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Jon Wilk: Thank you, Sean. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our fourth quarter and full year conference call. Our fourth quarter results delivered a strong close to 2023, capping off another year of record revenue and adjusted EBITDA, while providing strong free cash flow. I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the efforts of our team in 2023. While we face challenges in the macroeconomic environment, our deep client relationships, best-in-class products and a thoughtful approach to managing our business allowed us to deliver adjusted EBITDA in line with our original guidance issued back in March 2023. We accomplished a lot last year. We extended long-term contracts with our top two clients and produce more than 31 million metal cards, which is another record for the business.

And we introduced several innovations such as the Echo Mirror card that are clear examples of how CompoSecure delivers unique value for our customers. I'll share more on this shortly. Now to summarize our financial results on Slide 3. Net sales in the fourth quarter increased to $100 million due primarily to growth in our domestic business, which exceeded our previous quarterly record set in the third quarter. Looking at our bottom line, Q4 adjusted EBITDA grew more than 20% to $37 million, reflecting our most profitable quarter of the year. As we have often stated, our team is acutely focused on profitability while simultaneously driving investments to capture long-term opportunity and value. I want to call out a few additional highlights.

In 2023, we supported more than 150 new and ongoing card programs for our customers, up from more than 125 programs in 2022. This past December, ABI Research ranked CompoSecure as the market leader in its assessment of the metal payment card market. We believe momentum is also building for our Arculus products as fintechs are beginning to leverage and market our innovative technology. More to come on this later in the call. Card issuers reported growth in 2023 and have maintained a positive outlook for the year ahead, indicating continued investments in customer acquisition and retention due to sustained customer demand. For 2024, we are issuing net sales guidance of $408 million to $428 million, and for adjusted EBITDA, we're targeting a range between $147 million and $157 million.

These targets reflect our expectation for continued strength in our business. Our adjusted EBITDA target also factors in the net investment for Arculus. If you remember, in 2022, we had a net investment of $21 million which we reduced to $14 million in 2023. For 2024, we expect that number to improve once again before turning positive for fiscal year 2025. I am also very excited to announce that our Board has approved a securities repurchase program for up to $40 million over three years, providing us with a mechanism to acquire securities in CompoSecure. We believe our securities trade at a discounted valuation for a growing business that commands a leading market share with gross margins north of 50%, adjusted EBITDA margins in the high 30s and meaningful free cash generation, and we are trading at only 5 times trailing enterprise value to EBITDA.

Moving on to Slide 4. We wanted to share several new metal card programs since our last call. Let's begin with one of the unique innovations I mentioned earlier, our Echo Mirror card. The card's surface is as shiny as a mirror, hence the name. Trade Republic, a European fintech began marketing the card recently, and it's proven to be extremely popular. As a matter of fact, the Echo Mirror card has become the main backsplash image on Trade Republic's homepage. You can also see several vertical-focused programs on this slide, such as the BMW or Fan, Inc., card as well as international examples for Kotak in India and Bank Palatine in Europe. Continuing on Slide 5, I wanted to share how our customers are leveraging our products and brand in their marketing efforts.

I already mentioned Trade Republic, but you can see an example of how they are marketing this on social. In the past, I've mentioned Change Finance. Change is an International fintech that has started selling a company-branded cold storage wallet powered by Arculus. Venous.io, a Latin American-based company is using a similar approach for their branded cold storage wallet. And for Radix, a DeFi-based fintech, we also created a co-branded card that allows them to leverage the strength of our Arculus brand in the market for their cold storage wallet. On Slide 6, I mentioned card issuer trends earlier, and I'd like to provide some further insight. The information is based on quarterly reported public information. After seeing accelerated growth driven by pent-up demand during the pandemic, our large customers continue to see its strong purchase volume.

In addition, you'll notice similar trends around new card acquisitions, as well as a continued commitment to marketing spend. Looking at the overall payment card market, we highlighted several customer and partner quotes on Slide 7. We're hearing positive sentiment related to growth and consumer spending in 2024, backed by a strong labor market and wage growth. Consumer demand for products is expected to continue and card issuers remain committed to marketing investment to drive customer acquisition. These factors point towards continued growth for the premium payment card market. I always like to take the opportunity to outline our Arculus platform on every call to provide clarity around our product capabilities. Let me start on the right side with our Arculus B2B cold storage, which allows users to securely store, send and receive digital assets.

As you know, we offer both white label and co-branded solutions for our customers. On the left, you can see several use cases for our Arculus authenticate offering, such as secure login, new device authentication and high-risk transaction verification. On Slide 9, we recently partnered with Forbes, to help us better understand business leader perceptions related to fraud and user authentication as we drive forward on Arculus opportunities. Forbes surveyed 200 U.S.-based leaders from medium to large organizations across a variety of financial institutions. The results showed that passwords remain a challenge for the industry with negative impacts on consumer experience, organizational efficiency and the bottom line. While passwords are a clear issue, the real challenge highlighted by the research continues to be how do businesses deliver a higher level of security while maintaining or improving the consumer experience.

We believe that Arculus technology tied to a payment card can help deliver the right solution for both improved security and an enhanced customer experience. With that, I'll hand it over to Tim to review our financials before returning for closing remarks.

Tim Fitzsimmons: Thanks, Jon, and good afternoon, everyone. I'll provide a more detailed overview of our Q4 and full year 2023 financial performance and then turn it back to Jon before we open the call for questions. Unless stated otherwise, all comparisons and variance commentary are on a year-over-year basis. In Q4, net sales increased 7% to $99.9 million compared to $93.8 million. The increase was driven by continued domestic growth in our metal payment card offerings, partially offset by lower international sales, which is a more variable market due to customer mix and a smaller sales base. Gross margin for the quarter was 53% compared to 54% in the prior year. The decrease was primarily due to lower production efficiencies from new card constructions and customer designs.

Net income for the quarter increased 39% to $31 million compared to $22.4 million in the prior year. The increase was driven by prudent operating expense controls as reflected by a reduction in selling and general administrative expenses as well as changes to the fair value of warrants, earn-out consideration and derivative liabilities. Adjusted EBITDA in Q4 increased 22% to $37.2 million compared to $30.6 million in the prior year, and our adjusted EBITDA margin increased approximately 461 basis points to 37% compared to 33% in the fourth quarter of 2022. The increase in adjusted EBITDA was driven by net sales growth and the aforementioned operating expense controls. On Slide 12, you can see our full year performance. Net sales were up 3% to a record $390.6 million driven by continued strong U.S. demand, partially offset by our international business, which was impacted by global economic conditions.

Our full year gross margin was 54% compared to 58% in the prior year due to lower production efficiencies from new card constructions and customer designs. Net income from the year was $112.5 million compared to $131.8 million in the prior year. The lower net income was driven primarily by the non-cash changes in the fair value of the warrant earn-out consideration and derivative liabilities. Adjusted EBITDA for 2023 increased 6% to a record $145 million compared to $136 million in the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the full year increased 114 basis points to 37% compared to 36% in year '22. Looking closer at the split between domestic and international, you can see that our fourth quarter domestic net sales remained strong at $86 million, which is up 9% year-over-year and surpassed our record results in Q3.

International net sales for the fourth quarter of 2023 were $14 million, which was up sequentially but down year-over-year. As we have communicated in the past, we expect our international business to account roughly 20% of our annual total net sales mix. It was 18% of the mix in 2023 and 22% in 2022. Moving on to the balance sheet. At December 31, 2023, we had cash and cash equivalents of $41.2 million and total debt of $340.3 million, which includes $210 million of term loan and $130 million of exchangeable notes. This resulted in a total net debt of $298.5 million. In addition, I want to mention our inventory levels. Jon often shares our thoughtful approach to managing the business while effectively balancing our investments. One such example is that we have proactively increased inventory levels near the end of 2023 to ensure we are in the best position to deliver on our clients' needs throughout 2024.

As always, we provide both our overall debt leverage ratio and our bank agreement secured debt leverage ratio as our bank agreement is calculated with slight differences. At December 31, 2023, our overall leverage ratio was 2.35 times based on a total net debt of $340.3 million and trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA of $145 million. This compares to 2.6 times at December 31, 2022, with the improvement driven by paying down debt and increased TTM adjusted EBITDA. At December 31, 2023, we had a bank agreement secured debt leverage ratio of 1.39 times based on a total secured debt of $210.3 million and trailing 12-month bank adjusted EBITDA of $151 million. This compares to 1.62 times at December 31, 2022. Turning to Slide 15. At December 31, 2023, we had free cash flow of $55 million based on $104 million in net cash from operations, less investment in capital equipment of $11 million and tax distributions of $38 million.

This resulted in a free cash flow yield of 13% based on a market cap of $429 million. This compares to a free cash flow at December 31, 2022, of $47 million, which also gave us a free cash flow yield of 13%. Note, you can see the GAAP cash flow statement and a footnote on the calculations of market cap on this slide. I want to turn now to earnings per share. As a reminder, our method under GAAP for calculating basic and diluted EPS allows us to allocate changes in adjustments of mark-to-market instruments among the public company and the operating subsidiaries to better reflect the actual economic impact of the conversion of such instruments on our net income on a per share basis. GAAP EPS for the three months ended December 31, 2023, was $0.17 per basic and diluted share.

This compares to $0.14 per basic and diluted share in the year ago period. The increase was driven by operating expense controls as well as changes to the fair value of the warrants, earn-out consideration and derivative liabilities primarily due to changes in our stock price. You could read through the footnotes on this slide that take you through the complexities of the allocation of net income due to the up fee structure and the shares that are included in the basic and diluted calculations. Turning to Slide 17, for our full year GAAP EPS, which was $1.03 per basic share and $0.96 per diluted share. This compares to $1.21 and $1.13 for basic and diluted share, respectively, in 2022. Again, this was impacted by the same factors I outlined on the previous slides as non-cash adjustments can have either a positive or negative impact on net income.

On Slide 18, we're also providing a non-GAAP adjusted net income and adjusted EPS, which excludes the impact of non-cash fair value adjustments for the warrants earn-out revaluations and stock compensation. We believe that this provides a clearer picture of the economics of the company's operating results. With that background, our non-GAAP EPS for the fourth quarter of 2023 was $0.29 per basic share and $0.26 per diluted share. This compares to $0.23 per basic share and $0.20 per diluted share in the year ago period. In the appendix, you'll find a reconciliation between the GAAP and non-GAAP net income used in these calculations. Turning to Slide 19. Adjusted EPS for the 12 months ended December 31, 2023, put us at $1.12 per basic share and $0.97 per diluted share.

This compares to $1.10 and $0.94 per basic and diluted share, respectively, in 2022. I'll now turn it back to Jon to discuss our guidance and give closing remarks.

Jon Wilk: Thanks, Tim. As I mentioned earlier, we expect our 2024 net sales to range between $408 million and $428 million, and adjusted EBITDA to come in between $147 million and $157 million. Turning to Slide 21. I want to conclude by summarizing a few key themes that we covered today. As I've stated in the past, we've always had a thoughtful approach to managing the business while effectively balancing our investments, which has resulted in a long history of delivering profitable growth. Our team delivered a record year in 2023 including meeting our original adjusted EBITDA guidance. The consumer continues to prove resilient and global issuers are actively expanding their metal payment card programs to satisfy that growing demand.

We believe Arculus is starting to gain momentum as fintech seek to leverage our innovative technology to expand their capabilities. As mentioned, we expect the net investment for Arculus to continue to improve and turn positive for fiscal 2025. And last, we believe our current market valuation reflects a discount for a category-leading business and the securities repurchase program we announced today equips us with another tool to deliver shareholder value as we execute on our growth and profitability objectives. With that, I'd like to open up the call to Q&A.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of John Todaro of Needham & Company. Please go ahead, John.

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