TORONTO, May 30, 2024
/CNW/ - STEER Technologies Inc. ("STEER" or the
"Company") (TSXV: STER), (OTCQX: STEEF), an integrated ESG
technology platform, today announced and filed its interim
financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 ("Q1 2024"). All financial
results are reported in Canadian dollars unless otherwise
stated.1 Quarterly results include
revenue of $511,100 in Q1 2024, with
a gross margin of 52%. G&A and operational expenses were
impacted by one-time costs in Q1, including legal fees to close the
round of financing and other non-recurring fees associated with
restructuring and dissolving previous entities, most of which have
been completed. As a result, the company does not anticipate these
costs going forward.
"As we mark the end of Facedrive and its subsequent rebrand to
STEER, we feel confident that the Company's strategic restructuring
will set the stage for significant shareholder value creation in
the vehicle in the months to come," said Junaid Razvi, CEO and Chairman of STEER.
"Further to our May 23rd
announcement, we will focus on our sole remaining operating
business of contract last-mile delivery."
After the 2023 spin-off of its legacy B2B Marketplace business,
FoodsUp Inc. ("FoodsUp"), associated revenue is no longer
consolidated within STEER. However, the Company retains a 58.72%
indirect equity interest in FoodsUp on its balance sheet. Further
to previous public disclosure, the Company remains committed to
implementing a divestment of most of its FoodsUp equity interest,
the effect of which, if it occurs, will be to provide shareholders
with direct ownership in FoodsUp.
The Company continues to seek buyers and is in active sales
conversations about its equity interest in Westbrook Inc. and the
technical intellectual property related to its previous rideshare,
food delivery, STEER EV, and EcoCRED solutions. Facedrive Food Inc.
and Facedrive Health Inc. entities have been successfully
dissolved. Filings have been submitted to the applicable regulatory
authorities to dissolve Facedrive USA LLC.
For detailed information, please refer to STEER's Q1 2024
Interim Consolidated Financial Statements and its Management
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations for the three months ended March
31, 2024 and 2023, filed on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. The
following table provides a summary of the Company's financial
results for the three months ended March 31,
2024 and 2023:
For the three
months ended March 31
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2024
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2023
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REVENUE
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511,100
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15,229,000
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Cost of
revenue
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245,600
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|
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15,434,000
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General and
administration
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983,000
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1,409,200
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Operational
support
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408,400
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|
|
2,116,500
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Research and
development
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|
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49,200
|
|
|
278,800
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Sales and
marketing
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|
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72,400
|
|
|
551,100
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Amortization
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34,700
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|
196,900
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Depreciation
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|
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8,500
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|
|
458,900
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Total operating
expenses
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|
|
1,801,800
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|
|
20,445,400
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OPERATING
LOSS
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(1,290,800)
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(5,216,400)
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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OTHER INCOME
(EXPENSES)
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|
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Foreign exchange gain
(loss)
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(100,600)
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(31,600)
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Interest
expenses
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(434,100)
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|
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(444,000)
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Interest
income
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1,000
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|
4,500
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Loss from sale of
equipment
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-
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(24,800)
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Gain (loss) on lease
termination
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1,341,800
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96,600
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Account payable
settlement
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|
|
98,200
|
|
|
-
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Penalties and
settlements
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(59,000)
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|
|
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Fair value loss on
preferred shares
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|
|
-
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|
(30,700)
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Share of loss of an
associate
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|
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(1,083,500)
|
|
|
-
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Gain from Spin-off B2B
Marketplace
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|
|
-
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35,946,300
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PROFIT/(LOSS)
BEFORE INCOME TAXES
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|
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(1,526,900)
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|
30,300,000
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Deferred income tax
recovery
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|
|
|
|
|
-
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NET
PROFIT
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(1,526,900)
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30,300,000
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Cumulative translation
adjustment
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|
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(174,000)
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|
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(24,000)
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NET PROFIT AND
COMPREHENSIVE PROFIT
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|
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(1,700,900)
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|
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30,276,000
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NET (LOSS) PROFIT
FROM OPERATION
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|
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(1,700,900)
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|
|
31,569,300
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NET LOSS FROM
OPERATION
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|
|
-
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(1,293,200)
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(Loss) profit per
share
– Basic and
diluted
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(0.01)
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0.24
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Weighted average
shares outstanding - Basic and diluted
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|
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132,944,615
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123,902,400
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About the Company
STEER is an integrated ESG technology platform that facilitates
sustainable delivery services. The Company aims to build a
one-of-a-kind ecosystem that aggregates conscientious users and
businesses through a series of connected offerings. The Company's
platform is powered by an analytics engine which seeks to analyze
and report on critical data points in ways that measure the
Company's impact on carbon reductions and offsets.
For more information about the Company,
visit www.steeresg.com.
Junaid Razvi, CEO
junaid@steeresg.com
1-289-452-0164
STEER
44 East Beaver Creek Road, Unit 16
Richmond Hill, Ontario, L4B
1G8
Forward-Looking
Information
Certain information in this press release contains
forward-looking information, including with respect to the
Company's business, operations and condition, management's
objectives, strategies, beliefs and intentions,
their anticipated impact on shareholders of the Company, and
the Company's forward plans to rebrand. This information is based
on management's reasonable assumptions and beliefs in light of the
information currently available to us and are made as of the date
of this press release. Actual results and the timing of events,
such as those pertaining to success of the Company's financial
performance going forward from the above Q1 2024 results, may
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking
information as a result of various factors. Information regarding
our expectations of future results, performance, achievements,
prospects or opportunities or the markets in which we operate is
forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking
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circumstances. Many factors could cause our actual results, level
of activity, performance or achievements or future events or
developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied
by the forward-looking statements.
See "Forward-Looking Information" and "Risk Factors" in the
Company's Annual Management Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
for the year ended December 31, 2023
(filed on SEDAR+ on May 8, 2024) and
its interim MD&A for the periods ended June 30, 2023, September
30,2023 and March 31, 2024 for
a discussion of the uncertainties, risks and assumptions associated
with these statements and other risks. Readers are urged to
consider the uncertainties, risks and assumptions carefully in
evaluating the forward-looking information and are cautioned not to
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undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise, except as required by applicable securities
legislation and regulatory requirements.
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this release.
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1 All figures are accurate to
the hundreds.
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SOURCE STEER Technologies Inc.