Dannette Henning. During this call, we'll make forward-looking statements based on current expectations, estimates and projections that are subject to risk. Statements about financial performance, growth strategy, customers, business opportunities, market acceptance of our products and services and potential acquisitions are forward-looking statements. Listeners should not place undue reliance on these statements as there are many factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements. We encourage you to review our publicly filed documents, as well as our news releases and website for more information. I'll now turn the call over to John Saunders. John Saunders: Good morning, and thanks for joining the call today. The headwinds we reported for most of the last year carried into the first quarter of 2025 and resulted in an approximate 6% year-ov

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