SecProbe.io

Filing text and metadata
Intelligence Terminal Search Topics Monthly Activity About

SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-008233 to PetIQ, Inc. (PETQ) (CIK 0001668673)

PetIQ, Inc. (PETQ) (CIK 0001668673)
Date: July 22, 2024 · CIK: 0001668673 · Accession: 0000000000-24-008233

AI Filing Summary & Sentiment

File numbers found in text: 001-38163

Date
July 22, 2024
Author
Not clearly detected
Form
UPLOAD
Company
PetIQ, Inc. (PETQ) (CIK 0001668673)

Letter

July 22, 2024 Zvi Glasman Chief Financial Officer PetIQ, Inc. 230 E. Riverside Drive Eagle, Idaho 83616 Re:PetIQ, Inc. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023 File No. 001-38163 Dear Zvi Glasman: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023 Item 7 - Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Results of Operations Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared With Year Ended December 31, 2022, page 36 1.Please consider providing a more robust disclosure regarding the underlying reasons for your material revenue increase. For example, regarding products discuss further what you mean by broad strength and growth, and any associated underlying factors and trends. For services, discuss the operational improvements cited that contributed to increased revenues and why/how. Also for services, discuss the extent that cited increases in clinic counts, average dollar per clinic and average dollar per pet served contributed to the increase. Refer to Item 303(a), introductory paragraph of (b) and (b)(2)(ii) and (iii) of Regulation S-K and Section III.B.4 of Release No. 33-8350 for guidance. Since cost of revenues is material to your results, please consider a separate quantitative and qualitative comparable analysis of it to the extent material in helping investors better understand your operations and results. Refer to Item 303(b). In doing so, consider discussing the impact of each component of cost of revenues that caused cost of revenues 2.

July 22, 2024 Page 2 to materially vary (or not vary when expected to). Consider performing the analysis at the segment level to the extent meaningful in further understanding your operations and results. Consolidated Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 38 3.You include an adjustment for impairment and other asset charges to arrive at your non- GAAP financial measure "EBITDA." As your current calculation does not comply with EBITDA as defined in Exchange Act Release No. 47226, please revise to exclude the impairment and other asset charges adjustment from your calculation of EBITDA or rename the measure. Refer to Question 103.01 of the Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. Financial Condition, Liquidity, and Capital Resources Cash Flows Cash Provided by Operating Activities, page 40 4.You disclose the increase in cash provided by operating activities was primarily attributable to the increase in profitability and changes in non-cash items. Please expand your analysis to disclose the material underlying factors that impact the comparability between periods of reported operating cash flows in terms of cash. Quantify each factor cited so investors may understand the magnitude of each. Your discussion should focus on factors that directly affect cash, and not merely refer to results/profitability since it is recorded on an accrual basis or noncash items that do not affect cash. Refer to the introductory paragraph of Section IV.B. and all of B.1 of Release No. 33-8350 for guidance. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Please contact Stephen Kim at 202-551-3291 or Doug Jones at 202-551-3309 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Trade & Services

Show Raw Text
July 22, 2024
Zvi Glasman
Chief Financial Officer
PetIQ, Inc.
230 E. Riverside Drive
Eagle, Idaho 83616
Re:PetIQ, Inc.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
File No. 001-38163
Dear Zvi Glasman:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.
            Please respond to this letter within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe a
comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing your response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2023
Item 7 - Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Results of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared With Year Ended December 31, 2022, page 36
1.Please consider providing a more robust disclosure regarding the underlying reasons for
your material revenue increase. For example, regarding products discuss further what you
mean by broad strength and growth, and any associated underlying factors and trends. For
services, discuss the operational improvements cited that contributed to increased
revenues and why/how. Also for services, discuss the extent that cited increases in clinic
counts, average dollar per clinic and average dollar per pet served contributed to the
increase. Refer to Item 303(a), introductory paragraph of (b) and (b)(2)(ii) and (iii) of
Regulation S-K and Section III.B.4 of Release No. 33-8350 for guidance.
Since cost of revenues is material to your results, please consider a separate quantitative
and qualitative comparable analysis of it to the extent material in helping investors better
understand your operations and results. Refer to Item 303(b). In doing so, consider
discussing the impact of each component of cost of revenues that caused cost of revenues 2.

July 22, 2024
Page 2
to materially vary (or not vary when expected to). Consider performing the analysis at the
segment level to the extent meaningful in further understanding your operations and
results.
Consolidated Non-GAAP Financial Measures, page 38
3.You include an adjustment for impairment and other asset charges to arrive at your non-
GAAP financial measure "EBITDA." As your current calculation does not comply with
EBITDA as defined in Exchange Act Release No. 47226, please revise to exclude the
impairment and other asset charges adjustment from your calculation of EBITDA or
rename the measure. Refer to Question 103.01 of the Compliance and Disclosure
Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
Financial Condition, Liquidity, and Capital Resources
Cash Flows
Cash Provided by Operating Activities, page 40
4.You disclose the increase in cash provided by operating activities was primarily
attributable to the increase in profitability and changes in non-cash items. Please expand
your analysis to disclose the material underlying factors that impact the comparability
between periods of reported operating cash flows in terms of cash. Quantify each factor
cited so investors may understand the magnitude of each. Your discussion should focus on
factors that directly affect cash, and not merely refer to results/profitability since it is
recorded on an accrual basis or noncash items that do not affect cash. Refer to the
introductory paragraph of Section IV.B. and all of B.1 of Release No. 33-8350 for
guidance.
            In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
            Please contact Stephen Kim at 202-551-3291 or Doug Jones at 202-551-3309 with any
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services