UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
☒
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QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2020
or
☐
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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Commission file number: 001-33627
TSS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
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20-2027651
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(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
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110 E. Old Settlers Blvd
Round Rock, Texas
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78664
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
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(512) 310-1000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed
since last report)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act :
None
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all
reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the past 12 months (or for
such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such
reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for
the past 90
days.
Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether each registrant has submitted
electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted
pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this
chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter
period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes
☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large
accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated
filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company.
See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated
filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company”
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer ☐
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Accelerated filer ☐
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Non-accelerated filer ☐
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Smaller reporting company ☒
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Emerging growth company ☐
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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the
registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period
for complying with any new or revised financial accounting
standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
☐
Indicated by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company
(as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s
classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
Number of shares of common stock outstanding as of
November 16,
2020 18,945,135
TSS, INC.
QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10Q
For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30,
2020
“SAFE HARBOR” STATEMENT
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PART I–FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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1
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Item 1. Consolidated Financial
Statements
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1
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
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16
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative
Disclosures About Market Risk
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20
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures
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20
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PART II–OTHER INFORMATION
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21
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Item 1. Legal Proceedings
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21
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Item 1A. Risk Factors
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21
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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and
Use of Proceeds
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21
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Item 6. Exhibits
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22
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“SAFE HARBOR” STATEMENT
UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF
1995
From time to time, we make oral and written statements that may
constitute “forward-looking statements” (rather than historical
facts) as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995 or by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in
its rules, regulations and releases, including Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”). We desire to take advantage of the “safe harbor”
provisions in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
for forward looking statements made from time to time, including,
but not limited to, the forward- looking statements made in this
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (the “Form 10-Q”), as well as those
made in other filings with the SEC.
Forward looking statements can be identified by our use of
forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expect,”
“anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “continue,” “forecast,”
“foresee” or other similar words. Such forward looking statements
are based on management’s current plans and expectations and are
subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in plans that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those described in
the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in our
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those
described under Risk Factors set forth in Part I, Item 1A of
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 2019.
We expressly disclaim any obligation to release publicly any
updates or any changes in our expectations or any changes in
events, conditions or circumstances on which any forward-looking
statement is based.
As used herein, except as otherwise indicated by the context, the
terms “TSS”, “Company”, “we”, “our” and “us” are used to refer to
TSS, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Consolidated Financial Statements
TSS, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands except par values)
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September 30, |
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2020
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December 31,
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(unaudited)
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2019
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Current Assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Cash and cash equivalents
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|
$ |
9,455 |
|
|
$ |
8,678 |
|
Contract and other receivables, net
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|
|
1,258 |
|
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|
3,865 |
|
Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted
contracts
|
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|
341 |
|
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|
181 |
|
Inventories, net
|
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|
207 |
|
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|
1,353 |
|
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
|
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|
237 |
|
|
|
108 |
|
Total current assets
|
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|
11,498 |
|
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|
14,185 |
|
Property and equipment, net
|
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|
764 |
|
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|
705 |
|
Lease right-of-use asset
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|
1,034 |
|
|
|
1,481 |
|
Goodwill
|
|
|
780 |
|
|
|
780 |
|
Intangible assets, net
|
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|
239 |
|
|
|
307 |
|
Other assets
|
|
|
230 |
|
|
|
109 |
|
Total assets
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|
$ |
14,545 |
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|
$ |
17,567 |
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
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Current Liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
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Bank note payable
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$ |
373 |
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|
$ |
- |
|
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
|
|
|
2,888 |
|
|
|
8,851 |
|
Deferred revenues
|
|
|
4,959 |
|
|
|
2,104 |
|
Current portion of lease liabilities
|
|
|
721 |
|
|
|
645 |
|
Total current liabilities
|
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|
8,941 |
|
|
|
11,600 |
|
Long-term borrowings
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|
2,183 |
|
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|
2,028 |
|
Non-current portion of lease liabilities
|
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|
404 |
|
|
|
956 |
|
Non-current portion of bank note payable
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|
520 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Non-current portion of deferred revenues
|
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117 |
|
|
|
114 |
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Total liabilities
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12,165 |
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14,698 |
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|
|
|
|
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Commitments and Contingencies
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|
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- |
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|
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- |
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Stockholders’ Equity:
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|
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|
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Preferred stock, $.0001 par value; 1,000 shares authorized at
September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019; none issued
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- |
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- |
|
Common stock, $.0001 par value; 49,000 shares authorized at
September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019; 18,945 and 18,524 issued;
17,851 and 17,562 outstanding at September 30, 2020 and December
31, 2019, respectively
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2 |
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2 |
|
Additional paid-in capital
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69,902 |
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69,661 |
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Treasury stock 1,094 and 962 shares at cost at September 30, 2020
and December 31, 2019
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(1,872 |
) |
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(1,700 |
) |
Accumulated deficit
|
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(65,652 |
)
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(65,094 |
)
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Total stockholders' equity
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|
2,380 |
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|
2,869 |
|
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
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$ |
14,545 |
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$ |
17,567 |
|
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial
statements.
TSS, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in thousands, except per-share amounts; unaudited)
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Three Months Ended
September 30
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Nine Months Ended
September 30
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2020
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2019
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2020
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2019
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Results of Operations:
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|
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|
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Revenue
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$ |
20,763 |
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$ |
4,176 |
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$ |
37,814 |
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$ |
12,375 |
|
Cost of revenue
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17,990 |
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|
2,679 |
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32,673 |
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7,790 |
|
Gross profit
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2,773 |
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|
1,497 |
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5,141 |
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4,585 |
|
Selling, general and administrative expenses
|
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|
1,668 |
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|
1,425 |
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5,011 |
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|
4,301 |
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Depreciation and amortization
|
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139 |
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|
84 |
|
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|
390 |
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|
|
244 |
|
Total operating costs
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|
1,807 |
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1,509 |
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5,401 |
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4,545 |
|
Income (loss) from operations
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|
|
966 |
|
|
|
(12 |
)
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|
(260 |
)
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40 |
|
Other income (expense):
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Interest expense, net
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|
(105 |
)
|
|
|
(78 |
)
|
|
|
(271 |
)
|
|
|
(238 |
)
|
Income (loss)from operations before income taxes
|
|
|
861 |
|
|
|
(90 |
)
|
|
|
(531 |
)
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|
|
(198 |
)
|
Income tax expense
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9 |
|
|
|
5 |
|
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27 |
|
|
|
22 |
|
Net income (loss)
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|
$ |
852 |
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|
$ |
(95 |
)
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|
$ |
(558 |
)
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|
$ |
(220 |
)
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Basic income (loss) per common share
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|
$ |
0.05 |
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|
$ |
(0.01 |
)
|
|
$ |
(0.03 |
)
|
|
$ |
(0.01 |
)
|
Diluted income (loss) per common share
|
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
(0.01 |
)
|
|
$ |
(0.03 |
)
|
|
$ |
(0.01 |
)
|
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial
statements.
TSS, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’
Equity
(in thousands, except share amounts, unaudited)
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Additional
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Total
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
|
|
Paid-in
|
|
|
Treasury Stock
|
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|
Accumulated
|
|
|
Stockholders'
|
|
|
|
Shares
|
|
|
Amount
|
|
|
Capital
|
|
|
Shares
|
|
|
Amount
|
|
|
Deficit
|
|
|
Equity
|
|
Balance January 1, 2019
|
|
|
17,520 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,241 |
|
|
|
777 |
|
|
$ |
(1,542 |
)
|
|
$ |
(65,220 |
)
|
|
$ |
2,481 |
|
Restricted stock vested
|
|
|
390 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Stock options exercised
|
|
|
310 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
31 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
31 |
|
Treasury shares repurchased
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
159 |
|
|
|
(137 |
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(137 |
)
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
72 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
72 |
|
Net loss
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(31 |
)
|
|
|
(31 |
)
|
Balance at March 31, 2019
|
|
|
18,220 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,344 |
|
|
|
936 |
|
|
$ |
(1,679 |
)
|
|
$ |
(65,251 |
)
|
|
$ |
2,416 |
|
Treasury shares repurchased
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
20 |
|
|
|
(16 |
)
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(16 |
)
|
Stock options exercised
|
|
|
230 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
23 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
23 |
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
87 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
87 |
|
Net loss
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(94 |
)
|
|
|
(94 |
)
|
Balance at June 30, 2019
|
|
|
18,450 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,454 |
|
|
|
956 |
|
|
$ |
(1,695 |
) |
|
$ |
(65,345 |
)
|
|
$ |
2,416 |
|
Treasury shares repurchased
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
(3 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(3 |
) |
Stock options exercised
|
|
|
50 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
5 |
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
85 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
85 |
|
Net loss
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(95 |
) |
|
|
(95 |
) |
Balance at September 30, 2019
|
|
|
18,500 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,544 |
|
|
|
959 |
|
|
$ |
(1,698 |
) |
|
$ |
(65,440 |
) |
|
$ |
2,408 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
|
|
Paid-in
|
|
|
Treasury Stock
|
|
|
Accumulated
|
|
|
Stockholders'
|
|
|
|
Shares
|
|
|
Amount
|
|
|
Capital
|
|
|
Shares
|
|
|
Amount
|
|
|
Deficit
|
|
|
Equity
|
|
Balance January 1, 2020
|
|
|
18,524 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,661 |
|
|
|
962 |
|
|
$ |
(1,700 |
)
|
|
$ |
(65,094 |
)
|
|
$ |
2,869 |
|
Restricted stock vested
|
|
|
392 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Treasury shares repurchased
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
130 |
|
|
|
(170 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(170 |
)
|
Stock options exercised
|
|
|
24 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
2 |
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
109 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
109 |
|
Net loss
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(368 |
) |
|
|
(368 |
)
|
Balance at March 31, 2020
|
|
|
18,940 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,772 |
|
|
|
1,092 |
|
|
$ |
(1,870 |
)
|
|
$ |
(65,462 |
)
|
|
$ |
2,442 |
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
93 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
93 |
|
Net loss
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(1,042 |
)
|
|
|
(1,042 |
)
|
Balance at June 30, 2020
|
|
|
18,940 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
$ |
69,865 |
|
|
|
1,092 |
|
|
$ |
(1,870 |
)
|
|
$ |
(66,504 |
)
|
|
$ |
1,493 |
|
Treasury shares repurchased
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
(2 |
) |
|
|
- |
|
|
|
(2 |
) |
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
37 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
37 |
|
Restricted stock vested
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Net income
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
852 |
|
|
|
852 |
|
Balance at September 30, 2020
|
|
|
18,945 |
|
|
$ |
2 |
|
|
|
69,902 |
|
|
|
1,094 |
|
|
$ |
(1,872 |
)
|
|
$ |
(66,652 |
)
|
|
$ |
2,380 |
|
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial
statements.
TSS, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in thousands; unaudited)
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net loss
|
|
$ |
(558 |
)
|
|
$ |
(220 |
)
|
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by (used in)
operating activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization
|
|
|
390 |
|
|
|
244 |
|
Non-cash interest
|
|
|
90 |
|
|
|
80 |
|
Amortization of debt discount
|
|
|
68 |
|
|
|
60 |
|
Stock-based compensation
|
|
|
239 |
|
|
|
244 |
|
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Contract and other receivables
|
|
|
2,607 |
|
|
|
(129 |
)
|
Costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted
contracts
|
|
|
(160 |
)
|
|
|
(252 |
)
|
Inventories, net
|
|
|
1,146 |
|
|
|
(1,077 |
)
|
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
|
|
|
(250 |
)
|
|
|
110 |
|
Right-of-use assets
|
|
|
447 |
|
|
|
391 |
|
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
|
|
|
(5,963 |
)
|
|
|
817 |
|
Deferred revenues
|
|
|
2,858 |
|
|
|
247 |
|
Operating lease liabilities
|
|
|
(476 |
)
|
|
|
(373 |
)
|
Net cash provided by operating activities
|
|
|
438 |
|
|
|
142 |
|
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital expenditures
|
|
|
(381 |
)
|
|
|
(301 |
)
|
Net cash used in investing activities
|
|
|
(381 |
)
|
|
|
(301 |
)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from issuance of equity
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
59 |
|
Proceeds from bank note payable
|
|
|
890 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Repurchase of stock
|
|
|
(172 |
)
|
|
|
(156 |
)
|
Net cash proved by (used in) financing activities
|
|
|
720 |
|
|
|
(97 |
)
|
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
|
|
|
777 |
|
|
|
(256 |
)
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
|
|
|
8,678 |
|
|
|
6,178 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
|
|
$ |
9,455 |
|
|
$ |
5,922 |
|
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash paid for interest
|
|
$ |
154 |
|
|
$ |
182 |
|
Cash paid for taxes
|
|
$ |
62 |
|
|
$ |
63 |
|
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial
statements.
TSS, Inc.
Notes to Consolidated Statements
(unaudited)
Note 1 – Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
TSS, Inc. (‘‘TSS’’, the ‘‘Company’’, ‘‘we’’, ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’)
provides a comprehensive suite of services for the planning,
design, deployment, maintenance, refresh and take-back of end-user
and enterprise systems, including the mission-critical facilities
they are housed in. We provide a single source solution for
enabling technologies in data centers, operations centers, network
facilities, server rooms, security operations centers,
communications facilities and the infrastructure systems that are
critical to their function. Our services consist of technology
consulting, design and engineering, project management, systems
integration, systems installation, facilities management and IT
reseller services. Our corporate offices and our integration
facility are located in Round Rock, Texas.
The accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of December 31,
2019, which has been derived from audited consolidated financial
statements, and the unaudited interim consolidated financial
statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally
accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial
statements and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC for
interim reporting, and include the accounts of the Company and
its consolidated subsidiaries. In the opinion of management, the
accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements contain
all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring items)
necessary to present fairly the consolidated financial position of
the Company and its consolidated results of operations, changes in
stockholders’ equity and cash flows. These interim consolidated
financial statements should be read in conjunction with the
consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included
in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2019.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenues when control of the promised goods or
services is transferred to our customers in an amount that reflects
the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for those
goods or services.
Some of our contracts with customers contain multiple performance
obligations. For these contracts, we account for individual
performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The
transaction price is allocated to the separate performance
obligations based on relative standalone selling prices.
Maintenance Services
We generate maintenance services revenues from fees that provide
our customers with as-needed maintenance and repair services on
modular data centers during the contract term. Our contract terms
are typically one year in duration, are billed annually in advance,
and are non-cancellable. As a result, we record deferred revenue (a
contract liability) and recognize revenue from these services on a
ratable basis over the contract term. We can mitigate our exposure
to credit losses by discontinuing services in the event of
non-payment, however our history of non-payments and bad debt
expense has been insignificant.
Integration Services
We generate integration services revenues from fees that provide
our customers with customized system and rack-level integration
services. We recognize revenue upon shipment to the customer of the
completed systems as this is when we have completed our services
and when the customer obtains control of the promised goods. We
typically extend credit terms to our integration customers based on
their credit worthiness and generally do not receive advance
payments. As such, we record accounts receivable at the time of
shipment, when our right to the consideration becomes
unconditional. Accounts receivable from our integration customers
are typically due within 30-60 days of invoicing. An allowance for
doubtful accounts is provided based on a periodic analysis of
individual account balances, including an evaluation of days
outstanding, payment history, recent payment trends, and our
assessment of our customers’ credit worthiness. As of September 30,
2020, and December 31, 2019, our allowance for doubtful accounts
was $8,000.
Equipment Sales
We generate revenues under fixed price contracts from the sale of
data center and related ancillary equipment to customers in the
United States. We recognize revenue when the product is shipped to
the customer as that is when the customer obtains control of the
promised goods. Typically, we do not receive advance payments for
equipment sales; however, if we do, we record the advance payment
as deferred revenues. Normally we record accounts receivable at the
time of shipment, when our right to the consideration has become
unconditional. Accounts receivable from our equipment sales are
typically due within 30-45 days of invoicing.
Deployment and Other Services
We generate revenues from fees we charge our customers for other
services, including repairs or other services not covered under
maintenance contracts, installation and servicing of equipment,
including modular data centers that we sold, and other fixed-price
services, including repair, design and project management services.
In some cases, we arrange for a third party to perform warranty and
servicing of equipment, and in these instances, we recognize
revenue as the amount of any fees or commissions that we expect to
be entitled to receive. Other services are typically invoiced upon
completion of services or completion of milestones. We record
accounts receivable at the time of completion when our right to
consideration becomes unconditional.
Reseller Services
We generate revenues from fees we charge our customers to procure
third-party hardware, software and professional services on their
behalf that are then used in our integration services as we
integrate these components to deliver a completed system to our
customer. We recognize our reseller services revenue upon
completion of the procurement activity. In some cases, we arrange
for the purchase of third-party hardware, software or professional
services that are resold directly to the original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) and other customers, and in these instances, we
act as an agent in the transaction and recognize revenue as the
amount of any fee or commissions that we expect to be entitled to
receive. Accounts receivable from our reseller activities are
typically due within 30-60 days of invoicing.
Judgments
We consider several factors in determining that control transfers
to the customer upon shipment of equipment or upon completion of
our services. These factors include that legal title transfers to
the customer, we have a present right to payment, and the customer
has assumed the risks and rewards of ownership at the time of
shipment or completion of the services.
Sales Taxes
Sales (and similar) taxes that are imposed on our sales and
collected from customers are excluded from revenues.
Shipping and Handling Costs
Costs for shipping and handling activities, including those
activities that occur subsequent to transfer of control to the
customer, are recorded as cost of revenues and are expensed as
incurred. We accrue costs for shipping and handling activities that
occur after control of the promised good or service has transferred
to the customer.
The following table shows our revenues disaggregated by reportable
segment and by product or service type (in ’000’s, unaudited):
|
|
Three-Months Ended Sept. 30,
|
|
|
Nine-Months Ended Sept 30,
|
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
FACILITIES:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Maintenance revenues
|
|
$ |
893 |
|
|
$ |
996 |
|
|
$ |
2,833 |
|
|
$ |
3,148 |
|
Equipment sales
|
|
|
171 |
|
|
|
192 |
|
|
|
383 |
|
|
|
420 |
|
Deployment and other services
|
|
|
1,299 |
|
|
|
1,362 |
|
|
|
2,804 |
|
|
|
3,913 |
|
Total Facilities revenues
|
|
$ |
2,363 |
|
|
$ |
2,550 |
|
|
$ |
6,020 |
|
|
$ |
7,481 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SYSTEMS INTEGRATION:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Integration services
|
|
$ |
2,551 |
|
|
$ |
1,486 |
|
|
$ |
6,155 |
|
|
$ |
4,754 |
|
Reseller services
|
|
|
15,849 |
|
|
|
140 |
|
|
|
25,639 |
|
|
|
140 |
|
Total Systems Integration revenues
|
|
$ |
18,400 |
|
|
$ |
1,626 |
|
|
$ |
31,794 |
|
|
$ |
4,894 |
|
TOTAL REVENUES
|
|
$ |
20,763 |
|
|
$ |
4,176 |
|
|
$ |
37,814 |
|
|
$ |
12,375 |
|
Remaining Performance Obligations
Remaining performance obligations include deferred revenue and
amounts we expect to receive for goods and services that have not
yet been delivered or provided under existing, non-cancellable
contracts. For contracts that have an original duration of one year
or less, we have elected the practical expedient applicable to such
contracts and we do not disclose the transaction price for
remaining performance obligations at the end of each reporting
period and when we expect to recognize this revenue. As of
September 30, 2020, deferred revenue of $5,076,000 includes
$2,668,000 of our remaining performance obligations for our
maintenance contracts, all of which are expected to be recognized
within one year, and $2,291,000 relating to reseller and
integration services where we have yet to complete our services for
our customers, all of which are expected to be recognized within
one year. The remaining $117,000 of deferred revenue is our
remaining performance obligations for maintenance services, which
is expected to be recognized between one and three years.
Concentration of Credit Risk
We are currently economically dependent upon our relationship with
a large US-based IT OEM. If this relationship is unsuccessful or
discontinues, our business and revenue will suffer. The loss of or
a significant reduction in orders from this customer or the failure
to provide adequate products or services to it would significantly
reduce our revenue.
The following customer accounted for a significant percentage of
our revenues for the periods shown (unaudited):
|
|
Three Months Ended Sept 30,
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended Sept 30
|
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
US-based IT OEM
|
|
|
99 |
% |
|
|
93 |
% |
|
|
97 |
% |
|
|
91 |
% |
No other customers represented more than 10% of our revenues for
any periods presented. Our US-based IT OEM customer represented 77%
and 96% of our trade accounts receivable at September 30, 2020 and
December 31, 2019, respectively. No other customer represented more
than 10% of our accounts receivable at September 30, 2020 or at
December 31, 2019.
Non-recourse factoring
We have entered into a factoring agreement with a financial
institution to sell certain of our accounts receivables from a
US-based OEM customer under a non-recourse agreement. Under the
arrangement, we sell certain trade receivables on a non-recourse
basis and account for the transaction as sales of the receivable.
The financial institution assumes the full risk of collection,
without recourse to the company in the event of a loss. Debtors are
directed to send payments directly to the financial institution.
The applicable receivables are removed from our consolidated
balance sheet when the cash proceeds are received by us. We do not
service any factored accounts after the factoring has occurred. We
utilize this factoring arrangement as part of our financing for
working capital. The aggregate gross amount factored under this
arrangement was approximately $23.6 million and $4.2 million for
the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
respectively. We paid financing fees under this arrangement of
approximately $35,000 and $28,000 for the three-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, which was recorded as
interest expense in our consolidated statement of operations. The
aggregate gross amount financed under this agreement for the
nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 was
approximately $42.3 million and $12.7 million, respectively. We
paid financing fees under this arrangement of approximately $69,000
and $102,000 for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020
and 2019, respectively, which was recorded as interest expense in
our consolidated statement of operations.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In February 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)
issued Accounting Standards Update ASU 2017-04, Intangibles –
Goodwill and Other (topic 350): Simplifying the Test for
Goodwill Impairment (“ASU 2017-04”). The amendments in this
ASU simplify how all entities assess goodwill for impairment by
removing the requirement to determine the fair value of individual
assets and liabilities in order to calculate a reporting unit’s
“implied” goodwill. Specifically, the amendments in ASU 2017-04
eliminates Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. As amended,
the goodwill impairment test consists of one step comparing the
fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An entity
should recognize a goodwill impairment charge for the amount by
which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value.
However, the impairment loss recognized should not exceed the total
amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. If fair value
exceeds the carrying value, no impairment should be recorded. An
entity may still perform the optional qualitative assessment for a
reporting unit to determine if it is more likely than not that
goodwill is impaired. ASU 2017-04 eliminates the requirement to
perform a qualitative assessment for any reporting unit with zero
or negative carrying amount. For any reporting units with a zero or
negative carrying amount, ASU 2017-04 adds a requirement to
disclose the amount of goodwill allocated to it and the reportable
segment in which it is included. ASU 2017-04 was effective for the
Company for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15,
2019, including any interim impairment tests within those annual
periods. We adopted ASU 2017-04 effective on January 1, 2020 and
adoption had no impact on our consolidated financial statements. We
will perform future goodwill impairment tests according to ASU
2017-04.
In June 2016, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update ASU 2016-13,
Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic
326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments
(“ASU 2016-13”). The standard’s main goal is to improve financial
reporting by requiring earlier recognition of credit losses on
financing receivables and other financial assets. Among the
provisions of ASU 2016-13 is a requirement that assets measured at
amortized cost, which includes trade accounts receivable, be
presented at the net amount expected to be collected. This
pronouncement requires that an entity reflect all of its expected
credit losses based on current estimates which will replace the
current standard requiring that an entity need only consider past
events and current conditions in measuring an incurred loss. We are
subject to this guidance effective with the consolidated financial
statements we issue for the year ending December 31, 2023, and the
quarterly periods during that year. We are currently evaluating the
adoption date and the impact of the adoption of this guidance on
our consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
In August 2018, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2018-15,
Intangibles-Goodwill and Other Internal Use Software (Topic
350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation
Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement that is a Service
Contract (“ASU 2015-18”). ASU 2018-15 aligns a company’s
accounting for implementation costs incurred in a cloud computing
arrangement that is a service contract with the guidance on
capitalizing costs associated with developing or obtaining
internal-use software. ASU 2015-18 clarifies that a company should
apply ASC 350-40 to determine which implementation costs should be
capitalized in a cloud computing arrangement that is a service
contract. ASU 2018-15 does not change the accounting for the
service component of a cloud computing arrangement. ASU 2018-15 is
effective for our fiscal 2020 year and interim periods beginning in
2020. We applied the prospective transition approach when we
adopted this guidance in 2020 as we implement cloud computing
arrangements in 2020 and the adoption of this guidance did not have
a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.
In December 2019, FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2019-12,
Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for
Income Taxes (“ASU 2019-12). ASU 2019-12 simplifies the
accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the
general principles in Topic 740. The guidance also clarifies and
amends existing guidance to improve consistent application. The
standard will be effective for us in our first quarter of fiscal
2023, with early adoption permitted. We are currently evaluating
the adoption date and the impact of the adoption of this guidance
on our consolidated financial statements and disclosures.
Note 2 – Supplemental Balance Sheet Information
Receivables
Contract and other receivables consisted of the following (in
‘000’s):
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
(unaudited) |
|
|
|
|
|
Contract and other receivables
|
|
$ |
1,266 |
|
|
$ |
3,873 |
|
Allowance for doubtful accounts
|
|
|
(8 |
) |
|
|
(8 |
)
|
Contracts and other receivables, net
|
|
$ |
1,258 |
|
|
$ |
3,865 |
|
Inventories
We state inventories at the lower of cost or net realizable value,
using the first-in-first-out-method (in ‘000’s) as follows:
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
(unaudited) |
|
|
|
|
|
Raw materials
|
|
$ |
173 |
|
|
$ |
99 |
|
Reseller inventories
|
|
|
38 |
|
|
|
1,258 |
|
Reserve
|
|
|
(4 |
)
|
|
|
(4 |
)
|
Inventories, net
|
|
$ |
207 |
|
|
$ |
1,353 |
|
Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net
Goodwill and intangible assets, net consisted of the following (in
‘000’s):
|
|
September 30, 2020 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(unaudited)
|
|
|
December 31, 2019
|
|
|
|
Gross
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Carrying
|
|
|
Accumulated
|
|
|
Carrying
|
|
|
Accumulated
|
|
|
|
Amount
|
|
|
Amortization
|
|
|
Amount
|
|
|
Amortization
|
|
Intangible assets not subject to amortization:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Goodwill
|
|
$ |
780 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
$ |
780 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Intangible assets subject to amortization:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Customer relationships
|
|
$ |
906 |
|
|
$ |
(667 |
) |
|
$ |
906 |
|
|
$ |
(599 |
) |
Acquired software
|
|
$ |
234 |
|
|
$ |
(234 |
) |
|
$ |
234 |
|
|
$ |
(234 |
) |
Goodwill attributable to reporting units (in ‘000’s):
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
(unaudited) |
|
|
|
|
|
Facilities unit
|
|
$ |
643 |
|
|
$ |
643 |
|
Systems Integration unit
|
|
|
137 |
|
|
|
137 |
|
Total
|
|
$ |
780 |
|
|
$ |
780 |
|
At December 31, 2019, the date of our last annual test, both the
facilities unit and the systems integration unit had negative
carrying amounts on our records.
We recognized amortization expense related to intangibles of
approximately $23,000 for each of the three-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. We recognized
amortization expense related to intangibles of approximately
$68,000 for each of the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020
and 2019, respectively.
We have elected to use December 31 as our annual date to test
goodwill and intangibles for impairment. As circumstances change
that could affect the recoverability of the carrying amount of the
assets during an interim period, we will evaluate its indefinite
lived intangible assets for impairment. We performed a
quantitative analysis of our goodwill and intangibles at December
31, 2019 as part of our annual testing for impairment and concluded
that there was no impairment. We considered relevant matters,
including macroeconomic conditions and the effects of COVID-19 on
our operations, and there was no identified material triggering
events or circumstances that occurred during the three and
nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 or 2019 that would have
required an interim impairment analysis of our goodwill and other
long-lived intangible assets.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment consisted of the following (in ’000’s):
|
|
Estimated Useful
Lives (years)
|
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(unaudited)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Trade equipment
|
|
|
|
5 |
|
|
|
$ |
144 |
|
|
$ |
105 |
|
Leasehold improvements
|
|
|
2 |
- |
5 |
|
|
|
725 |
|
|
|
638 |
|
Furniture and fixtures
|
|
|
|
7 |
|
|
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
16 |
|
Computer equipment and software
|
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
2,057 |
|
|
|
1,802 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,942 |
|
|
|
2,561 |
|
Less accumulated depreciation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,178 |
)
|
|
|
(1,856 |
)
|
Property and equipment, net
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
764 |
|
|
$ |
705 |
|
Depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of
leasehold improvements and software totaled $116,000 and $62,000
for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
respectively. Depreciation of property and equipment and
amortization of leasehold improvements and software totaled
$322,000 and $176,000 for the nine-month periods ended September
30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
Accounts payable and accrued expenses consisted of the following
(in ’000’s):
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
(unaudited)
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts payable
|
|
$ |
1,636 |
|
|
$ |
7,890 |
|
Accrued expenses
|
|
|
877 |
|
|
|
473 |
|
Compensation, benefits & related taxes
|
|
|
362 |
|
|
|
464 |
|
Other accrued expenses
|
|
|
13 |
|
|
|
24 |
|
Total accounts payable and accrued expenses
|
|
$ |
2,888 |
|
|
$ |
8,851 |
|
Note 3 – Bank Note Payable
In April 2020, VTC, L.L.C. (the “Borrower”), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of TSS, Inc., applied to Texas Capital Bank, N.A. under
the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program of
the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act of 2020 (the
“CARES Act”) for a loan of $889,858 (the “PPP Loan”). On April 17,
2020 the PPP Loan was approved and the Borrower received the PPP
Loan proceeds, which the Borrower used for covered payroll costs,
rent and utilities in accordance with the relevant terms and
conditions of the CARES Act.
The PPP Loan, which took the form of a promissory note issued by
the Borrower, has a two-year term maturing on April 12, 2022, bears
interest at a rate of 1% per annum and principal and interest
payments will be deferred for the first six months of the loan
term, which has since been updated according to the Paycheck
Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (“Flexibility Act”).
In June 2020, the Flexibility Act was signed into law, which
amended the CARES Act. The Flexibility Act changed key provisions
of the PPP, including, but not limited to, provisions relating to
(i) the maturity of PPP loans, (ii) the deferral period covering
PPP loan payments, and (iii) the process for measurement of loan
forgiveness. More specifically, the Flexibility Act provides a
minimum maturity of five years for all PPP loans made on or after
the date of the enactment of the Flexibility Act (“June 5, 2020”)
and permits lenders and borrowers to extend the maturity date of
earlier PPP loans by mutual agreement. As of the date of this
filing, the Company has not approached the lender to request an
extension of the maturity date from two years to five years.
The Flexibility Act also provides that if a borrower does not apply
for forgiveness of a loan within 10 months after the last day of
the measurement period (“covered period”), the PPP loan is no
longer deferred and the borrower must begin paying principal and
interest. Therefore, the Company’s deferral period for principal
and interest payments was updated from six months according the
terms and conditions of the PPP Loan to ten months after the
expiration of the eight-week covered period adopted by the Company,
which will be in May 2021. In addition, the Flexibility Act
extended the length of the covered period from eight weeks to
twenty-four weeks from receipt of proceeds, while allowing
borrowers that received PPP loans before June 5, 2020 to determine,
at their sole discretion, a covered period of either eight weeks or
twenty-four weeks.
The Borrower did not provide any collateral or guarantees for the
PPP Loan, nor did the Borrower pay any fees to obtain the PPP Loan.
The promissory note provides for customary events of default,
including, among others, failure to make a payment when due,
cross-defaults under any loan documents with the lender, certain
cross-defaults under agreements with third parties, events of
bankruptcy or insolvency, certain change of control events, and
material adverse changes in the Borrower’s financial condition. If
an event of default occurs, the lender will have the right to
accelerate indebtedness under the PPP Loan and/or pursue other
remedies available to the lender pursuant to the terms of the
promissory note.
The Borrower may apply to the lender for forgiveness of some or all
of the PPP Loan, with the amount which may be forgiven equal to the
sum of eligible payroll costs, mortgage interest, covered rent and
covered utilities payments, in each case incurred by the Borrower
during the measurement period following the effective date of the
promissory note, calculated in accordance with the terms of the
CARES Act. Certain reductions in the Borrower’s payroll costs
during the measurement period may reduce the amount of the PPP Loan
eligible for forgiveness. We applied for full forgiveness of the
loan in August 2020 but have yet to receive a determination from
the Small Business Administration to our forgiveness application.
There is no guarantee, and the lender does not make any
representation, that the Borrower will receive forgiveness for any
fixed amount of any of the PPP Loan proceeds received by the
Borrower.
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
(unaudited) |
|
|
|
|
|
Notes Payable due April 2022
|
|
$ |
890 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
Accrued interest
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
|
893 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Current portion of promissory notes
|
|
|
373 |
|
|
|
- |
|
Non-current portion of promissory notes
|
|
$ |
520 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
Note 4 – Long-Term
Borrowings
Long-term borrowings consisted of the following (in
’000’s):
|
|
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
December 31,
2019
|
|
|
|
(unaudited) |
|
|
|
|
|
Notes Payable due July 2022
|
|
$ |
1,995 |
|
|
$ |
1,995 |
|
Accrued in-kind interest – long term
|
|
|
341 |
|
|
|
255 |
|
Less unamortized discount and debt issuance costs
|
|
|
(153 |
)
|
|
|
(222 |
)
|
|
|
|
2,183 |
|
|
|
2,028 |
|
Current portion of long-term borrowing
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Non-current portion of long-term borrowing
|
|
$ |
2,183 |
|
|
$ |
2,028 |
|
In February 2015, we entered into a multiple advance term loan
agreement and related agreements with MHW SPV II, LLC (‘‘MHW’’), an
entity affiliated with the Chairman of our Board of Directors, for
a loan in the maximum amount of $2 million. We borrowed $945,000
under this loan agreement on February 3, 2015 and executed a
promissory note to evidence this loan and the terms of repayment
which requires interest-only payments until maturity.
In July 2017, we amended and restated the terms of this multiple
advance term loan agreement whereby we increased the maximum
principal amount of loans to $2.5 million for up to sixty days, and
$2 million thereafter. The term of the loan was modified to be five
years from the date of modification, thereby extending the term of
the $945,000 loan to July 19, 2022. As part of this modification,
the interest rate on the $945,000 loan remains at a fixed annual
rate of 12%, however it was changed so that 6% is paid in cash
monthly in arrears, and 6% is payable in kind, to be evidenced by
additional promissory notes having an aggregate principal amount
equal to the accrued but unpaid interest. We can prepay the loan at
any time without penalty.
In conjunction with entering into the loan agreement, the Company
and MHW also entered into a warrant granting MHW the right to
purchase up to 1,115,827 shares of the Company’s common stock. As
part of the July 2017 modification, we also modified the warrant to
change the exercise price of the shares and to extend the term of
the warrant to July 19, 2022. The warrant is now exercisable for a
period of five years from July 19, 2017 at an exercise price of
$0.10 for the first 390,539 shares, $0.20 for the next 390,539
shares and $0.30 for the final 334,749 shares. The exercise price
and number of shares of common stock issuable on exercise of the
warrant will be subject to adjustment in the event of any stock
split, reverse stock split, recapitalization, reorganization or
similar transaction. The fair value of the modified warrant was
determined to be approximately $167,000 and the incremental value
of the warrant compared to the original warrant was approximately
$6,000. This amount was added to the remaining unamortized value of
the original warrant such that approximately $93,000 will be
amortized to interest expense using the straight-line method (which
approximates the effective interest rate method) over the term of
the loan. Approximately $5,000 was amortized during each of the
three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
respectively, for this warrant. Approximately $14,000 was amortized
for this warrant during each of the nine-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
On July 19, 2017, we borrowed an additional $650,000 from MHW
Partners, an entity affiliated with MHW. This loan ranks
parri-passu with the $945,000 promissory notes held by MHW and is
subject to the same loan agreement. Similar to the notes held by
MHW, this note issued to MHW Partners bears interest at 12% per
annum payable in cash monthly in arrears at a rate of 6% per annum
and payable in kind at a fixed rate of 6% per annum and has a
maturity date of July 19, 2022. We can prepay the note issued to
MHW Partners at any time without penalty.
The obligations under the loan to MHW and MHW Partners are secured
by substantially all of the Company’s assets pursuant to the terms
of a security agreement. At the time we entered into the revolving
line of credit described below, MHW and MHW Partners executed a
subordination agreement to evidence their agreement that their
security interest is subordinated to the security interest of Texas
Capital Bank, N.A.
In conjunction with entering into the loan with MHW Partners, we
entered into a warrant granting MHW Partners the right to purchase
up to 767,500 shares of our common stock. The warrant is
exercisable for a period of 5 years from July 19, 2017, at an
exercise price of $0.10 for the first 268,625 shares, $0.20 for the
next 268,625 shares and $0.30 for the final 230,250 shares. The
exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon
exercise of this warrant will be subject to adjustment in the event
of any stock split, reverse stock split, recapitalization,
reorganization or similar transactions. The fair value of the
warrant granted was approximately $115,000. Using the relative-fair
value allocation method, the debt proceeds were allocated between
the debt value and the fair value of the warrants, resulting in a
recognition of a discount on the loan of approximately $98,000 and
a corresponding increase to additional paid-in capital. This
discount will be amortized to interest expense using the effective
interest rate method over the term of the loan. Approximately
$5,000 was amortized during each of the three-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Approximately $15,000
was amortized during each of the nine-month periods ended September
30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Peter H. Woodward, the Chairman of our Board of Directors, is a
principal of MHW Capital Management LLC, which is the investment
manager of MHW and MHW Partners. MHW Capital Management LLC is
entitled to a performance related fee tied to any appreciation in
the valuation of the common stock in excess of the applicable
strike price under the warrant.
On October 6, 2017, we entered into an amendment to our multiple
advance term loan agreement and the related security agreement with
MHW and MHW Partners, to add new lenders to the loan and security
agreements. Upon execution, Mr. Glen Ikeda and Mr. Andrew Berg
became new lenders to the Company. In accordance with the terms of
the Amendment, Mr. Ikeda then provided a loan in the amount of
$300,000 and Mr. Berg provided a loan in the amount of $100,000
(collectively the “New Loans”).
The New Loans have a maturity date of July 19, 2022. The New Loans
do not bear interest and we are permitted to make optional
prepayments at any time without premium or penalty.
The New Loans include customary affirmative covenants for secured
transactions of this type, including compliance with laws,
maintenance of insurance, maintenance of assets, timely payments of
taxes and notice of adverse events. The loan agreement and
ancillary documents include customary negative covenants including
limitations on liens on assets of the Company.
Concurrent with the New Loans, we entered into a warrant with Mr.
Ikeda granting Mr. Ikeda the right to purchase up to 954,231 shares
of our common stock. This warrant was exercisable until July 19,
2022, at an exercise price of $0.10 for the first 498,981 shares,
$0.20 for the next 273,981 shares and $0.30 for the final 181,269
shares. Mr. Ikeda exercised the warrant in December 2018.
Concurrent with the New Loans, we entered into a warrant with Mr.
Berg granting Mr. Berg the right to purchase up to 318,077 shares
of our common stock. This warrant was exercisable until July 19,
2022, at an exercise price of $0.10 for the first 166,327 shares,
$0.20 for the next 91,327 shares and $0.30 for the final 60,423
shares. Mr. Berg exercised the warrant in December 2018.
The fair value of the two warrants granted in connection with the
New Loans was approximately $367,000. Using the relative fair-value
allocation method, the debt proceeds were allocated between the
debt value and the fair value of the warrants, resulting in a
recognition of a discount on the New Loans of approximately
$191,000, with a corresponding increase to additional paid-in
capital. This discount will be amortized to interest expense over
the term of the loan using the straight-line method (which
approximates the effective interest rate method). Approximately
$10,000 was amortized during each of the three-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and approximately
$30,000 was amortized during each of the nine-month periods ended
September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Note 5 – Revolving Line of Credit
In December 2018, we entered into a revolving line of credit (the
“credit facility”) with Texas Capital Bank, National Association
(“Lender”) pursuant to a Business Loan Agreement (Asset Based) (the
“Loan Agreement”). The obligations under the credit facility are
secured by substantially all of our assets. Our wholly-owned
subsidiaries, Vortech L.L.C., and VTC, L.L.C. jointly and severally
guarantee our obligations under the credit facility.
The maximum amount of the credit facility is $1,500,000. The credit
facility is subject to a borrowing base of 80% of eligible accounts
receivables, subject to customary exclusions and limitations.
Borrowings under the credit facility will bear interest at LIBOR
plus 3% (effective rate of 3.18% at September 30, 2020). Certain
accounts receivables subject to a vendor payment program with a
customer are excluded from the definition of eligible accounts
receivables under the credit facility. In addition to interest
payable on the principal amount of indebtedness outstanding from
time to time under the credit facility, we will pay a 0.25% unused
credit facility fee, payable quarterly in arrears. The credit
facility matures on December 31, 2020.
The credit facility requires that we maintain a minimum liquidity
of $500,000 at all times excluding availability under the loan. It
also requires us to comply with certain financial covenants
including a maximum Total Leverage Ratio of 3.00, a minimum Total
Interest Coverage Ratio of 2.50 and a minimum Total Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio of 1.25. The credit facility also limits the amount
of new indebtedness to $250,000 per fiscal year without Lender’s
prior written approval. In June 2020 we modified the terms of the
credit facility so that if we did not meet the Total Interest
Coverage Ratio of 2.5, we could satisfy the requirement by meeting
a 1.25x minimum Total Interest Coverage Ratio and maintaining
unrestricted liquidity for the greater of (i) $2,000,000 or (ii)
two times the outstanding balance on the credit facility.
The Loan Agreement and ancillary documents include customary
affirmative covenants for secured transactions of this type,
including maintaining adequate books and records, periodic
financial reporting, compliance with laws, maintenance of
insurance, maintenance of assets, timely payment of taxes, and
notices of adverse events. The Loan Agreement and ancillary
documents include customary negative covenants, including
incurrence of other indebtedness, mergers, consolidations and
transfers of assets and liens on assets of the Company. The Loan
Agreement and ancillary documents also include customary events of
default, including payment defaults, failure to perform or observe
terms, covenants or agreements included in the Loan Agreement and
ancillary documents, insolvency and bankruptcy defaults, judgment
defaults, material adverse chance defaults, and change of ownership
defaults.
The maximum amount we would have been eligible to borrow at
September 30, 2020 was approximately $122,000. There were no
amounts outstanding under this credit facility at September 30,
2020 and December 31, 2019. Due our year-to-date net losses, we
were not in compliance with the financial covenants at September
30, 2020, and therefore were not eligible to borrow against the
facility.
Note 6 - Leasing Arrangements
We have operating leases for our office and integration facilities
as well as for certain equipment and vehicles. Our leases have
remaining lease terms of 1 to 3 years. As of September 30, 2020, we
have not entered into any lease arrangement classified as a finance
lease.
We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating
leases are included in lease right-of-use assets, current lease
liabilities and lease liabilities, non-current, on our consolidated
balance sheet. We have elected an accounting policy to not
recognize short-term leases (one year or less) on the balance
sheet. We also elected the package of practical expedients which
applies to leases that commenced before the adoption date. By
electing the package of practical expedients, we did not need to
reassess whether any existing contracts are or contain leases, the
lease classification for any existing leases and initial direct
costs for any existing leases.
Right-of-use assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized
based on the present value of future minimum lease payments over
the lease term at commencement date. When the implicit rate of the
lease is not provided or cannot be determined, we use our
incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at
the commencement date to determine the present value of future
payments. Lease terms may include options to extend or terminate
the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise those
options. Lease expense for minimum lease payments is recognized on
a straight- line basis over the lease term. Components of lease
expense and other information is as follows:
|
|
Three Months Ended
September 30,
2020
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2020
|
|
Lease expense
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating lease cost
|
|
$ |
202 |
|
|
|
601 |
|
Variable lease cost
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Sublease income
|
|
|
(16 |
) |
|
|
(48 |
)
|
Total operating lease cost
|
|
|
186 |
|
|
|
553 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating Lease – operating cash flows
|
|
|
(165 |
) |
|
|
(476 |
)
|
New right-of-use assets – operating leases
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Weighted average remaining lease term – operating leases
(months)
|
|
18
|
|
|
21
|
|
Weighted average discount rate – operating leases
|
|
|
12.0 |
% |
|
|
12.0 |
% |
Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable leases as of
September 30, 2020 were as follows (in ‘000’s):
|
|
Fiscal
Year
|
|
2020
|
|
$ |
202 |
|
2021
|
|
|
823 |
|
2022
|
|
|
209 |
|
2023
|
|
|
5 |
|
Thereafter
|
|
|
- |
|
Total minimum future lease payments
|
|
|
1,239 |
|
Less imputed interest
|
|
|
(114 |
)
|
Total
|
|
$ |
1,125 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reported as of September 30, 2020
|
|
|
|
|
Current portion of lease liability
|
|
$ |
721 |
|
Non-current portion of lease liability
|
|
|
404 |
|
|
|
$ |
1,125 |
|
Note 7 - Net Income
(Loss) Per-Share
Basic and diluted income (loss) per share are based on the weighted
average number of shares of common stock and potential common stock
outstanding during the period. Potential common stock, for the
purposes of determining diluted income (loss) per share, includes
the effects of dilutive unvested restricted stock, options to
purchase common stock and convertible securities. The effect of
such potential common stock is computed using the treasury stock
method or the if-converted method, as applicable.
The following table presents a reconciliation of the numerators and
denominators of the basic and diluted income (loss) per share
computations for net income (loss). In the table below, net income
(loss) represents the numerator and shares represents the
denominator (in thousands except per share amounts; unaudited).
|
|
Three Months Ended Sept. 30,
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended Sept 30,
|
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic net income (loss) per
share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Numerator:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$ |
852 |
|
|
$ |
(95 |
) |
|
$ |
(558 |
) |
|
$ |
(220 |
) |
Denominator:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding
|
|
|
17,844 |
|
|
|
17,506 |
|
|
|
17,804 |
|
|
|
17,363 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic net income (loss) per share
|
|
$ |
0.05 |
|
|
$ |
(0.01 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.03 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.01 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted net income (loss) per
share:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Numerator:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net income (loss)
|
|
$ |
852 |
|
|
$ |
(95 |
) |
|
$ |
(558 |
) |
|
$ |
(220 |
) |
Less interest expense on convertible debt
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
$ |
852 |
|
|
$ |
(95 |
) |
|
$ |
(558 |
) |
|
$ |
(220 |
) |
Denominator:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding
|
|
|
17,844 |
|
|
|
17,506 |
|
|
|
17,804 |
|
|
|
17,363 |
|
Dilutive options and warrants outstanding
|
|
|
3,156 |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Effect of conversion of convertible notes
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
Number of shares used in diluted per-share computation
|
|
|
21,000 |
|
|
|
17,506 |
|
|
|
17,804 |
|
|
|
17,363 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted net income (loss) per share
|
|
$ |
0.04 |
|
|
$ |
(0.01 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.03 |
) |
|
$ |
(0.01 |
) |
For the three-month period ended September 30, 2020, no potentially
dilutive shares were excluded from the calculation of dilutive
shares. For the three-month period ended September 30, 2019,
potentially dilutive shares of 3,521,000 were excluded from the
calculation of dilutive shares because their effect would have been
anti-dilutive.
For the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
potentially dilutive shares of 5,021,000 and 3,325,000 were
excluded from the calculation of dilutive shares because their
effect would have been anti-dilutive.
Note 8 – Related Party Transactions
We have $945,000 principal outstanding at September 30, 2020 in
promissory notes payable to MHW, net of remaining discount of
$33,000. Per the terms of the notes, we paid interest of
approximately $34,000 and $32,000 during the three-month periods
ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and we paid
interest of approximately $101,000 and $95,000 during the
nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
We have $650,000 principal outstanding at September 30, 2020 in
promissory notes payable to MHW Partners, net of remaining discount
of $34,000. Per the terms of the notes, we paid interest of $24,000
and $22,000 during the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020
and 2019, respectively, and we paid interest of $69,000 and $65,000
during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019,
respectively. Peter H. Woodward, the Chairman of our Board of
Directors, is a principal of MHW Capital Management, LLC, which is
the investment manager of MHW and MHW Partners. MHW Capital
Management LLC is entitled to a performance-related fee tied to
appreciation in the valuation of the common stock in excess of the
applicable strike price under the warrant issued to MHW.
Note 9 - Segment Reporting
Segment information reported in the tables below represents the
operating segments of the Company organized in a manner consistent
with which separate information is available and for which segment
results are evaluated regularly by our chief operating
decision-maker in assessing performance and allocating resources.
Our activities are organized into two major segments: facilities
and systems integration. Our facilities unit is involved in the
design, project management and maintenance of data center and
mission-critical business operations. Our systems integration unit
integrates IT equipment for OEM vendors and customers to be used
inside data center environments, including modular data centers,
and also includes our reseller services where we procure equipment
to be used in our integration activities. All revenues are derived
from the U.S. market. Segment operating results reflect earnings
before stock-based compensation, acquisition related expenses,
other expenses, net, and provision for income taxes.
Revenue and operating results by reportable segment reconciled to
reportable net income (loss) for the three and nine-month periods
ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 and other segment-related
information is as follows (in ‘000’s, unaudited):
|
|
Three Months Ended Sept. 30,
|
|
|
Nine Months Ended Sept. 30,
|
|
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|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
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|
2020
|
|
|
2019
|
|
Revenues:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Facilities
|
|
$ |
2,363 |
|
|
$ |
2,550 |
|
|
$ |
6,020 |
|
|
$ |
7,481 |
|
Systems integration services
|
|
|
18,400 |
|
|
|
1,626 |
|
|
|
31,794 |
|
|
|
4,894 |
|
Total revenues
|
|
$ |
20,763 |
|
|
$ |
4,176 |
|
|
$ |
37,814 |
|
|
$ |
12,375 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income (loss) from operations:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Facilities
|
|
$ |
373 |
|
|
$ |
475 |
|
|
$ |
503 |
|
|
$ |
1,499 |
|
Systems integration services
|
|
|
593 |
|
|
|
(487 |
) |
|
|
(763 |
) |
|
|
(1,459 |
) |
Total income (loss) from operations
|
|
$ |
966 |
|
|
$ |
(12 |
) |
|
$ |
(260 |
) |
|
$ |
40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation expense:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Facilities
|
|
$ |
54 |
|
|
$ |
13 |
|
|
$ |
170 |
|
|
$ |
57 |
|
Systems integration services
|
|
|
62 |
|
|
|
47 |
|
|
|
149 |
|
|
|
119 |
|
Consolidated depreciation expense
|
|
$ |
116 |
|
|
$ |
60 |
|
|
$ |
319 |
|
|
$ |
176 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest expense:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Facilities
|
|
$ |
56 |
|
|
$ |
43 |
|
|
$ |
144 |
|
|
$ |
132 |
|
Systems integration services
|
|
|
49 |
|
|
|
35 |
|
|
|
127 |
|
|
|
106 |
|
Consolidated interest expense
|
|
$ |
105 |
|
|
$ |
78 |
|
|
$ |
271 |
|
|
$ |
238 |
|
|
|
Sept 30, 2020
|
|
|
Dec. 31, 2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Facilities
|
|
$ |
954 |
|
|
$ |
939 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Systems integration services
|
|
|
2,472 |
|
|
|
6,120 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other consolidated activities
|
|
|
11,119 |
|
|
|
10,508 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
$ |
14,545 |
|
|
$ |
17,567 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other consolidated activities include assets not specifically
attributable to each business segment including cash and cash
equivalents, prepaid expenses and other assets that are managed at
a corporate level.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with, and
is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the
consolidated financial statements and notes thereto
included in Item 1 of this Form 10-Q and the
consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and
our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations for the year ended December 31,
2019 included in our 2019
Annual Report on Form 10-K. This report contains forward-looking
statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
that involve risks and uncertainties. Our expectations with respect
to future results of operations that may be embodied in oral and
written forward-looking statements, including any forward-looking
statements that may be included in this report, are subject to
risks and uncertainties that must be considered when evaluating the
likelihood of our realization of such expectations. Our actual
results could differ materially. The words “believe,” “expect,”
“intend,” “plan,” “project,” “will” and similar phrases as they
relate to us are intended to identify such forward-looking
statements. In addition, please see the “Risk Factors” in Part 1,
Item 1A of our 2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K
for a discussion of items that may affect our future
results.
Overview
TSS, Inc. (‘‘TSS’’, the ‘‘Company’’, ‘‘we’’, ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’)
provides comprehensive services for the planning, design,
deployment, maintenance, and refurbishment of end-user and
enterprise systems, including the mission-critical facilities they
are housed in. We provide a single source solution for enabling
technologies in data centers, operations centers, network
facilities, server rooms, security operations centers,
communications facilities and the infrastructure systems that are
critical to their function. Our services include technology
consulting, design and engineering, project management, systems
integration, systems installation, facilities management and IT
reseller services. Our headquarters and our integration facility
are in Round Rock, Texas.
Our business is concentrated on the data center infrastructure and
services market. This market continues to be highly competitive as
commerce moves to cloud-based solutions and as data storage
requirements continue to escalate for many industries. These
underlying macroeconomic trends are driving demand for more
information technology equipment and more efficient data center
design and operation, resulting in continued growth in this market.
We compete against many larger competitors who have greater
resources than we do, which may affect our competitiveness in the
market. We rely on several large customers to win contracts and to
provide business to us under ‘‘Master Service Agreements’’, and the
loss of such customers would have a material negative effect on our
results.
During 2019 we began providing reseller services to our clients.
Previously almost all inventory used in our systems integration
business was consigned to us by our original equipment manufacturer
(OEM) and end-user customers. We now offer our customers the
ability to procure third-party hardware, software and services on
their behalf that are then used in our integration services as we
integrate these components to deliver a completed system to our
customer. In some cases, we also act as an agent and arrange for
the purchase of third-party hardware, software or services that are
resold directly to the OEM and other customers. The reseller
services allow us to develop relationships with new hardware,
software and professional service providers and allow us to
generate higher profits on integration projects by broadening our
revenue and customer base.
In March 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 ("COVID-19") was
declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and a national
emergency by the U.S. Government. The pandemic has negatively
affected the U.S. and global economy, disrupted global supply
chains and financial markets, and resulted in governments around
the world implementing increasingly stringent measures to help
control the spread of the virus, including quarantines, “shelter in
place” and “stay at home” orders, travel restrictions, business
curtailments, school closures, and other measures. In addition,
governments and central banks in several parts of the world have
enacted fiscal and monetary stimulus measures to counteract the
impacts of COVID-19.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has had an immediate and ongoing
impact on our operations in both our facilities segment and our
systems integration segment. Travel restrictions and other
customer-actions that have restricted physical access to customer
sites have negatively impacted our facilities segment because we
have been unable to access customer locations to provide our
services. The delay of projects by customers in 2020 because of the
COVID-19 pandemic also negatively affected our facilities segment.
Our facilities revenues have decreased by 20% in the first
nine-months of 2020 compared to the previous year primarily because
of these delays and restrictions. Our systems integration business
has not seen a revenue decline because of the pandemic but has been
negatively impacted due to logistical and supply-chain issues that
have affected component supply to us. This had a material impact on
our ability to complete several reseller transactions during the
first half of 2020 because we could not complete the procurement of
inventory for customers, although this situation has improved
during the third quarter of 2020. Safety and other measures that we
also had to implement in our systems integration facility because
of the pandemic have materially increased the cost of operating and
providing our integration services, and this has negatively
impacted our 2020 financial performance.
At this point we do not know how long this pandemic and its
associated impact on our business will continue, or if it will
worsen or improve. To the extent these travel restrictions and
customer delays continue, the pandemic worsens, or we have further
supply chain challenges, our business will continue to be
negatively impacted.
During the second quarter of 2020 we were able to participate in
the Payroll Protection Program of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and
Economic Security Act of 2020 (the “CARES Act”) and qualified for a
loan of approximately $890,000. The proceeds were received in April
2020 and were used for covered payroll costs, rent and utilities in
accordance with the relevant terms and conditions of the CARES Act.
We applied for forgiveness of this loan amount during the third
quarter of 2020 as contemplated by the CARES Act but have not yet
received notification from the Small Business Administration that
our application for forgiveness has been successful. There is no
guarantee however that we will receive forgiveness for all or any
of the loan proceeds.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Revenue
Revenue consists of fees earned from the planning, design and
project management for mission-critical facilities and information
infrastructures, as well as fees earned from providing maintenance
services for these facilities. We also earn revenue from providing
system configuration and integration services, including reseller
services, to IT equipment vendors. Currently we derive all our
revenue from the U.S. market.
We contract with our customers under five primary contract types:
fixed-price service and maintenance contracts, time and material
contracts, cost-plus-fee, guaranteed maximum price and fixed-price
contracts. Cost-plus-fee and guaranteed maximum price contracts are
typically lower risk arrangements, and thus yield lower profit
margins than time-and-materials and fixed-price arrangements which
generate higher profit margins generally, relative to their higher
risk. Certain of our service and maintenance contracts provide
comprehensive coverage of all the customers’ equipment (excluding
IT equipment) at a facility during the contract period. Where
customer requirements are clear, we prefer to enter into
comprehensive fixed-price arrangements or time-and-materials
arrangements rather than cost-plus-fee and guaranteed maximum price
contracts.
Most of our revenue is generated based on services provided either
by our employees or subcontractors. To a lesser degree, the revenue
we earn includes reimbursable travel and other costs to support the
project. Since we earn higher profits from the labor services that
our employees provide compared with use of subcontracted labor and
other reimbursable costs, we seek to optimize our labor content on
the contracts we are awarded to maximize our profitability.
We have been concentrating our sales efforts towards maintenance
and integration services where we have traditionally earned higher
margins. Historically our design and project-management services
were tied to a few, high-value contracts for the construction of
new data centers at any point in time. In addition to contributing
to large quarterly fluctuations in revenue depending upon project
timing, these projects required higher levels of working capital
and generated lower margins than our maintenance and integration
services. We re-focused our design and project management services
towards smaller scaled jobs typically connected with
addition/move/retrofit activities rather than new construction, to
obtain better margins. We have also focused on providing
maintenance services for modular data center applications as this
market continues to expand. We continue to focus on increasing our
systems integration revenues through more consistent revenue
streams that will better utilize our assets in that business.
Revenues for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020
increased by $16.6 million or 397% compared to the third quarter of
2019. This growth was primarily driven by $15.8 million of reseller
services in 2020 that drove a 1032% increase in our systems
integration segment compared to the prior year, and from a 71%
increase in our core integration service activities compared to the
third quarter of 2019. We began providing reseller services in the
third quarter of 2019 where we procure third-party hardware,
software and services on our customer’s behalf that are then used
in our integration services as we integrate those components to
deliver a completed system to our customer. Traditionally, the
majority of our integration services have been performed using
customer-owned inventory.
Revenues in our facilities segment decreased by $0.2 million or 7%
compared to the third quarter of 2019 due to lower levels of
modular data center deployments compared to the previous year. This
was caused by customer deferrals of projects and by restrictions on
travel and site access primarily as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic that prevented us from accessing customer locations to
provide services during the period.
Revenues of $37.8 million for the nine-month period ended September
30, 2020 increased by $25.4 million or 206% compared to the $12.4
million we had in the first nine-months of 2019. This increase was
primarily attributable to the $25.6 million of reseller services in
2020 that drove a 550% increase in our systems integration segment
compared to 2019 when we had just begun providing such services.
Primarily due to site access restrictions caused by the COVID-19
pandemic we have seen a $1.5 million, or 20% decrease in our
facilities segment revenues in the first nine months of 2020
compared to the comparable period in 2019.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue includes the cost of component parts for our
products, labor costs expended in the production and delivery of
our services, subcontractor and third-party expense, equipment and
other costs associated with our test and integration facilities,
excluding depreciation of our manufacturing property and equipment,
shipping costs, and the costs of support functions such as
purchasing, logistics and quality assurance. The cost of revenue as
a percentage of revenue was 87% for the three-month period ended
September 30, 2020 compared to 64% for the same period in 2019.
This increase from the third quarter of 2019 reflects the
introduction of our reseller business where we earn much lower
margins on product purchase/resell services than we do with our
traditional integration and maintenance services. As the percentage
of our total revenue derived from reseller services increases, we
would anticipate that cost of revenue as a percentage of sales will
increase. Absent the reseller business, the profit margin from our
integration and maintenance services decreased by 5% in the third
quarter of 2020 compared to the same quarter of 2019 primarily due
to higher operating costs of our integration facility due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. For the nine-month period ended September 30,
2020 the cost of revenue as a percentage of revenue was 86%
compared to 63% for the same period in 2019, reflecting the impact
of our reseller services on our cost of revenue.
As our reseller business is relatively new, the level of expected
revenue from our reseller services has and will continue to
fluctuate significantly on a quarterly basis. As a result, our cost
of revenue as a percentage of total revenue will also fluctuate
significantly. Cost of revenue for reseller services is higher than
cost of revenue for our integration and maintenance services.
Since we earn higher profits when using our own labor services, we
expect gross margins to improve when our labor services mix
increases relative to the use of subcontracted labor or third-party
labor. Our direct labor costs are relatively fixed in the
short-term, and the utilization of direct labor is critical to
maximizing our profitability. As we continue to bid and win
contracts that require specialized skills that we do not possess,
we would expect to have more third-party subcontracted labor to
help us fulfill those contracts. In addition, we can face hiring
challenges in internally staffing larger contracts. While these
factors could lead to a higher ratio of cost of services to
revenue, the ability to outsource these activities without carrying
a higher level of fixed overhead improves our overall profitability
by increasing income, broadening our revenue base and generating a
favorable return on invested capital. As we increase the level of
IT reseller services in the future, we anticipate that our overall
gross margin will decrease as the normal margins on reseller
activities are lower than the margins from our traditional
facilities and systems integration services.
A large portion of our revenue is derived from fixed price
contracts. Under these contracts, we set the price of our services
and assume the risk that the costs associated with our performance
may be greater than we anticipated. Our profitability is therefore
dependent upon our ability to estimate accurately the costs
associated with our services. These costs may be affected by a
variety of factors, such as lower than anticipated productivity,
conditions at the work sites differing materially from what was
anticipated at the time we bid on the contract, and higher than
expected costs of materials and labor. Certain agreements or
projects could have lower margins than anticipated or losses if
actual costs for contracts exceed our estimates, which could reduce
our profitability and liquidity.
Gross Profit
Our gross profit margin for the three-month period ended September
30, 2020 was 13% compared to a gross profit margin of 36% in the
third quarter of 2019. This decrease in margin compared to the
third quarter of 2019 was primarily attributable to the
introduction of our reseller business where we earn much lower
margins on product purchase/resell services than what we earn from
our core integration and maintenance activities. The decrease in
gross margin in the third quarter was also attributable to the
higher operating cost of our systems integration business because
of changes made to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. For the
nine-month period ended September 30, 2020 our gross profit margin
was 14% compared to a gross profit margin of 37% for the same
period of 2019. This decrease in margin was due to the introduction
of reseller services in our 2020 results. Because of the impact of
reseller revenues in 2020 that increased our revenues compared to
2019, over overall gross profit increased by $1.3 million or 85%
for the three-month period ended September 30, 2020, and our gross
profits increased by $556,000 or 12% in the nine months ended
September 30, 2020 compared to the same period of 2019.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses primarily consists of
compensation and related expenses, including variable sales
compensation, for our executive, administrative and sales and
marketing personnel, as well as related travel, selling and
marketing expenses, professional fees, facility costs, insurances
and other corporate costs. For the three-month period ended
September 30, 2020, our selling, general and administrative
expenses increased by $243,000 or 17% compared to the third quarter
of 2019. This increase was due primarily to higher
compensation-related costs and for higher costs related to
increasing our production capabilities, including the introduction
of new systems. For the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020,
our selling, general and administrative expenses of $5.0 million
were $710,00 or 17% higher than the same period of 2019, mainly due
to higher levels of staffing and personnel costs.
Operating Income (Loss)
For the three-month period ended September 30, 2020, we recorded
operating income of $966,000. This compares to an operating loss of
$12,000 that we had in the third quarter of 2019. For the
nine-month period ended September 30, 2020, we recorded an
operating loss of $260,000 which compares to operating income of
$40,000 for the comparable period in 2019.
Net Income (Loss)
After net interest expense and income taxes we recorded net income
of $852,000 or $0.05 per share for the three-month period ended
September 30, 2020. This compared to a net loss of $95,000 or
$(0.01) per share for the third quarter of 2019. For the nine-month
period ended September 30, 2020, we recorded a net loss of $558,000
or $(0.03) per share. This compares to a net loss of $220,000 or
$(0.01) per share in the nine-month period ended September 30,
2019.
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Our primary sources of liquidity at September 30, 2020 are our cash
and cash equivalents on hand, funds available under our bank credit
facility, vendor trade-credit and projected cash flows from
operating activities.
If we continue to meet the cash flow projections in our current
business plan, we expect that we will have adequate capital
resources necessary to continue operating our business for at least
the next twelve months. Our business plan and our assumptions
around the adequacy of our liquidity are based on estimates
regarding expected revenues and future costs. However, there are
potential risks, including that our revenues may not meet our
projections, our costs may exceed our estimates, or our working
capital needs may be greater than anticipated particularly as we
increase our level of reseller services or due to the economic
impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, our estimates may
change, and future events or developments may also affect our
estimates. Any of these factors may change our expectation of cash
usage in 2020 and beyond or significantly affect our level of
liquidity, which may limit our opportunities to grow our
business.
As at September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, we had cash and
cash equivalents of $9.5 million and $8.7 million,
respectively.
Significant Uses
of Cash
Operating Activities:
Cash provide by operating activities for the nine-month period
ended September 30, 2020 was $438,000 compared to cash provided by
operating activities of $142,000 for the nine-month period ended
September 30, 2019. This change was largely attributable to the
financial aspects of our reseller business which we did not have in
the comparable period of 2019 despite the operating losses we
incurred in 2020. During the quarter as we prepared for more
reseller transactions, we saw an increase in inventory, receivables
and payables all tied to our reseller business. We have been able
to structure our reseller activities in such a way as to minimize
their overall impact on our liquidity by using trade creditors as
the primary way to finance these activities. However due to timing
it is possible to see fluctuations on a quarterly basis for
reseller contracts in progress at the end of a particular reporting
period. As we executed these transactions in the third quarter we
generated approximately $2.5 million in operating cash flows
through management of the cash flows associated with these
transactions. On a year-to-date basis the net cash flows of these
transactions offset and balance out, and the resulting profits
increased our cash flows from operations. We believe that we will
have adequate trade credit available to us to continue financing
our reseller activities as we grow this business during 2020 and
beyond.
Investing Activities:
Cash used in investing activities was $381,000 in the nine-month
period ended September 30, 2020 for the purchases of property and
equipment as we expanded our production floor and added new
infrastructure and equipment to support new services. This compares
to cash used in the same period of 2019 of $301,000 for purchases
of property and equipment.
Financing Activities:
Cash provided by financing activities was $720,000 for the
nine-month period ended September 30, 2020 compared to cash used in
financing activities of $97,000 for the nine-month period ended
September 30, 2019. In April 2020, we received approximately
$890,000 in proceeds from a loan (the “PPP Loan”) issued pursuant
to the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program of
the Coronavirus Air, Relief and Economic Security Act of 2020 (the
“CARES Act”). These funds were made available to qualifying
companies to help cover payroll, rent and other costs to assist
companies in managing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We also received $2,000 in proceeds provided by the exercise of
employee stock options in 2020 and used $172,000 in the purchase of
stock related to tax obligations around option exercises and
vesting of restricted shares in 2020. In 2019 there was $59,000
received from the exercise of employee stock options and $156,000
used in the purchase of stock related to tax obligations around the
option exercises.
In August 2020, we applied to our bank for forgiveness of all of
the PPP Loan, with the amount which may be forgiven based upon the
sum of eligible payroll costs, mortgage interest, covered rent, and
covered utility payments, in each case incurred by us during the
eight-week period following the effective date of the loan,
calculated in accordance with the terms of the CARES Act. Certain
reductions in our payroll costs during the eight-week period may
reduce the amount of the PPP Loan eligible for forgiveness. We have
not yet received any notification from the Small Business
Administration that the loan will be fully or partially forgiven,
and under the CARES Act they have up to ninety days from the date
of our request to process it. There is no guarantee that we will
receive forgiveness for any fixed amount of any PPP Loan
proceeds.
Future Uses of Cash
Our primary liquidity and capital requirements are to fund working
capital for current operations. Our primary sources of funds to
meet our liquidity and capital requirements include cash on hand,
funds generated from operations including the funds from our
customer financing programs, trade credit extended to us by our
vendors, and borrowings under our bank credit facility. We believe
that if future results do not meet expectations, we can implement
reductions in selling, general and administrative expenses to
better achieve profitability and therefore improve cash flows, or
that we could take further steps such as the issuance of new equity
or debt. However, the timing and effect of these steps may not
completely alleviate a material effect on liquidity. We may also
require additional capital if we seek to acquire additional
businesses as a way to increase the scale of our operations, or if
there is a sudden increase in the level of reseller services. There
is no guarantee, however, that such capital would be available on
terms acceptable to us.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As at September 30, 2020 we had no off -balance sheet
arrangements.
Critical Accounting Policies and Pronouncements
There have been no material changes to our critical accounting
policies and estimates as set forth in the Annual Report for the
year ended December 31, 2019 with the exception of the adoption and
evaluation of the adoption date and the impact of the adoption of
recently issued accounting pronouncement guidance on our
consolidated financial statements and disclosures. See also Item 1.
Financial Statements Note 1 – Significant Accounting
Policies regarding Recent Accounting Pronouncements.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market
Risk.
Not applicable.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Our management performed an evaluation under the supervision and
with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer (principal
executive officer) and our Chief Financial Officer (principal
financial officer) of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls
and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) or 15d-15(e) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) as of September 30,
2020. Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and
our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of September
30, 2020, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were
effective such that information relating to the Company (including
its combined subsidiaries) required to be disclosed in the
Company’s SEC reports (1) is recorded, processed, summarized and
reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and
forms and (2) is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s
management, including its Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions
regarding financial disclosures.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over
financial reporting for the three month period ended September 30,
2020 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to
materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 and 15d-15 of the
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
Currently, we are not a party to any material litigation in any
court, and management is not aware of any contemplated proceeding
by any governmental authority against us. From time to time, we are
involved in various legal matters and proceedings concerning
matters arising in the ordinary course of business. We currently
believe that any ultimate liability arising out of these matters
and proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on our
financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
The COVID-19 pandemic has and will likely continue to
negatively affect various aspects of our business and has and will
likely continue to result in reduced demand from our customers as
their businesses may also be negatively affected.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has had an immediate and ongoing
impact on our operations in our facilities segment and systems
integration segment. Ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic could
continue to negatively impact our facilities segment as we are
unable to travel or face restricted access to customer sites to
perform services. For example, a significant customer of this
segment has restricted access to its data centers sites, which
prevented us from deploying new modular data centers and performing
other activities for this customer which contributed to a 20%
reduction in revenues in our facilities segment in the first
nine-months of 2020 compared to the prior year. During the first
and second quarters of 2020, our systems integration segment
experienced a number of project delays caused by interruptions in
our largest customer’s supply chain. This customer was unable to
source the necessary IT components for many of its jobs because of
the effects of the pandemic on production facilities in China.
These interruptions prevented us from performing integration
services on those projects and also delayed our ability to complete
reseller services for some of our customers. We have also incurred
additional personnel and operating costs to meet health and safety
guidelines imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic so that we
could continue to operate our integration facility throughout the
pandemic. The Company does not know how long the travel
restrictions and logistical and supply-chain issues will continue
as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. To the extent these
restrictions continue or we or our customers have further supply
chain challenges for the foreseeable future, the effects on our
business, results of operations, and financial condition could be
material.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of
Proceeds.
The following table sets forth
information about our purchases of outstanding shares of our common
stock during the quarter ended September 30, 2020:
Monthly Period During the Quarter Ended
September 30, 2020
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Total Shares
Purchased
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|
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Average
Price paid
per Share
|
|
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Total Shares
Purchased as Part
of Publicly
Announced Plans
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|
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Approximate
Dollar Amount of
Shares Yet To Be Purchased Under
Plans
|
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Jul. 1, 2020 - Jul. 31, 2020
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|
|
0 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
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Aug.1, 2020 – Aug. 31, 2020
|
|
|
1,730 |
|
|
$ |
0.94 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sep. 1, 2020 – Sep, 30, 2020
|
|
|
0 |
|
|
$ |
- |
|
|
|
- |
|
|
|
- |
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Total
|
|
|
1,730 |
|
|
$ |
0.94 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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(a)
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All of these shares were acquired from associates to satisfy tax
withholding requirements upon the vesting of restricted stock.
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Item 6. Exhibits.
101.INS *
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XBRL Instance Document
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101.SCH *
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
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101.CAL *
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
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101.DEF *
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
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101.LAB *
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase
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101.PRE*
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be
signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.
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TSS, INC.
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Date: November 16, 2020
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By:
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/s/ Anthony Angelini
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Anthony Angelini
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President and Chief Executive Officer
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(Principal Executive Officer)
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By:
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/s/ John K. Penver
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John K. Penver
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Chief Financial Officer
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(Principal Financial Officer)
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