NASDAQ:GEG Great Elm Group Q3 2023 Earnings Report $1.90 +0.00 (+0.05%) As of 04/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern This is a fair market value price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings History Great Elm Group EPS ResultsActual EPS-$0.02Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/AGreat Elm Group Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$1.90 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AGreat Elm Group Announcement DetailsQuarterQ3 2023Date5/5/2023TimeN/AConference Call DateFriday, May 5, 2023Conference Call Time9:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsGreat Elm Group's Q3 2025 earnings is scheduled for Tuesday, May 6, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Great Elm Group Q3 2023 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 5, 2023 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 5 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Hello, and thank you for standing by. My name is Regina, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Great Elm Group Fiscal 2023 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Operator00:00:25I would now like to turn the conference over to Adam Yates, Managing Director. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:32Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for Great Elm Group's Fiscal Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded on Friday, May 5, 2023. If you would like to be added to our distribution list, you can email geginvestorrelations@greatelmcap.com, or you can sign up for alerts directly on our website, www.greatelmgroup.com. The slide presentation accompanying today's conference call and webcast that was disseminated to announce the quarterly results. Speaker 100:01:15Today's conference call includes forward looking statements, and we ask that you refer to Great Elm Group's filings with the SEC for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. Great Elm Group does not undertake to update its forward looking statements unless required by law. In addition, during today's call, management will refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable financial measures are included in our earnings release. To obtain copies of our SEC filings, Please visit Great Elm Group's website under Financial Information and select SEC Filings. Speaker 100:01:53On the call today, we have Jason Rees, Our newly appointed CEO, Adam Kleinman, President Nicole Mills, COO and Brent Pearson, CFO. I will now turn the call over to Jason Rees, CEO. Speaker 200:02:08Thank you, Adam. Welcome everyone and thank you for joining us. I am thrilled to report, as of today, Great Elm Group has completed its transformation from a diversified holding company to a focused alternative asset manager. We spent the last year taking deliberate steps to reposition the company, to simplify the balance sheet and to position the organization for growth. Let me walk you through some key highlights. Speaker 200:02:37In March of 'twenty two, team management changes were made at Great Elm Capital Corp, our publicly traded BDC. Matt Kaplan was appointed as its CEO and 3 new directors were appointed to the Board. GEG waived all accrued incentive fees at the BDC and we started with a clean slate under Mac's leadership. With these changes, the BDC has been successfully repositioned To become a consistent income producing vehicle for GEG. GECC reported a strong Q1 yesterday. Speaker 200:03:12If you would not have If you've not had the opportunity to review the materials or listen to the call, I strongly suggest you take the opportunity to do so. After the GECC leadership changes, we acquired the management agreement of Monomoy Properties in May of 2022. This transaction marked our entry into the private REIT industry, doubled our AUM and highlighted Our ability to add long duration capital vehicles to After retiring from BlackRock, where he was the Co Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock Alternative Advisors, their hedge fund solutions team. That brings incredible relationships and investment experience to Great Elm. In June, we successfully raised $27,000,000 in 7.25 percent unsecured notes due in 2027. Speaker 200:04:10In August, GECC shareholders approved an amendment to reset GEG's incentive fees to start fresh on April 1, 2022. As a result, We believe that we are well positioned to start receiving cash incentive fees in the future. Around the end of the calendar year, we closed 2 large strategic business divestitures. First, we sold our entire majority interest in Forest Investments in a 2 part transaction taking place in December 2022 January 23. In January, we sold our majority interest in the non core DME business. Speaker 200:04:48This leaves us with a streamlined corporate structure and a clean, easy to understand balance sheet. Today, the company announced that Pete Reed resigned as CEO, effective with the filing of our Form 10 Q. I am fortunate that the Board asked me to assume the additional role of CEO and I am gratefully accept their appointment. As the largest shareholder of GEG, my interests are directly aligned with all of our shareholders. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Pete for his service and contributions to Great Elm. Speaker 200:05:23Pete steps down with our full support and we look forward to working with Pete as a consultant to the company to ensure a smooth transition. We are grateful for his expertise, passion, dedication and leadership over the years. We are now a focused alternative asset manager with 2 anchor investment vehicles, GECC and Monomoy Properties. We have a healthy pipeline of new business opportunities and a clean liquid balance sheet to execute upon them. Our institutional back office Has the ability to effectively service our growing platform. Speaker 200:05:57We're well positioned to achieve our strategic goals. It's now my job as CEO to prove to our shareholders that we can achieve our goals, which are simple. Grow our assets under management, improve our profitability and execute on opportunities to expand our platform. I look forward to leading Great Elm in its next phase of growth and reporting to you on our progress. With that, I'll turn it over to Brent to discuss our financial results for the quarter. Speaker 300:06:29Thank you, Jason. I'll provide a brief overview of the quarter and of course welcome all of you to review our filings in greater detail or reach out to our team with any questions. As Jason highlighted, Great Elm completed 2 significant transactions during the quarter. On January 3rd, We sold our majority interest in the durable medical equipment business to a subsidiary of Quip for a total purchase price of 80,000,000 After repayment of obligations, we received approximately $26,000,000 in cash as well as just over 346,000 shares of WIP Common Stock. On January 17, we exercised the right to put our remaining 19% interest in Forest to an affiliate of JPMorgan for nearly $27,000,000 The transaction followed the sale of 61 percent of our majority ownership interest in Forest JPMorgan for over $18,000,000 on December 30, 2022. Speaker 300:07:30The January sale brought our aggregate cash proceeds from the Forest transactions to approximately $45,000,000 As a result of these transactions, we realized material gains on these investments, Generated significant value for Great Elm shareholders and added over $70,000,000 of cash to GEG's balance sheet. Please note that as in the prior quarter, due to the Forrest and DME transactions, We recast our historically reported segment information to reflect our ongoing business as a single reportable segment and to remove the activity of discontinued operations. In review of continuing operations, during the quarter, Revenues were up 92% year over year, driven by higher assets under management and management fees related to GECC and Monomoy. AUM of $631,000,000 as of March 31, 2023 increased 2% from the prior quarter end and was up 4% fiscal year to date, while fee paying AUM grew to $439,000,000 up 1% quarter to date and over 8% year to date. For the quarter, Great Elm Group generated a net loss from continuing operations of 500,000 compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $6,500,000 in the prior year period. Speaker 300:08:56The change was primarily driven by $2,000,000 and net realized and unrealized gains on investments in the current quarter compared to a net realized and unrealized loss on investments of $3,500,000 in the prior year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA loss for the quarter was $1,200,000 compared to $1,600,000 in the prior year period. As of March 31, Great Elm Group had approximately $84,000,000 of cash on our balance sheet to deploy across our growing alternative asset management platform. Please refer to Slide 8 that provides an overview of our financial position and highlights our book value per share of approximately $2.34 This concludes my financial review of the quarter. And with that, we will turn the call over to the operator to open for questions. Operator00:10:05Our first question will come from the line of Mark Kingdon with Kingdon Capital. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:10:11Hi, gentlemen. Jason, good luck going forward. Wish you all the best. Wanted to ask first what the impact Is, if any, on your spreads at GECC and overall in the company From the credit crunch we're seeing in the banking system currently and how it impacts your ability to fund some of these transactions. Speaker 200:10:41Thank you, Mark, Jason. I don't know that there's specific impacts. We're seeing more opportunities. And if you look at GECC over the last year, we have moved significantly To owning floating rate debt at GECC. So the moves by the Fed have, If anything, probably helped us. Speaker 200:11:05Our NII more than covered our dividend this quarter. And we have had the ability we announced yesterday at GECC that they were just able to Put a new $100,000,000 credit facility in place for the healthcare business. So we have not seen credit crunch To be able to fund deals, but we're actually seeing more opportunity for transactions as banks are kind of pulling out of the market. Speaker 400:11:38Good. And then on Monomoy, I think at some point there was discussion about Using the Great Elm NOL to help produce an even more competitive product, I wonder what's your growth strategy going Forward now that Great Elm does not have that NOL. Speaker 200:12:01Well, we still have an NOL, but not nearly as big as we had in the past. We really like the space that Monomoy is in, and we have not had any issues We've convinced convincing investors that that space is still good space. We've been slow to grow the business this year because You talked about with weights moving significantly cap rates in the industrial space have not kind of moved this quickly. So there's been a little bit of a stalemate. If you look at industrial space, there's been less transactions because shellers have not Reduce their expectations for prices even though the cost of debt to fund those acquisitions has gone up. Speaker 200:12:49We have a pretty strong pipeline. I think you will see significant growth in the calendar 2nd and calendar 3rd quarters for Monomoy. Speaker 400:13:05So thanks, Jason. So what you're saying is that your issue isn't finding new Investors in Monomoy, it's more just fighting the opportunities at a price you like. Speaker 200:13:17Yes. That's exactly what I was trying to say. Speaker 400:13:21Great. Thank you. Operator00:13:37We have no further questions at this time. I'll turn the call back to Jason Rees, CEO for any closing remarks. Speaker 200:13:45Thank you for joining us today. We look forward to speaking with you in the future.Read morePowered by Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallGreat Elm Group Q3 202300:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2x Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) Great Elm Group Earnings HeadlinesGreat Elm Group’s Earnings Call Highlights Strategic GrowthFebruary 8, 2025 | tipranks.comGreat Elm Group, Inc. (GEG) Q2 2025 Earnings Conference Call TranscriptFebruary 7, 2025 | seekingalpha.comTrump to unlock 15-figure fortune for America (May 3rd) ?We were shown this map by former Presidential Advisor, Jim Rickards, one of the most politically connected men in America. Rickards has spent his fifty-year career in the innermost circles of the U.S. government and banking. 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There are 5 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Hello, and thank you for standing by. My name is Regina, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Great Elm Group Fiscal 2023 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question and answer session. Operator00:00:25I would now like to turn the conference over to Adam Yates, Managing Director. Please go ahead. Speaker 100:00:32Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for Great Elm Group's Fiscal Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded on Friday, May 5, 2023. If you would like to be added to our distribution list, you can email geginvestorrelations@greatelmcap.com, or you can sign up for alerts directly on our website, www.greatelmgroup.com. The slide presentation accompanying today's conference call and webcast that was disseminated to announce the quarterly results. Speaker 100:01:15Today's conference call includes forward looking statements, and we ask that you refer to Great Elm Group's filings with the SEC for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. Great Elm Group does not undertake to update its forward looking statements unless required by law. In addition, during today's call, management will refer to certain non GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable financial measures are included in our earnings release. To obtain copies of our SEC filings, Please visit Great Elm Group's website under Financial Information and select SEC Filings. Speaker 100:01:53On the call today, we have Jason Rees, Our newly appointed CEO, Adam Kleinman, President Nicole Mills, COO and Brent Pearson, CFO. I will now turn the call over to Jason Rees, CEO. Speaker 200:02:08Thank you, Adam. Welcome everyone and thank you for joining us. I am thrilled to report, as of today, Great Elm Group has completed its transformation from a diversified holding company to a focused alternative asset manager. We spent the last year taking deliberate steps to reposition the company, to simplify the balance sheet and to position the organization for growth. Let me walk you through some key highlights. Speaker 200:02:37In March of 'twenty two, team management changes were made at Great Elm Capital Corp, our publicly traded BDC. Matt Kaplan was appointed as its CEO and 3 new directors were appointed to the Board. GEG waived all accrued incentive fees at the BDC and we started with a clean slate under Mac's leadership. With these changes, the BDC has been successfully repositioned To become a consistent income producing vehicle for GEG. GECC reported a strong Q1 yesterday. Speaker 200:03:12If you would not have If you've not had the opportunity to review the materials or listen to the call, I strongly suggest you take the opportunity to do so. After the GECC leadership changes, we acquired the management agreement of Monomoy Properties in May of 2022. This transaction marked our entry into the private REIT industry, doubled our AUM and highlighted Our ability to add long duration capital vehicles to After retiring from BlackRock, where he was the Co Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock Alternative Advisors, their hedge fund solutions team. That brings incredible relationships and investment experience to Great Elm. In June, we successfully raised $27,000,000 in 7.25 percent unsecured notes due in 2027. Speaker 200:04:10In August, GECC shareholders approved an amendment to reset GEG's incentive fees to start fresh on April 1, 2022. As a result, We believe that we are well positioned to start receiving cash incentive fees in the future. Around the end of the calendar year, we closed 2 large strategic business divestitures. First, we sold our entire majority interest in Forest Investments in a 2 part transaction taking place in December 2022 January 23. In January, we sold our majority interest in the non core DME business. Speaker 200:04:48This leaves us with a streamlined corporate structure and a clean, easy to understand balance sheet. Today, the company announced that Pete Reed resigned as CEO, effective with the filing of our Form 10 Q. I am fortunate that the Board asked me to assume the additional role of CEO and I am gratefully accept their appointment. As the largest shareholder of GEG, my interests are directly aligned with all of our shareholders. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Pete for his service and contributions to Great Elm. Speaker 200:05:23Pete steps down with our full support and we look forward to working with Pete as a consultant to the company to ensure a smooth transition. We are grateful for his expertise, passion, dedication and leadership over the years. We are now a focused alternative asset manager with 2 anchor investment vehicles, GECC and Monomoy Properties. We have a healthy pipeline of new business opportunities and a clean liquid balance sheet to execute upon them. Our institutional back office Has the ability to effectively service our growing platform. Speaker 200:05:57We're well positioned to achieve our strategic goals. It's now my job as CEO to prove to our shareholders that we can achieve our goals, which are simple. Grow our assets under management, improve our profitability and execute on opportunities to expand our platform. I look forward to leading Great Elm in its next phase of growth and reporting to you on our progress. With that, I'll turn it over to Brent to discuss our financial results for the quarter. Speaker 300:06:29Thank you, Jason. I'll provide a brief overview of the quarter and of course welcome all of you to review our filings in greater detail or reach out to our team with any questions. As Jason highlighted, Great Elm completed 2 significant transactions during the quarter. On January 3rd, We sold our majority interest in the durable medical equipment business to a subsidiary of Quip for a total purchase price of 80,000,000 After repayment of obligations, we received approximately $26,000,000 in cash as well as just over 346,000 shares of WIP Common Stock. On January 17, we exercised the right to put our remaining 19% interest in Forest to an affiliate of JPMorgan for nearly $27,000,000 The transaction followed the sale of 61 percent of our majority ownership interest in Forest JPMorgan for over $18,000,000 on December 30, 2022. Speaker 300:07:30The January sale brought our aggregate cash proceeds from the Forest transactions to approximately $45,000,000 As a result of these transactions, we realized material gains on these investments, Generated significant value for Great Elm shareholders and added over $70,000,000 of cash to GEG's balance sheet. Please note that as in the prior quarter, due to the Forrest and DME transactions, We recast our historically reported segment information to reflect our ongoing business as a single reportable segment and to remove the activity of discontinued operations. In review of continuing operations, during the quarter, Revenues were up 92% year over year, driven by higher assets under management and management fees related to GECC and Monomoy. AUM of $631,000,000 as of March 31, 2023 increased 2% from the prior quarter end and was up 4% fiscal year to date, while fee paying AUM grew to $439,000,000 up 1% quarter to date and over 8% year to date. For the quarter, Great Elm Group generated a net loss from continuing operations of 500,000 compared to a net loss from continuing operations of $6,500,000 in the prior year period. Speaker 300:08:56The change was primarily driven by $2,000,000 and net realized and unrealized gains on investments in the current quarter compared to a net realized and unrealized loss on investments of $3,500,000 in the prior year quarter. Adjusted EBITDA loss for the quarter was $1,200,000 compared to $1,600,000 in the prior year period. As of March 31, Great Elm Group had approximately $84,000,000 of cash on our balance sheet to deploy across our growing alternative asset management platform. Please refer to Slide 8 that provides an overview of our financial position and highlights our book value per share of approximately $2.34 This concludes my financial review of the quarter. And with that, we will turn the call over to the operator to open for questions. Operator00:10:05Our first question will come from the line of Mark Kingdon with Kingdon Capital. Please go ahead. Speaker 400:10:11Hi, gentlemen. Jason, good luck going forward. Wish you all the best. Wanted to ask first what the impact Is, if any, on your spreads at GECC and overall in the company From the credit crunch we're seeing in the banking system currently and how it impacts your ability to fund some of these transactions. Speaker 200:10:41Thank you, Mark, Jason. I don't know that there's specific impacts. We're seeing more opportunities. And if you look at GECC over the last year, we have moved significantly To owning floating rate debt at GECC. So the moves by the Fed have, If anything, probably helped us. Speaker 200:11:05Our NII more than covered our dividend this quarter. And we have had the ability we announced yesterday at GECC that they were just able to Put a new $100,000,000 credit facility in place for the healthcare business. So we have not seen credit crunch To be able to fund deals, but we're actually seeing more opportunity for transactions as banks are kind of pulling out of the market. Speaker 400:11:38Good. And then on Monomoy, I think at some point there was discussion about Using the Great Elm NOL to help produce an even more competitive product, I wonder what's your growth strategy going Forward now that Great Elm does not have that NOL. Speaker 200:12:01Well, we still have an NOL, but not nearly as big as we had in the past. We really like the space that Monomoy is in, and we have not had any issues We've convinced convincing investors that that space is still good space. We've been slow to grow the business this year because You talked about with weights moving significantly cap rates in the industrial space have not kind of moved this quickly. So there's been a little bit of a stalemate. If you look at industrial space, there's been less transactions because shellers have not Reduce their expectations for prices even though the cost of debt to fund those acquisitions has gone up. Speaker 200:12:49We have a pretty strong pipeline. I think you will see significant growth in the calendar 2nd and calendar 3rd quarters for Monomoy. Speaker 400:13:05So thanks, Jason. So what you're saying is that your issue isn't finding new Investors in Monomoy, it's more just fighting the opportunities at a price you like. Speaker 200:13:17Yes. That's exactly what I was trying to say. Speaker 400:13:21Great. Thank you. Operator00:13:37We have no further questions at this time. I'll turn the call back to Jason Rees, CEO for any closing remarks. Speaker 200:13:45Thank you for joining us today. We look forward to speaking with you in the future.Read morePowered by