Digital Ally also Reaffirms its Revenue Guidance for Fourth Quarter 2021 and Fiscal 2022
Lenexa, KS, Dec. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Ally, Inc. (NASDAQ: DGLY) (the “Company”), which develops, manufactures, and markets advanced video recording products and other critical safety products for law enforcement, emergency management, fleet safety, and security for venues and events, today announced that its Board of Board of Directors has approved a stock buy-back program authorizing the Company to purchase up to $10.0 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock subject to SEC regulations, stock market conditions and corporate working capital needs. The buy-back program will commence immediately with a duration of the program through December 31, 2022.
Under the authorization provided by the Board, stock repurchases may be made through open market and privately negotiated transactions at times and in such amounts as management deems appropriate. In addition, open market repurchases of common stock may be made pursuant to trading plans established pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which would permit common stock to be repurchased at a time that DGLY might otherwise be precluded from doing so under insider trading laws or self-imposed trading restrictions. The timing and actual number of shares repurchased will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, stock price, trading volume, DGLY’s cash balances, general business and market conditions, the dilutive effects of share-based incentive plans, alternative investment opportunities, impacts related to the Coronavirus pandemic, working capital needs and other factors. The stock repurchase authorization, which does not require the Company to purchase any specific or minimum number of shares, does not have an expiration date and may be suspended or terminated at any time without prior notice. Repurchased shares will be returned to the status of authorized but un-issued shares of common stock.
The purchases will be funded by cash on hand. The duration of the stock buy-back program is through December 31, 2022.
The Company also reaffirmed its previously announced revenue guidance for the fourth quarter 2021 of $9 million and for fiscal year 2022 of $50 million. The Company continues to benefit from the integration and expansion of its recent TicketSmarter and Nobility Healthcare acquisitions in addition to organic growth in its traditional law enforcement and commercial video solutions segment.
“Our current market valuation, strong cash balances and anticipated cash and capital needs lead us to believe that this stock buy-back program is an appropriate use of cash,” stated Stanton E. Ross, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Ally, Inc. “The approved buyback of up to $10 million represents approximately 18% of the Company's total current market capitalization. This program reaffirms our continued confidence in the Company’s near and long-term financial and operating performance and our commitment to enhancing shareholder value. We believe the purchase of our stock at appropriate prices represents an attractive investment opportunity and a means to return capital to our stockholders.”
About Digital Ally
Digital Ally® specializes in the design and manufacturing of the highest quality video recording equipment and video analytic software. Digital Ally pushes the boundaries of technology in industries such as law enforcement, emergency management, fleet safety and event security. Digital Ally’s complete product solutions include vehicle and body cameras, flexible software storage, automatic recording technology and various critical safety products. In addition, Digital Ally launched the Shield Health Protection Products line including Shield Cleansers, a highly effective, yet safe, disinfectant and sanitizer for use against SARS-CoV-2, a non-contact thermometer/controlled-entry device, an electrostatic sprayer for fast and efficient disinfecting of large areas, and a variety of personal protective equipment including face masks, gloves and sanitizer wipes. With its recent formation of Digital Ally Healthcare, Inc., and acquisition of TicketSmarter, LLC, Digital Ally continues to add organizations that demonstrate the common traits of positive earnings, growth potential and organizational synergies.
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We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. A wide variety of factors could cause or contribute to such differences and could adversely impact revenues, profitability, cash flows and capital needs. There can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements contained in this document will, in fact, transpire or prove to be accurate.
Factors that could cause or contribute to our actual results differing materially from those discussed herein or for our stock price to be adversely affected include, but are not limited to: (1) whether the Company will be able to complete the installation of the underlying hardware and training of law enforcement personnel for the police agencies given the travel and other restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic; (2) whether the Company will be able to maintain or expand its share of the markets in which it competes with the FirstVu II and QuickVu; (3) whether the Company will make a global impact with its technology innovations; (4) whether the Company will be able to adapt its technology to new and different uses, including being able to introduce new products; (5) competition from larger, more established companies with far greater economic and human resources; (6) its ability to attract and retain customers and quality employees; (7) the effect of changing economic conditions; and changes in government regulations, tax rates and similar matters. (8) our losses in recent years, including during fiscal years 2020 and 2019 and year-to-date in 2021; (9) economic and other risks for our business from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impacts on our law-enforcement and commercial customers, suppliers and employees, the pandemic’s impact on the historical TicketSmarter business, and on our ability to raise capital as required; (10) our ability to increase revenues, increase our margins and return to consistent profitability in the current economic and competitive environment; (11) our operation in developing new markets and uncertainty as to market acceptance of our technology, new products, our ability to grow the Digital Ally Healthcare subsidiary and effect profitable and well-diligenced RCM acquisitions, and our ability to grow the TicketSmarter subsidiary and effect profitable and well-diligenced acquisitions in complementary businesses; (12) the availability of funding from federal, state and local governments to facilitate the budgets of law enforcement agencies, including the timing, amount and restrictions on such funding; (13) our ability to deliver our new product offerings such as the Shield™ disinfectant/sanitizers products and ThermoVU™ temperature screening systems, whether such new products perform as planned or advertised and whether they will help increase our revenues; (14) whether we will be able to increase the sales, domestically and internationally, for our products in the future; (15) our ability to maintain or expand our share of the market for our products in the domestic and international markets in which we compete, including increasing our international revenues; (16) our ability to produce our products in a cost-effective manner; (17) competition from larger, more established companies with far greater economic and human resources; (18) our ability to attract and retain quality employees; (19) risks related to dealing with governmental customers; (20) our expenditure of significant resources in anticipation of sales due to our lengthy sales cycle and the potential to receive no revenue in return; (21) our ability to identify, execute, and integrate acquisitions that will achieve the desired synergies to achieve our business plan; (22) that stockholders may lose all or part of their investment if we are unable to compete in our markets and return to profitability; (23) defects in our products that could impair our ability to sell our products or could result in litigation and other significant costs; (24) our dependence on key personnel; (25) our reliance on third-party distributors and sales representatives for part of our marketing capability; (26) our dependence on a few manufacturers and suppliers for components of our products and our dependence on domestic and foreign manufacturers for certain of our products; (27) our ability to protect technology through patents and to protect our proprietary technology and information, such as trade secrets, through other similar means; (28) our ability to generate more recurring cloud and service revenues; (29) risks related to our license arrangements; (30) our revenues and operating results may fluctuate unexpectedly from quarter to quarter; (31) sufficient voting power by coalitions of a few of our larger stockholders, including directors and officers, to make corporate governance decisions that could have a significant effect on us and the other stockholders; (32) the sale of substantial amounts of our common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), that may have a depressive effect on the market price of the outstanding shares of our Common Stock; (33) the possible issuance of Common Stock subject to options and warrants that may dilute the interest of stockholders; (34) our nonpayment of dividends and lack of plans to pay dividends in the future; (35) future sale of a substantial number of shares of our Common Stock that could depress the trading price of our Common Stock, lower our value and make it more difficult for us to raise capital; (36) our additional securities available for issuance, which, if issued, could adversely affect the rights of the holders of our Common Stock; (37) the likely high volatility of our stock price due to a number of factors, including a relatively limited public float; (38) whether such technology will have a significant impact on our revenues in the long-term; and (39) indemnification of our officers and directors.
