Exhibit 99.1
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Drilling Tools International Corp. Closes on
Acquisition of Superior Drilling Products, Inc.;
Company Reports 2024 Second Quarter Results
Updates 2024 Guidance and Maintains Adjusted Free Cash Flow Outlook
HOUSTON — August 6, 2024 — Drilling Tools International Corp., (NASDAQ: DTI) (“DTI” or the “Company”), a global oilfield services company that designs, engineers, manufactures and provides a differentiated, rental-focused offering of tools for use in onshore and offshore drilling operations, as well as other cutting-edge solutions across the well life cycle, today announced that it has closed on its acquisition of Superior Drilling Products, Inc. (“SDP”) for total consideration paid in cash and DTI stock of approximately $32.2 million per the merger agreement, subject to purchase price accounting adjustments. DTI also reported today its 2024 second quarter results.
Wayne Prejean, CEO of DTI, stated, “We are pleased to announce the closing of the SDP acquisition and are excited to welcome SDP’s talented team to the DTI family and add SDP’s world-class manufacturing expertise into our broad-reaching and expanding global sales channels. This acquisition furthers DTI’s growth strategy as a premier provider of technologically differentiated solutions and services for the global oil & gas drilling industry. Directly integrating SDP’s patented Drill-N-Ream® (“DNR”) well bore conditioning tool into DTI’s vast fleet of tools and technologies provides expanded geographic market potential, lowers our capital requirements and operating costs, and improves operational efficiencies across our portfolio of capabilities. SDP’s unique offering of proprietary diamond process expertise, sophisticated manufacturing capabilities, and their recently established Middle East footprint will greatly benefit DTI’s technology focused product and service offering on a global scale.”
Prejean added, “We expect to benefit from significant synergies over the next twelve months from this acquisition and have identified more than $4.5 million of SG&A synergies and realizable NOL tax benefits. In addition, there are vertical and horizontal integration synergies that include approximately 60% CapEx savings on new DNR tools and a 45% Repair & Maintenance margin capture. I would also like to highlight that in addition to the Vernal, Utah SDP bit repair, manufacturing, and technology center, we gained a fully operational bit repair facility in the UAE and several hundred fit-for-purpose DNR tools on the ground in the Middle East which gives us fuel in the tank to serve our clients in the region. We also gained an approximately $6.6 million receivable from the selling party to extinguish an existing Note which will accrue to DTI’s benefit, effectively reducing the overall transaction amount.”
2024 Second Quarter Results
Total revenue was $37.5 million, relatively flat compared to last year’s second quarter. Tool Rental net revenue was $28.3 million and Product Sales net revenue totaled $9.2 million in the second quarter of 2024. Operating expenses were $35.3 million, operating income was $2.2 million and Adjusted EBITDA(1) was $9.0 million in the second quarter of 2024. Adjusted free cash flow(1)(2) significantly improved by $3.2 million from ($4.3) million in last year’s second quarter to ($1.1) million in this year’s quarter.
“Turning to our 2024 second quarter operational results, the U.S. rig count experienced continued softness that led to a decline in the quarter compared to our flat rig count outlook earlier this year. In response, we have implemented a cost reduction program for an annualized savings of $2.4 million. We will continue to appropriately scale our operations to adjust for the activity levels in North America but will continue with our growth initiatives in other markets where growth opportunities are available. Additionally, we were able to manage capital expenditures and improve our Adjusted Free Cash Flow by $3.2 million over last year’s second quarter. Because of this unique lever at our disposal to generate returns despite a decline in North American land activity, we are maintaining our Adjusted Free Cash Flow guidance range of $20 million—$25 million for the full year,” concluded Prejean.
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