FCG recorded revenues of $6.3 million in the three months ended March 31, 2025, representing a decrease of $8.6 million or 58% over the three months ended March 31, 2024 as a result of the timing on certain contracts' performance.
As previously announced on January 18, 2024, FCG entered into a consultancy agreement with QIC to provide a Dragon Ball theme park over the course of approximately two years. FCG recognized $4.7 million and $9.8 million in revenue relating to this Dragon Ball consultancy agreement during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
FCG recorded project design and build expense of $5.4 million in three months ended March 31, 2025, representing a decrease of $4.1 million or 43% over the three months ended March 31, 2024 as a result of the decrease in project revenues partially offset by a decline in project gross margins on certain design projects.
FCG recorded operating loss of $(2.8) million, and net loss of $(3.0) million during the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to an operating income of $1.6 million and net income of $(1.8) million for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
•Destinations Operations segment loss from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025, remained consistent compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.
•PDP segment income remained consistent for the three months ended March 31, 2025, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024.
•FBB segment loss from operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025 increased $0.7 million to $(1.4) million compared to $(0.7) million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase is primarily as a result of selling, general and administrative expense increase of $0.7 million in payroll related costs to develop the Destinations Operations division.
Reportable segment measures of profit and loss are earnings before interest, foreign exchange gains and losses, unallocated corporate expenses, impairments and depreciation and amortization expense. Results of operating segments include costs directly attributable to the segment including project costs, payroll and payroll-related expenses and overhead directly related to the business segment operations. Unallocated corporate overhead costs include costs related to accounting, audit, and corporate legal expenses. Unallocated corporate overhead costs are presented as a reconciling item between total income (losses) from reportable segments and the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial results. For more information about our Segment Reporting, see Note 11 – Segment information in the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We prepare our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP. In addition to disclosing financial results prepared in accordance with US GAAP, we disclose information regarding Adjusted EBITDA which is a non-GAAP measure. We define Adjusted EBITDA as net (loss) income, determined in accordance with US GAAP, for the period presented, before net interest and expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, transaction expenses related to the business combination, credit loss expense related to the closure of the Sierra Parima Katmandu Park, share of equity method investee’s impairment of fixed assets, impairment of equity method investments, change in fair value of warrant liabilities, change in fair value of earnout liabilities and intangible asset impairment loss.
We believe that Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors as it eliminates the non-cash depreciation and amortization expense that results from our capital investments and intangible assets recognized in any business combination and improves comparability by eliminating the interest expense associated with our debt facilities and eliminating the change in fair value of warrant and earnout liabilities, which may not be comparable with other companies based on our structure.
Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under US GAAP. Some of these limitations are (i) it does not reflect our cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments, (ii) it does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs, (iii) it does not reflect interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on our debt, (iv) although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements, (v) it does not adjust for all non-cash income or expense items that are reflected in our statements of cash flows, and (vi) other companies in our industry may calculate these measures differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.