Dolphin to Host Fourth Quarter and FY 2023 Earnings Call on March 27 at 4:30 PM ET
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Date: March 27, 2024
Time: 4:30pm ET
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ABOUT DOLPHIN
Dolphin (NASDAQ:DLPN) was founded in 1996 by Bill O'Dowd and has evolved from its origins as an Emmy-nominated television, digital and feature film content producer to a company with three dynamic divisions: Dolphin Entertainment, Dolphin Marketing and Dolphin Ventures.
Dolphin Entertainment: This legacy division, where it all began, has a rich history of producing acclaimed television shows, digital content and feature films. With high-profile partners like IMAX and notable projects including The Blue Angels, Dolphin Entertainment continues to set the standard in quality storytelling and innovative content creation.
Dolphin Marketing: Established in 2017, the Marketing division, which was just named by Observer as the 2025 #1 Agency of the Year, is a powerhouse in public relations, influencer marketing, branding strategy, talent booking and special events. Comprising top-tier companies such as 42West, The Door, Shore Fire Media, Elle Communications, Special Projects, The Digital Dept., and Always Alpha, Dolphin Marketing serves a wide range of industries - from entertainment, music and sports to hospitality, fashion and consumer products.
Dolphin Ventures: This division leverages Dolphin's best-in-class cross-marketing acumen and business development relationships to create, launch and/or accelerate innovative ideas and promising products, events and content in our areas of expertise.
Dolphin has also launched 'The Pod', a new shareholder loyalty program in partnership with TiiCKER, the world's first and largest shareholder engagement platform. 'The Pod' features high-value tiered perks for Dolphin's verified investors, including gift cards and discount codes for brands like Häagen-Dazs, Francis Ford Coppola Wines, Carbone Fine Food, Saysh, and Foster Supply Hospitality. Investors may also receive special access to concerts, movie screenings, and celebrity meet-and-greet opportunities throughout the year.
Dolphin Entertainment shareholders can now visit TiiCKER.com/DLPN to connect their brokerage accounts and claim their perks and VIP experiences.
This press release contains 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. These forward-looking statements may address, among other things, Dolphin Entertainment Inc.'s offering of common stock as well as expected financial and operational results and the related assumptions underlying its expected results. These forward-looking statements are distinguished by the use of words such as 'will,' 'would,' 'anticipate,' 'expect,' 'believe,' 'designed,' 'plan,' or 'intend,' the negative of these terms, and similar references to future periods. These views involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and, accordingly, Dolphin Entertainment's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in its forward-looking statements. Dolphin Entertainment's forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this press release. Factors or events Dolphin Entertainment cannot predict, including those described in the risk factors contained in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, may cause its actual results to differ from those expressed in forward-looking statements. Although Dolphin Entertainment believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved, and Dolphin Entertainment undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
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Image source: The Motley Fool. Date Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 at 10 a.m. ET Call participants Chief Executive Officer — Jeffrey Sanfilippo Chief Financial Officer — Frank Pellegrino Chief Operating Officer — Jasper Sanfilippo Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email pr@ Full Conference Call Transcript Jeffrey Sanfilippo: Thanks, Latanya. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our fiscal 2025 fourth quarter earnings conference call. Thank you for joining us. On the call with me today is Frank Pellegrino, our CFO, and Jasper Sanfilippo, our COO. We may make some forward-looking statements today. Statements are based on our current expectations and may involve certain risks and uncertainties. Factors that could negatively impact results are explained in the various SEC filings that we have made, including forms 10-Ks and 10-Q. We encourage you to refer to the filings to learn more about these risks and uncertainties that are inherent in our business. Before we begin today's call, I want to take a moment to honor the life and legacy of Matt Valentine, former president from 1995 to 2006, and member of the JBSS board of directors who passed away this week. Matt played a pivotal role in shaping the success of our company, working closely alongside our former CEO, Jasper Sanfilippo Sr., during some of the company's most formative years. He was more than a leader; he was a mentor, a trusted adviser, a steady presence for so many of us. My brother Jasper and I were fortunate to learn from him, and his impact continues to resonate throughout our organization. We are deeply grateful for Matt's contributions. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Valentine and Carroll families. Turning to our results, I am proud of how our team navigated a challenging and constantly evolving operating environment through fiscal 2025. We responded swiftly and decisively to address short-term financial impacts while remaining focused on executing our long-range plan in spite of a challenging macroeconomic and consumer environment. Although our financial performance falls short of our expectations, we gained positive momentum as the year progressed, highlighted by year-over-year diluted EPS growth of 49.6% and 33.7% in the third and fourth quarters, respectively, and enhanced spending discipline and increased efficiencies in our operations. We also increased our net sales to a record $1.1 billion, surpassing the billion-dollar mark for two years in a row. We continue to make significant investments in our manufacturing and infrastructure, laying the foundation for future profitable growth. In addition, we recently increased our annual dividend by 5.9% to 90¢ per share and declared a special dividend of 60¢ per share. Both dividends will be paid on September 11, 2025. This marks the fourteenth consecutive year of returning capital through dividends to our shareholders. I want to sincerely thank all our employees for their dedication, resilience, and hard work this year. Their commitment drives our success and positions us for a strong future. Navigating a dynamic market landscape, across recent CPG earnings calls, three key themes have consistently emerged, each reflecting the evolving challenges and opportunities facing our industry. We recognize the importance of addressing these shifts head-on. Now we'll share how our teams are actively managing change, responding to uncertainty, and positioning the company for continued growth and resilience in today's complex marketplace. First, navigating tariffs and rising costs. In an increasingly volatile global landscape, tariff-related cost pressures continue to challenge manufacturers across the industry. At JBSS, we proactively monitor trade developments, material costs, customer pricing, and demand fluctuations through close collaboration among our procurement, demand planning, finance, marketing, and sales teams. While the environment remains complex, we've built a resilient framework to assess and manage our supply chain, helping us mitigate risk and maintain continuity. Our teams are responding with agility, leveraging sourcing flexibility, driving cost savings initiatives, and implementing selective price adjustments where appropriate. We remain transparent with our customers, providing regular updates, and offering tailored solutions such as reformulations, alternative ingredients, and optimized pack sizes to help manage costs without compromising value. Second, adapting to shifts in consumer behavior. In today's environment, consumers remain highly value-conscious, making thoughtful decisions about their purchases. At JBSS, we stay closely attuned to these evolving behaviors through continuous monitoring of consumption trends across the nut, trail mix, and snack bar categories. As inflationary pressure persists, our consumer insights play a critical role in shaping our innovation pipeline, ensuring that new offerings resonate with shoppers seeking both quality and value. Additionally, our advanced price elasticity models help us optimize price pack architecture and promotional strategies, allowing us to deliver compelling value while maintaining profitability. This is an important environment for private label programs. We are optimistic about expanding product portfolios with several of our transformational customers to meet shifting consumer needs. Third, driving growth through innovation and portfolio expansion. As evidenced by current market valuations, growth remains a top priority across the consumer packaged goods sector. In our company, we're embracing this imperative with strategic investments designed to unlock new opportunities. Earlier this year, we announced a significant investment and expansion in our manufacturing capabilities, an initiative that will enable us to broaden our product portfolio and better serve evolving consumer preferences. We're energized by the potential these innovations hold and remain committed to transforming our business for long-term sustainable growth. We will share further details in the coming quarters as we ramp up for production. Looking ahead to fiscal 2026, we are focused on accelerating our volume growth by expanding on the success of our private brand bar portfolio, rebuilding our nut and trail business through price pack architecture, and innovation expanding our manufacturing capabilities. We are confident we can continue to deliver strong operating results and create long-term value for our shareholders through the execution of our long-range plan. We are nuts about creating real food that brings joy, nourishes people, and protects the planet, and JBSS is executing on this mission. I'll now turn the call over to Frank to discuss our financial performance. Frank Pellegrino: Thank you, Jeffrey. Starting with the income statement, net sales for 2025 decreased slightly by 0.2% to $169.1 million compared to net sales of $269.6 million for 2024. The slight decline in net sales was due to a 5.9% decrease in sales volume or pounds sold to customers, which was largely offset by a 6% increase in the weighted average sales price per pound. The increase in the weighted average selling price primarily resulted from higher commodity acquisition costs for peanuts and all major tree nuts except for pecans. Sales volume declined for all major product types with the exception of peanuts, walnuts, and pecans. Sales volume decreased 11.5% in the consumer distribution channel, primarily due to a 10.7% decrease in private brand sales volume. The private brand volume decrease was due to a 16.7% reduction in bar volume, mainly due to reduced sales to a mass merchandising retailer following an increase in bar sales from a national brand recall in 2024. Our strategic decision to reduce sales to a grocery retailer and lost distribution at another grocery retailer further contributed to the decline in bars volume. These decreases were partially offset by new bars distribution at two new customers. Additionally, sales volume for other product types decreased 8.5%, mainly due to the discontinuation of peanut butter along with softer demand for snack, trail mix, mixed nuts, and almonds all at the same mass merchandising retailer driven by higher retail prices. However, decreases were partially mitigated by increased sales of walnuts and pecans at the same retailer. Sales volume decreased 19.7% for our branded products, primarily driven by a 42.9% reduction in pork belly harvest sales mainly due to lost distribution to a major customer in the non-food sector. Sales volume increased 8.7% in the commercial ingredients distribution channel, mainly driven by increased cinnabar volume to existing customers, which was first supplemented by an increase in peanut volumes. Sales volume increased 18.7% in the contract manufacturing distribution channel, primarily due to increased granola volume processed in our Lakeville facility and snack nut sales to a new customer, and increased pan sales volume to a major customer also contributed to the overall increase. Gross profit decreased by $1.2 million or 2.4% to $48.8 million compared to the fourth quarter of last year, driven by higher commodity acquisition costs for nearly all tree nuts and peanuts. However, the impact was significantly offset by increased production volume, lower manufacturing spending, and improved manufacturing efficiency. Fourth quarter gross profit margin as a percentage of net sales decreased to 18.1% compared to 18.5% for 2024 due to the reasons previously mentioned. Total operating expenses for the fourth quarter decreased $6.7 million compared to the prior year quarter, mainly due to lower incentive compensation expenses, along with reduced freight expense, lower third-party warehouse expenses, and lower marketing insight spending. These decreases were partially offset by a decrease in rent associated with our new facility in Humpy, Illinois. Total operating expenses for 2025 decreased to 10.6% of net sales from 13.1% for last year's fourth quarter due to the reasons previously mentioned. Interest expense was $1.2 million for 2025 compared to $500,000 for 2024 due to higher average debt levels. Net income for 2025 was $13.5 million or $1.15 per diluted share compared to $10 million or $0.86 per diluted share for 2024. Now taking a look at inventory, the total value of inventory on hand at the end of the current fourth quarter increased $58 million or 29.5% compared to the total value of inventories on hand at the end of the prior year's comparable quarter. The increase was due to higher commodity acquisition costs across all major tree nuts as well as higher on-hand quantities of finished goods in preparation for anticipated seasonal demand. The weighted average cost per pound of raw nut and dried fruit increased 30.4% year over year, mainly due to higher commodity acquisition costs for almost all major tree nuts. Moving on to year-to-date results, fiscal 2025 net sales increased 3.8% to $1.11 billion compared to fiscal 2024 net sales of $1.07 billion. Excluding the impact of the Lakeville acquisition, net sales remained relatively unchanged. Sales volume increased 3.4%, primarily due to the Lakeville acquisition. Excluding the impact of the Lakeville acquisition, sales volume decreased 1.7%, reflecting a 4% decrease in the consumer channel, which was partially offset by a 15.4% decrease in the contract manufacturing channel. Gross profit margin decreased from 20.1% to 18.4% of net sales. The decrease is mainly attributable to increased commodity acquisition costs for substantially all major nuts, as well as competitive pricing pressures and strategic pricing decisions, which were offset by factors cited previously and improved profitability on bars due to manufacturing efficiencies. Total operating expenses for fiscal 2025 decreased by $10.2 million to $118.8 million compared to fiscal 2024. The decrease in total operating expenses was mainly driven by lower incentive, advertising, and consumer insight expenses. These decreases were partially offset by a one-time bargain purchase gain from the Lakewood acquisition, which did not repeat in the current fiscal year, as well as increases in wage and rent expenses attributable to our company warehouse. Interest expense was $3.6 million for fiscal 2025, and $2.5 million for fiscal 2024. Net income for fiscal 2025 was $58.9 million or $5.03 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $60.2 million or $5.15 per diluted share for fiscal 2024. Please refer to our 10-K for additional details regarding our financial performance in fiscal 2025. Now I will turn the call back over to Jeffrey to provide additional comments. Jeffrey Sanfilippo: Thanks, Frank, for the financial updates. Now let's shift to consumption activity and category updates. I'll share the category and brand results with you for the quarter. All the market information I'll be referring to is Circana panel data, and for today, it is for the period ending June 15, 2025. When I refer to Q4, I'm referring to the thirteen weeks of the quarter, ending June 15, 2025. References to changes in volume are versus the corresponding period one year ago. For pricing commentary, we are using scan data from Circana, which includes food, drug, mass, Walmart, military, and other outlets, and we are referring to average price per pound. We're using the nut, trail mix, and bar syndicated views that category as defined by Circana. In the latest quarter, we continue to see modest growth in the broader snack aisle, as defined by Circana. Volume and dollars were up 13%, respectively. This is consistent with the performance we saw in Q3. In Q4, the snack, nut, and trail mix category was down 1% in pounds, which is consistent with Q3 performance. Dollars in Q4 were up 4%, versus 2% in Q3 as prices continued to rise. Prices rose 5% for snack nuts, with increases primarily in cashews, mixed nuts, and pistachios. Prices also rose 4% for trail mixes. Fisher snack nut and trail mix performed worse than the category, with pound shipments down 17%. This was due primarily to declines in a major specialty retailer, as Frank mentioned, due to inventory changes and not repeating a promotion. Our Southern Style Nut brand pound shipment increased by 1%, driven primarily by growth in mass and e-commerce. Monkey Valley Harvest brand, which primarily plays in trail mix, was down 43% in pound shipments, driven by discontinuation at a national specialty retailer, despite strong performance in club, mass, and e-commerce. Money increases, including cocoa and some tree nuts, are resulting in higher prices for Orchard Valley Harvest. We continue to focus on innovation and cost savings opportunities to mitigate this commodity pressure. Our private label consumer snack and trail shipments performed weaker than the category, with pound shipments down 8% versus last year, due to softness in mass as prices rise due to commodity pressures. We are actively working on cost mitigation solutions with our retail partners. Now let me turn to the recipe nut category. In Q4, the recipe nut category was down 1% in pounds and up 18% in dollars as prices for both walnuts and pecans continued to increase. This is an improvement in both volume and dollar performance, versus Q3. Our Fisher recipe pound shipments were down 7% in Q4, with volume softness tied to increased cost of our commodities, and delayed shipments in e-commerce. Now let's switch to the bar category. In Q4, the bars category continued to rebound as a major player continued to reenter the market after a major recall in 2023. The category grew 7% in pounds, and 8% in dollars. Private label was down 4% in pounds and 2% in dollars, as the previously mentioned national brand retook some of the share it lost to private label this past year. Our private label bar shipments were down 17% versus a year ago, as we lap significant growth from the national brand recall. In closing, as we enter fiscal 2026, we have strong momentum and optimism as we continue to execute our strategic plan. We are actively pursuing additional opportunities to grow sales volume across all three of our distribution channels. We're encouraged by early signs of success. At the same time, we remain focused on disciplined cost management and driving further operational efficiencies. That said, we recognize that significant external uncertainties remain, including tariffs, inflation, unpredictable commodity costs, and broader macroeconomic challenges. These factors will require us to stay agile and responsive as the year progresses. We're committed to taking the necessary actions to deliver long-term sustainable growth, enhance our margins, and continue to create value for our customers, consumers, and shareholders. And as I said earlier, while the company did not hit some of our financial performance goals in fiscal 2025, I am proud of what we did accomplish to transform our company. These achievements are a testament to the fortitude of our business model, the commitment of our people, and the mutual trust and depth of our customer and supplier partnerships. We are executing our growth strategies, implementing continuous improvement projects throughout the company to optimize our cost structure. We continue to invest in our brands, our capabilities, and our people to better service our customers and consumers and create value for our shareholders. We appreciate your participation in the call. Thank you for your interest in our company. Natalia will now open the call to questions. Operator: Thank you. As a reminder, to ask a question, please press 11 on your keypad and wait for your name to be announced. I would now like to hand the call back to Jeffrey for closing remarks. Jeffrey Sanfilippo: We thank you for your participation in the call. We will be at next week's investor conference in Chicago. We hope you will join us. Thank you. Operator: Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect. Don't miss this second chance at a potentially lucrative opportunity Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you'll want to hear this. On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a 'Double Down' stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you're worried you've already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it's too late. 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