North American esports and gaming company Enthusiast Gaming (TSX: EGLX) announced financial results for the third quarter of 2023 that ended on Sept 9, recording a net loss of $59.1M CAD ($42.7M USD) during the three-month period, compared to $37.1M ($26.8M) loss in Q3 2022. Addressing the recent Q3 spikes in losses, Enthusiast Gaming noted in a release that Q3 2023 and Q3 2022 included a non-cash impairment expense of $51.7M ($37.4M) and $31.3M ($22.6M), respectively.
At the end of Q3, Enthusiast had a cash balance of $2.8M ($2M), compared to $7.4M ($5.4M) as of Dec. 31, 2022. It attributed that $4.6M ($3.3M) decrease in available cash to a $0.3M ($0.2M) “outflow in cash from operations” and $3.3M ($2.4M) in “repayments on the Company’s Term Credit.” Enthusiast added that it has $4.5M ($3.3M) available on its operating credit facility, “for total available cash” of $7.3M ($5.3M). The company noted that it “extended and expanded its term and operating credit facilities to provide up to approximately $7 million [CAD or $5M USD] of additional liquidity” on Oct. 12.
Revenue for Q3 was $45.6M ($33M), a 10% decrease compared to $50.6M ($36.6M) in the same period a year ago. Media and Content revenue decreased 10% to $39.8M ($28.8M), its esports and entertainment revenue decreased 12% to $2.0M ($1.5M), and subscription revenue decreased 2% to $3.7M ($2.7M). Enthusiast said that it experienced lower programmatic CPMs (“cost per thousand” impressions, an advertising spending metric commonly used in the digital media industry) on its web and video platforms—”similar to the trend of the broader programmatic market”—but that decreased CPMs was offset by an increase in total views (web and video) of 4% in Q3 2023 compared to the same period last year. Brand Solutions (included in revenue) decreased by 3% to $9.8M ($7.1M) in Q3 2023 compared to $10.1M ($7.3M) in Q3 2022.
Gross profit did increase slightly by 1% to $16.7M ($12.1M) in Q3 2023, compared to $16.6M ($12M) in Q3 2022.
The company also provided some milestones it hit during the quarter:
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