SKYX Platforms Corp. (NASDAQ: SKYX) (d/b/a SKYX Technologies) (the
“Company” or “SKYX”), an award winning highly disruptive advanced
and smart home platform technology company with over 97 U.S. and
Global pending and issued patents and a portfolio of over 60
lighting and home décor websites, with a mission to make homes and
buildings become advanced-safe-smart instantly as the new standard,
today reported its financial and operational results for the Fourth
Quarter and Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2024.
SKYX will hold a conference call today, March
24, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results. See
below for dial-in information.
Fourth Quarter 2024 and Subsequent
Highlights
- SKYX Reports 48% Growth in 2024
Revenues From $58.8 million in 2023 to $86.3 million in 2024
- Generated a record $23.7 million in
revenue in Q-4 2024 compared to $22.2M in Q-4 2023.
- Reported $15.5 million in cash,
cash equivalents, and restricted cash, as of December 31, 2024,
compared to $13.0 million as of September 30, 2024.
- In March 2025, Company secured
additional $1.45 million funding including from a strategic
investor through its $2.00 Series A-1 Preferred Offering.
- As common with companies such as
ours when sales are converted into cash rapidly, often referred to
as the “Dell Working Capital Model”, the Company continues to
leverage its trades payable to finance its operations, to enhance
its cash position and to lower its cost of capital.
- Management anticipates significant
orders and to become cash flow positive during the second half of
2025.
- Reported a reduction in General and
Administrative expense by $5.7 million to $31.4 million as of
December 31, 2024 from $37.0 million as of December 31, 2023.
- SKYX reported a $3.3 million
decrease in total liabilities and a reduction of $3.9 million in
net loss.
- Net loss per share decreased by
$0.09 to ($0.36) per share in 2024 compared to ($0.45) in 2023.
Adjusted EBITDA loss per share, a non-GAAP measure, amounted to
$(0.13) per share in 2024, as compared to $(0.17) per share, in
2023.
- In 2024, Company Secured $11
million equity preferred stock investment led by the Shaner Group,
a leading Marriott hotel owner with over 70 hotels, including
significant insider investing by SKYX’s President Steve Schmidt,
who invested $500,000, Co-CEO Lenny Sokolow and Co-CEO John Campi,
who each invested $250,000. Preferred investment representing $2.00
per share of common stock with NO warrants.
Market Acceptance and
Recent Events:
- Company expects to continue
increasing units and grow its revenue to pro, builders, and retail
segment. Company continues to grow its market penetration of its
advanced and smart plug & play products, expecting its products
to be in 20,000 U.S. and Canadian units/homes by the end of Q-1
2025.
- Company expects its products to be
in tens of thousands additional homes, incrementally in 2025.
- SKYX’s technologies provide
opportunities for recurring revenues through interchangeability,
upgrades, monitoring, and subscriptions.
- Company is focused on the “Razor
& Blades” model and its product range includes its advanced
ceiling electrical outlet (Razor) and its advance and smart home
plug & play products (Blades) including lighting,
Chandeliers/Pendants, ceiling fans, recessed lights, down lights,
exit signs, emergency lights, holiday/kids/themes lights,
indoor/outdoor wall lights among others smart products.
- Company continues to utilize its
e-commerce platform of over 60 websites for lighting and home décor
to educate and enhance its market penetration to both retail and
professional segments.
- SKYX collaborates with Home Depot
for its Advanced and Smart Plug & Play Products for both retail
and professional segments. SKYX’s product offering will include a
variety of its Advanced and Smart Plug & Play Products
including Retrofit Kits, Smart Light Fixtures, Smart Ceiling Fans,
Ceiling Outlet Receptacles, Recessed Lights and more.
- Company collaborates with Wayfair
for Its Advanced and Smart Plug & Play Products for both retail
and professional segments. SKYX’s product offering will include a
variety of its advanced and Smart Plug & Play products
including Retrofit Kits, Smart Light Fixtures, Smart Ceiling Fans,
Ceiling Outlet Receptacles, Recessed Lights and more.
- SKYX collaborates with U.S. and
world leading lighting companies including Kichler Quoizel,
European leading company, EGLO, and worlding lighting manufacturer
Ruee.
- Collaborated with Cavco Homes, a
leading U.S. prefabricated home manufacturer, for integrating our
advanced and smart plug & play technologies into Cavco’s
high-end premium homes shown at the builder show. Cavco is a public
company that has sold nearly one million homes and continues to
deliver close to 20,000 annually.
- Three luxury developments by Forte
Developments, including an 80-story high-rise in Miami’s Brickell
District and projects in Clearwater Beach and Jupiter, Florida,
will feature SKYX’s technology. More than 12,000 smart plug &
play products, including ceiling outlets, lighting, fans, and
emergency fixtures, will be supplied across 400+ units.
- A 1,000-unit mixed-use development
by Jeremiah Baron Companies will incorporate smart plug & play
technologies, with 140 units receiving initial product supply. This
product rollout will include ceiling outlets, lighting, fans, and
emergency fixtures, with deliveries continuing throughout
construction.
- A strategic partnership with JIT
Electrical Supply, a leading builder supplier, will expand SKYX’s
footprint in electrical, lighting, and ceiling fan markets. JIT,
which has supplied over 100,000 U.S. homes, will distribute SKYX’s
lighting solutions, ceiling fans, recessed lights, emergency
lights, exit signs, and indoor/outdoor wall lights beginning early
2025.
- Huey Long, former Amazon E-Commerce
Director and executive at Walmart and Ashley Furniture, has joined
as head of SKYX’s e-commerce platform. He will collaborate with the
existing team to expand market penetration across 60 lighting and
home décor websites and other key e-commerce channels in the U.S.
and Canada.
- Greg St. John, former Home Depot
lighting head and CEO of Eglo and Cordelia Lighting, has been
appointed President of Lighting, Fans, and Smart Home Products.
With 30+ years of industry experience, he will lead expansion
efforts in retail, homebuilder, and commercial markets, overseeing
partnerships with Home Depot, Wayfair, and other major
retailers.
Safety Standardization Mandatory Code /
Insurance Specification and Recommendation
- SKYX’s code team, led by industry
veterans Mark Earley, former head of the National Electrical Code
(NEC), and Eric Jacobson, former President and CEO of the American
Lighting Association (ALA). Company’s safety Code Standardization
team believes it will achieve assistance from additional safety
organizations with its code mandatory safety standardization
efforts based on the product’s significant safety aspects. Mr.
Earley and Mr. Jacobson were instrumental in numerous code and
safety changes in both the electrical and lighting industries. Both
strongly believe that, in light of the Company’s standardization
progress including its product specification approval voting for by
ANSI / NEMA (American National Standardization Institute / National
Electrical Manufacturers Association) and being voted into 10
segments in the NEC Code Book, it has met the necessary safety
conditions for becoming a ceiling safety standardization
requirement for homes and buildings.
- Insurance Companies. Company
strongly believes its products can save insurance companies many
billions of dollars annually by reducing fires, ladder falls, and
electrocutions among other things. Management expects that once it
completes an entire range and variations of its safe advanced plug
& play products it will start being recommended by insurance
companies.
2024 Financial Results:
Revenue in 2024 increased to a record $86.3
million including record sales of $23.7 million which were realized
in the fourth quarter including e-commerce sales, smart home
products and advanced plug & play products. Gross profit in
2024 increased to $24.6 million, or 28% of revenue. Gross profit
was positively impacted by the gross profit from the acquisition of
the Belami e-commerce platform, which contained over 60 websites
for lighting and home décor. Cash, cash equivalents and restricted
cash, amounted to $15.5 million as of December 31, 2024, as
compared to 13.0 million as of September 30, 2024. Cash used in
operating activities for 2024 amounted to $18.3 million, as
compared to $13.0 million in 2023. Net loss per share decreased by
$0.09 to $0.36 per share in 2024 when compared to 2023. Adjusted
EBITDA loss per share, a non-GAAP measure, amounted to $(0.13) per
share in 2024, as compared to $(0.17) per share, in 2023.
The Company’s annual report on Form 10-K will be
filed with the SEC and will be made available on the Company’s
investor relations
website: https://ir.skyplug.com/sec-filings/.
Management Commentary
Our year ended December 31, 2024 was highlighted
by our four quarters of consecutive growth including sales and
rollout of our advanced ceiling smart and standard plug & play
platform products on many leading U.S. and Canadian websites. We
believe we have accelerated our cadence of sales with a robust
gross margin profile, notably managing the cash burn of SKYX. Our
e-commerce platform with over 60 websites is expected to continue
providing additional cash flow to the Company. Management
anticipates that the Company will become cash flow positive during
the second half of 2025.
About SKYX Platforms Corp.
As electricity is a standard in every home and
building, our mission is to make homes and buildings become
safe-advanced and smart as the new standard. SKYX has a series of
highly disruptive advanced-safe-smart platform technologies, with
over 97 U.S. and global patents and patent pending applications.
Additionally, the Company owns over 60 lighting and home decor
websites for both retail and commercial segments. Our technologies
place an emphasis on high quality and ease of use, while
significantly enhancing both safety and lifestyle in homes and
buildings. We believe that our products are a necessity in every
room in both homes and other buildings in the U.S. and globally.
For more information, please visit our website
at https://skyplug.com/ or follow us
on LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release
are not based on historical facts, but are forward-looking
statements. These statements can be identified by the use of
forward-looking terminology such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “believe,”
“can,” “could,” “continue,” “estimate,” “expect,” “evaluate,”
“forecast,” “guidance,” “intend,” “likely,” “may,” “might,”
“objective,” “ongoing,” “outlook,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,”
“probable,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target” “view,” “will,”
or “would,” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or
comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements
contain these words. These statements reflect the Company’s
reasonable judgment with respect to future events and are subject
to risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which have
outcomes difficult to predict and may be outside our control, that
could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and
uncertainties include statements relating to the Company’s ability
to successfully launch, commercialize, develop additional features
and achieve market acceptance of its products and technologies and
integrate its products and technologies with third-party platforms
or technologies; the Company’s ability to achieve positive cash
flows; the Company’s efforts and ability to drive the adoption of
its products and technologies as a standard feature, including
their use in homes, hotels, offices and cruise ships; the Company’s
ability to capture market share; the Company’s estimates of its
potential addressable market and demand for its products and
technologies; the Company’s ability to raise additional capital to
support its operations as needed, which may not be available on
acceptable terms or at all; the Company’s ability to continue as a
going concern; the Company’s ability to execute on any sales and
licensing or other strategic opportunities; the possibility that
any of the Company’s products will become National Electrical Code
(NEC)-code or otherwise code mandatory in any jurisdiction, or that
any of the Company’s current or future products or technologies
will be adopted by any state, country, or municipality, within any
specific timeframe or at all; risks arising from mergers,
acquisitions, joint ventures and other collaborations; the
Company’s ability to attract and retain key executives and
qualified personnel; guidance provided by management, which may
differ from the Company’s actual operating results; the potential
impact of unstable market and economic conditions on the Company’s
business, financial condition, and stock price; and other risks and
uncertainties described in the Company’s filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its periodic reports
on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. There can be no assurance as to any of
the foregoing matters. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as
of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise,
except as required by U.S. federal securities laws.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Management considers earnings (loss) before
interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, as
adjusted, an important indicator in evaluating the Company’s
business on a consistent basis across various periods. Due to the
significance of non-recurring items, EBITDA, as adjusted, enables
management to monitor and evaluate the business on a consistent
basis. The Company uses EBITDA, as adjusted, as a primary measure,
among others, to analyze and evaluate financial and strategic
planning decisions regarding future operating investments and
potential acquisitions. The Company believes that EBITDA, as
adjusted, eliminates items that are not part of the Company’s core
operations, such as interest expense, amortization expense, and
impairment charges associated with intangible assets, or items that
do not involve a cash outlay, such as share-based payments and
non-recurring items, such as transaction costs. EBITDA, as
adjusted, should be considered in addition to, rather than as a
substitute for, pre-tax income (loss), net income (loss) and cash
flows used in operating activities. This non-GAAP financial measure
excludes significant expenses that are required by GAAP to be
recorded in the Company’s financial statements and is subject to
inherent limitations. Investors should review the reconciliation of
this non-GAAP financial measure to the comparable GAAP financial
measure. Investors should not rely on any single financial measure
to evaluate the Company’s business.
Investor Relations Contact:
Jeff RamsonPCG
Advisoryjramson@pcgadvisory.com
Dial-In Information:
SKYX Participating Members will Include:
- Rani Kohen, Founder and Executive
Chairman
- Steve Schmidt, SKYX President,
(Former CEO of Nielsen Data Corporation and former President of
Office Depot International)
- Lenny Sokolow, Co-CEO
- Marc Boisseau, CFO
SKYX Platforms – Q4 2024 and 2024 Full Year
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