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Polight Asa — Q2 2021 Earnings Presentation

26 slides from Polight Asa's earnings presentation, Aug 20, 2021

  1. Slide 1: Second quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation

    Second quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation 20th August 2021

  2. Slide 2: Disclaimer

    Disclaimer This presentation (the "Presentation") has been produced by poLight ASA (the "Company") exclusively for information purposes. This Presentation has not been approved, reviewed or registered with any public authority or stock exchange. Further to the aforementioned, this presentation is th

  3. Slide 3: Today's agenda

    Today’s agenda Presenting Dr. Øyvind Isaksen • Key events Chief Executive Officer Dr. Isaksen has been CEO of poLight since August 2014. He has • Introduction to poLight previously held several CEO positions, most recently in the publicly listed company Q-Free ASA, which he left in January 2014, aft

  4. Slide 4: Key events in the quarter

    Key events in the quarter • First design-win for a web camera application • First design-win for a machine vision product • Good progress in most customer cases • As already announced smartphone project cancelled due to portfolio changes (post Q2) • The same OEM is still interested in TLens® and oth

  5. Slide 5: poLight at a glance

    poLight at a glance Background and description Geographical footprint Horten • Developer of unique photographic lens for Norway use in the mobile, barcode readers, Southampton Tampere Finland augmented reality and other markets San Jose, CA UK Lyon USA France Shenzhen • Founded in 2005 and has since

  6. Slide 6: TLens customer-wins

    TLens® customer-win´s XIAOMI Mi Bunny 4 Pro Honeywell EX 30 barcode MAXHUB UC W20 XUN Smartwatch Max Pro smart watch scanner Machine Vision – direct marking reading 6 Second quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation

  7. Slide 7: poLight products & technology well-suited for several applications

    poLight products & technology well-suited for several applications Smartphone & wearable Barcode/industrial Augmented Reality (AR) Other • Large addressable market, • Evolving from 1D laser to 2D • Augmented reality expected to • New opportunities emerging billions of cameras produced for imaging ba

  8. Slide 8: Operations and market review

    Operations and market review

  9. Slide 9: Barcode: Follow-up order for EX30

    Barcode: Follow-up order for EX30 • The EX30 scan engine is sold to other OEMs for use in various barcode products • Accumulated order intake has so far been approx. NOK 4.7 millions • Release of EX30 has build more appetite among other potential customers Examples of EX30 use cases *Source: Honeywe

  10. Slide 10: AR: TLens considered for next generation glasses by several OEMs

    AR: TLens considered for next generation glasses by several OEM´s • AR market is still at an early stage, with low volumes • TLens offers several advantages related to power consumption, speed, compactness and no gravity sensitivity • Two use cases : world facing camera & tuning for laser display •

  11. Slide 11: Smartphone: Interest in TLens remains high

    Smartphone: Interest in TLens® remains high • Smartphone planned using TLens will not be released • Portfolio strategic reasons and not TLens related • Same OEM have interest in using TLens for other smartphone releases – under consideration and TBD • Ongoing & planned PoC´s with OEM´s and camera mo

  12. Slide 12: Web cam design win - Maxhub

    Web cam design win - Maxhub Web camera / Video conferencing • The pandemic has forced us to cooperate more and more virtual, and video conferring has increased in use • poLight technology will be potential good fit for web camera application due to constant field of view and speed • Longer term volu

  13. Slide 13: Good progress in most customer cases

    Good progress in most customer cases Ongoing supply Project Completed PoC Ongoing PoC Planning PoC Consumer 3 (3) 0 (1) 16 (14) 15 (14) 3 (7) Industrial 2 (1) 4 (4) 15 (12) 4 (7) 6 (3) Other (e.g. medical) 1 (1) 1 (1) 4 (4) 1 (0) 5 (4) 5 (6) 32 (27) 23 (25) 10 (11) (x): last quarter number 13 Second

  14. Slide 14: Financial review

    © potight Financial review

  15. Slide 15: Key financials

    Key financials Income statement Balance sheet summary (in NOK million) Q2 2021 Q2 2020 FY 2020 (in NOK million) Q2 2021 Q2 2020 FY 2020 Revenue 2.9 0.6 3.0 Intangible assets 38.5 48.8 43.6 Cost of sales -1.3 -0.1 -0.7 Inventories 8.6 9.3 9.2 Research and development expenses -7.6 -4.0 -20.4 Cash and

  16. Slide 16: Cash Flow

    Cash Flow • Q2 cash used in operating activities was NOK Q2 2021 cash flow development 12.6 million, compared with NOK 8.3 million in (NOK million) Q2 2020 • The increase is attributable to higher R&D 68,4 expenses in the period 55,6 • Q2 net decrease in cash was NOK 12.9 million -12,6 -0,1 -0,1 0,1

  17. Slide 17: Outlook

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  18. Slide 18: Operating and financial targets

    Operating and financial targets Operating milestones Today Launch new 5 customer- product for wins and Optical Image First design- several Target Stabilization win for (OIS), or bigger smartphone Target first projects/PoC design-wins Target first design-win ongoing for AR design-win aperture lenses,

  19. Slide 19: Outlook

    Outlook • Overall progress has been relatively good during the quarter • Obviously the announced cancellation has impacted the company and shareholders negatively • Interest in TLens® remains high after the add-in design concept has been introduced, and the pipeline of opportunities is promising • S

  20. Slide 20: Next event: Q3-21 October 2021

    Next event: Q3-21 29 October 2021

  21. Slide 21: Appendix

    Appendix •Appendix 21 Second quarter 2021 - Earnings presentation

  22. Slide 22: Management Team

    Management Team Dr. Øyvind Isaksen Chief Executive Officer Dr. Isaksen has been CEO of poLight since August 2014. He has previously held several CEO positions, most recently in the publicly listed company Q-Free ASA, which he left in January 2014, after 7 years as CEO. Øyvind Isaksen holds a PhD in

  23. Slide 23: Board of Directors

    Board of Directors Ann-Tove Kongsnes - Chairman Ms. Kongsnes is an Investment Director at Investinor AS. Kongsnes has over her career gained extensive experience from investments, development, M&A, IPO’s and exits of technology companies. Prior to this, she worked 7 years with international marketin

  24. Slide 24: Statement of income

    Statement of income NOK 000 Note Q2 2021 Q2 2020 YTD 2021 YTD 2020 FY 2020 Revenue 2 885 622 4 430 1 158 3 019 Cost of sales -1 295 -133 -1 610 -194 -698 Gross profit 1 590 489 2 820 964 2 321 Research and development expenses net of governmental grants 7,8 -7 622 -4 020 -16 841 -9 526 -20 432 Sales

  25. Slide 25: Balance sheet

    Balance sheet NOK 000 Note Q2 2021 Q2 2020 FY 2020 ASSETS Property, plant and equipment 936 1 068 839 Intangible assets 9 38 511 48 491 43 646 Right-of-use assets 5 415 1 327 964 Total non-current assets 44 863 51 186 45 448 Inventories 8 571 9 254 9 166 Trade and other receivables 10 557 6 045 6 04

  26. Slide 26: Cash flow

    Cash flow NOK 000 Note Q2 2021 Q2 2020 YTD 2021 YTD 2020 FY 2020 Operating activities Profit / loss (-) for the period -16 506 -13 469 -39 517 -32 739 -50 952 Adjustments for: Depreciation and impairment of property, plant and equipment and right-of-use assets 294 481 759 962 1 842 Amortisation and

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