MICT - MICT Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results with $55M Annual Revenues

$9.2M in Gross Profit by Insurance Business for Full Year 2021, of w hich $3.9M in Gross Profit Was Delivered in Q4 , Equating to Q uarter -o ver -Q uarter G rowth of 39.3%

Due Diligence on T ingo Inc. Has B een Complete d and The Merger Agreement Updated and Reaffirmed

MONTVALE, N.J., June 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MICT, Inc. (Nasdaq: MICT), (the "Company"), today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.

Year End 2021 Highlights and Recent Developments

• Announced definitive merger agreement with Tingo Inc. (“Tingo”), which on May 16, 2022 announced total revenues for Q1 2022 of $257.1m, operating income of $65.5m and Non-GAAP adjusted operating income of $143.9m
• MICT Insurance business generated revenue of approximately $55 million in its first year of operation
• Total gross profit of MICT in 2021 was $9.2 million versus a gross loss of $58,000 in 2020
• Company obtained further insurance licences, both nationwide and regional, allowing it to distribute insurance products throughout China for B2B, and for the first time B2B2C and B2C
• Following the launch of subsidiary Magpie Securities’ mobile stock trading app, first revenues were earned by this division during Q4 2021
• Received in-principle approval of Capital Markets Services License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, paving the way to launch Magpie Invest in Singapore and elsewhere and significantly expand its product range
• As of December 31, 2021, cash position was approximately $95 million, up from approximately $29 million as of December 31, 2020
  

Darren Mercer, MICT’s Chief Executive Officer commented, “We are pleased that COVID-19 conditions in Shanghai and certain other provinces recently improved such that we have now been able to finalize our audit and financial results. Following the launch of our insurance business towards the end of December of 2020, we grew it into a thriving enterprise with $55 million in revenues. While insurance commission revenues declined in the fourth quarter because of a change in government regulation, our volume growth and gross profit growth continues strongly as we expand our product range to add more profitable specialty insurance products, in addition to our core B2B offerings. The positive impact on our gross margins is evidenced by the quarter-over-quarter increase in our gross profit from $2.8 million in Q3 to $3.9 million in Q4, an increase of $1.1 million or 39.3%, and by the significant increase in our gross profit margin to 24%, up from 15% in Q3 and 5% in Q2. Following the lifting of COVID-19 lockdowns in certain key provinces in China, we have been able to resume our work towards introducing our B2B2C and B2C insurance products, which we expect to launch in the second half of 2022, and which we are confident will result in a continuation of our increase in margins and revenues.

“We officially launched our stock trading app in September 2021 and continue to improve the technology with more features and functionality. This is an ongoing process to develop an app that is a world class product. While the revenues generated from our stock trading app were minimal in the fourth quarter, we expect dramatic growth in the coming year as we expand internationally and entertain a number of exciting white-label partnerships and joint venture opportunities. As part of our globalization strategy, we recently received our Capital Markets License (“CMS License”) in Singapore, and, as announced yesterday, are looking for additional expansion opportunities in Australia, as well as in Europe and the U.S. Our CMS License not only allows us to operate throughout Singapore and onboard clients from several other countries, it, together with the Money Services Operators License we have applied for, will also allow us to launch a number of new products, including payment services, foreign exchange services, and CFDs, including commodity CFDs and cryptocurrency CFDs.

“On May 10 ^th , we announced the execution of a definitive merger agreement with Tingo, a leading and highly profitable Agri-Fintech company operating in Africa, and this week we completed the due diligence and have updated and reaffirmed our definitive merger agreement. Tingo provides a fintech and marketplace platform that amongst other things provides Africa’s farmers with access to international markets to secure pricing for their produce. We are very excited about the opportunities and synergies arising from the combination of MICT and Tingo, including the opportunity to create one of the world’s leading fully integrated fintech platforms, with combined financial services, payment services, a marketplace and an e-wallet, together with our own wealth management, stock trading and insurance products. We are also excited about the opportunity to introduce Tingo’s platform and products into China and other parts of Asia, and about the opportunity to work with Tingo to accelerate the globalization of our business. Following the completion of due diligence, MICT and Tingo are working together to meet the closing conditions for the Merger, including obtaining stockholder approval, the satisfaction of regulatory requirements and the SEC declaration of effectiveness of a Registration Statement, all of which we aim to achieve during the third quarter of this year,” concluded Mr. Mercer.

Q 4 2021 Financial Review

• Revenue in the fourth quarter was $15.9 million versus $18.5 million in the prior quarter and $0.8 million in the year-ago period. The revenue decline from the third quarter was driven by a reduction in commission rates, set by government regulations, somewhat offset by strong volume growth in the insurance business.
• Gross profit increased to $3.9 million in Q4, up from $2.8 million in the prior quarter. Gross margin improved significantly in Q4 to 24.3%, up from 14.8% in Q3 and 5.4% in Q2. The improvement in gross margins was the result of MICT’s focus on more profitable insurance business.
• Selling & marketing expenses were $2.9 million for the fourth quarter, up from $1.5 million in the third quarter and $1.4 million in the second quarter. The increase in selling and marketing expenses were driven by added expenses to support insurance business and launch of the stock trading app.
• General and administrative (G&A) expenses were $10.4 million in the fourth quarter, up from $6.6 million in the third quarter and $14.9 million in the second quarter. The increase in G&A from the third quarter was a result of (i) increased expenses associated with new businesses launched; (ii) a bad and doubtful debt provision of $2.6 million, to reflect a new more prudent bad debt provision policy in our insurance business; (iii) a book loss of $1.1 million relating to the decrease in the holding percentage in our -Guangxi Zhongtong subsidiary, which was previously held under a VIE arrangement.
• The Net Loss for Q4 was $8.2 million, up from $5.3 million in the prior quarter.
• The Non-GAAP Net Loss for Q4 was $7.9 million versus $3.1 million for Q3, mainly due to the $2.6 million adjustment on the introduction of our new bad and doubtful debt provision policy and the book loss of $1 million relating to the change in accounting for the investment into our Guangxi Zhongtong subsidiary.
• As of December 31, 2021, the cash position was approximately $95 million

About MICT, Inc.
MICT, Inc. (NasdaqCM: MICT) operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, GFH Intermediate Holdings Ltd ("GFHI"), and GFHI’s various fully owned subsidiaries or VIE structures. GFHI's versatile proprietary trading technology platform is designed to serve a large number of high growth sectors in the global fintech space. Primary areas of focus include online brokerage for equities trading and sales of insurance products in several high-growth foreign markets including Asia.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to providing financial measurements based on generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S., or GAAP, we provide additional financial metrics that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, or non-GAAP financial measures. Management uses non-GAAP financial measures, in addition to GAAP financial measures, to understand and compare operating results across accounting periods, for financial and operational decision making, for planning and forecasting purposes and to evaluate our financial performance.

Management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures reflect our ongoing business in a manner that allows for meaningful comparisons and analysis of trends in our business, as they exclude expenses and gains that are not reflective of our ongoing operating results. Management also believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information to investors in understanding and evaluating our operating results and future prospects in the same manner as management and in comparing financial results across accounting periods and to those of peer companies.

The non-GAAP financial measures do not replace the presentation of our GAAP financial results and should only be used as a supplement to, not as a substitute for, our financial results presented in accordance with GAAP.

The non-GAAP adjustments, and the basis for excluding them from non-GAAP financial measures, are outlined below:

The following table reconciles, for the periods presented, GAAP net loss attributable to MICT to non-GAAP net income attributable to MICT. and GAAP loss per diluted share attributable to MICT to non-GAAP net loss per diluted share attributable to MICT.: