Q2 2024 Owlet Inc Earnings Call

In This Article:

Participants

Mike Cavanaugh; IR; ICR Westwicke

Kurt Workman; Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, Director; Owlet Baby Care Inc

Jonathan Harris; President, Chief Revenue Officer; Owlet Inc

Amanda Crawford; Chief Financial Officer; Owlet Inc

Charles Rhyee; Analyst; TD Cowen

Presentation

Operator

Good afternoon. Thank you for attending today's Owlet's Q2 2024 earnings call. My name is Jayla, and I'll be your moderator for today. (Operator Instructions)
I would now like to turn the conference over to our host, Mike Cavanaugh, Investor Relations. Mike, you may proceed.

Mike Cavanaugh

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for the Owlet Baby Care's second-quarter 2024 earnings call. We appreciate your time and interest in our company. Earlier today, Owlet released financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024. The release is currently available on the company's website at www.investors.owletcare.com.
Our speakers for today's call are Kurt Workman, Owlet's Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer; Jonathan Harris, President; and Amanda Twede Crawford, our Chief Financial Officer.
Kurt will begin with an overview of our performance and key developments followed by Jonathan, who will provide color on our go-to-market results and then Amanda will provide a detailed review of our financial results. Following their remarks, we will open the call for questions.
Before we get started, we would like to remind participants that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These statements are only predictions and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those described in our most recent filings with the SEC and in the Risk Factors section of our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. Please note that the company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by law.
With that, I would now like to turn the call over to our CEO, Kurt Workman. Kurt?

Kurt Workman

Thanks, Mike. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining Owlet's earnings call today. As always, we appreciate your ongoing support of Owlet. Throughout the first half of 2024, we have consistently delivered on every key operational milestones. These milestones include the launch of our FDA-cleared devices in both consumer and medical channels and our CE Medical approval and its launch in the UK and Europe. We've met all of our key financial goals in the first half, including double-digit sell-through and revenue growth, gross margin expansion and significant operating cost savings resulting in a positive adjusted EBITDA in Q2.
As promised, we plan on maintaining at or near breakeven adjusted EBITDA on a go-forward basis. In addition to our significant Q2 operational achievements, our July Amazon Prime event was the strongest in company history and exceeded our expectations with Dream Sock sell-through up 61% year over year in units and revenue up 68% year over year. We've also crossed a major milestone with the launch of Owlet Care our new subscription service, which was released to a limited number of users. That service will begin to scale to our user base throughout this year and represents a major shift in the LTV potential for Owlet in 2025.
Finally, we have now fully integrated our telehealth partnership with Wheel on owletcare.com to accelerate access to insurance reimbursement. When I look back over the past few years, it's clear that Owlet's commercial position today is the strongest it's ever meant. There is a robust, continued and discernible momentum for Owlet in the market that continues to grow on the back of the second of our two FDA approvals in the US last November.
We believe this year is the turning point propelling us to our vision of a safe and healthy journey for every baby and a sustainable growth company. I'd like to take some time on today's call to share what success looks like over the next few years as we continue to make progress towards our vision.
There are over 140 million babies born every year, and every single parent is worried about their baby's safety, health, and getting more sleep. And yet unexpected mortality, respiratory infections and sleep deprivation are still a major issue for parents. These are universal problems that we firmly believe can be solved with access to personalized information in the home.
I say this a lot, but I went through more training to get a driver's license than I did to become a dad, the caregiver of a little baby. Parents are exhausted, worried and have very few tools in the home to assess their baby's health and that leads to one of the highest rates of primary and urgent care utilization. It's time to empower parents in the home with tools and technologies they need to give the best care possible to their baby.
Owlet has collected a very large data set of infant health and sleep in the home. We've monitored over 15 trillion heartbeats and millions of hours of infant sleep on over 2 million babies in the past eight years. We've taken all of that data to build beautiful subscription insights. The launch of subscription, we're calling Owlet Care signals the beginning of Owlet's transformation from a product and hardware company to the platform for pediatric health that helps bridge the gap between the hospital and the home.
The rollout of this platform will have three distinct phases. The first phase is focused on unlocking insights and information that helps parents better understand what's normal for their baby and what's not. Parents will be able to get daily updates on how their child health and sleep are trending relative to their own baseline and how it compares to the broader population.
Owlet will also help parents store their baby's health data, an important moments captured by the camera and SOC and will make it easy for them to share that information with their pediatrician.
I remember, probably like every parent, being surprised the first few weeks of how often my son was waking up and how frequently he was getting sick. There are so many questions that new parents have, but one common thread among these is the simple question, is this normal? Is my baby okay?
The second phase will integrate professional service partners into our app that will provide integrated care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Parents will be able to chat with pediatricians, nurses, sleep coaches and mental health professionals who have access to Owlet's data to provide personalized care at home.
We'll be able to use this data and new AI models to deliver unparalleled insights and proactive detection that will help move pediatrics into preventative care in our third phase. Our strategy is to use our biggest assets, our network of parents, hospitals and data to drive continued value into our platform. As a result, we expect that the price point of our subscription will evolve over time as well as the value and services we are providing.
I can't imagine a world where every parent and pediatrician doesn't have access to some sort of information like Owlet about their baby that we will be providing and passionately advancing. As a corollary, 70 million adults in the US alone have a wearable health sensor, and they've come to expect it for their children. We believe that just like every baby leaves the hospital with the thermometer, a breast pump and a car seat, every baby will have access to Owlet Care that could one day be reimbursed by insurance.
BabySat and Dream Sock are complementary in this vision, giving access to Owlet's technology to both parents who have a critically ill baby leaving the NICU and to the new parent who's trying to navigate bringing their newborn home for the first time.
The opportunity to become the standard of home care in pediatrics is absolutely massive. It's been overload and Owlet is in the best position to build it.
We will continue to execute this vision by focusing on three areas in 2024 and into 2025. First is driving continued adoption of Dream Sock. Second is expanding the medical and health care channels to offer an insurance reimburse monitor for babies who are sick or high risk. Third is to transition Owlet into a service that helps parents from infancy into the toddler years and increases LTV.
The opportunity these three areas present significantly increases our revenue and margin without increasing the complexity of the business and will help to drive continued growth in top and bottom line. We believe our business in the next few years can be several hundred million in revenue and very profitable.
Before turning the call over to Jonathan Harris, our President, to talk about these three pillars of our go-to-market strategy and results for Q2. I'd like to welcome Amanda Twede Crawford to our earnings call today. She will be covering our Q2 financial results.
As we announced a few weeks ago, Kate Scolnick is leaving Owlet to pursue other opportunities and will remain at the company in an advisory role for a transition period through September. On behalf of the Board of Directors in Owlet, I want to thank Kate for her executive leadership and significant contributions since joining our management team prior to our initial public listing.
Over the last 3.5 years, she has been instrumental in supporting our top line growth, margin expansion and profitability objectives. And with her help, we are on track to achieve our 2024 operational and financial goals. We wish Kate continued success in her future endeavors. Amanda is a key financial leader and contributor at Owlet and we're excited for her to be moving into the Chief Financial Officer role. She joined us in 2022 with over 15 years of finance and accounting experience from Swire Coca-Cola and PricewaterhouseCoopers with a master's in accounting.
Amanda knows our business, our leadership, our community and our vision incredibly well. And as such, we anticipate this will be a smooth transition.
Welcome, Amanda. And now I'll turn the call over to Jonathan.