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20-05-2025
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Creatd, Inc. to Acquire Strategic Stakes in PCG Advisory Inc., and Related Affiliates in $2.3 Million All-Stock Transaction
Creatd to acquire 25% of PCG Advisory and two closely aligned companies, as well as a 20% stake in a related technology start-up in a $2.3M all-stock deal, expanding its investor advocacy and communications platform by integrating PCG's products to its peer community. Acquisition adds $2.3 million in net equity to Creatd's balance sheet, and builds on Creatd's strategy of buying synergistic, scalable assets, where operationally Creatd can help expand technology applications. Advances Creatd's partner CEOBLOC, and its mission to level the playing field for retail investors and small-cap companies. NEW YORK, May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Creatd, Inc. (OTC: CRTD) has executed a binding Letter of Intent ('LOI') to acquire 25% of PCG Advisory, Inc., 25% of its two related companies, PRISM Media Holdings and PRISM MediaWire, and 20% of an affiliated technology start-up AIRHub, (collectively, the 'PCG Companies'), in a collective $2.3 million all-stock transaction. PCG Companies is a leading investor relations and strategic communications firm, utilizing advancements in technology and digital marketing services to enhance its offerings. Founded by Wall Street veteran Jeff Ramson, PCG Companies have built a reputation for helping microcap and small-cap companies navigate the complex landscape of investor relations, social media, regulatory compliance, and corporate positioning. With a stable, long-standing client base, PCG has consistently generated revenue and expanded its network, resulting in an EBITDA-positive business model. Creatd expects to enhance PCG's offerings and drive further growth across its client portfolio. Strategic Rationale The purchase supports Creatd's broader strategy of utilizing technology to unify data, governance, and investor engagement into a single platform for public companies. PCG's integration fits naturally with CEOBLOC, an affiliate of Creatd and a media and community platform for vetted microcap companies that drives awareness and distinguishes quality stakeholders in the space. 'With the purchase of a 25% interest in PCG Advisory & its two related companies, as well as a 20% stake a related technology start-up, we continue to execute on our vision of providing best-in-class investor engagement tools and services that empower small-cap companies and their investors,' said Jeremy Frommer, Chairman & CEO of Creatd. 'PCG's deep expertise in investor relations and social media, combined with Creatd's AI-powered capabilities, creates an ecosystem that bridges the gap between companies, particularly in the microcap space, and retail investor awareness.' 'I've known Creatd's CEO, Jeremy, and his team for nearly a decade, and have long respected their relentless drive and vision,' said Jeff Ramson, Founder and CEO of PCG Advisory. 'Partnering with Creatd presents an incredible opportunity to enhance the value we provide to our clients and expand our reach. Creatd's AI-driven, tech-first approach to investor engagement, combined with PCG's capital markets expertise and digital marketing focus, aims to redefine how companies connect with investors in a digital-first world. The transaction is expected to close in Q2 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. About Creatd, Inc. Creatd, Inc. is a publicly traded holding company that focuses on investments and operations across technology, media, advertising, and consumer sectors. By leveraging its expertise in structured finance and acquisitions, Creatd identifies and nurtures opportunities within small-cap companies, driving growth and innovation across its diverse portfolio. For more information, visit For investor relations, contact ir@ About PCG Advisory, Inc. PCG Advisory is a leading investor relations and strategic communications firm focused on providing high-impact services to innovative and emerging companies worldwide. The firm specializes in investor relations, capital markets strategy, digital media, and corporate communications, with deep expertise across life sciences, technology, and other emerging growth sectors. With a proven track record of helping clients effectively engage with the investment community, PCG Advisory, along with its related companies PRISM Media Holdings and PRISM MediaWire delivers tailored solutions designed to enhance visibility, build credibility, and support long-term value creation. For more information, please visit Forward-Looking Statements: This statement includes forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations, beliefs, and assumptions about future events and are subject to uncertainties and risks that could cause actual results to differ materially. These statements often contain terms like "expected," "anticipated," and "estimated." Factors influencing future outcomes are unpredictable and may emerge over time. We do not commit to updating any forward-looking statement post its publication date. Our SEC filings provide further details and risk disclosures.
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16-05-2025
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Q1 2025 American Shared Hospital Services Earnings Call
Raymond Stachowiak; Executive Chairman of the Board; American Shared Hospital Services Operator Good day and welcome to the American Shared Hospital Services first quarter 2025 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions]. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to send the conference over to Kirin Smith with PCG Advisory. Please go ahead. Thank you, Wyatt and thank you everyone for joining us today. AMS's first quarter of 2025 earnings press release was issued today before the market opens. If you need a copy, it can be accessed on the company's website at at press releases under the investors tab. Before turning the call over to management, I would like to make the following remarks concerning forward-looking statements. Please note that various remarks that may be made on this conference call about future expectations, plans and prospects for the company constitute forward-looking statements for the purposes of safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ varied materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in the company's filings with the FEC. This includes the company's annual report on Form 10K for the year end of December 31, 2024. The company assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this conference call. Before I turn the call over to Ray, I'd like to remind everyone about our Q&A policy, where we provide each participant the time to ask one question and one follow-up. As always, we'll be having to take additional questions offline at any time. With that, I'd now like to turn the call over to Ray Kolak, executive Chairman. Ray, please go ahead. Raymond Stachowiak Thank you, Kirin and good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for joining us today for our first quarter 2025 earnings conference call. I'll begin with some opening remarks, then turn the call over to Gary, our CEO for additional detail, followed by Scott Frech, our CFO for our financial review of our first quarter results. Following our prepared remarks, we'll open the call for questions. We are pleased with our first quarter of 2025 revenue growth, which was driven by the expansion of our direct patient services segment and additional international business development initiative. While we did see treatment volumes decline this past quarter, we are clearly beginning to see the benefits from our transition from a cancer treatment equipment leasing focus to more patient-centric service model. And I'm pleased to report that we are seeing treatment volumes pick back up and look forward to a stronger back half of 2025. For the past quarter we saw double digit revenue growth, which increased 17% year over year. This growth was driven by the continued benefit from the Rhode Island acquisition that we closed last year, as well as from the opening of our new radiation therapy treatment facility in Pueblo, Mexico. As we focus on revenue growth, we also remain focused on profitability. Our first quarter, 2025 adjusted EBITDA came in at 949,000 compared to 1.75 million in first quarter 2024 due to lower procedure. We continue to have strong cost controls in place with very fixed costs. And we are relying on treatment volumes and the number of patients served to drive our top line growth. It's very important for investors to recognize that on a short-term and quarter to quarter basis, there will be fluctuations due to the specific nature of our growing business, but over the long term we are primed for strong profitable growth. I urge investors to focus on the long-term overall growth opportunity as we execute on our strategic initiatives and our upcoming milestones. We believe this is an opportunity opportune time for investors to follow our company closely. We do believe we are primed for long term outperformance as we execute our strategy and work towards building significant shareholder value. Before I hand the call over to Gary, I would also like to highlight our strong balance sheet. Robust business development pipeline and exciting strategic growth opportunities that drive our enthusiasm and confidence in the long-term trajectory of our company. With that, I'll hand the call over to Gary Delanois, our CEO, for additional details. Gary. Thank you Ray and good afternoon, everyone. My confidence and enthusiasm for our business continues to grow and I'm excited to lead the company into our next phase of growth with our strong management team. We continue to reap the benefits from our acquisition of the three Rhode Island cancer treatment centers and our new, newer one in Puebla, Mexico. While it will not be straight up, we do expect the quarterly fluctuations in treatment volumes. I am enthused by the growth we have seen in the overall business and even more so with our business development initiatives we have in motion. At the Rhode Island centers, our upgraded CT simulators used in the patient treatment planning and software enhancements for improved efficiency and patient care are in place, and we are well positioned to show positive results for the long term. Additionally, I'm pleased with staffing strategies that we put in place, and although we are not fully optimized yet, we have set the stage for increasing volumes and utilization to fuel future top and bottom line growth. I am confident that once we are fully staffed at each of our Rhode Island centers, we will see steady growth in treatment volumes and increased physician engagement with the healthcare community. Furthermore, with our linear accelerators on service and maintenance agreements, this adds to their dependability and higher up time for better patient service. The team continues to focus on strengthening our radiation therapy equipment leasing segment by working with our health system customers to create greater community awareness among referring physicians to drive increased utilization of their gamma knife systems, the gold standard for stereotactic radiosurgery. Our international business segment continues to represent a large growth opportunity where we are expecting continued momentum. As a reminder, we have the only gamma knife centers in the countries of Peru and Ecuador, and with our third international center in Pueblo, Mexico, we are treating cancer patients for a full range of cancer diagnoses with the most advanced radiation therapy treatment capabilities available in our catchment area. As you recall last year, we established our fourth international center with the signing of a joint venture agreement for a Gamma Knife center in Guadalajara, Mexico, and we expect it to start treating patients and generating revenue towards the end of this year. This will be the only SR gamma kite in a country of 130 million people, which clearly represents an enormous benefit to the patients in Mexico and an untapped growth engine for us. As we look forward into the coming months and years ahead, we expect stronger international growth from additional treatment growth in Ecuador, strong volume from our newly upgraded center in Peru, and our two new centers in Guadalajara and Puebla. As Ray mentioned earlier, we continue to expand our business footprint in Rhode Island. The acquisition of a 60% majority interest in the three radiation therapy treatment centers in Rhode Island were our first direct patient services cancer treatment centers in the US. This new business segment clearly reflects the power of our growth strategy and further demonstrates our ability to partner with health systems, Care New England and Prospect Charter Care the second and third largest health systems in Rhode Island. The second is the certificate of need, or CON that we have been granted to build and operate a fourth radiation therapy center in Bristol, Rhode Island. And the third is the CON that we officially obtained this past December to build and operate the first proton beam radiation therapy center in the state of Rhode Island, which represents another major growth opportunity. We also have tuck in acquisitions that we're working on and anticipate closing one by the end of this year. We look forward to announcing additional progress on these opportunities as they progress. Treatment volumes in cancer care can tend to ebb and flow from time to time, due to changes in diagnosis mix, patient staging, and referring physician consults, and can result in lower treatment volumes that we experienced in the first quarter. For the month of April, we have seen significant increases in treatment volumes for gamma knife, proton beam radiation therapy and at the 3 Rhode Island radiation therapy centers. Before I hand the call over to Scott, I'd like to reiterate our strong confidence. In our overall business, keep in mind that there will be quarterly fluctuations from time to time, as with most growth stage companies but I feel very positive about the strategies we put in place for our long term prospects, and I'm very excited and honored to work collaboratively with our strong management team to lead the company forward for continued revenue and profitability growth. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Scott Frech, our CFO, for a financial review. Thank you, Gary, and good afternoon. For the first quarter ended March 31, 2025, total revenue increased 17% to 6.1 million compared to $5.2 million in Q1 of 2024. Revenue from our direct patient services segment was 3.1 million for Q1 2025 compared to 963,000 in Q1 2024, marking an increase of 224%. The significant growth was primarily driven by the acquisition of the Rhode Island radiation therapy operations and the launch of operations in Pueblo, Mexico in the second half of 2024. Revenue from the equipment leasing segment decreased to $3 million from $4.3 million in 2024. Gamma knife revenue declined 18% to 2.1 million for Q1 2025 compared to 2.6 million in Q1 2024. The number of gamma knife procedures in Cuba in 2025 was 208, a 24% decrease from the 273 procedures in 2024. The decline was primarily due to the expiration of two contracts in December 2024 and February 2025 and downtime to upgrade a third customer to a new elected free. Revenue from protein be proton beam radiation therapy decreased 38% to 1.6 million in Q in 2025 compared to 2.7 million in Q in 2024. Total proton therapy fractions for Q1 2025 or 831, a 35% decrease from the 1,276 fractions in Q1 2024. This decline was primarily due to lower volumes. Revenue from linear accelerator or Linux systems was 2.4 million for Q1 2025 compared to zero in Q1 of 2024 due to the acquisition of the Rhode Island radiation therapy operation and the launch of operations in Puebla, Mexico. Our gross margin for Q1 2025 was $942,000 compared to $2.1 million in Q1 2024. The decline in gross margin and percentage reflects increased operational expenses, higher staffing costs, and investment in technology infrastructure to support growth initiatives, as well as lower gammaized treatment volumes and strong growth in our retail patient services segment, which has a lower gross margin percentage. Q1 2025 operating income was a loss of 1.3 million compared to a loss of 85,000 in Q1 2024. That loss attributed to American Shared Hospital Services for Q1 2025 was $625,000 or $0.10 per diluted share compared to net income of $119,000 or $0.02 per diluted share for Q1 2024. Adjusted EBITDA, our non-gap financial measure was $949,000 for Q1 2025 compared to 1.75 million in Q1 2024. Q1 2025 with strong financial position supported by our solid balance sheet. As of March 31, 2025, cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash, set at 11.5 million compared to 11.3 million at December 31, 2024. Shareholders equity, excluding non-controlling interest was $24.7 million or $3.82 per outstanding share compared to $25.2 million or $3.92 per outstanding share at December 31, 2024. Fully diluted weighted average common shares outstanding for 6,572,000 for Q1 2025 and $6,576,000 for Q1 2024. This concludes the formal part of our presentation. Thank you again for joining us today. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the quarters ahead. I'd like to now turn the call back to the operator and then open it up for questions. Operator Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question will come from Marla Zacks with Zax. Please go ahead. Thank you. So, in reading through the press release and thinking about the impact of a lower number of procedures performed, there's been a lot of talk lately in the news about potential changes to some of the regulations around reimbursements. Do you, does the company believe that there could be an impact based on some of the discussions that we're hearing about right now? Raymond Stachowiak Yeah, and thanks for that question. I appreciate it. . The changes that are kind of going around in Washington and all are changes to the Medicaid program in particular. And, we're not, we don't feel we're prone to much risk in terms of reimbursements. The rates at which were reimbursed, but there could be a decrease in respect to Medicaid with the number of people that are covered by the program. And fortunately we do not have large revenue streams that come from Medicaid. Most of our revenue is coming from private insurers and the Medicare program and significantly less exposure to the number of patients covered under Medicaid. So we don't feel that there is some degree of risk, but we don't believe that risk is very high. Okay. And then I got one follow-up question, I believe. As you look, towards your pipeline of growth initiatives and opening up the new center in Rhode Island, is one of the projects that I think you're, in the process of moving forward. Will you have a little bit more flexibility in terms of managing the fixed cost absorption once there's another center opened in Rhode Island? Raymond Stachowiak Yes, we have a very fixed cost business model. And when we have the direct patient services segment that we're expanding into and growing rather significantly, we have much more degree of influence and control over the activities and the relationships and all the things that can make our patients serve the patients that we serve grow in number. Okay. Thank you. Operator At this time we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster for any further questions. With no further questions, this will conclude our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Ray Stachowiak, Executive Chairman for any closing remarks. Raymond Stachowiak Thank you, Wyatt and thanks, thank you all for joining us today. We are at a key point in time for our company as we execute on our growth strategy while navigating through some short-term fluctuations. We are optimized well and focused on building strong momentum as our growth strategy takes hold. The Rhode Island acquisition was just the first stepping stone and marked a significant milestone for our company. Internationally, our expansion into Mexico further strengthens our position as a leader in specialized radiation therapy services. We have strong upcoming potential value approaching as detailed earlier. Our certificate of need or see plan approval in Rhode Island for a fourth radiation therapy center. And our CON to develop and operate the first proton beam radiation therapy facility in Rhode Island represent major long-term opportunities for further extension. Additionally, the tucking acquisitions we're working on will also help bolster our growth opportunity further. We are confident in our strategy and our team's ability to execute. We look forward to updating you on our continued progress as we drive sustainable growth, profitability, and long-term success. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out. We welcome the conversation. Thanks again for your interest in American Shared Hospital Services. Have a great rest of your day and the rest of the week. Goodbye. Operator The conference is now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
