Globalstar Outlines Growth Strategy and Financial Outlook at Investor Day
December 20 2024 - 4:03PM
Business Wire
Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) (“Globalstar” or the
“Company”), a next-generation telecommunications infrastructure and
technology provider, held an investor day on Thursday, December 12,
2024. The Company’s executive leadership team outlined Globalstar’s
strategic priorities and vision for the future by optimizing value
for its core assets and providing updates to its short and
long-term financial outlook.
Additionally, the Company hosted several customer panels during
the event, which are available for replay on Globalstar’s investor
relations website under “Events and Presentations”. A summary of
the event is detailed below:
Terrestrial Wireless
XCOM RAN
- Differentiated high-performance 5G architecture enabling
automation, industrial 5G, and critical infrastructure applications
with ease of deployment for mission-critical applications
- Strategic focus on high-value market segments including
warehouse automation / dense industrial 4.0, manufacturing, ports,
and logistics facilities
- Major global retailer deploying XCOM RAN solution with
ongoing implementation in 2025
Band n53
- Deployed in 12 countries covering nearly 1 billion POPs,
including 100% coverage across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
- Represents a strategic spectrum asset that enables
mission-critical applications, with potential for aggregation
with CBRS for expanded capabilities
- Band n53 ecosystem keeps growing and building revenue
opportunities
- First live 5G Radio Access Network over Band n53
demonstrated, showing quadrupled speeds as announced on December
12, 2024
Mobile Satellite Services
(MSS)
Retail Consumer
- Strong revenue generation with ~260,000 active
subscribers contributing $44 million in 2023 annual service
revenue
- Achieved milestone of 10,000 rescues in 2024
- Established brand presence in outdoor/adventure segment
with loyal customer base and robust distribution channels
- Executing on strategic investment in growth segments
through enhanced product capabilities, enterprise market expansion,
and selective consumer focus while maintaining profitable core
business
Commercial IoT:
- Currently serving ~481,000 average active devices across
diverse market verticals
- Generated $23 million in annual service revenue for
2023
- Targeting significant market growth with projected TAM
of $2.4B through various verticals including transportation &
supply chain logistics, fleet management, animal tracking and
automotive IoT
- Strategic focus on emerging two-way technology to expand
market opportunities, product enhancements (cost, size, weight,
power), and increased ARPU through new capabilities all enabled
through a growing market
Government & Wholesale Consumer:
- Exclusive partnership with Parsons for public sector and
defense applications as announced on December 3, 2024
- Updated services agreement with wholesale customer
includes new satellite constellation, expanded ground
infrastructure and increased global MSS licensing per November 2024
Form 8-K
- Globalstar will retain 100% of all terrestrial, MSS and
other revenue and will continue to allocate 85% of its network
capacity to render the Satellite Services to the Customer across
existing and new satellites
- Globalstar reserved 15% to service the Company’s direct
MSS customers
Financial Performance & Outlook:
- Reiterated full year 2024 revenue guidance range to
$245-250 million and Adjusted EBITDA margin to 54%
- Introduced full year 2025 revenue guidance of $260-285
million and Adjusted EBITDA margin of ~50%, driven by incremental
strategic investments in terrestrial network and other long-term
growth initiatives
- Longer term, the Company expects revenue to more than
double to over $495 million, with Adjusted EBITDA margins in
excess of 54% in the first full year of extend MSS network
service
- Additional upside potential from terrestrial spectrum and
XCOM RAN.
About Globalstar, Inc.
Globalstar empowers its customers to connect, transmit, and
communicate in smarter ways – easily, quickly, securely, and
affordably – offering reliable satellite and terrestrial
connectivity services as an international telecom infrastructure
provider. The Company’s LEO satellite constellation ensures secure
data transmission for connecting and protecting assets,
transmitting critical operational data, and saving lives for
consumers, businesses, and government agencies across the globe.
Globalstar’s terrestrial spectrum, Band 53, and its 5G variant,
n53, offers carriers, cable companies, and system integrators a
versatile, fully licensed channel for private networks with a
growing ecosystem to improve customer wireless connectivity, while
Globalstar’s XCOM RAN product offers significant capacity gains in
dense wireless deployments. In addition to SPOT GPS messengers,
Globalstar offers next-generation IoT hardware and software
products for efficiently tracking and monitoring assets, processing
smart data at the edge, and managing analytics with cloud-based
telematics solutions to drive safety, productivity, and
profitability. For more information, visit www.globalstar.com.
Forward Looking Statements
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purely historical information, including, but not limited to,
expectations regarding future revenue, financial performance,
financial condition, liquidity, projections, estimates and
guidance, statements relating to our business plans, objectives and
expected operating results, our anticipated financial resources,
our ability to integrate the licensed technology into our current
line of business, our expectations with respect to the pursuit of
terrestrial spectrum authorities globally, the success of current
and potential future applications for our terrestrial spectrum, our
ability to meet our obligations and attain the attempted benefits
under the updated services agreements, and the assumptions upon
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are subject to risks and uncertainties which may cause actual
results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
Risks and uncertainties that could cause or contribute to such
differences include, without limitation, those described under Item
1A. Risk Factors of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and in the Company’s other
filings with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to
update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this
press release to reflect actual results, future events or
circumstances or changes in our assumptions, business plans or
other changes.
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