Immersion Corporation Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal 2025 Results

GAAP Net Income Attributable to Immersion stockholders of $27.2 million or $0.83 per diluted share Non-GAAP Net Income Attributable to Immersion stockholders of $40.2 million or $1.22 per diluted share

Immersion Corporation (“Immersion”, the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) (Nasdaq: IMMR), a leading provider of technologies for haptics, today reported financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year ending April 30, 2025, (“fiscal 2025”).

Second Quarter of Fiscal 2025 Consolidated Financial Summary1:

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Total revenues of $616.2 million in the three months ended October 31, 2024, compared to $7.0 million in the three months ended June 30, 2023.

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GAAP net income attributable to Immersion Corporation stockholders was $27.2 million, or $0.83 per diluted share in the three months ended October 31, 2024, compared to $7.0 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, in the three months ended June 30, 2023.

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GAAP operating expenses of $86.3 million in the three months ended October 31, 2024, compared to $3.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2023. Non-GAAP operating expenses of $73.2 million in the three months ended October 31, 2024, compared to $2.5 million in the three months ended June 30, 2023.

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Non-GAAP net income attributable to Immersion Corporation stockholders was $40.2 million, or $1.22 per diluted share, in the three months ended October 31, 2024, compared to $8.4 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, in the three months ended June 30, 2023.

1 On June 10, 2024, the Company closed certain transactions with Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (“Barnes & Noble Education”). As part of the transactions, the Company acquired 42% of all outstanding common shares of Barnes & Noble Education, as well as control over Barnes & Noble Education through the five Immersion-appointed board seats. During the second quarter of fiscal 2025, Immersion’s stock ownership was reduced to 41.2% as a result of additional issuances of Barnes & Noble Education’s common stock to noncontrolling stockholders. The financial information presented in this press release includes the consolidated financial information of Barnes & Noble Education from the period of June 10, 2024, through October 31, 2024. The Company owns approximately 11 million shares of Barnes & Noble Education’s common stock.

“Immersion executed well against its key business objectives in the quarter,” said Eric Singer, Chairman and CEO. “Underscoring our financial strength, we announced a special dividend of $ 0.245 per share payable on January 24, 2025, to shareholders of record of January 10, 2025. We will continue to pursue thoughtful capital allocation as we aim to build our business and create long term shareholder value,” added Singer.

In order to more closely align with Barnes & Noble Education’s fiscal year end, on September 27, 2024, the Board of Directors of Immersion (the “Board”) approved a change of our fiscal year from the period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 to the period beginning on May 1 and ending on April 30. Our new fiscal quarters end on July 31, October 31, January 31, and April 30. Therefore, the financial results of certain fiscal quarters may not be comparable to prior fiscal quarters. We did not recast the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended October 31, 2023, because the financial reporting processes in place at that time included certain procedures that were completed only on a quarterly basis. Consequently, to recast this period would have been impractical and would not have been cost-justified. As a result, the condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, are presented as the most comparable quarter of the prior year.

The condensed consolidated financial information presented includes the financial information of Barnes & Noble Education for the 13 weeks ended October 26, 2024, and for period from June 10, 2024, to October 31, 2024.

On November 8, 2024, our Board declared a special cash dividend of $0.245 per share on our outstanding common stock payable, subject to any prior revocation, on January 24, 2025, to stockholders of record on January 10, 2025. Future quarterly dividends will be subject to further review and approval by the Board in accordance with applicable law. The Board reserves the right to adjust or withdraw the quarterly dividend in future periods as it reviews the Company’s capital allocation strategy from time-to-time.

About Immersion Corporation

Immersion Corporation (Nasdaq: IMMR) was incorporated in 1993 in California and reincorporated in Delaware in 1999.

The Company is a leading provider of touch feedback technology, also known as haptics. The Company accelerates and scales haptic experiences by providing haptic technology for mobile, automotive, gaming, and consumer electronics. Haptic technology creates immersive and realistic experiences that enhance digital interactions by engaging users’ sense of touch. Learn more at www.immersion.com.

On June 10, 2024, we acquired a controlling interest in Barnes & Noble Education. Barnes & Noble Education is a contract operator of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions across the United States. Barnes & Noble Education is also a textbook wholesaler and inventory management hardware and software providers. Barnes & Noble Education operates physical, virtual, and custom bookstores, delivering essential educational content, tools, and general merchandise within a dynamic omnichannel retail environment.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company reports all financial information required in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), but it believes that evaluating its ongoing operating results may be difficult to understand if limited to reviewing only GAAP financial measures. The Company discloses certain non-GAAP information, such as Non-GAAP net income attributable to Immersion stockholders, Non-GAAP net income per diluted common share attributable to Immersion stockholders, and Non-GAAP operating expenses because it is useful in understanding the Company’s performance as it excludes certain non-cash expenses like stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization of property and equipment, restructuring expense, business acquisition related costs and other nonrecurring charges that many investors feel may obscure the Company’s true operating performance. Likewise, management uses these non-GAAP financial measures to manage and assess the profitability of its business. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative for, the Company’s reported results under GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results prepared in accordance with GAAP. Such non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled to their closest GAAP financial measures in tables contained in this press release.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “can,” “will,” “places,” “estimates,” and other similar expressions. However, these words are not the only way we identify forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include any expectations, projections, or other characterizations of future events, or circumstances, including but not limited to statements about the Company’s focus on protecting its intellectual property, either through the execution of new or renewal license agreements or by proactive enforcement continuing to pursue thoughtful capital allocation to increase long-term stockholder value, and the timing of any dividend payments.

Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, therefore we caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include, among others, the following: the inability to predict the outcome of any litigation, the costs associated with any litigation and the risks related to our business, both direct and indirect, of initiating litigation, unanticipated changes in the markets in which the Company operates; the effects of the current macroeconomic climate; delay in or failure to achieve adoption of or commercial demand for the Company’s products or third party products incorporating the Company’s technologies; the inability of Immersion to renew existing licensing arrangements, or enter into new licensing arrangements on favorable terms; the loss of a major customer; the ability of Immersion to protect and enforce its intellectual property rights and other factors. For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the risk factors listed in Immersion’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2023 as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), Barnes & Noble Education’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended April 27, 2024, as filed with the SEC, and Immersion’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2024, as filed with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements made by us in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not intend to update these forward-looking statements after the date of this press release, except as required by law.

Immersion, and the Immersion logo are trademarks of Immersion Corporation in the United States and other countries. All the other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” in this press release does not mean a legal partner or legal partnership.

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Immersion Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

October 31, 2024

April 30, 2024

ASSETS

Current assets

Immersion

Cash and cash equivalents

68,920

85,521

Investments - current

78,809

92,848

Accounts receivable, net

4,315

3,138

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

14,846

9,101

166,890

190,608

Barnes & Noble Education

Cash and cash equivalents

11,619

—

Accounts receivable, net

275,847

—

Merchandise inventories, net

315,469

—

Textbook rental Inventories, net

49,672

—

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

33,329

—

685,936

—

Total current assets

852,826

190,608

Immersion

Property and equipment, net

142

164

Investments - noncurrent

37,347

46,545

Long-term deposits

6,293

6,324

Deferred tax assets

3,342

2,793

Other assets - noncurrent

24,398

71,522

55,913

Barnes & Noble Education

Property and equipment, net

107,413

—

Intangible assets, net

93,504

—

Goodwill

14,220

—

Operating lease right-of-use assets

169,250

—

Other assets - noncurrent

11,383

—

395,770

—

Total assets

1,320,118

246,521

Immersion Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (Continued)

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

October 31, 2024

April 30, 2024

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

Current liabilities

Immersion

Accounts payable

Accrued compensation

2,860

4,003

Deferred revenue - current

2,956

12,494

Other current liabilities

25,478

13,654

31,345

30,206

Barnes & Noble Education

Accounts payable

298,952

—

Accrued liabilities

60,508

—

Deferred revenue - current

37,662

—

Operating lease liabilities - current

88,730

—

485,852

—

Total current liabilities

517,197

30,206

Immersion

Deferred revenue, net

7,262

7,978

Other long-term liabilities

4,946

7,107

12,208

15,085

Barnes & Noble Education

Deferred tax liabilities, net

2,050

—

Operating lease liabilities - noncurrent

114,290

—

Deferred revenue - noncurrent

3,215

—

Other noncurrent liabilities

11,120

—

Long-term borrowings

177,551

—

308,226

—

Total liabilities

837,631

45,291

Total stockholders' equity attributable to Immersion Corporation stockholders

310,881

201,230

Noncontrolling interest in consolidated subsidiaries

171,606

—

Total stockholders' equity

482,487

201,230

Total liabilities and stockholders' equity

1,320,118

246,521

Immersion Corporation

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended

Six Months Ended

October 31, 20241

June 30, 2023

October 31, 20241

June 30, 2023

Revenues:

Immersion

Royalty and license

14,127

6,983

62,552

14,057

Barnes & Noble Education

Product and other

559,674

—

689,792

—

Rental income

42,448

—

47,394

—

Total revenues

616,249

6,983

799,738

14,057

Cost of sale (excludes depreciation and amortization expense):

Barnes & Noble Education

Product and other

443,123

—

554,004

—

Rental income

22,387

—

25,183

—

465,510

—

579,187

—

Operating expenses:

Immersion

Selling and administrative expenses

4,165

3,870

17,576

7,685

Barnes & Noble Education

Selling and administrative expenses

72,717

—

107,324

—

Depreciation and amortization expense

9,391

—

14,651

Restructuring and other charges

—

5,064

—

82,167

—

127,039

—

Total operating expenses

86,332

3,870

144,615

7,685

Operating income

64,407

3,113

75,936

6,372

Interest and other income, net

3,540

6,759

14,236

13,285

Interest expense

(4,547

)

—

(6,914

)

—

Income before provision for income taxes

63,400

9,872

83,258

19,657

Provision for income taxes

(7,641

)

(2,844

)

(15,104

)

(4,351

)

Net income

55,759

7,028

68,154

15,306

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest

28,602

—

13,837

—

Net income attributable to Immersion stockholders

27,157

7,028

54,317

15,306

Diluted income per common share attributable to Immersion stockholders

0.83

0.21

1.65

0.47

Shares used in calculating diluted net income per share

32,917

32,810

32,889

32,839

1 The financial information presented includes the financial information of Barnes & Noble Education for the 13 weeks and 26 weeks ended October 26, 2024. For purposes of these consolidated financial statements, the results of Barnes & Noble Education herein have been aligned to the Company’s reporting periods.

Immersion Corporation

Reconciliation of GAAP net income attributable to Immersion stockholders to Non-GAAP net income attributable to Immersion stockholders

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended

Six Months Ended

October 31, 20241

June 30, 20232

October 31, 20241

June 30, 20232

GAAP net income attributable to Immersion stockholders

27,157

7,028

54,317

15,306

Add: Stock-based compensation

3,185

760

4,800

1,707

Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment

9,391

14,680

Restructuring expense and other charges

125

5,064

312

Business acquisition related costs

426

—

2,774

—

Other nonrecurring charges

481

560

Non-GAAP net income attributable to Immersion stockholders

40,249

8,415

81,706

17,927

Non-GAAP net income per diluted common share attributable to Immersion stockholder

1.22

0.26

2.48

0.55

Shares used in calculating Non-GAAP net income per diluted share attributable to Immersion stockholder

32,917

32,810

32,889

32,839

2 In order to provide for better comparability between periods and a better understanding of underlying trends, the Non-GAAP information above includes an updated presentation of the applicable period of the prior year 2023.

Immersion Corporation

Reconciliation of GAAP Operating Expenses to Non-GAAP Operating Expenses

(In thousands)

(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended

Six Months Ended

October 31, 2024

June 30, 2023

October 31, 2024

June 30, 2023

GAAP operating expenses

86,332