QualTek Announces Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results

Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights

- Record second quarter 2022 revenue of $184.2 million, a 41% increase year-over-year

- Second quarter 2022 Telecom segment revenue of $175.2 million, a 48.5% increase year-over-year

- Telecom adjusted EBITDA margins continue to expand as expected

- Reported 24-month backlog at the end of Q2 2022 is $2.3 billion

BLUE BELL, Pa., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QualTek Services Inc. ("QualTek" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: QTEK), a leading turnkey provider of infrastructure services to the North American 5G wireless, telecom, power grid modernization, and renewable energy sectors, announced today strong 2022 second quarter financial results of its subsidiary QualTek HoldCo, LLC.

Second quarter 2022 revenue was $184.2 million, compared to $130.6 million for the second quarter of 2021, a 41% increase. The increase in revenue was attributable to significant volume increases in 5G and Fiber rollouts in the Company's Telecom segment. Net loss for the second quarter 2022 was $25.6 million compared to $21.8 million for the prior year period. The increase is largely driven by public company readiness costs, stock compensation, and costs related to being a public company, which did not exist in the same quarter prior year. Second quarter 2022 adjusted EBITDA was $10.2 million compared to $6.4 million, inclusive of discontinued Canadian operations, for the second quarter of 2021, a 59% increase. Backlog at the end of the second quarter 2022 was $2.3 billion, up from year-end 2021 of $2.1 billion and up from first quarter 2022 of $2.2 billion. As previously discussed, the Company will issue updated guidance after Q3.

Scott Hisey, QualTek's Chief Executive Officer, said "We continue to experience unprecedented demand for our services. In this past quarter, we recorded the highest second quarter revenue in the Company's history, up 41% year-over-year. It's important to note that 96% of revenue was generated under Master Service Agreements. This growth, coupled with our estimated $2.3 billion backlog, has positioned QualTek to capitalize on what we continue to believe will be the largest telecommunications 5G and fiber builds in our nation's history."

Management will hold a conference call to discuss these results on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The call-in number for the conference call is 1 (888) 330 – 2454 or 1 (240) 789 - 2714 using passcode 2965812. Additionally, the call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed and replayed through the investor relations section of the Company's website at qualtekservices.com.

The following tables set forth the financial results for the periods ended July 2, 2022, and July 3, 2021:

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA represents net loss before the provision for management fees, transaction expenses, share based compensation, depreciation and amortization, interest expense, loss on extinguishment of convertible notes, integration, public company readiness and close out costs and other items that are included in net income for the period that the Company does not consider indicative of its ongoing operating performance and certain unusual items impacting results in a particular period.

The following table presents our calculation of Adjusted EBITDA for the three and six months ended July 2, 2022, and July 3, 2021 and reconciles these measures to our Net loss for the same periods:

About QualTek

Founded in 2012, QualTek is a leading technology-driven provider of infrastructure services to the 5G wireless, telecom, power grid modernization, and renewable energy sectors across North America. QualTek has a national footprint with more than 80 operation centers across the U.S. and a workforce of over 5,000 people. QualTek has established a nationwide operating network to enable quick responses to customer demands as well as proprietary technology infrastructure for advanced reporting and invoicing. The Company reports within two operating segments: Telecommunications and Renewables and Recovery. For more information, please visit qualtekservices.com.

Forward Looking Statements

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The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of QualTek and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed and identified in public filings made with the SEC by QualTek.

Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of QualTek prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.

All pro forma numbers are used for illustrative purpose only, are not forecasts and may not reflect actual results.

All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the matters addressed in this communication and attributable to QualTek or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this communication. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, QualTek undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Media Contact:

QualTek IR/Communications
Gianna Lucchesi
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(484) 804 - 4585

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

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SOURCE QualTek Services Inc.