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Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

Company Contacts:

Michael McConnell

Chief Financial Officer

503-469-4652

mmcconnell@digimarc.com

Scott Liolios or Matt Glover

Liolios Group, Inc.

Investor Relations for Digimarc

949-574-3860

dmrc@liolios.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Digimarc Reports Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results

Beaverton, Ore. — July 25, 2013 — Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), a growing force in mobile discovery, reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.

Second Quarter 2013 Results

Revenue for the second quarter of 2013 increased 15% to $10.5 million from $9.1 million in the second quarter of 2012. The improvement was primarily a result of increased subscription revenue from the company’s acquisition of Attributor Corporation in December 2012.

Operating income for the second quarter of 2013 was $1.4 million compared to $1.9 million in the same quarter a year-ago. The operating results for the second quarter of 2013 reflect the addition of Attributor’s operations and increased investments in sales and marketing, and research and development initiatives.

Net income for the second quarter of 2013 was $0.6 million or $0.08 per diluted share compared to $1.2 million or $0.17 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2012. The decrease reflects the decline in operating income and a higher effective income tax rate.

At June 30, 2013, cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities increased $1.5 million to $42.1 million from $40.6 million at March 31, 2013.

Strategy Update

The company expects to continue investing in strategic initiatives during the remainder of 2013 in order to meet various development and marketing deadlines, as well as building or improving aspects of its Intuitive Computing Platform with the objective of having a fully functional system completed by year end.

“With the recent release of audio watermarking, we have the major elements of the platform in place,” said Bruce Davis, Digimarc’s chairman and CEO. “We continue to


make progress on developing a high performance invisible barcode for consumer packaged goods; and improving our Online Services Portal for encoding digital identities and configuring associated network services, various Adobe plug-ins for advanced users, and the Digimarc Discover mobile application UI and performance.”

Digimarc has completed integration of its invisible barcode reader into a commercially available retail scanner from a leading vendor and is working on other such scanners. The increased rate of investment also supports information requests and collaboration initiatives of numerous infrastructure providers, and continuing basic R&D on a virtual wallet to add simple and effective mobile payment processing to the company’s Intuitive Computing Platform. The company also plans to make significant changes to the acquired Guardian copyright protection solution to improve its cost effectiveness and competitive differentiation.

Market development investments will include major presentations at two important industry events. In October, Digimarc will be a primary sponsor of the American Magazine Media Conference, the magazine industry’s premier conference. In January, the company will have a booth at the National Retail Federation “BIG Show”, where it will demonstrate its full mobile-optimized Shoppers Journey to retailers and potential business partners, in what is anticipated to be the largest marketing event in the company’s history.

“In addition to these product and market development activities,” added Davis, “we continue to ramp basic and directed research, and associated IP development, having made several recent additions to our strategic IP development capability. The intended result of these investments is to foster an unprecedented growth in the rate of invention, size, and quality of our patent portfolio, laying a foundation for the next wave of patent income for Digimarc.”

Conference Call

Digimarc will hold a conference call later today (Thursday, July 25, 2013) to discuss these results. Chairman and CEO Bruce Davis and CFO Mike McConnell will host the call starting at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (2:00 p.m. Pacific time). A question and answer session will follow management’s presentation.

The call will be broadcast live via webcast at www.digimarc.com/investors and www.earnings.com, and will be available for replay through August 25, 2013. The webcast will be archived and available on Digimarc’s website at www.digimarc.com/investors/investor-events-and-webcasts.


For those who wish to listen to the call via telephone, please dial the telephone number below at least 5-10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time:

Listen-Only Number: 866-562-9934

Conference ID#: 19392140

If you have any difficulty connecting with the conference call, please contact Liolios Group at 949-574-3860.

About Digimarc

Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), based in Beaverton, Oregon, is a leading innovator and provider of enabling technologies that create digital identities for all forms of media and many everyday objects. The embedded digital IDs are imperceptible to humans, but not to computers, networks and devices like mobile phones, which can now use cameras and microphones as sensory inputs to “see, hear and understand” the world around them within the context of their environment. Digimarc has built an extensive intellectual property portfolio with patents in digital watermarking, content identification and management, media and object discovery to enable ubiquitous computing, and related technologies. Digimarc develops solutions, licenses its intellectual property, and provides development services to business partners across a range of industries. For more information, visit www.digimarc.com.

Forward-looking Statements

With the exception of historical information contained in this release, the matters described in this release contain various “forward-looking statements.” These forward-looking statements include statements and any related inferences regarding increased subscription revenue from the company’s acquisition of Attributor, increased investments in sales and marketing and research and development initiatives, the development and marketing objectives discussed under “Strategy Update” associated with the company’s anticipated investment in strategic initiatives, including the unprecedented growth rate of the company’s patent portfolio, achieving a fully functional Intuitive Computing Platform by year-end, and significant improvements to the Guardian copyright protection solution, and other statements identified by terminology such as “will,” “should,” “expects,” “estimates,” “predicts” and “continue” or other derivations of these or other comparable terms. These forward-looking statements are statements of management’s opinion and are subject to various assumptions, risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances. Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied from the statements in this release as a result of changes in economic, business and/or regulatory factors. More detailed information about risk factors that may affect actual results will be set forth in the company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and in subsequent periodic reports filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s opinions only as of the date of this release. Except as required by law, Digimarc undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.


Digimarc Corporation

Consolidated Income Statement Information

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

     Three-Month Information     Six-Month Information  
     June 30,
2013
    June 30,
2012
    June 30,
2013
    June 30,
2012
 

Revenue:

        

Service

   $ 3,022      $ 2,609      $ 5,951      $ 5,657   

Subscription

     1,433        317        2,817        595   

License

     6,015        6,186        11,945        19,906   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenue

     10,470        9,112        20,713        26,158   

Cost of revenue:

        

Service

     1,432        1,485        2,835        3,182   

Subscription

     588        45        1,223        92   

License

     100        53        196        119   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

     2,120        1,583        4,254        3,393   

Gross profit:

        

Service

     1,590        1,124        3,116        2,475   

Subscription

     845        272        1,594        503   

License

     5,915        6,133        11,749        19,787   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total gross profit

     8,350        7,529        16,459        22,765   

Gross margin:

        

Service

     53     43     52     44

Subscription

     59     86     57     85

License

     98     99     98     99

Percentage of gross profit to total revenue

     80     83     79     87

Operating expenses:

        

Sales and marketing

     1,563        970        2,840        1,977   

Research, development and engineering

     2,822        2,146        5,547        4,144   

General and administrative

     2,348        2,191        4,534        4,949   

Intellectual property

     261        291        538        610   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     6,994        5,598        13,459        11,680   

Operating income

     1,356        1,931        3,000        11,085   

Net loss from joint ventures

     —          —          —          (1,107

Other income, net

     19        33        48        91   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before income taxes

     1,375        1,964        3,048        10,069   

Provision for income taxes

     (773     (748     (1,475     (3,854
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income

   $ 602      $ 1,216      $ 1,573      $ 6,215   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Earnings per common share:

        

Earnings per common share - basic

   $ 0.08      $ 0.17      $ 0.22      $ 0.88   

Earnings per common share - diluted

   $ 0.08      $ 0.17      $ 0.21      $ 0.84   

Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic

     6,850        6,737        6,844        6,738   

Weighted average common shares outstanding - diluted

     7,090        6,993        7,078        6,999   

Cash dividends declared per common share:

   $ 0.11      $ 0.11      $ 0.22      $ 0.11   


Digimarc Corporation

Consolidated Balance Sheet Information

(in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

     June 30,
2013
     December 31,
2012
 

Assets

     

Current assets:

     

Cash and cash equivalents (1)

   $ 8,305       $ 6,866   

Marketable securities (1)

     26,192         25,403   

Trade accounts receivable, net

     4,519         4,216   

Other current assets

     1,306         1,016   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current assets

     40,322         37,501   

Marketable securities (1)

     7,584         6,787   

Property and equipment, net

     1,408         1,453   

Intangibles, net

     6,689         6,721   

Goodwill

     1,114         1,114   

Deferred tax assets, net

     2,188         3,589   

Other assets

     212         166   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 59,517       $ 57,331   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity

     

Current liabilities:

     

Accounts payable and other accrued liabilities

   $ 1,405       $ 1,143   

Deferred revenue

     3,155         2,512   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     4,560         3,655   

Deferred rent and other long-term liabilities

     491         673   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     5,051         4,328   

Commitments and contingencies

     

Shareholders’ equity:

     

Preferred stock

     50         50   

Common stock

     7         7   

Additional paid-in capital

     41,360         39,869   

Retained earnings

     13,049         13,077   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total shareholders’ equity

     54,466         53,003   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

   $ 59,517       $ 57,331   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1) Aggregate cash, cash equivalents, short- and long-term marketable securities was $42,081 and $39,056 at June 30 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.


Digimarc Corporation

Consolidated Cash Flow Information

(in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

     Three-Month Information     Six-Month Information  
     June 30,
2013
    June 30,
2012
    June 30,
2013
    June 30,
2012
 

Cash flows from operating activities:

        

Net income

   $ 602      $ 1,216      $ 1,573      $ 6,215   

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

        

Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment

     162        149        320        292   

Amortization and write-off of intangibles

     303        69        602        154   

Gain on reversal of contingent merger consideration

     —          —          (190     —     

Stock-based compensation

     1,077        1,401        2,169        2,757   

Net loss from joint ventures

     —          —          —          1,107   

Deferred income taxes

     1,315        (541     1,406        62   

Tax benefit from stock-based awards

     203        450        —          1,893   

Excess tax benefit from stock-based awards

     —          (203     —          (1,538

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

        

Trade accounts receivable, net

     (75     (73     (303     959   

Other current assets

     (227     (34     (271     132   

Other assets

     (47     58        (46     141   

Accounts payable and other accrued liabilities

     441        (264     228        (291

Income taxes payable

     (754     (46     24        1,014   

Deferred revenue

     (195     (244     637        (327
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

     2,805        1,938        6,149        12,570   

Cash flows from investing activities:

        

Purchase of property and equipment

     (189     (106     (275     (254

Capitalized patent costs and purchased intellectual property

     (278     (192     (506     (657

Investment in joint ventures, net

     —          (692     —          (692

Sale or maturity of marketable securities

     12,358        46,143        35,474        69,136   

Purchase of marketable securities

     (15,127     (46,732     (37,060     (75,224
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (3,236     (1,579     (2,367     (7,691

Cash flows from financing activities:

        

Issuance of common stock

     —          531        —          603   

Purchase of common stock

     (94     (1,388     (742     (2,187

Cash dividends paid

     (800     (779     (1,601     (779

Excess tax benefit from stock-based awards

     —          203        —          1,538   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities

     (894     (1,433     (2,343     (825
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents (2)

   $ (1,325   $ (1,074   $ 1,439      $ 4,054   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash equivalents and marketable securities at beginning of period

     40,637        44,005        39,056        33,378   

Cash equivalents and marketable securities at end of period

     42,081        43,520        42,081        43,520   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

(2) Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities

   $ 1,444      $ (485   $ 3,025      $ 10,142