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### Summary **Ticker:** DBGI **Financial Performance:** - **Revenue:** $11.6 million (2024), $14.9 million (2023) - **Net Income:** -$13.1 million (2024), -$10.2 million (2023) - **Operating Expenses:** $13.8 million (2024), $8.6 million (2023) - **Earnings per Share:** -$76.71 (2024), -$457.78 (2023) **Strategic Overview:** - **Business Model:** Digital Brands Group is a curated collection of lifestyle brands offering apparel products through direct-to-consumer and wholesale distribution. - **Brands:** Bailey 44, DSTLD, Stateside, Sundry, and Avo. - **Strategy:** Focus on "closet share" by gaining insight into customer preferences to create targeted and personalized content specific to their cohort. - **Market Position:** The company aims to increase brand awareness and drive customer engagement, conversion, and repurchase rates. **Future Outlook:** - **Growth Strategy:** The company plans to increase its customer base through paid and organic online channels, as well as by expanding its presence in physical retail distribution channels. - **Customer Acquisition:** The company aims to acquire customers at a reasonable cost relative to customer retention rates, contribution margins, and projected lifetime value. - **Product Lines:** The company plans to expand its product lines to increase growth opportunities. - **Gross Margins:** The company aims to expand gross margins through effective sourcing and leveraging buying power of finished goods and shipping costs, as well as pricing power over time. - **Operating Margins:** The company aims to expand operating margins by leveraging fixed general and administrative costs, variable sales and marketing costs, and eliminating redundant costs as it acquires and integrates brands. **Risk Factors:** - **Financial Condition:** The company has incurred significant net losses since inception and has a substantial amount of debt, which could adversely affect its financial condition and ability to react to changes in its business. - **Market Position:** The company operates in highly competitive markets and faces competition from large, diversified apparel companies with substantial market share and strong worldwide brand recognition. - **Supply Chain:** The company relies on third-party suppliers and manufacturers to provide raw materials for and to produce its products, and it has limited control over these suppliers and manufacturers. - **Seasonality:** The company's quarterly operating results vary due to the seasonality of its individual brands, and are historically stronger in the second half of the calendar year. **Financial Condition:** - **Liquidity:** The company has a working capital deficit of $16.1 million as of December 31, 2024, and requires significant capital to meet its obligations as they become due. - **Debt:** The company has $6.5 million in outstanding principal on debt, primarily promissory notes due to the Bailey44 Sellers, the March 2023 Notes, PPP, and merchant advances. **Market Position Changes:** - **Delisting:** The company's common stock was delisted from Nasdaq at the opening of business on December 18, 2024, and began being quoted on the OTC Pink Market under its existing symbol, "DBGI". - **Reverse Stock Splits:** The company completed a 1-for-25 reverse stock split on August 22, 2023, and a 1-for-50 reverse stock split on December 12, 2024.