DH Holdings, Inc. Reports Full Year 2020 Audited Financial Results

QINGDAO, China, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — TDH Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETZ) (“TDH” or the “Company”), a PRC-based company that specializes in the development, manufacturing and sales of pet food products in China and beyond, announced today its financial results for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.

Full Year 2020 Financial Highlights:

Revenues decreased by 93.55% from $12.65 million in fiscal year 2019 to $0.82 million in fiscal year 2020, with decrease in sales from overseas markets, domestic market and E-commerce platform. The decrease in total revenues in 2020 was mainly due to: (1) decrease in sales orders due to our uncompetitive sales prices for our products which made them less attractive to our customers; (2) partially suspension of our overseas E-commerce business due to the estimated gross loss; (3) suspension of our production and operations commencing in November 2019 and ending in May 2020 due to our defaults on loan repayments to financial institutions, claims from our suppliers and creditors and labor arbitration derived from our cutting down certain employees. The COVID-19 outbreak and spread further caused disruption in our supply chain, transportation and our sales activities from the beginning of 2020 to May 2020. As a result, we had the inability to fulfill customer orders on a timely manner and we received reduced sales orders from our customers and our sales volume significantly decreased in 2020 as compared to 2019. Gross loss was $0.04 million in fiscal year 2020 as compared to gross loss of $1.52 million in fiscal year 2019. The decrease in gross loss was a result of stop taking unprofitable orders, and the slightly improvement of our cost management. Operating loss was $1.93 million in fiscal year 2020 as compared to operating loss of $6.96 million in 2019. The continuous deficit from operation was mainly due to the fact that our sales revenue continued to decrease, while we continued to incur fixed overhead costs and high operating expenses during 2020. The decrease in loss from operations was the combined result of improvement in gross margin and decrease in our total operating expenses in 2020 as compared to 2019. Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $0.87 million, or a loss per share of $0.02, for the year of 2020 as compared to net loss of $8.63 million, or a loss per share of $0.41, for 2019.

Full Year 2020 Financial Results
Revenues
The Company generates its revenues from product sales, mainly including sales for pet chews, dried pet snacks and wet canned pet foods in oversea markets, domestic markets and by e-commerce platform. Revenue consists of the invoiced value for the sales, net of value-added tax (“VAT”), business tax, and applicable local government levies. For the year of 2020, total revenues decreased by $11.83 million, or 93.55%, to $0.82 million from $12.65 million in 2019. The decrease in total revenues in 2020 was mainly due to: (1) decrease in sales orders due to the uncompetitive selling prices of our products which made our products less attractive to our customers; (2) partial suspension of our overseas E-commerce business due to the estimated gross loss; (3) suspension of our production and operations commencing in November 2019 and ending in May 2020 due to our defaults on loan repayments to financial institutions, claims from our suppliers and creditors and labor arbitration derived from our cutting down certain employees. The COVID-19 outbreak and spread further caused disruption in our supply chain, transportation and our sales activities from the beginning of 2020 to May 2020. As a result, we had the inability to fulfill customer orders on a timely manner and we received reduced sales orders from our customers and our sales volume significantly decreased in 2020 as compared to 2019.

Overseas sales decreased by $9.77 million, or 97.74%, to $0.23 million for the year of 2020 from $10.00 million for 2019. Domestic sales decreased by $2.14 million, or 78.80%, to $0.57 million for the year of 2020 from $2.71 million for 2019. The decrease was due to the decrease in sales orders due to our uncompetitive sales price, the COVID-19 outbreak and spread further caused disruption in our supply chain, transportation and our sales activities from the beginning of 2020 to May 2020. Sales from the e-commerce channel decreased by $0.07 million, or 80.06%, to $0.02 million for the year of 2020 from $0.08 million for 2019, due to suspension of our overseas E-commerce business as the losses continue to grow.

Sales of pet chews decreased by $6.41 million, or 99.09%, to $0.06 million for the year 2020 from $6.47 million for 2019. Sales of dried pet snacks decreased by $4.3 million, or 93.13%, to $0.32 million for the year 2020 from $4.62 million for 2019. Sales of wet canned pet food decreased by $1.23 million, or 93.58%, to $0.08 million for the year 2020 from $1.31 million for 2019. Sales of dental health snacks decreased by $0.29 million, or 93.48%, to $0.02 million for the year 2020 from $0.31 million for 2019. These decreases were due to the decrease in sales orders due to our uncompetitive selling prices, the COVID-19 outbreak and spread further caused disruption in our supply chain, transportation and our sales activities from the beginning of 2020 to May 2020. Sales of pet chews, dried pet snacks, wet canned pet food, and dental health snacks accounted for 7.25%, 38.93%, 10.32%, and 2.44%, respectively, for the year of 2020, compared to 51.15%, 36.51%, 10.36%, and 2.41%, respectively, for 2019.

Cost of revenues
Cost of revenues consists primarily of raw materials, labor and factory overhead. Cost of revenues decreased by $13.31 million, or 93.95%, to $0.86 million for the year of 2020 from $14.17 million for 2019. This decrease in cost of revenues was mainly due to the 93.55% decrease in our total net revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020. As a percentage of revenues, cost of revenues was 105.13% for the year 2020, compared to 112.04% for 2019.

Gross loss and gross loss margin
Gross loss was $0.04 million for the year of 2020, compared to gross profit of $1.52 million for 2019. Gross loss margin was 5.13% for the year 2019, compared to gross loss margin of 12.04% for 2020.

Operating expense
Operating expense consists of selling expenses, general and administrative expenses and research and development expenses.

Selling expenses decreased by $0.8 million, or 87.18%, to $0.12 million for the year 2020 from $0.92 million for 2019. The decrease in our selling expense was in line with our reduced sales activities and decreased revenue in 2020.

General and administrative expenses decreased by $1.94 million, or 52.29%, to $1.77 million for the year 2020 from $3.70 million for 2019. The main reason for the decrease was because we have cut-down number of employees as a result of our business strategy adjustment when our business scale reduced in 2020, as a result, our salary paid to employees, office expenses incurred and business consulting expenses all decreased in 2020 as compared to 2019.

Impairment of long-lived assets other than goodwill charge was $Nil in 2020, as compared to $0.81 million in 2019.

As a result, total operating expenses decreased by $3.55 million, or 65.34%, to $1.88 million for the year of 2020 from $5.44 million for 2019. As a percentage of total revenues, total operating expenses was 231.11% for the year of 2020, compared to 42.98% for 2019.

Operating loss and operating loss margin
Loss from operations was $1.93 million for the year of 2020, compared to operating loss of $6.96 million for 2019. The continuous loss from operation was mainly due to decreased sales revenue.

Net loss and loss per share
Net loss was $0.87 million for the year of 2020, compared to net loss of $8.63 million for 2019. Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $0.87 million, or loss per share of $0.02, for the year of 2020. This is compared to net loss attributable to common stockholders of $8.63 million, or loss per share of $0.41, for 2019.

Financial Conditions
As of December 31, 2020, the Company had cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash of $6.75 million, compared to $6.50 million at December 31, 2019. Accounts receivable and inventories were $0.17 million and $0.25 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2020, compared to $0.02 million and $0.47 million, respectively, at the end of 2019. Total working capital deficit was $8.55 million as of December 31, 2020, as compared to working capital deficit of $7.27 million at the end of 2019.

Net cash used in operating activities was $2.63 million for the year of 2020, compared to $5.63 million for 2019. Net cash provided by investing activities was $3.36 million for the year of 2020, compared to $0.11 million for 2019. Net cash used in financing activities was $0.59 million for the year of 2020, compared to $9.52 million net cash provided by financing activities in 2019.

Going Concern
As reflected in our consolidated financial statements, our revenue decreased by approximately $11.83 million from approximately $12.65 million in 2019 to approximately $0.82 million in 2020. Net cash used in operating activities amounted to approximately $2.63 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2020, we had working capital deficit of approximately $8.55 million as compared to working capital deficit of approximately $7.3 million as of December 31, 2019. In addition, starting from November 2019, we temporarily suspended our manufacturing activities due to operating inefficiency, the suspension of our manufacturing activities led to reduced sales and operating cash flows, and consequently caused our inability to make the payments to settle vendor bills and repay the bank loans upon maturity. As a result, in late 2019, some of our vendors and several financial institutions initiated lawsuits against us for payment. Our inability to resolve these matters satisfactorily had material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition in 2020. Furthermore, in December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) surfaced. COVID-19 spread rapidly throughout China and worldwide, which caused significant volatility in the PRC and international markets. There has been significant uncertainty around the breadth and duration of business disruptions related to COVID-19, as well as its impact on the PRC and international economies. To reduce the spread of the COVID-19, the Chinese government has employed measures including city lockdowns, quarantines, travel restrictions, suspension of business activities and school closures. Due to difficulties resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak and all the other aspects of our operating challenges, including, but not limited to, the extending temporary closure of our facilities and operations to until the middle of May 2020, pending lawsuits for supplier arrears, bank loans and employee compensation, limited support from the Company’s employees, delayed access to raw material supplies, reduced customer sales orders, and our inability to promote the sales to customers on a timely basis, our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020 decreased significantly. Furthermore, certain premises including factory building and warehouse have been frozen for a period of three years following a court order issued in April 2020. These facts raised substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for the next 12 months from the date of this report.

Our plan to alleviate the substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern include attempting to improve our business profitability, our ability to generate sufficient cash flow from our operations to meet our operating needs on a timely basis, obtain additional working capital funds through debt and equity financings to eliminate inefficiencies in order to meet our anticipated cash requirements. We also plan to evaluate and identify suitable strategic or acquisition opportunities, complete such transactions on commercially favorable terms, or successfully integrate business operations, infrastructure and management philosophies of acquired businesses and companies. Given the operating difficulties and the COVID-19 outbreak, we resumed our business activities on May 18, 2020, with the support of the local government. We believe the negative impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak on our business to be temporary and for our sales activities have started to run as normal, which will help us to increase our sales in the near future. Due to the effects discussed above, to the extent that we experience a more adverse operating environment, incur unanticipated capital expenditures, or if we decide to accelerate our growth, then additional financing may be required. Currently, we are working to improve our liquidity and capital sources primarily through financial support from our principal shareholder and explore debt or equity financing possibilities. In order to fully implement our business plan and sustain continued growth, we may also need to raise capital from outside investors. On December 2, 2020, we entered into subscription agreements with four accredited investors for the sale of 9,100,000 of the Company’s common shares at the price $0.30 per share for the gross proceeds of approximately $2.73 million. We received the $2.73 million proceeds in April 2021. Our expectation, therefore, is that we will seek to access the capital markets in both the U.S. and China to obtain additional funds as needed. At the present time, however, we do not have commitments of funds from any third party. No assurance can be given that additional financing, if required, would be available on favorable terms or at all. If we do not secure capital needed for our operations, we may have to temporarily suspend or cease our operations.

Notice
Rounding amounts and percentages: Certain amounts and percentages included in this press release have been rounded for ease of presentation. Percentage figures included in this press release have not in all cases been calculated on the basis of such rounded figures, but on the basis of such amounts prior to rounding. For this reason, certain percentage amounts in this press release may vary from those obtained by performing the same calculations using the figures in the financial statements. In addition, certain other amounts that appear in this press release may not sum due to rounding.

About TDH Holdings, Inc.
Founded in April 2002, TDH Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PETZ), is a developer, manufacturer and distributer of a variety of pet food products under multiple brands that are sold in the China, Asia and Europe. More information about the Company can be found at www.tiandihui.com.

Safe Harbor Statement
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