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Intermap Technologies Q4 2025 Earnings Call

Intermap Technologies Corp (ITMSF)

Earnings Call FY2025 Q4 Call date: 2026-03-31 Concluded

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Sean Head of Investor Relations

A good afternoon and thank you for joining us for InterMap Technologies Conference Call to discuss its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2025. Before I pass the call to management, I want to let everyone know you are in a listen-only mode. If you have a question, please enter them at any time in the question box at the bottom of the webinar and we'll get to them at the end of the call. Certain information in this presentation constitutes forward-looking statements, including statements regarding revenue growth, conversion of government awards, timing of revenue recognition, expansion of recurring commercial revenue, capital deployment, and future operating performance. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as anticipate, expect, project, estimate, forecast, continue, focus, will, and intend. These statements are based on current assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties, including availability of capital, revenue variability, timing in the structure of government contracts, customer concentration, economic conditions, competitive dynamics, technology risk, cybersecurity, and other factors described in Intermaps public filings. Actual results may differ materially. The company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law. With that out of the way, I'd like to pass the call to CEO Patrick Blott. Go ahead, Patrick.

Thank you, Sean. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to InterMAP's Financial Results Conference Call for the fourth quarter and full year 2025. I'm Patrick Blott, Chairman and CEO. Today, I'll provide highlights from the year, along with a business update and outlook. I'll then turn the call over to Jennifer to review our financial performance in more detail. Revenue was $10.6 million compared to $17.6 million in 2024. Fourth quarter revenue was $1.6 million compared to $7.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. As has been previously detailed, the decline in total revenue reflects delays with follow-on awards for Indonesia and U.S. government programs. Meanwhile, our commercial revenue grew strongly year over year, driven by customer adoption of our technology advances, including proprietary AI capabilities. In our Czech market, the beta introduction of the risk assistance saw eight leading insurers representing more than 90% market share of the multi-parals market adopt Intermaps' AI-assisted risk platform, with major providers such as Generali already expanding their usage throughout Europe. Our precise object-level evaluation supports more informed underwriting and reinsurance decisions at scale and with automation. We estimate this to be a $1.2 billion addressable market globally, given the large protection gaps. Indonesia is progressing through a World Bank-sponsored procurement process, and we have been down-selected across all four remaining lots, representing a potential $200 million opportunity. Intermap has positioned itself through advances in its commercial business and technology as a leader in the technologies required to achieve data sovereignty, provenance, and custody objectives for governments as they increase focus on their national security. This is also happening in Indonesia. Governments around the world are worried about their sovereignty, they're worried about their data security, and InterMAP is one of a small number of contractors that has both past performance and an installed base where we can provide military-grade data with assurances. We are also in final contracting on several U.S. government programs that were delayed due to the federal budget process. These are funded programs where we have a strong visibility toward award. Similar to our proven commercial offerings, these data solutions offer assured position, navigation, and timing at scale with quality that is investment-grade and suitable for large-scale automated deployments together these government delays account for essentially all of the year over year revenue decline the business itself is stronger than ever subscription and data revenue grew 29 to 5.2 million and is now our largest revenue category we invested significantly in the business with over 1.8 million in technology upgrades people fixed asset capacity expansion and 3.9 million to reduce liabilities and improve our working capital position and credit profile lowering our cost of capital. Excluding currency fluctuations, working capital and the fixed asset investment, cash flow from operations improved 30% compared to last year. The business operated a cash flow break even while we invested in growth. We strengthened the balance sheet ending the year with $22.5 million of cash and $24.6 million of shareholders' equity. We upgraded our audit to the more rigorous PCAOB standard and hired MNP to see Intermap through its roadmap towards an uplisting to the NASDAQ and a U.S. registration at the appropriate time. If the underlying business is growing, scaling, and better positioned than at any point in its history, we affirm our guidance of 30 to 35 million revenue with a 28 percent EBITDA margin, and with that I'll turn the call over to Jennifer to walk through the financials in more detail. Jennifer?

Thank you, Patrick. As a reminder, we report our financial results in U.S. dollars. As Patrick mentioned, revenue for 2025 was $10.6 million compared to $17.6 million in 2024. As we previously discussed, the decline was entirely attributable to delays in the follow-on work on Indonesia and U.S. government programs rather than any loss of existing programs. operating loss for the year was 6.9 million compared to operating income of 2.5 million in the prior year net loss was 6.7 million compared to net income of 2.5 million in 2024 the year over year change was primarily driven by lower revenue related to contract timing along with increased fixed costs as we continue to invest in our infrastructure and capacity to support expected growth in 2026. Turning to the balance sheet, we ended the year with cash of $22.5 million compared to $400,000 at the end of 2024. Shareholders' equity increased to $24.6 million from $3.7 million over the same period. Our current ratio, which is defined as current assets divided by current liabilities, improved significantly to 5.2 times at year-end, 25 compared to approximately one time at the end of the prior year, reflecting the substantial strengthening of our balance sheet and capital structure. These improvements were driven by financings completed during the year, as well as the timing of government program execution and related revenue recognition. Overall, we believe our improved liquidity and capital position provide a solid foundation to support our expected growth in 2026. I'll now turn the call back to Patrick.

Thank you, Jennifer. We're on slide five. The revenue mix shifted towards recurring and subscription data. Subscription and data revenue grew 29% to 5.2 million and represented 49% of total revenue. That growth was driven by expansion of our insurance analytic platform and broader enterprise adoption of our subscription offerings. While acquisition services declined due to the timing of large government programs, the overall business continues to shift towards recurring higher margin subscription and data revenue. During the year, we made substantial progress across the business. We strengthened the balance sheet through financings completed in February and September. We advanced large government opportunities, including with Malaysia, Indonesia, and the U.S. government. We expanded our commercial insurance analytics platform. We deployed the AI-enabled risk assistant. We also completed infrastructure upgrades, including GPU capacity and security enhancements to support scalable delivery. In terms of priorities, we're focused on converting a large and growing government pipeline into contracted awards, particularly in Southeast Asia, starting with Indonesia and Malaysia. We're converting contracts into task orders for the U.S. Defense Department and Fed CIV customers, and we're expanding geographically into South America and Europe. We're scaling recurring subscription data and analytics revenue, leveraging the risk assistant framework to accelerate adoption, growing deeper into the market opportunity globally, expanding into additional vertical markets that leverage our military-grade technologies in autonomous navigation and telecommunications. And we're allocating capital with discipline, both in partnership with previously announced DARPA programs that fund emerging dual-use geospatial technologies, and while supporting key internal growth pursuits and product development with a focus on high-margin API-enabled recurring revenue. And we're leveraging our strength and balance sheet to compete for larger, longer-duration programs. We're now ready to move to the Q&A section of the call, and I will pass the call back to Sean.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

Great, thanks, Patrick. As a reminder, if you have a question, please put it in the Q&A tab at the bottom of your screen. First question, there are several questions on Indonesia. So do you have any color that you can share with respect to the drivers of the delays in the process? Looks like the technical component of the evaluation was completed last Thursday based on the publicly available schedule. How do you feel about the remaining milestones? And do you have any color on the competitors that cleared the technical component.

Yeah, I've mostly shared as much as we can share, but I can say that, I mean, it's a big program for them and us, but it's a big program for them. And it involves the World Bank. It involves layers of decision-making and approvals and a process that's new. And that's the driver of the delays.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

Okay. And then, you know, and then no comment on the competitive side of things at this point you don't have that information or not able to comment yeah yeah we're not commenting on the competitive stuff okay um yeah so if that's it on the indonesia stuff i think you know if we really don't have limited things that we can talk about so um on the malaysia flood mapping contract uh can you discuss if any revenue from q4 was recognized from that contract and then any insight, further opportunities from that initial contract in Malaysia?

Yeah, I mean, that is actually several awards under a program there, which we've announced the award of one, but that is 2026 revenue, all of it.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

Sorry, these questions are still coming in here. Can you speak about the uplist in the U.S.? maybe just give everybody an update on that.

Yeah, I've said before, I mean, it is a priority for the company. It is a strategic objective. And we're on a roadmap. There's a lot of things logistically that need to get done. A couple of big ones have occurred, including the foreign private issuer filings, the uplifted audit to the PCAOB standard.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

But the registrations and the uplisting uh you know are something that we're going to get done valuation is a factor so um uh you know it's going to get done at the appropriate time can you well you can't talk about competitors um do you still feel that intermap is the only company in the world that meets the technical capability to take on the contract i'm assuming the indonesia one is what they're referencing i i believe that and most certainly uh that applies to the past performance On the commercial side, obviously, there was a bunch of growth there. Can you talk about anything outside of insurance?

Are there other drivers other than insurance in the commercial business that people should be looking at? yeah i mean it's again a bit large-scale data problems right we we we sell it similarly they they the customers consume it uh in a very similar fashion but they consume it for different uh use cases and um but large-scale data problems particularly things like autonomous navigation uh which is a big one and and also communications and signals signals monitoring signals propagation That's another big one. And so there's a variety of verticals that, you know, are benefiting greatly from the availability of what was once just, you know, by-side classified military data. And now it's being used to solve big problems and at scale. So where there's commercial big problems at scale, that's where our data may be a good fit.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

Next question. Given that AI companies seem to be eclipsing software companies these days, where and how do you characterize InterMap on the spectrum of software versus AI?

Yeah, I mean, that's a good question. I was invited to a government-led conference for mostly a government audience just a couple of weeks ago, military and intelligence, where people are very focused on that. and essentially leveraging the AI because from our perspective, where we use it, and we use it in about five different work streams at InterMap in terms of both product development and capability development. And then we market it. We have actually marketed and sold a product that is an agentic AI product. So we're pretty familiar with it. We've been working with machine learning and AI for a long time. We've had the GPUs in place for years now. because we have one of the largest commercial archives in the world, right? We have trading data that's unmatched at global scale. And so this is a capability that isn't new to InterMap. But what's happening is it is making our people much more effective and it's making our customers and the products that we sell them much more accurate. And so speed and accuracy is where we focus. And AI is helping us move the football there. I mean, InterMap fundamentally is a data company, right? People are consuming points. The more points I sell, the more money we all make. People consume through various software features. And if I can find ways to make points easier to consume, especially for non-expert users, I'm expanding my markets. So AI for us has been a huge help in terms of adoption, especially with new data sets. As we try to get our customers to adopt more data and new data and integrate different data, AI has helped us do that. and I think it's a good thing. So that's where we, I mean, we do definitely have software coders, but the software coders are using it and it's making them more effective and faster. And we have also very strict, I mean, it's not a consumer, you know, quality AI.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

We're dealing with, again, mil spec data and some government and strict requirements. um so things are happening pursuant to rules uh and they're happening in ways that are very closely monitored as well okay great i had a few people asking this so uh just back to indonesia this question says indonesia had a fairly limited number of bidders to begin with so what does down selection mean in this context and maybe just i don't know if you just described you know your term down selection but i did have some other people ask me right after the news release went out It's a great question because it's a silly word.

I mean, it means selection. How it became down selection, I'm not sure, but that's the universal term in government land, both in the U.S. and Canada and everywhere else. When you go through a process and you compete and you get selected, they call it down selected. Right. Okay, great.

Sean Head of Investor Relations

Just on the pipeline, so on other national mapping programs, What does the pipeline look like? And are any of these opportunities looking like a 2026 contract timeline or should we think about those in 2027?

And how important is winning Indonesia to winning these further programs? um they're separate uh not important at all i would say to the other programs um and they are in southeast asia but also in other areas of the world um and and there's a lot of activity going on so so i think um you know the answer to the question is yes 2026 and uh and and they are not they're not they're correlated in the sense that past performance matters everywhere right especially with larger programs. Nobody really wants to, especially in governments, which tend to be risk averse, they don't want to take a flyer on providers that have never done it before when the dollars are large. They might take a flyer for small dollars, but for large dollars, they want past performance. And so past performance matters. And to that extent, there's correlation there because it extends our past, you know, the first phase of Indonesia extends Intermaps past performance at an extremely high specification that then, you know, a lot of people around the world look at. So that's, to that extent, they're correlated, but otherwise they're not they're not related at all okay great um i do have a follow-up from the ai question so how likely are large ai companies to replicate intermaps technology what is your competitive advantage in this regard yeah again i'll say it again we're fundamentally a data company so so ai can't create data and if it does create data that's what we would call a synthetic so So a synthetic data, you know, you can't use for many things that our customers use data for. Like you don't want to fly an airplane with a synthetic data. So it's not how we deliver and consume. You know, we do try to make the consumption of our data as easy as possible. We use software to do that. And also we want to do it at scale, right? Think of a thousand points of light. We want to be able to deliver data into automated systems. Our insurance underwriters are pulling in excess of 5 million points a month. That's huge. A human can't do that. A human can't look at a screen and underwrite risk at that scale. So in order to consume the data, we take every advantage we can in terms of software, AI, whatever, that allows our customers to do their job in larger and larger ways. That also affects the military. You know, anybody can pick up the front page of any news recently and just see the evolution of targeting from looking for a bad dude in the war on terror, you know, 10 or 15 years ago to looking at literally hundreds concurrently in the current. It's all about scale. it's all about automation we're right in the sweet spot of all of that ai is our helper it's it's not it's not particularly a threat because because at the end of the day people are we want people to consume as much data as possible great okay uh next couple questions on on u.s defense contracts so have you got any traction on the key u.s defense contracts i know you mentioned it in your opening remarks but any other comments there and and then are you again on the pipeline there in the defense side are there other opportunities that you haven't talked to that you're working on yeah and we'll announce when we can i mean i i can say this we're in funded programs um and we're in contracting so you know i have a pretty pretty decent visibility and and we'll announce as soon as we can but it's got to be inked all right this one on the world bank does the world bank have a timeline on when the allocated funds need to be uh spent that is a very good question it's above my pay grade that is that is a government to government indonesia to world bank um it's not us okay all right i'm just looking here if there's anything else in here

Sean Head of Investor Relations

that we haven't hit on oh how many aircraft are you currently operating and how many do you have in your fleet uh we're not disclosing that but uh we have more than we need i mean it's not just aircraft so it's uh okay oh from the revenue guidance for 2026 uh can you talk to how much

of the of indonesia is reflected in that 2026 number i mean the way that we do it is we take a whole uh array of the pipeline which is factored pipeline which is coming in from a whole bunch of different sales reps focus on a whole bunch of different things. And so it funnels through that and gets probability weighted and is basically a multi, at the end of the day, becomes a multi pathway. Any one of, you know, Indonesia is published. It's a published budget. It's a published requirement. It's a published schedule. I'm pulling, I don't have these numbers right in front of me but but 20 to 30 percent up front of indonesia's you know at least 40 to 50 million dollars the day the contract signed so so um you know like pulling out any particular one is is not the way that we do it and i don't think it's the right way to do it so assuming you won indonesia would be conservative um okay i don't think there's any other questions and if there are people can email us if i've missed any there are a lot in here but a lot of them are just more on indonesia which we're not going to comment on or specific

Sean Head of Investor Relations

customers which are also not going to comment on um so i think with that patrick i'm going to pass it back to you for closing remarks struggling with my mute here uh thank you for joining the call today we look forward to updating you on progress in future quarters this concludes Intermaps fourth quarter of 2025 conference call. We thank you for joining us.

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