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| We more than doubled our adjusted EBITDA, turned profitable on a GAAP basis and tripled our EPS on a non-GAAP basis |
| This plus our expected market share gains should allow us in the next few years to drive our revenue to over $2 billion with double-digit percentage EBITDA margins |
| Our Atlanta facility has also undergone an expansion to add capacity for production and warehousing, which provides us with a strategic opportunity to support Corsair's long-term growth |
| By the end of the year, we saw inventory is back to normal, and in addition, we saw good consumer spending during the holiday period |
| This plus some good product launches from us allowed us to make much better progress in our gaming and creative peripheral segment and we grew that segment in Q4 by 16% year-on-year |
| Financially we bounced back well from 2022 with adjusted EBITDA doubling to $95 million and we expect further gains in 2024 |
| All these changes will give us a strong competitive advantage in the marketplace |
| We also received a positive response to our first of its kind Elgato teleprompter for content creators, which comes complete with a display and a two-way mirror, behind which you can mount either an Elgato face cam or any DLSR camera to make it easier for people to create broadcast content or do a video call |
| For the full-year 2023, adjusted net income improved to $58.3 million or $0.55 per diluted share from $18.4 million or $0.18 per diluted share in 2022 |
| In other words, continuous upward margins, upward momentum on margins, and some regional expansion as we look to gain some traction in Asia |
| As expected, we benefited from reduced promotional activities from other industry players and improved inventory levels |
| This is doing better-than-expected and already 35% of the Stream Deck installed base have opened accounts on the marketplace website |
| As we continue to gain a critical mass of applications, this will make our already popular Stream Deck a must-have item, driving new hardware sales, and will create a very meaningful new revenue stream from the applications |
| Growth in peripherals resumed and we clearly benefited from demand for new products |
| This was another area of significant improvement as adjusted operating income more than doubled to $85.4 million for the full-year 2023 from $34.6 million in 2022 |
| We expect to build on this positive momentum in 2024 with a strong demand outlook for our new products, improved profitability, and continued growth in adjusted EBITDA |
| We continue to benefit from further improvements in freight costs and high demand for both new product introductions and popular lines like our stream deck and webcams |
| Finally, we expect 2024 to be a good step to get our adjusted EBITDA margins closer to double-digits, which is our nearer term goal |
| We also saw memory prices increase for the first time in two years in Q4, which if that continues as expected, should be another positive for the coming year |
| Remain in an excellent position with a strong balance sheet and working capital position to support our organic growth opportunities and to pursue outside opportunities if they're a strategic fit and align with our business goals |
| Even in a flat year-over-year revenue environment, we expect EBITDA percent to improve |
| For the full-year, we achieved solid revenue growth of 6% in a challenging economic market, led by continued strength in our components business and a strong rebound in peripherals towards the end of the year |
| Some of this will come from increased revenue, but our margins are also steadily increasing as we continue to launch compelling products in our higher growth product categories |
| Because as I said in the last question, this is a combination of market share gain as well as market growth |
| But let's just say that there's a combination of market share gain and market growth in our forecast |
| On an adjusted basis, fourth quarter net income improved to $23.2 million or $0.22 per diluted share, compared to $20.7 million or $0.20 per share in Q4 2022 |
| We expect the margins improvements from 2023 to carry forward into 2024 and we will continue our tight control of operating expenses |
| This new marketplace allows our growing installed base of Stream Deck users to buy apps and plugins from both our in-house creators and from 100s of third-party programmers and creators who have also partnered with us |
| For the full-year 2023 adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $95.1 million from $46.5 million in 2022 |
| In terms of the peripherals, it's nice to see growth rebounding to double-digit level over the next couple of years, just kind of as the new sort of refresh cycle, you know, just getting underway, you know, from the kind of COVID refresh |
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| The Asia market was weaker than we expected during the year, particularly in Q4 |
| While The APAC region was only 9.9% of our Q4 revenues, largely due to softness in the China market |
| For our outlook, in terms of the full-year 2024, our financial outlook reflects cautious optimism |
| Gross margin was 18.5%, compared to 20.7% in Q4 2022, reflecting mixed and some cost headwinds |
| As we noted in previous earnings calls, through much of 2023, our growth in peripherals was held back by heavy discounting from our competitors to clear up excess inventory |
| Drop was about $1 million negative again in Q4, totaling about $2 million negative for the year |
| Q4 was negatively impacted by the success in new products Andy mentioned, as we had to use more than planned air freight to get those products to market |
| The first quarter of 2023 was lapping the end of the pandemic surge in Q1 ‘22 before people generally returned to office work, making that a difficult comp |
| It's obviously a little difficult to say what that could be |
| And so it's difficult to forecast what that could be |
| Now, when that happens, if you've got a lot of discounts going on, the ASPs go down |
| So therefore, the TAM is a little less than it should be when those discounting stops |
| Have things changed and you no longer feel that guidance appropriate |
| But we still do have a hangover of inflation |
| Our actual results may differ materially from our projections due to a number of risks and uncertainties |
| But we're not going to see that this year, I don't think, with the inflationary situation going on and the interest rates pretty high |
| And as I said earlier, I don't see why, given the amount of white space we've got in gaming, and the fact that it's growing generationally, it wouldn't surprise me it's for gaming to get back to 15% or 20% growth per year |
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