Vsblty Groupe Technologies Corp.

Vsblty Groupe Technologies Corp.

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Q3 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptFebruary 19, 2026

Operator

Okay. Good afternoon, and welcome everyone to VSBLTY's earnings call.

This call is being recorded. Following our prepared remarks, we will open the conference call to a question and answer session.

You can post questions via the Q&A tab at the bottom of your screen. However, we may not be able to answer every question, and suggest that you reach out to Investor Relations via our website.

Our call today will be led by VSBLTY's President and Chief Executive Officer, Jay Hutton. Before we begin our formal remarks, I'd like to remind everyone that some of the statements on this conference call may be forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements may include, but are not necessarily limited to, financial projections or other statements of the company's plans, objectives, expectations, or intentions. These matters involve certain risks and uncertainties.

The company's actual results may differ significantly from those projected or suggested, and any forward-looking statements, due to a variety of factors which are discussed in detail in our regulatory filings. A recording of today's presentation will be available in the Investor Relations section of our website, www.vsblty.net.

I will now turn the call to President and CEO, Jay Hutton. Go ahead, Jay.

Jay Hutton

Thank you, Jonathan. Good afternoon, everyone.

For those of you that are on the West Coast like me, good morning. Thank you all for joining us.

Today's call covers our audited 2024 financial results and our performance through the end of 2025 third quarter. I want to begin by acknowledging that the timing of our filings has been challenging.

The audit is now complete, and we are focused on restoring full regulatory compliance and advancing the business with discipline and transparency. Before turning to the numbers, I also wanted to address our audit relationship directly and out of the gate.

The board has made the decision to move forward with a new external audit firm, and we are in the final stages of that transition. The decision was not taken lightly.

While with respect to the capabilities of our current auditors, we do not feel the level of urgency and responsiveness aligned with the needs of our growing public company operating in dynamic markets. The board concluded that a change was necessary to ensure that our reporting timelines were met and our strategic objectives were supported going forward.

This is about alignment and forward momentum. Now, turning to fiscal 2024.

A reminder that we report exclusively in U.S. dollars and all numbers cited will be expressed in that currency.

For the year ended December 31, 2024, revenue increased to approximately $1.51 million compared to 869 in 2023—$869,000 in 2023. That growth was driven primarily by media management and professional services.

More importantly, gross performance improved materially. In 2024, we reported a positive gross profit of $61,000 compared to a gross loss of 2020—in 2023.

That shift reflects improved deployment efficiency, better cost alignment, and stronger execution discipline. Operating loss was reduced significantly year over year from approximately $8.95 million in 2023 to $5.45 million in 2024.

That is a reduction of more than $3.5 million. While we are not yet profitable, the direction of travel is clear.

Once we've sorted out the cost side of our business, the ability to get to profitability now is a much easier or at least well understood task. Turning now to 2025.

For the nine months ended September 30th, 2025, revenue reached approximately $1.86 million for the first nine months of 2025 compared to 968 in a similar period in 2024, effectively doubling year over year for the comparable period. Gross profit for that nine-month period improved to approximately $414,000, up from $236,000 in the prior year.

Net loss for the nine months ended September 30th, 2025, is approximately $4.96 million, reflecting continued investment in product development and deployment capacity while maintaining tighter cost controls than in earlier periods. Stepping back for a moment, I would summarize our financial progress in three ways: First, revenue momentum is improving.

Second, gross margins have stabilized and turned positive. Third, operating discipline has materially strengthened.

Now, I would like to address near-term revenue visibility. We are currently in advanced stages of closing two or three contracts across both retail media and security verticals.

These opportunities are at various stages of final documentation and commercial negotiation. While we remain disciplined in not recognizing revenue until contracts are executed and deployments begin, the level of activity gives us increasing confidence in near-term revenue growth.

Assuming successful execution, we expect these engagements to begin contributing in the short term to the company's numbers. Turning now to a more strategic update.

In separate disclosures, we have updated shareholders on Winkel Media, our joint venture with Anheuser-Busch. The Winkel network has recently added approximately 5,400 locations, further scaling its in-store retail media footprint across Latin America.

As with any network expansion, there is a natural lag between install, activation, advertising onboarding, and full revenue ramp. However, we believe this recent expansion will have meaningful revenue impact in 2026, both at the joint venture level and indirectly for VSBLTY as the technology platform powering that network.

This scale reinforces the long-term value of our retail media strategy and demonstrates that patient deployment can lead to substantial network expansion. Now, I would like to speak separately about a strategic evolution within the company.

Over the past year, we've been engaging with key channel partners who bring established enterprise and government relationships in regions including India and the Middle East. These engagements have introduced us to large-scale opportunities requiring deep integration across multiple systems.

As a result, we have formally expanded our platform capabilities into the category of data fusion. Computer vision remains foundational to our business.

We interpret live video, detect objects, analyze behavior, and generate contextual intelligence in real time. Data fusion elegantly builds on that foundation.

It integrates multiple data streams—video analytics, access control systems, IoT sensors, license plate recognition, environmental inputs, satellite connection, third-party data feeds—into a unified operational intelligence environment, particularly valuable to militaries and to smart cities. Instead of asking what is happening in this camera, we ask what is happening across the entire environment?

This capability is particularly relevant in smart cities, command centers integrating traffic safety and event analytics, critical infrastructure environments such as airports, port utilities, and transportation hubs, multisite enterprise security operations, integrated traffic management systems, cross-system anomaly detection and alert prioritization. The value proposition is contextualized intelligence: reducing noise, prioritizing actionable events, and enabling faster operational decision-making.

You can see the value that this would have for militaries, for example. They're overloaded with inbound data in silos, in different databases.

The ability to merge them and make meaning of them with artificial intelligence is the opportunity. From a commercial standpoint, data fusion deployments tend to be broader in scope and longer in duration than single-site analytics projects.

They embed our platform deeper into mission-critical workflows and expand our addressable market, making us stickier. To be clear, this is not a pivot away from our core business; it is a natural progression of it.

Our computer vision engine remains central; data fusion expands the intelligence layer around it. In closing, the last year tested this organization financially and operationally.

What matters now is execution. We're seeing improving revenue trends, we are entering late-stage commercial discussions that support long-term growth and near-term revenue, our retail media joint venture continues to scale meaningfully, and we are expanding our platform into higher-level applications through data fusion, both in civilian and military markets.

I remain confident in the relevance of our technology, the markets we serve, and the discipline with which we are operating. VSBLTY has a remarkably committed assembly of management, developers, and strategic partners.

We are highly resilient and are convinced that the true value of this company will begin to be expressed in the near future. With that, Jonathan, I'll open the call for questions.

Operator

Thanks, Jay. First question: Will Winkel Media revenue be recognized in VSBLTY's earnings soon?

Also, what is the status with that relationship?

Jay Hutton

Revenue recognition for a software company is always challenging because it always leads to some level of disagreement and point of view between the auditors and the company. The rules are the rules.

Of course, we've got to follow them. With respect to revenue recognition, since day one with Winkel Media, we have recognized not a single dollar from those contracts, which means we have an embedded bank of dollars that the moment we're able to recognize it under the rules for IFRS, we will be able to recognize it.

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