VerifyMe Reports First Quarter 2025 Financial Results

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VerifyMe (NASDAQ: VRME) reported its Q1 2025 financial results, showing a decline in performance. Revenue decreased to $4.5 million from $5.8 million in Q1 2024, with approximately 53% of the reduction attributed to a discontinued contract. Gross profit fell to $1.5 million (33% margin) from $2.3 million (39% margin) year-over-year. The company reported a net loss of $0.6 million ($0.05 per diluted share), unchanged from Q1 2024. Adjusted EBITDA dropped to $0 million from $0.1 million in the previous year. The company maintained a strong cash position of $5.7 million as of March 31, 2025, with $6.0 million in working capital. The revenue decline was primarily due to decreased demand across proactive customers, a customer's shift in cold chain strategy, and the divestiture of Trust Codes Global business in December 2024.

Positive

• Strong cash position with $5.7 million and $6.0 million in working capital
• Proactive services gross margin percentage improved in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024
• Successfully implemented cost-cutting measures in Precision Logistics segment

Negative

• Revenue declined 22.4% to $4.5 million from $5.8 million YoY
• Gross margin decreased to 33% from 39% YoY
• Loss of significant Premium services customer contract
• Decreased demand across several proactive customers

Insights

Financial Analyst

VerifyMe's Q1 shows revenue decline and margin compression, though cost-cutting helped maintain stable net loss despite lower sales.

VerifyMe's Q1 2025 results reveal concerning trends in both top-line performance and profitability. Revenue declined 22.4% year-over-year to $4.5 million from $5.8 million, with management attributing approximately half of this decrease to a previously disclosed discontinued contract with a Premium services customer. The remaining decline stems from decreased demand across several proactive customers and strategic shifts by another customer in their cold chain approach.

The company's gross margin compressed significantly to 33% from 39% in the prior-year period, primarily due to the loss of higher-margin Premium services revenue. This 6% margin deterioration is particularly concerning as it suggests potential challenges in maintaining pricing power or operational efficiency. Despite these headwinds, VerifyMe maintained a stable net loss of $0.6 million through active cost management, including cuts in the Precision Logistics segment and reduced expenses following the December 2024 divestiture of their Trust Codes Global business.

The company's financial position remains relatively solid with $5.7 million in cash and $6.0 million in working capital, providing some runway to address operational challenges. However, Adjusted EBITDA fell to $0 from $0.1 million in Q1 2024, indicating the business is essentially breaking even on a cash flow basis before accounting for capital expenditures and financing costs.

The market environment continues to challenge VerifyMe, with CEO Adam Stedham acknowledging macro pressures while emphasizing the company's annual operating cash flow and cash reserves as strengths. However, with revenues declining and margins compressing, the path to shareholder value creation remains uncertain without a clear catalyst for growth or margin recovery.

• Quarterly revenue of $4.5 million, compared to $5.8 million in Q1 2024⁽¹⁾
• Quarterly gross profit of $1.5 million or 33%, compared to $2.3 million or 39% in Q1 2024
• Net loss of ($0.6) million in Q1 2025 and Q1 2024⁽¹⁾
• Adjusted EBITDA⁽²⁾ of $0 million, compared to $0.1 million in Q1 2024⁽¹⁾
• Cash of $5.7 million as of March 31, 2025

LAKE MARY, Fla., May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME) ("VerifyMe," "we," "our," or the "Company") provides brand owners time and temperature sensitive logistics, and brand protection and enhancement solutions, announced today the Company's financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2025 ("Q1 2025").

Adam Stedham, VerifyMe's CEO and President stated, "We continue to progress with technical improvements in our Precision Logistics Segment as well as enhancing our sales and marketing efforts. While we are not immune to the current macro-environment, the annual cash flow from the operating business, coupled with our elevated cash level on the balance sheet, provides a strong backdrop to create shareholder value."

Key Financial Highlights for Q1 2025:

• Quarterly consolidated revenue of $4.5 million in Q1 2025, compared to $5.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 ("Q1 2024"), approximately 53% of reduction is attributable to previously disclosed discontinued contract with one customer in our Premium services
• Gross profit of $1.5 million or 33% in Q1 2025, compared to $2.3 million or 39% in Q1 2024
• Net loss of ($0.6) million or ($0.05) per diluted share in Q1 2025 and Q1 2024⁽¹⁾
• Adjusted EBITDA⁽²⁾ of $0 million in Q1 2025, compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $0.1 million in Q1 2024⁽¹⁾
• Cash of $5.7 million as of March 31, 2025

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(1) Including $0.7 million from loss of previously disclosed Premium services customer

(2) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. See "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for information about this non-GAAP measure. A reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure, net loss, is included as a schedule to this release.

Financial Results for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2025:

Revenue in Q1 2025 was $4.5 million, compared to $5.8 million in Q1 2024. Revenue for the quarter decreased by $1.3 million. The decrease is primarily due to the decreased demand across several of our proactive customers as well as one customer's shift to their cold chain strategy, a discontinued contract with one customer in our Premium services, partially offset by an increase in remaining premium revenue. The decrease in revenue in our authentication segment is primarily due to the divestiture of our Trust Codes Global business in December 2024.

Gross profit in Q1 2025 was $1.5 million, compared to $2.3 million in Q1 2024. The resulting gross margin percentage was 33% for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to 39% for the three months ended March 31, 2024.  The decrease in gross margin was principally due to the discontinued contract in Premium services in the Precision Logistics segment which has higher margins. The Proactive services gross margin percentage improved in Q1 2025 compared to Q1 2024.  

Operating loss was ($0.6) million in Q1 2025 and Q1 2024. The decrease in gross profit was more than offset by the decrease in operating expenses in the quarter. In addition to the reduction in operating costs with the divestiture of Trust Codes, the Company also implemented cost cutting measures in Precision Logistics.

Our net loss was ($0.6) million in Q1 2025 and Q1 2024⁽¹⁾. The resulting loss per diluted share was ($0.05) in Q1 2025 and Q1 2024. 

Adjusted EBITDA⁽²⁾  in Q1 2025 was $0.0 million, compared to $0.1 million in Q1 2024. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. Please see "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" for a discussion of this non-GAAP measure. A reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure, net loss is included as a schedule to this release.

At March 31, 2025, we had a $5.7 million cash balance and $6.0 million in working capital.

At March 31, 2025, we had 12,665,892 shares issued and 12,414,772 shares outstanding.

Earnings Call

The Company has scheduled an earnings conference call and webcast for 11:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 13, 2025.  Prepared remarks regarding the company's financial and operational results will be followed by a question and answer period with VerifyMe's executive team. The conference call may be accessed via webcast at: https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=hcsZJDgP or by calling +1 (844) 763-8274 within the US, or +1 (412) 717-9224 internationally, and requesting the "VerifyMe Call." The presentation slides broadcast via the webcast will also be available on the Investors section of the VerifyMe website the morning of the call. Participants must be logged in via telephone to submit a question to management during the call. Participants may optionally pre-register for the conference call and webcast at: https://dpregister.com/sreg/10198804/feec13a908. 

The webcast and presentation will be archived on the Investors section of VerifyMe's website and will remain available for 90 days.

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(1) Including $0.7 million from loss of previously disclosed Premium services customer

(2) Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. See "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for information about this non-GAAP measure. A reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure, net loss, is included as a schedule to this release.

About VerifyMe, Inc.

VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRME), provides specialized logistics for time and temperature sensitive products, as well as brand protection and enhancement solutions. To learn more, visit www.verifyme.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "continue," "may," "should," "will," and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include our engagement in future acquisitions or strategic partnerships that increase our capital requirements or cause us to incur debt or assume contingent liabilities, our reliance on one key strategic partner for shipping services in our Precision Logistics segment, competition including by our key strategic partner, seasonal trends in our business, severe climate conditions, the highly competitive nature of the industry in which we operate, our brand image and corporate reputation, impairments related to our goodwill and other intangible assets, economic and other factors such as recessions, downturns in the economy, inflation, global uncertainty and instability, the effects of pandemics, changes in United States social, political, and regulatory conditions and/or a disruption of financial markets, reduced freight volumes due to economic conditions, reduced discretionary spending in a recessionary environment, global supply-chain delays or shortages, fluctuations in labor costs, raw materials, and changes in the availability of key suppliers, our history of losses, our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income, the confusion of our name brand with other brands, the ability of our technology to work as anticipated and to successfully provide analytics logistics management, our ability to continue to invest in the development and commercialization of our Authentication segment, the ability of our strategic partners to integrate our solutions into their product offerings, our ability to manage our growth effectively, our ability to successfully develop and expand our sales and marketing capabilities, risks related to doing business outside of the U.S., intellectual property litigation, our ability to successfully develop, implement, maintain, upgrade, enhance, and protect our information technology systems, our reliance on third-party information technology service providers, our ability to respond to evolving laws related to information technology such as privacy laws, our ability to attract, retain and develop successors for management, our ability to work with partners in selling our technologies to businesses, production difficulties, our inability to enter into contracts and arrangements with future partners, our ability to acquire new customers, issues which may affect the reluctance of large companies to change their purchasing of products, acceptance of our technologies and the efficiency of our authenticators in the field, our ability to comply with the continued listing standards of the Nasdaq Capital Market, and our ability to timely pay amounts due and comply with the covenants under our debt facilities. These risk factors and uncertainties include those more fully described in VerifyMe's Annual Report and Quarterly Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under the heading entitled "Risk Factors." Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those currently anticipated. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes both financial measures in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), as well as non-GAAP financial measures. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's performance, financial position or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts that are not normally included or excluded in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed as supplemental to and should not be considered as alternatives to any other GAAP financial measures. They may not be indicative of the historical operating results of VerifyMe nor are they intended to be predictive of potential future results. Investors should not consider non-GAAP financial measures in isolation or as substitutes for performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.

VerifyMe's management uses and relies on EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, which are non-GAAP financial measures. The Company believes that both management and shareholders benefit from referring to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA in planning, forecasting and analyzing future periods. Additionally, the Company believes Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors to evaluate its results because it excludes certain items that are not directly related to the Company's core operating performance. In particular, with regard to our comparison of Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2025, to the three months ended March 31, 2024, we believe is useful to investors in understanding the results of operations. The Company's management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating its financial and operational decision making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparison. The Company's management recognizes that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, as non-GAAP financial measures, have inherent limitations because of the described excluded items.

The Company defines EBITDA as net loss before interest (income) expense, income tax expense (benefit), and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA represents EBITDA plus non-cash stock compensation expense, severance expense, gain on derecognized liability, impairments, change in fair value of contingent consideration,  and one-time professional expenses for acquisitions and divestiture. VerifyMe believes EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are important measures of VerifyMe's operating performance because they allow management, investors and analysts to evaluate and assess VerifyMe's core operating results from period-to-period after removing the impact of items of a non-operational nature that affect comparability.

A reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to the most comparable financial measure, net loss, calculated in accordance with GAAP is included in a schedule to this press release. The Company believes that providing the non-GAAP financial measure, together with the reconciliation to GAAP, helps investors make comparisons between VerifyMe and other companies. In making any comparisons to other companies, investors need to be aware that companies use different non-GAAP measures to evaluate their financial performance. Investors should pay close attention to the specific definition being used and to the reconciliation between such measure and the corresponding GAAP measure provided by each company under applicable SEC rules as the presentation here may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies.

VerifyMe, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(In thousands, except share data)
		March 31, 2025				December 31, 2024
		(Unaudited)
ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents		$	5,707			$	2,823
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit loss reserve, $71 and $71 as of March         31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively			955				2,636
Unbilled revenue			641				733
Prepaid expenses and other current assets			322				131
Inventory			47				39
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS			7,672				6,362
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET		$	88			$	116
RIGHT OF USE ASSET			100				236
INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET			5,247				5,365
GOODWILL			3,988				3,988
TOTAL ASSETS		$	17,095			$	16,067
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Term note, current		$	-			$	500
Accounts payable			1,295				2,971
Other accrued expense			305				660
Lease liability- current			48				108
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES			1,648				4,239
LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
Long-term lease liability			54				139
Term note			-				375
Convertible note – related party			450				450
Convertible note			300				650
TOTAL LIABILITIES		$	2,452			$	5,853
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value, 37,564,767 shares authorized; 0    shares issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively			-				-
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value; 85 shares authorized; 0.85 shares    issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively			-				-
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 675,000,000 shares authorized;12,665,892 and    10,829,908 shares issued, 12,414,772 and 10,539,441 shares outstanding as of March    31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively			13				11
Additional paid in capital			101,225				96,344
Treasury stock as cost; 251,120 and 290,467 shares at March 31, 2025 and December 31,    2024, respectively			(351)				(480)
Accumulated deficit			(86,244)				(85,673)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss			-				12
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY			14,643				10,214
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY		$	17,095			$	16,067

 

VerifyMe, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share data)
																											Three Months Ended
																											March 31, 2025					March 31, 2024
NET REVENUE																											$	4,455				$	5,759
COST OF REVENUE																												2,965					3,499
GROSS PROFIT																												1,490					2,260
OPERATING EXPENSES
Segment management and Technology(a)																												926					1,381
General and administrative (a)																												856					1,121
Research and development																												5					55
Sales and marketing (a)																												296					350
Total Operating expenses																												2,083					2,907
LOSS BEFORE OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)																												(593)					(647)
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)
Interest income(expense) net																												22					(38)
Change in fair value of contingent consideration																												-					132
TOTAL OTHER INCOME, NET																												22					94
NET LOSS																											$	(571)				$	(553)
LOSS PER SHARE
BASIC																												(0.05)					(0.05)
DILUTED																												(0.05)					(0.05)
WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON SHARE OUTSTANDING
BASIC																												12,292,150					10,073,445
DILUTED																												12,292,150					10,073,445

(a)	Includes share-based compensation of $333 thousand and $458 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, respectively.

 

VerifyMe, Inc.
Consolidated EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation Table (Unaudited) (In thousands)
		Three months ended March 31,
			2025				2024
Net loss (GAAP)		$	(571)			$	(553)
Interest (income) expense, net			(22)				38
Amortization and depreciation			286				299
Total EBITDA (Non-GAAP)			(307)				(216)
Adjustments:
Stock based compensation			41				46
Fair value of restricted stock and restricted stock units issued in exchange for services			292				412
Severance expense			57				-
Change in fair value of contingent consideration			-				(132)
Gain on derecognized liability			(100)				-
Impairments			-				4
One-time professional expenses for acquisitions/divestiture			17				-
Total Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP)		$	-			$	114

 

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FAQ

What were VerifyMe's (VRME) Q1 2025 earnings results?

VerifyMe reported Q1 2025 revenue of $4.5 million, gross profit of $1.5 million (33% margin), and a net loss of $0.6 million ($0.05 per share). Adjusted EBITDA was $0 million.

Why did VerifyMe's revenue decline in Q1 2025?

Revenue declined due to decreased demand across proactive customers, a customer's shift in cold chain strategy, a discontinued contract with a Premium services customer, and the divestiture of Trust Codes Global business.

What is VerifyMe's (VRME) current cash position?

As of March 31, 2025, VerifyMe had $5.7 million in cash and $6.0 million in working capital.

How much did VerifyMe's gross margin decrease in Q1 2025?

VerifyMe's gross margin decreased to 33% in Q1 2025 from 39% in Q1 2024, primarily due to the discontinued contract in Premium services.

How many shares does VerifyMe (VRME) have outstanding?

As of March 31, 2025, VerifyMe had 12,665,892 shares issued and 12,414,772 shares outstanding.